good morning. breaking news. tripoli attacks. nato bombards libya capital targeting gadhafi's troops in a rare daytime air strike. and as pressure grows on libya, president obama saying u.s. troops will leave iraq and afghanistan as planned. senator weiner admits to sending dirty photos and messages to a half dozen women across the country. >> i haven't told the truth, and i've done things i deeply regret. we're live in washington with the latest on what's next for the congressman and we'll

speak to the conservative blogger who first broke the story. mother nature's wrath, a wild fire in arizona forcing thousands to leave their homes sending smoke billowing across the u.s. while in the midwest, a river threatens towns and a levee gives way, this morning, june 7, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good tuesday morning to you. nice to have you with us. i'm erica hill. >> i'm chris wragge. >> there is breaking news this morning out of libya nato airplanes carrying a daring, very unusual daytime raid in the capital this morning. we're going to bring you full details on the raids coming up in a moment. our team is on the ground there. >> we begin with the story that a rlot of people have been talking about. a lot of jokes brought the congressman to tears as he

admitted tweeting a lewd photo of himself to a young woman. now he faces an ethics investigation because the photo is one drop in a sea of very personal messages. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest for us this morning. good morning. good morning to you. it was almost painful to watch. congressman weiner apologizing publicly for nearly half an hour. he says that photo was meant only to be seen by that one seattle woman. he said it was supposed to be a joke, but admits it's part of a pattern. >> i haven't told the truth. and i've done things i deeply regret. i brought pain to people i care about the most and the people who believed in me. and for that, i'm deeply sorry. i apologize to my wife and our family.

as well as to our friends and supporters. i'm deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and actions. >> reporter: the admission came a week and a half after weiner inadvertently sent a photo of himself in grey underwear out to thousands of twitter followers and insisted he had been hacked. >> it was a photo of you. >> going to try to find out exactly what happened. the photo doesn't look familiar to me. >> reporter: but weiner was forced to come clean after andr andrew breitbart began to look into the story. this was sent to a texas woman. >> i've been in several inappropriate conversations with twitter, facebook, e-mail, and occasionally on the phone with women i met on-line. i exchanged photos of an explicit nature with six women over the last three years. for the most part, the communications took place before my marriage, though some have

sadly taken place after. >> weiner's wife of less than a year is a top aide to secretary clinton and is not at his side. >> my wife has known about several of the online relationships since before we were married. we spoke frankly about them because -- well, we spoke frankly about them. she didn't know this morning that i had not been tolling the truth about whether i posted the twitter last season. >> reporter: he said he won't step down over theis. >> i don't believe i did anything that violates it law or the oath to my stitch whens. >> reporter: the new york constituents we spoke to agreed with him. >> when i heard the news, it was devastating to me as a follower of anthony weiner's but i don't think he broke any rules of the office. >> reporter: the surreal press conference started out strange and andrew breitbart said he had

a more elicit photo. >> you know what i would be accused of if i released this photo, i keep it. and if he wants to start fighting with me again, i have this photo. >> he said he never met any of the women in person and as far as he knows none are underage. the leader nancy pelosi is calling for an ethics investigation. chris? >> nancy cordes for us. thank you. john dickerson, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> how do you recover from something like this? >> well, the congressman has two important groups he has to recover are. the first are the democratic colleagues. the best way too do that is to go away, to have the story stop being a distraction and stop being a punchline. that requires, of course, that there be no new disclosures. the second group that he has to deal with are his constituents

and in some ways, they have to deal with ha they care about. stay out of the public spotlight and hope that they forgive him. >> like nancy mentioned a second ago, the minority leader is calling for an investigation right now. if the congressman from new york was looking for any support from his colleagues yesterday, he sure didn't get it. >> he got no support. but that's to be expected. and his hope has to be that they don't continue talking about him to reporters, and that he gives them no cause to. that there's no other shoes to drop. that everything he said in public checks out. and that the ethics investigation finds out that he broke no actual rules. there will be a difficult moment when they have to issue a report, mostly because they have to engage in the iic si story again. if that's the only time they have to deal with it, he may be able to go to the past where he can be an embarrassment to the party and let them go back to what they wanted to do, and if it happens before next year's election year, then he could survive. >> does it look like he broke

any rules? yesterday he said he didn't. who are we to believe? >> he said he didn't break any rules but he said a lot of things in the previous week that didn't turn out to be true. we don't know -- doesn't seem at the moment that he broke any rules but the investigation will find out. >> talk about the ripple effects on this scandal and the democratic party. this is a rising star in the party. what happens? what are some of the ramifications here? >> he was a rising star for his mouth. he was a great spokesman for the liberal democratic portion of the party. he no longer will be able to do that for a long period of time until this blows over. that may be many, many years if he survives. the produce is probably not unhappy about the fact that he's not a spokesman anymore. he was often very critical of president obama. as far as that democratic part of the party is concerned, they are probably okay with this. as far as the rest of the party goes, it again depends on how much he is still in the news and how much in terms of the way

democratic leadership treats him and treats the ethics investigation, republicans can make the charge that democrats are allowing this to continue when they should find some way to be done with him. but there's a small problem for republicans if they want to press this is that people want to look away from this ickiness. and if you're the person pushing that they be forced to look at it, that can sometimes have a political downside. >> john dickerson for us in iowa this morning, thank you, good to talk to you. here's erica. the beginning to the end of america's two wars in afghanistan and iraq. this morning, defense secretary robert gates wrapped up a visit to afghanistan. president obama confirmed he' ready to begin bringing u.s. troops home for good. >> reporter: president obama confirmed monday the plan to draw down more than 100,000 forces in afghanistan will begin in july. >> i intend to follow through on that commitment to the american people. >> reporter: that commitment means it troops will be out of

afghanistan by the end of 2014. but how quickly? mr. obama says the recent killing of osama bin laden will accelerate the drawdown. >> it's now time for us to recognize that we've established a big chunk of our mission. and that it's time for the afghans to take more of a responsibility. >> secretary of defense gates is on his final visit to afghanistan visiting with troops this week. >> we're still on track and making a lot of progress and breaking the momentum of the taliban, denying them the control of the populated areas. >> iraq is on the radar, the news that five u.s. soldiers were killed there on monday. the president said it's a conflict he's determined to end to bring home the 48,000 americans serving there. joining us now from washington, cbs news chief correspondent lara logan. there's so much pressure to bring troops home. there's a concern militarily as to what could happen with the

drawdown, especially if it's accelerated. how will secretary gates make his case for president obama? >> well, his case is going to come from the ground. he's waiting for a recommendation from general patreaus. he's in a lot of meetings assessing the situation himself. military commanders are broadly expected to weigh in on the side of a token if you like, a smaller withdraw. what's really an issue here, erica, it's not whether or not the troops come home. everyone knows the president has made it clear, troops will start coming home in july. but the other thing everyone agrees on is september 21, 2014 is the end state. by that time, the vast majorities of the u.s. forces will have come home. there will be residual count terrorism kind of force for a long-term strategic relationship with the afghans. what's specific here is the scope and pace of the withdraw. military commanders are expected to remain heavily on a flat

float if you like that goes up steeply towards the end of december 31, 2014 to meet that deadline. and secretary gates is expected to back military commanders to give the surge strategy a chance to work. the counterargument is that is politically and economically unsustainable and there are others pushing for a sharper drawdown come july. >> is there part of that argument that if the drawdown happens to quickly, it can lead to a resurgence from the taliban. some say it's basically a band aid, you have to rip it off at some point. no matter what, when ever troops leave, that is a valid concern. >> you know what's so interesting about that argument, erica, is that it appears a lot of people have forgotten the goals of 2001 when the u.s. initially went into afghanistan. it seemed then everybody believed it was possible to defeat the taliban. that no longer seems to be the prevailing belief.

it now seems to be that at any point you leave afghanistan, you're going to have a huge problem with thetal pan. you can't get trapped there forever. the problem with that theory is, you know, i think the best example to give to help you understand it is that any military officer that goes through west point training acade academy, one of the first and most important things that you're taught is to defeat the enemy in the fight, they have to destroy the command of control. to that question, what is the command of the control in the taliban? the key leadership running this war? they're untouched. they haven't paid the price for this fight because they're across the border in pakistan where they enjoy relative safety and ease of operation. what you're doing with this withdraw is you're leaving the battlefield without your main objective being accomplished and that is a question that seems to get overlook in the political debate that's governing this decision at this point. >> lara logan in washington this

morning. thanks. now here's chris. thank you. this morning, three small towns in arizona have emptied out, thousands of people getting out of the way of wild fires and thousands more could be evacuated today. ronna rossi of our phoenix affiliate kpho is in springerville, arizona this morning. good morning, ronna. good morning, chris. firefighters have been battling the blaze all night as this fire now in the tenth day continues its win blown course. >> reporter: with strong winds fanning the flames, the unstoppable fire parched another 64 miles along the arizona-colorado border yesterday alone sending smoke to denver and iowa. the fires destroyed 235 acres of mountainous pine forest, doubling the gigantic size over the weekend. 3,000 people have been evacuated or left voluntarily. >> this cause add lot of people a lot of hardship. i have nowhere else to go.

>> and officials warned the towns of springerville last night they have to get ready. >> 24 to 48 hours. the way this thing is working, you may not have that much time. >> 150 miles of highways have been close in the rugged area. dotted with kafrp grounds and cabins that vacationers looking to get away from the summer heat usually occupy. there has been zero containment in this fire, now, the third largest in arizona history. fire officials are now bracing for a day of smoke and high winds. they're projecting this fire could last well into the end of this month. chris? >> kpho's ronna rossi of our phoenix affiliate kpho this morning. thank you. standing by at the newsdesk with another look at the headlines, good morning. good morning to you. we begin with a daylight raid in

tripoli today. you mentioned this on top of the broadcast. a plume of smoke rose over the city as nato struck is it capital keeping up the pressure on muammar gadhafi to give up power. libyan officials said bomb hit military and what they called semimill tarl co semimilitary compounds. more distressing news this morning. housing starts were down 28% in 2009. fewer homes were start in 2009 than in any year since world war ii. another study finds 40% of homeowners who took out second mortgages owe more than their homes are worth. they are underwater. one of president obama's top economic advisors is quitting, austan goolsbee is resigning his post of economic advisors. he'll teach at the university of chicago. 1 million new e. coli cases are being reported as officials

still try to pinpoint the cause of the e. coli outbreak. germany backtracked again saying it's not sprouts that caused the epidemic. before that, they blamed cucumbers. romania, france, and other countries destroyed tons of cucumbers that had been refused for sale. and this morning, a politician there in the european commission held up a cucumber to make his point that compensation should be paid to countries who lost money. >> a moderate earthquake shook st. louis and the suburbs this morning. it was a 4.2 quake that was felt in parts of southern illinois. no damage was reported. in southwestern iowa, a sign tells the story, there, the river is coming. they sandbag to hold back the swollen missouri. the levee is faltering. a secondary levee is under way. but if it fails, the town could

end up in eight feet of water. marysol castro has the weather now. we want to turn our focus to the southwest as we continue to keep an eye on the wild fire. that orange area is the critical fire area. the temperatures in the 80s, humidity is a mere 10%. winds are dry, gusting 10 to 24 miles per hour. six states are under a red flag warning. the last time arizona saw rain it feels may 20. the critical fire area is now overlapping with the severe drought area. this is going to remain a problem at least for the next

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congressman anthony weiner admits he lied about that lewd photo he sent on twitter. for days, though, he insisted hackers sent it. he blamed andrew breitbart who broke that photo on one of his websites, breitbart, the fallout, and how he defended himself at the congressman's own news conference. here's an interesting turn of events in your story. i'm half past the hour. >> he powered the newscast in the beginning. >> a little bit. >> may be over. also ahead, it was 30 years ago this week that the government first reported on aids. since then, millions have died,

millions more are infected. there's still no cure. not a lot of progress. how aids changed the world. we've got that more coming up in the first couple of minutes. jeff glor with a look at the top headlines on this tuesday morning. good tuesday morning to you. good morning to you at home as well. rare nato air strikes at libya's capital today. gray smoke could be seen after the unusual daylight raid. . compounds run by some of muammar gadhafi's most loyal fighters. in yemen, 19 people and three children were killed by tribal gunmen and troops. that fighting took place in the second largest city in a remote province. a tornado was seen near the airport in billings, montana. several tou

we first learned about the twitter photo by congressman anthony weiner by a website run by andrew breitbart. he'll speak with us in a minute. but weiner admitted it was true. that was breitbart's vindication. >> i want to hear the truth from congressman weiner. >> andrew breitbart has six websites whose goal is to hold

the main stream's media to the fire. he got their attention when he posted this infamous picture of congressman weiner on biggovernment.com several days ago. >> this is a prank, a hoax. >> weiner dismissed it claiming his account was hacked. on monday, he admitted that it was a lie. >> i apologize to andrew breitbart and other members of the media i misled. >> breitbart took the stage before the apology to say he had been right all along. >> we were vindicated at first after a three-day frenzy to attack my journalism. >> he has the ability to not just break news but to insert himself in the news and drive the conversation with him at the center of it. not only did his website get credit for breaking the story, he was a central component in the story by challenging representative weiner's story. in this case, it boar itself out. >> this is not the first time he's been involve in a political

scandal. last july, he posted a speech made by an official shirley sherrod that appeared to have racially charged undertones. sherrod was fired. breitbart was accused of taking the words out of con tech. he posted the entire speech. and sherrod has gotten her job back and filed a defamation suit against breitbart. >> he realizes he has these strikes against him. he's trying to show that he's a reliable news source and this will help him. >> andrew breitbart joins us in the studio this morning. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> you said at the beginning of the news conference, you wanted to hear the truth. do you feel that you heard the truth? >> now that we're going to have an ethics investnvestigation, w head down the path of truth. he offered a limited version of

the truth. it's a step in the right direction. >> you have one other photo. do you have more information? is there more you plan to release? >> i have no intention to release anymore information. i think we're heading down the proper path. this thing started ten days ago on friday, the 27th. and the next day, for three days, saturday, sunday, and monday, it was excruciating, the plan that he concocted and he's going to have to take responsibility for. and the organized left and the media framed me as the person who was the hacker. and that was -- that was unbelievably difficult to have to deal with during that period of time. they also falsely accused me of releasing the name of the girl in seattle. they said that i savaged her. but we chose not to give her name. so, for me, this is very important to get the truth out. >> why do you choose to go after anthony weiner when this information was presented to you. why did you decide to make it go public?

>> it's inherently newsworthy as the front of "the new york post" and the fact that i'm sitting here right now. the fact that he tweeted it wasn't what caused us to -- the trigger to run it. it was hen he started to cover up. he started to erase all of these photos immediately as we were investigating if this really did emanate from his own twitter feed. he took down all of his photos. the girl in seattle took down her facebook page. she took down her -- this was all friday evening. a lot of weird behavior happening. then he finally tweeted that he was hacked. when a congressman tweets on his account that he's been hacked, i'm sorry, that's news. >> so that's what you -- what bothered you more about the story? is it what took place? or the fact that he had lied about it? >> well, personally, the lying part. but, yes, the cover-up is worse than the crime. and he really started the cover-up right away. understandably so. if you tweet something like that and you erase it and you type

that you, you know, you were hacked, it's understandable why he would try to cover it up. it's the length that he would try to cover it up and willing to allow for innocent people to be attacked and mercilessly so. >> you criticized the bias. you said you were equally offended by missteps that happened on the right side. you mentioned john ensign, you mentioned chris lee. you don't exactly have a record of going after people on the other side. is that the reason you decided not to post the photos? >> i have information -- people who come to me from information know that if they went to abc, cbs, nbc, "new york times," they have a proclivity to present a more liberal slant of things. so people come to me because they know i can get out stories that if it were republican, it would have come out in the main stream media. so, if people start sending me profoundly offensive things and corruption that comes from the

democratic -- republican party. i'm bipartisan in terms of reporting corruption. >> so you would post both. >> of course. >> i want to ask you -- we mentioned shirley sherrod. the site posted that video. there's discussion of how the video was ed sited. >> yes. >> you've waited on it. you're facing a multimillion dollar defamation -- >> it's not a $13 million. that's not true. >> it's a multimillion dollar suit. >> they didn't state the amount of money. >> you nfr apologize to her. you said you felt sorry for her. did that experience change in any way how you do business? >> you know, the media has been waiting for a moment for me to fall on my face, after the acorn story that went against the narrative that barack obama's acorn was this, you though, vaulted, wonderful organization and i was prepared for a moment that they would eck ploit xploi to take me down. interesting last week, chris matthews, my critic, he does not

like me. he does not like my politics. when joan walsh of salon tried to bring up the sherrod story to try to derail it, to try to change the subject. he said, no, i've looked at the video. i've read the article. nobody's read the article. nobody's looked at the video that he put out there and he kept in the part. he kept in the part that the media says that i didn't keep in, the redefrptive angle. if the media does its work and looks at the 1400 piece which was the attack on the naacp's false attack on the tea party, they will see that i will be vindicate in this lawsuit. >> my question is, did going through all of that, did i change the way you approach a story. when you were sent the information on congressman weiner. did it change? oh. >> i have to be honest with you. you have to dot your is and cross your ts. i know i'm going to be in an

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in this morning's healthwatch, 30 years of aids. five gay men were infected with a disease that doctors had never seen before, it was announced. harry smith takes a look back. >> reporter: there were rumors before there was a disease. gay men were getting sick. many were getting a rare kind of cancer. they were dying. and no one knew why. researchers put the puzzle pieces together and found a virus -- insidious and unassailable. the clusters became more wide spread and soon there was an aids epidemic.

needle-sharing drug users joined the sick. as did people with hemophilia, infected from blood transif you goes. america panicked. there was talk of quarantines, there was blame. aids was god's punishment for sinful behavior. and then, there was ryan white, a kid with hemophilia and aids who just wanted to go to school. >> you can eat at any restaurant in kokomo. he roller skate s ever friday night with his classmates. the point is he can play in kokomo, he just can't learn with his friends in kokomo. >> aids went main stream and slowly america stopped hating the people who had the disease. >> mr. rock hudson has acquired immune deficiency syndrome. >> rock hudson died of aids, gay. >> some of you heard that i tested positive for hiv, the

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and welcome back to "the early show" here on a tuesday morning. i'm chris wragge along with erica hill. when the arab protest started in tunisia and spread to egypt, there was no guarantee that the country between them, libya, would join in. for months, libya's government has struggled with rebel forces that control wide spread areas and nato is on the side of the rebels. all this week in our series, "the arab summer," we're taking a look at rebellions in yemen, tunisia, syria, and libya as they start to spill over. it's a chaos.

>> allen pizzey is in the capital, tripoli. when warplanes hit 7:00 local time hitting the same target six times. surprisingly, the libyans admitted it was a military target. it was a revolutionary and popular guard bayles. two new developments in the unusual uprising in the arab spring. standing up to a dictator who's ruled for 42 years with a mixture of cunning and cruelty who preys on the fool hearty. but the revolt that began in eastern libya that never liked muammar gadhafi anyway looked like it would spread with the same wild fire intensity as those who preceded it in the so-called arab spring. with boundless courage and no military expertise, the rag tag forces drove gadhafi's forces back. but with little idea of how to use the weapons they looted from armories, the rebels were counterpunched saved only by the

intervention of the french. anti-gadhafi forces in the capital had no one to save them and the one-sided battles didn't last long. libya's protesters lacked the one thing that everybody else in the revolution had -- the geographic focal point. in bahrain, they fought their battles in pearl square. this is tripoli's equivalent. here in green square, it is government supporters where the real are coerced who hold sway. demonstrations in the square are the one event reporters can be assured of getting permission to attend. the problem is all you hear are the pro forma rants and chants. venture away from the rallies to the narrow streets where the ordinary people shop, you get a hint of what you think. >> i like to be free with everybody else. >> nato says they want gadhafi to go.

>> i don't care that. just muammar gadhafi. but what -- what we can do? >> the answer, of course, is not very much. some say they're suicidal, still take to the streets, usually in a funeral for someone killed for demonstrating which ends up with more martyrs and another funeral, and so it goes. even an offer by south african president jacob zuma to help gadhafi and his family find safe haven hit the brick wall contained with grief about his son kill in a raid and the belief that his people will love him and they'll collapse in a civil war if he goes. a growing crowd of defectors from military officers to government ministers may have rattled his inner circle, uh not his hold on power. libya is in danger of fracturing in two. rebels hold the east, and pockets of the home tribal area

and are fighting for the mountains to the south of tripoli. nato air strikes have helped the rebels hold out in misrata and solidify the hold on benghazi and solidify a government of sorts but the end result is a diplomatic stalemate. what's the answer? >> we don't know the answers yet. we don't know nothing yet. we wish to be free. we're human beings. we like to work, we like to make children educated. we want to go to school, to the university, you know? >> reporter: here in libya, the arab spring is still waiting for its blossom. be safe. >> i hope so. >> okay. getting on with life is the best thing people can hope for. the bombing raids go on, the traffic did you want change and the people stay on the street. with secret policemen in every corner and the bombing overhead, the people of tripoli think the best they can do is wait this

out. >> retired attorney general james spider marks. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> can the nato forces in the current form make the difference it makes in libya, do you think? >> well, the attempt is to strengthen the isolation of gadhafi. that's what we see right now going from -- escalating at this point the use of attack aircraft, apache-like capabilities which have a great loiter capability and are precise and can, in fact, fight. with air strikes, you're being very precise and very episodic. with the attack, you can strike. but specifically to the point, at some determining point in the future, there have to be boots on the ground in libya. if for no other reason than to keep the two sides separated. and until that is recognized or acknowledged, gadhafi will remain. even if he goes by some means, it did you want look like he'll choose to leave of his own.

even if he gets killed, there has to be a presence to ensure there isn't an extreme amount of score settling. >> i want to talk to you about boots on the ground in a second. but first, to the apache helicopter attack we're seeing today. what do the new tactics tell you? >> they're not really new tactics. it's a weapon that's been in the arsenal sin day one. and the use of this type of aircraft ups the ante. the air strikes have from day one degraded colonel gadhafi's and his military's ability to conduct command and control. that means technical means of disseminating information and commands to attack certain targets and achieve certain objectives. as that degrades and goes away, the ability for that military to do anything certainly decreases. and this military that gadhafi has is not known for its ability to take the initiative and to act on what we call intent or mission-type ord earles.

they need very specific guidance. as you degrade that, you degrade their capabilities. the use of apache-like capabilities further degrades that command and control to the point where they now become very inert and essentially just targets to be eliminated eventually. >> we spoke with the nato secretary general yesterday. he made it clear, boots on the ground, not in the plans right now. president obama was quick to point out in this conflict, he echoed the same sentiment, boots on the ground was not on the table. do you think they need to rethink this position? that boots on the ground is the only way they'll solve the issue there is? oh. >> well, chris, the way you characterized it is that the nato sec-gen said there would not be boots on the ground now. i concur -- the conditions are not right at this point. at some point, there will be a military presence that at least facilitates a transition. that's the point i'm trying to make. we should never eliminate a

capability up front without a full consideration of what the conditions are. in other words, when our president indicated there would be no boots on the ground, that's a capability that we have now taken off of the table. i thought it was premature that he would do that. >> general spider marks, thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us this morning. good to talk to you. >> thanks, chris. it's not just the early show, but the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley looking at the arab summer. tonight's broadcast will look at egypt. less than four months since they forced them to give up power, scott pelley joins us. good morning. >> great to be with you. >> you're going to look at egypt. just under four months since mubarak stepped down. there was something about the muslim brotherhood seeing renewed support. is it ultimately going to be the muslim brotherhood who could, in fact, lead this country? >> even though the muslim

brotherhood was banned, as you know, erica, it was tolerated by the government and therefore it became one of the best organized opposition groups in egypt. now the reason some people are concerned about the muslim brotherhood is because since its founding pack in 1928, it has been all about establishing what is known in islam as the bringing back of islamic government, bringing back islamic hegeminy in that part of the region. people are concerned about that. the vast majority of people in egypt say they're not concerned. the polling that you read, the most reputable polling we've seen, most folks in egypt believe they're going to have a secular government not involved in islamic radicalism. >> elizabeth palmer has a lengthy piece on "the evening news" tonight, there's a doctrine in that piece. what's the piece behind that doctrine? >> we wanted to go back to egypt to find out where we are at this

point. we're at the midpoint between the rev lupgs and having a new president and a new parliament. that will be coming up in the fall. so we sent liz palmer back to egypt with her producer, heather abbott to find one of the people in the square who was involve in the revolution and find out what he believes will happen next. they found a doctor by the name of abdul rahman. here's what we'll be seeing from elizabeth on "the evening news". >> a back in february, millions of egyptians took to the streets in a great popular uprising that toppled their corrupt government. four months on, we returned to find dr. islam abdul rahman now back at his day job. when he's not in the operating room, he's become a democratic activist working deep down in the grassroots. >> you're living what you fought for now. >> yes. yes. and as i told you, i already

have -- >> reporter: to him, that means it freedom to support any political party in egypt's upcoming elections, including the muslim brotherhood, which was banned as an extremist group. we joined dr. abdul rahman on his new mission, to mobilize the vote with open debate. that's part of what we'll see tonight. >> that's right. it's really hard to overestimate the importance of egypt to american interests in the region. right there next to israel just across the red sea from the arabian peninsula, the american people have an enormous stake at what happens next in egypt. so that's why we're all following it so closely. >> it's not just for egypt, but it can ripple across the middle east, in fact, because of the u.s. relationship with egypt and how it channels to the relationship with other countries. >> yes. egypt is going to be pivotal of the future of the region. we're going to be having the elections come up in the fall. there'll be an election in the parliament in september.

there will be an election for a new president in october. and the new changes they just instituted in the constitution mean that the president will only be able to serve two terms, but there are two eight-year terms. that's a long time by american standards, but by egyptian standards, that's a short term of office. >> i would like to ask you about your new role at the cbs evening news. one day down, many more days to go. we want to thank you for joining us each and every morning on "the early show." >> great to be with you. they haven't told me about that yet. >> get your coffee. >> how did day one go? >> it was great. we have such terrific people. there are people at the "cbs evening news" who are working with me every day who work with walter cronkite. we have the most experienced people in television news as you know. when you have those people working for you all day long, it's an easy thing to do. >> good to have you here with us this morning. >> thank you so much. >> congratulations. >> great to be with you. >> more for you in the situation

in egypt including liz palmer's report coming up tonight on the "cbs evening news." the arab summer continues tomorrow morning on "the early show" as we continue our look to egypt as well. jeff glor at the newsdesk with another look at the headlines for us on tuesday morning. good morning. >> good morning once again to you. scott, welcome. good morning to you as well. anthony weiner says he'll cooperate with the house ethics investigation, but he says he won't resign. an extraordinary news conference happened yesterday afternoon in new york. weiner admitted to having inappropriate on-line relationships with six women over a three-year period. he admitted he sent lewd photos of himself on the internet and then lied about it. >> i regret not being honest about this. this was a big mistake to -- i was embarrassed. i was humiliated. i'm still to this moment -- i was trying to protect my wife, i was trying to protect myself from shame. it was a mistake. and i really regret it. >> weiner's troubles began more

than a week ago when the first photos showed up in a website run by andrew breitbart. breitbart told erica he thinks he has more to explain. >> now that there's going to be an ethics investigation, we'll start heading down the path towards the truth. perhaps it's offered a limited version of the truth. it certainly is a step in the right direction. >> breitbart said he had a graphic x-ray picture of weaner he won't release to protect weiner's family. a new study says 40% of homeowners who took out second mortgages now owe more than their homes are worth. they're underwater. in contrast, the real estate data from core logic says 18% of homeowners who don't have second mortgages are underwater. one of president obama's closest economic advisors is leaving his post this summer. austan goolsbee now plans to teach at the university of

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he warned us that they weren't going to be taking away our arms by bringing the bells and making sure he was riding his horse through town to send the warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free. sarah palin there talking about the midnight ride of paul revere. not exactly how longfellow wrote it. she said, look, her history is accurate and some history buffs are backing her up. some others say she's flat out wrong. there's a battle on wikipedia that had to shut down the paul revere page. it had updated so many times it way they see it in there.

just ahead, our own history lesson from school kids. they did a class project on paul revere. they will school us here on "the early show". coming up in washington, the national zoo, a new bundle of joy in a baby giant panda. a big catch. they don't know if the mom to be is preg nanl. we sent dr. debbye turner bell to check it out. we'll hear from her in a minute. >> amazing that they don't know if she's pregnant. amazing and unfair to every woman in the world. when a panda gives birth, the size of a stick of butter. see the size of a panda. not fair. first up, steve jobs. he's been dealing with medical issues for the past five months, for a number of years. took a medical leave five months ago. he was back on monday to reveal apple's newest creation. john blackstone reports on how

jobs brought the crowd to his feet. >> reporter: steve jobs had only to walk on stage to get a standing ovation. >> we love you. >> thank you. it always helps. >> still on medical leave from apple and extremely thin, jobs was here to unveil icloud, apple's new on-line data storage service. but first, he turned the conference over to other apple executives. it may be a sign of succession planning. >> if something, god forred by were to happen to steve, apple is in good hands. >> jobs is battling cancer and had a liver transplant but he seemed invigorated when he returned for the major announcement. >> like everything so far? good. i'll try not to blow it. >> reporter: apple's cloud service will store music, photos, documents, and more on-line. >> now some people think the cloud is just a hard disk in the

sky. right? we think it's way more than that. and we call it icloud. >> reporter: apple is aiming icloud at those who have or hope to have an iphone, an ipad, and apple computer. with icloud, everything that's on one of these devices is automatically on all of them. >> keeping these devices in sync is driving us crazy. >> reporter: with icloud which will be offered free, apple is pushing the advantage of a maker of both hardware and software. in the competition with the big rivals, google and amazon. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. and joining us now the news and business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis. you were monitoring this as well. when you see steve jobsish had not to see how thin he is, as encouraging it is to see him on stage there. it's speculation not with just his health but the status of the

company. >> every time steve jobs takes the stage, everybody watches him, not only for what he says but also how he looks. there's a lot of speculation given yesterday's appearance about his health, yet, as far as apple is concerned, they've yet to come out and say anything about a strategy going forward without steve jobs. it's hard to think about or talk about because steve jobs the heart and soul of this company. what's interesting to know, however, is the stock price. if people thought yesterday steve jobs unfortunately isn't going to be around for a significantly longer time, you may have analysts say see the stock price get hit a lot more significantly than it was hit yesterday. >> it was hit yesterday? >> it was. this is something we have yet to see. any time apple makes a big announcement, the stock runs up in advance of the announcement. oftentimes, what happens the stock gets sold. the reaction is generally speaking, a little muted unless there's something bigger, unless there's some sort of oh, my goodness, the company failed here. people don't think apple failed yesterday. they think it's an interesting

idea, the whole icloud, the whole making music accessible anywhere, anytime. they did not introduce a new iphone. there's speculation that there may be a new iphone in the announcement. analysts and investors didn't get that announcement. that's another component of what happened. it fell about 1% yesterday. not a significant fall, but a fall. >> a little bit of disappointment, june/july is when you see the new iphone. let's put the analysts aside for a anybody. how are people in general reacting to the idea of the icloud? >> it's interesting because it reminds me of when on-line banking first began. people are apprehensive. you put your music out there for apple to store on the servers, you're giving up the control and giving it to an unfaced individual. i mean, when you put your music on the internet and not on your hard drive anymore, that changes what kind of access you have to it and also who else has access to it. i tweeted about this yesterday and a lot of people came back

and said i don't know if i want to cede all of that control to apple. and people tweeted back, on-line banking was the same way, people didn't want to go on-line and give up all of that personal information. >> we'll have to ask in a few months. >> exactly. and jeff glor at the newsdesk with a look at headlines one more time. nato carried out a daylight air raid in tripoli today. a plume of smoke went over tripoli keeping up the pressure on muammar gadhafi. u.s. forces are scheduled to begin withdrawing from afghanistan in july. this morning, president obama is scheduled to announce more details as the war continues in afghanistan. cbs news correspondent mandy clarke is with members of the 101st airborne in paktika province. >> right on the border with pakistan, two 500-pound bombs killed three armed men expected to be front line spotters.

nearby, the men of fox company can continue their mission with the spotters gone, the enemy will have a much harder time setting an ambush for them as they move through this rugged terrain. >> large number of insurgents see this as bed down areas. we suspect they're using this as a training camp as well. >> for years, insurgents have used this area along the border as a staging ground. the air is thin and the terrain is difficult. and when chased, the insurgents simply slip back to the safe havens of pakistan. a game of cat and mouse that never seems to end. company commander captain christopher tanner was waiting on a ridge for his men to gather for the night when rockets started landing neern. the captain stayed calm. >> there's another one. >> and directed counterfire. >> they have an acquisition on that one. >> late to the night, tanner waited for the enemy to reveal himself, but the insurgents

chose to wait and fight another day. in the morning, fox company was picked up, captain tanner was satisfied. >> every fighter we stop on the border is one less fighter that makes it to the heart of afghanistan. >> that was mandy clark this morning from paktika province. 100 new cases of e. coli infection have been reported in europe. test results show that the organic sprouts from the german farm is not responsible for the outbreak. 22 people have die in the e. coli infection and 2,000 people have developed symptoms. meanwhile, tons of cucumbers have been destroyed. they were once thought to be the source of the e. coli epidemic. farmers are complaining of mass losses during the scare. a politician held up a cucumber

in his speech to the meeting of the european commission. demanding countries like spain which lost money in the crisis be paid compensation. coming up on 39 minutes past the hour. >> i'm sorry, it -- >> i didn't say anything. >> you didn't have to, jeff glor. >> not a word. >> it made me giggle. you at home are giggling at this creepy politician waving a cucumber in the air for no reason. take a look at the severe weather for the day. northern plains and the western great lakes. two air masses collide in the result of severe weather. a straight line of storms from montana in to portions eastward. we're looking at hail. and, of course, we're keeping an eye on the slight possibility of a tornado. it's going to be windy in this part of the country. again, this will isn't responsible for rain and portions of mmontana, a place that doesn't need it. the precipitation is out of here. leaving cold weather, cold temperatures in its wake. this is well below normal.

it will stay like this for the next 24 hours. and it is to the cool temperatures, we're looking at rain, 1 1/2 inches in great falls, idaho falls, picks up a half an inch. this thanks so much. that's your latest weather. now over to chris. marysol, thank you very much. paul revere hasn't gotten this much attention in years, every since sarah palin told her version of the story last week, there's been a running argument, did she get it right or did she

get it wrong? >> i'm trying to talk to the real people. >> sarah palin's one nation bus tour is done but it doesn't stop people from talking about the famous ride about paul revere. >> they warned the british they weren't going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free. >> critics slammed palin as being historically inaccurate. on sunday, she said the media was using gutter tactics to attack her. >> i didn't mess up about paul revere. this is what he did. part of his ride was to warn the british that we're there. we're not going to succeed. you're not going to take american arms. >> yesterday, wikipedia padlocked the paul revere page preventing any pages from being made after dozens of edits took place over the weekend.

it's not clear if palin's fans or enemies were trying to rewrite history. a long time since we read the story of paul revere's famous ride. so we went to the trevor day school here in new york city and asked the students for a quick history lesson. most americans know the name paul revere for one are and one reason alone -- a poem by longfellow that begins -- listen my children. and you shall hear of the midnight ride by paul revere in 1875 hardly a man is alive to remember that famous day. >> there's a lot of detail that aren't in the poem. >> he was a silver smith and he told the colonies about the british people that -- is that right? >> one if by land. and two if by sea and i on the opposite side to spread the alarm to every middle sex

city or farm. >> the british are coming. i heard that, i don't know if it's true. >> we know what revere said, it's well recorded at the time. he would tell people, the regs are coming out. meaning the british regular troops. >> he was part of the sons of liberty, which is a group that thought against taxes, pretty much. >> we think of the boston massacre in 1770. we think of the boston tea party a few years later. revere is at both of them. >> he didn't do too much, but that one thing did a lot. >> a cry of defiance and not of fear. a voice in the darkness a knock at the door and a word that shall echo forever more. >> helped the revolution against britain. >> in the hour of darkness. and listen to need the people will waken and listen to hear. >> the hurrying hoof print. of the midnight message of paul revere. >> if he hasn't done that, we

could be british now. you don't know. >> cute kids. >> they were. >> adorable. >> trying to get revolutionary war experience. >> there you go. i hasn't heard that poem in such a long time. it was nice to hear it again. >> from the kid. i love they're reading and they look off to the side, did i get it right? >> did a great job. >> thank you for helping out. >> over at trevor day school. nice to have them with us. you can discuss it at home. i have a feeling it will be one we'll talk about it. >> and we'll be back up on can i eat heart healthy without giving up taste? a man can only try... and try...and try. i heard eating whole grain oats can help lower my cholesterol.

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the national zoo in washington is looking for one of the most exciting moments in years, the possible birth of a cute and cuddly panda. here's the issue. the officials aren't exactly sure if their giant panda is pregnant. correspondent and resident

veterinarian dr. debbye went down to the zoo to tell. >> it's hard to tell. have you seenñ) ultra sound? >> no. >> most of us haven't. i got a rare behind-the-scenes look at mei xiang, the giant panda getting an ultra sound at the national zoo. is a new cub on the way? simply? maybe, maybe not. >> it's not so simple to tell when a panda is pregnant. first, you have to get the bear to come out of her enclosure. >> come on, sweetheart. >> that's the easy part. now zoo veterinarian dr. suzanne murray must get 13-year-old giant panda, mei xiang, to lie still for an ultra sound. >> looks like she's feeding. she's keeping me steady and protecting me. >> a steady stream of carrots and apples keep her occupied. >> right there. yeah, there's fluid in it.

you think, wow -- there's a lot going on in there. big loops filled with bamboo. it's hard to see the reproductive tract, even if you have a compliant patient. >> pandas are fertile just 24 hours once a year. so when one of the four female pandas in u.s. zoos get pregnant, it's a big deal. but the tricky part is it's almost impossible to predict the blessed event in advance. >> we know for sure that a panda is pregnant when a little baby is born. very off, that's the only way. >> we're going to try to get to the other side. >> each year a female can have a real pregnancy or a false one called a pseudopregnancy. >> the hormonal profile is identical whether she's pregnant or not pregnant. the ultra sound findings up until the last ten days are also identical. so it's very difficult to figure that out. >> the last panda cub born at the national zoo was six years ago. the arrival of little tai xong

caused an international stir. >> when that one came along, the entire world was excited about it. >> with only 1600 in the wild, giant pandas are extremely endangered. there are only 11 pandas in captivity in u.s. zoos, so when a cub comes along, everyone gets excited. >> people are watching him on web cams all over the world. >> so for now, dr. murray and zoo officials wait and watch mei change's every move. >> this year her behavior seemed to be a lot stronger than it has been in previous years, building a huge nest and cradling toys. so this year we're a little extra hopeful she may be pregnant. >> if there is a little panda bun in the oven, mei change is expe -- mei xiang may have a birth. >> it's not just a panda having a baby. it's mei xiang gives birth birth

to her second couple. >> if she is pregnant, she'll be the first panda to give birth in the u.s. this year. dr. murray will do ultra sounds three times a week until she sees something, or nothing happens along and it's a false alarm and a pseudopregnancy. >> therese a window, a gestation period which is how you would know. >> pandas anywhere from 90 days to 185 days. that's three -- >> that's a wide window. >> it is. they're 120 days in. that's right around that time. but more than anything, her behavior is really is in the la days of pregnancy. >> behaving like a pregnant panda. >> did you see a woman with a baby. >> their appetite goes down. she's making a nest, she's building a nest. she's cradling her toys as if she's practicing for a baby. that makes them think.

>> that's different. >> every year they go through the same behavior. they said this year the behavior seems more pronounced than previous years so they're a little more optimistic. but we won't know. >> it's just to say we still have absolutely no idea. we don't know. >> makes for a fun story. if you look at cute pandas, never a bad morning. >> 60% of panda births are twins. they're hoping she gives birth to -- >> would you will be? >> a panda lover can dream. >> dr. debby turner bell, everyone. have a great day. see you tomorrow here on "the early show."

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