good morning. new facts this morning after another shooting at virginia tech. scene of america's worst ever campus massacre. many now wondering how this could happen again. we have the latest on the killing of a police officer, a father of five. jerry sandusky's wife says the accusations against her husband are false, as he leaves jail and she comes under scrutiny for what she knew and when. we will hear more from dottie sandusky's first public statement in the case. mitt romney heads to iowa as a new campaign ad targets newt gingrich's marital failures. we will tell you why romney is cuddly pushing harder to win over iowa republicans. tim tebow, winning quarterback and a praying one but he is not the first and only

athlete to bring faith to the field. we will talk about religion and the gridiron "early" this friday morning, december 9th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning. i'm erica hill. happy friday. >> happy friday, erica and everybody. i'm jeff glor. chris wragge is off this morning. welcome back from d.c. >> thanks. nice to be back. boy, what a day yesterday. so many people on edge as we were watching the events unfold at virginia tech. we want to begin with the latest this morning from virginia tech which is, of course, an ugly reminder of the deadliest shooting spree in recent u.s. history. this morning police say a man who shot a campus officer to death apparently used the same gun to kill himself. >> thursday's shooting left the campus on lockdown for several hours and elaine quijano is on the campus in blacksburg. >> good morning. >> reporter: virginia state police are heading up this

investigation and still trying to determine right now if there was a link between the shooter and the officer who was killed. they haven't yet identified the gunman but we do know more about happened. >> reporter: it was just after 12:30 when virginia tech students first got word of a gunman on campus. heavily armed police, including s.w.a.t. teams, flooded buildings as the campus went into lockdown. >> do not leave this room until you're told, do you understand? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: about 20 minutes early, campus police officer deriek crouse had been in a traffic stop in the school parking lot and when they say the gunman got up and killed officer crouse. >> i was walking on the sidewalk to go home to my dorm. >> reporter: she saw what happened when police opened officer crouse's patrol car door. >> the officer in the driver's

seat fell out onto the ground and when i saw his face, it was covered in blood. and so i immediately knew that he had either been shot in the face or head or both. >> reporter: half a mile away from where officer crouse was shot, police found another wounded man who later died. after four hours, officials lifted the campus-wide lockdown, leading to speculation that the second body was that of the gunman. university president charles stieger. >> in light of the turmoil and the trauma and the tragedy suffered by this campus by guns, i can only say that words don't describe our feelings and they are no elusive at this point in time. our hearts are broken again for the family of our police officer. >> reporter: officer crouse and army veteran and five children and stepchildren joined the virginia police force when the campus dealt with the deadliest

campus massacre in history. 32 people were killed and 17 wounded before the gunman killed himself. >> that day seemed surreal. >> reporter: student joseph gates remembers that day. >> next thing you know, i'm getting out of class and two hours later, i'm informed that there was a shooting happened on campus. >> reporter: two hours later you found out about it? >> yes. >> reporter: this time, gates said he received information immediately. >> gunshots reported. colise colise coliseum parking lot. stay indoors. >> reporter: he said the police sent text alerts throughout the deal. >> this time was different. their response system was 50 times better, a hundred times better. >> reporter: investigators are continuing their work today including taking a close look at the dash cam video from officer crouse's patrol car. authorities say that it shows a man with a handgun at the car and captured the moment when the shooting took place. erica? >> elaine quijano for us at

virginia tech, thanks. last night impromptu candle lit vigil on campus. gathered there time to remember the officer who lost his life. >> tonight's vigil is expect to d draw many more people. sharyl attkisson is also at virginia tech. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> reporter: the 2007 tranelgeds on the minds of everyone here, especially those who made it out. for frederick cook, a graduate of virginia tech, the unthinkable was happening again. >> your heart just kind of drops. it's like a pretty intense, emotional thing. >> reporter: cook was an engineering student in 2007 when seung-hui cho went through a shooting campaign. he survived but 32 others and

the ganman didn't. >> my life has changed dramatically since the shooting. there isn't a day that goes by that i didn't think about what happened there. >> reporter: those painful memories rush back as cook anxiously followed thursday's event from his downtown office in blacksberg, just blocks away from campus. in 2007, virginia tech professor and poet nikki giovanni gave this memorable address. >> we are the hokies. we will prevail. we will prevail. we are virginia tech. >> reporter: thursday, she was back on campus in lockdown. part of new security measures put in place after the last shooting. >> lightning is not supposed to strike twice and it's just incredibly sad. >> reporter: michelle robinson's sister was attending here the first time lightning struck and now she's a student herself. despite the criticisms following the slow response last tight,

she feels the campus got it right this time. >> if it was to happen, tech is the first place to be. >> reporter: cook agrees. >> a huge difference, yeah. and like possibly save lives. >> reporter: of course, nobody hopes for any more incidents here at virginia tech but as you've heard, all the way around, people say communications were better and stronger this time, thanks to the systems put in place after 2007. jeff? >> we move down to the penn state scandal where the wife of jerry sandusky is speaking out for the first time, calling the charges against him false. >> in the meantime, he is now free on bail. anna werner has more for us from pennsylvania. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. jerry sandusky spent just one night in the county jail behind me before posting the $250,000 bail he needed to get out. 200,000 of that came from real estate holdings but 50,000 is from a person whose name is

beginning to be mentioned in the case, his wife. dorothy sandusky sped past reporters on her way into the couple's home thursday, an hour later, a car pulled up bringing her husband back from jail to begin living under house arrest. he is the one facing 52 counts of child sexual abuse but his attorney joe amendola told cbs news that 68-year-old dorothy, known as dottie, is also suffering the consequences. >> her whole life is ruined. even if they come out of this, and i've compared this battle to climbing mt. everest from the bottom. even if somehow jerry comes out of this without being convicted i mean, their lives are ruined. >> reporter: dottie has been a fixture of jerry san dusky's life 45 years and helping raise the six adopted children and being an active participant in his second mile charity but her name is coming up in the case

about questions about what she knew or didn't know about her husband' alleged sexual abuse of children. ten young men have alleged they were molested by sandusky over a period of time of 15 years. in a grand jury report released wednesday, one accuser said while he is being sexually assaulted by sandusky in the basement bedroom of the couple's home, he screamed for help knowing that sandusky's wife was upstairs, but he said no one ever came to help him. dottie sandusky responded to that allegation thursday saying she has been devastated by what she called the false accusations that such a terrible incident ever occurred in my home. she said she and her husband don't know why these young men have made these falls accusations but we want everyone to know, she said, they are untrue. now the attorney for another alleged victim tells cbs news that at next week's preliminary hearing, he expects his client will be asked questions about what he calls an incident in

which mrs. sandusky may have had knowledge of inappropriate conduct concerning her husband. he would not discuss details of that incident. sandusky himself, meanwhile, continues to maintain that he is innocent. >> anna werner for us this morning, thanks. turning the attention to wall street. dow jones industrials fell nearly 2 hundred points after more troubling news from europe's growing debt crisis. >> this morning, after all night meetings in belgium, there is word of a deal to solve the crisis, though, some european countries, including britain, are not going along with it. what here to explain this is cbs news business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvis. good morning. >> good morning. >> britain is one of the holdouts here. this is rattled markets as we know. markets in fits for week, now. any indication it's going to end now and things will calm down? >> the fact they say they have a deal is a really a misnomer here. their deal isn't without the

european central bank and without britain playing a role in the overall decision. this has rattled our markets now for almost two years. in the last weeks a lot of hope and expectation the european central back would come to the rescue the way our federal reserve did and buy up the debts of the struggling european economies. the ecb's response our hands are tied and it's out of your our domain and jurisdiction and everyone is looking around at the summit saying individual european countries have to come to individual aid and agree to cutting spending in a lot of places. that's not looking very likely right now. >> in terms of -- that is really the crux of this issue here is that you have so many different voices weighing in and they are each in such a different position economically. >> yeah. there is a tug of war going on. the fact that britain is stepping out of this, there is a tug of war going on between the 27 eu countries. and you have the very strong countries like germany and france being looked to to come to the rescue of the rest of the european economies, the likes of

italy and spain. countries like germany are saying, listen, we're not going to bail you out without knowing you are going to be putting austerity measures on the table and cutting spending so we're not facing the same issue down the road at the same time. at the same time, that could have negative consequences for the economies that have to pull back on spending at a time when they are not growing. >> rebecca jarvis, thank you very much. >> thanks. have a good weekend. here at home, poll after poll shows newt gingrich is overtaking mitt romney when it comes to the republican presidential race. >> now the romney camp is sharpening its attacks on gingrich. national correspondent dean reynolds is in iowa with more on that. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. from the start, mitt romney has thoroughly downplayed iowa and, as a consequence, iowa has thoroughly downplayed romney. his only office here in iowa, mitt romney volunteers were working the phones this week. >> i'm a volunteer calling on

behalf of governor romney's campaign. >> reporter: and abandoned black buster video store in des moines, the nearly vacant space was a perfect metaphor for a campaign that has been mostly awol from iowa. >> would you be able to do that for us? no? okay, thank you. >> reporter: romney's visit to iowa today is only his ninth since the last election. michele bachmann, by comparison, has spent 62 days here. newt gingrich, 50. republicans note that romney declined to contest last august straw poll and snubbed a thanksgiving family forum sponsored by social conservatives. instead, romney has been relying on surrogates. >> he is the only person who i believe can legitimately take the fight to barack obama this november. >> reporter: some question romney's strategy. >> and he has been a kind of iowa hamlet. not sure whether to play here, to be here or not to be here, that's been his question. >> reporter: now that may be changing. his decision to air a new ad

here suggests an increased commitment. >> i've been married to the same woman for 25 -- excuse me. i'll get in trouble. for 42 years! i've been in the same church my entire life. >> reporter: heavy on faith and family, it appears designed to contrast with newt gingrich who acknowledged infidelity and three marriages make a lot of social conservatives un's. >> i will be true to my family, to my faith, and to our country. >> reporter: but a lot of conservatives remain resistant, if not flatly opposed to romney. >> the more conservatives here romney is the most electable the angrier at romney they become, because there is a sense that romney is being shoved down their throats. >> reporter: well, they will get a real taste of romney today in cedar rapids, where he is giving a speech and is expected to hold a rare press conference. jeff? >> dean, what is the status of pact or super pact money showing up now in iowa? >> reporter: well, 3.1 million dollars in super pact money is

going to start showing up by way of commercials for romney. these super pacts are unaffiliated with romney campaign and can spend as much as they want. one of the ads we will see in iowa shows a picket of president obama smiling and then another shot of newt gingrich and it asks why is president obama smiling, implying that he wants newt gingrich to win the nomination and then it goes on to list all of the baggage that newt gingrich has. it's sort of a dlevclever way o looking like you're criticizing obama but really criticizing newt gingrich. >> dean reynolds in iowa, thanks very much. betty nguyen is over at the news desk this morning with a check of your headlines on this friday. good morning. >> it's friday! good morning! the family of a retired fbi agent who disappeared in iran four years ago released a video today that it received from his captors. robert levinson's family got the

video last year. in it, levinson says he is not in good health and he pleads with the u.s. government for help. >> please help me get home. 33 years of service to the united states deserves something. please help me. >> levinson who is 63 was working as a private investigator in iran. the u.s. says it has no idea who is holding him. well, u.s. official are denying iran's claim that it brought down a top secret u.s. spy drone with a cyberattack. in video released by iran, the drone appears intact. something the u.s. cannot explain. the u.s. says it lost control of a drone earlier this week and doesn't deny iranian don't have it. iran could try to reverse engineer the drone or hand it

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♪ welcome back to "the early show." i'm erica hill, along with jeff glor. chris is off this morning. we've been tell you, over the last few weeks, that the numbers indicate holiday spending is up significantly this year already. >> that's good news, right? some americans are tired, though, of watching their budget, so out come the credit cards. this makes retailers happy, but might it actually hurt the recovery in 2012? we are going to take a look this morning at frugal fatigue. >> and more important than the recovery, could it really hurt your own economic situation within your family? >> both at the same time. >> there you go. over the past 15 years, more than a dozen states are legalized marijuana for medical

use. >> what began as a humanitarian effort is becoming an enterprise. john blackstone has this report. >> reporter: business is brisk at what claims to be the biggest medical marijuana dispenser in the country. >> we see 6 to 800 patients a day in this facility. of course, it's a very unique facility. patients can't find what they find here anywhere else. >> reporter: steve deangelo opened the harbor side health center in oakland, california, five years ago. now he supplies some 95,000 people with a vast array of medicines made from marijuana. though, he prefers the term cannabis. >> we have cannabis you smoke and i inheale and this is the traditional form of cannabis no people are familiar with. >> reporter: harbor side is a $22 million a year operation run out of an anonymous warehouse. still, deangelo doesn't keep a

low profile. harvard side is currently the subject of a discovery channel documentary series. california is one of 16 states that have approved marijuana for medical use, but that conflicts with federal law which says any use of marijuana is illegal. and now u.s. attorneys across the country are cracking down. >> where there is marijuana, there is money and lots of it. >> reporter: melinda haag, the u.s. attorney for northern california, is among those appointing to an abuse of what what an effort to help the sick. >> people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money, in short, to engage in drug trafficking. >> reporter: the federal government did not send armed agents into harbor side. instead, it sent tax accountants from the irs. >> they declared us a drug trafficking organization and, therefore, denied all of the normal standard business deductions that every other business can take for things like rent and payroll and they

gave us a $2.5 million back tax bill. >> reporter: as deangelo fights his tax bill, in fairfax, california, lynette shaw who runs the older dispenser in the state is fighting eviction that could close the club she's run for 14 years. >> they are so mean and so inhumane that i'm broken hearted and i'm appalled and i'm shocked and i'm righteously indignant. >> reporter: a new poll shows 40% of americans believe marijuana should be legalized by 77% say doctors should be allowed to prescribe it for serious illnesses. federal officials say many now getting medical marijuana are far from seriously ill. >> the commercial marijuana industry ignores the significant restrictions imposed by state law and now revel in what some in the marijuana business called the new california gold rush. >> reporter: that it has become big business is undeniable. but steve deangelo argues that

if people can't get their medicine of choice at plis like harbor side. >> see you. all right. >> reporter: they will get it on a street corner. john blackstone, cbs news, oakland. here is betty nguyen at the news desk with a check of today's other headlines for us. 34 minutes past the hour. good morning again. >> good morning. investigators still have no clue why a gunman shot and killed a police officer on the campus of virginia tech university. and then took his own life. a vigil for the slain officer was held last night near the memorial for those killed in the massacre at the school four years ago. officer deriek crouse was 39, an army veteran with a wife and five children. at least 73 people died today when a fire broke out at a hospital in eastern india. officials say hospital staffers actually ran away. police have charged six hospital officials with homicide. many of the victims died from smoke inhalation. and a new list shows a bit of a grinch in the postal service plan to close some small

town post offices. it includes popular holiday postmarks like bethlehem, indiana, chestnut and snow. but not to fret. we still up next here, religion and sports. >> do they mix? a lot of people talking about it this year. the argument over quarterback -- actually more of a discuss, not

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♪ team tebow has played just ten games as a denver broncos starting quarterback, but everyone is talking about this guy. not just, though, for his winning record or even his football skills. but it is how this committed christian shares his faith on the field. critics out there who thinks it goes a little too far. plenty other athletes have been very public about their faith, both on and off the field. some say they don't get the same attention, though, as tim tebow is seeing. >> joining us now is nfl network analyst and former player heath evans. heath, good morning! >> good morning. how are you guys? >> i'll well. thanks for getting up with us, henel, here. >> any time. >> why is tim different? >> well, i think there is a lot of reasons. start with on the field. i mean, everything that he does on a football field on a sunday afternoon is different than what we see out of the other 31 starting quarterbacks. i mean, he is running more than

throwing and then, obviously, his throwing motion alone creates a lot of controversy. so when you look at the field, he's just different and then he has this wow factor about him that is just very polarizing and then kind of off the field or after a game, he always chooses to kind of praise his lord and jesus christ which rubs some people the wrong way. >> why do you think that? people strong faith themselves who watch football every sunday or who don't but many people are public about his faith. why do you think tim tebow in particular in your words rubs people the wrong way? >> well, i think he is kinds of one of those guys you almost love to hate. you look at him. he a golden boy smile and finds a way to win football games when everyone said you can't. he is have you bold and blatant about his faith. ultimately, you know, i think we live in this country, this day and age, where we have freedom of speech but if we are all really honest with ourselves, we kind of just like our freedom of speech. we don't want other people to have freedom of speech. it's a delicate balance but i

think it comes down he is playing just so well right now, every time he turns around, there is a camera in his face so again, he is very bold and very sound in what he believes and almost refreshing for me to see a young man who is constantly turning the praise, obviously, to his lord and savior, but also to his teammates. the contrast to the day and age that we live in with the athletes look at me, look at me, pay me, pay me, i think this is just a refreshing stance that we are seeing out of tebow. >> it's not the first time, too. we should point out people -- athletes i should say have shown their faith publicly. albert pujols getting a lot of attention for this new contract but he, you know, points to the sky. muhammad ali, very famously and music artists, too a lot of times if they are thanking someone after an award, the first person they may thank is god. >> very, very true. you know, i think it just really goes back to tebow. there is so many things that surrounds this young map. i think his career in florida. i mean, yes, in the s.e.c. and

yes, national championships but he really found a way to engulf the nation. even if you don't like florida, you still had something to say about tim tebow. now we professional level, so many people have just told this guy no. so i think the spiritual, the religious aspect is just like one more knock on this guy that so many people want to see succeed but so many people ultimately want to see fail. he has kind of got that golden boy curse on him. >> heath, erica mentioned albert pujols. as you know, he points to the sky with his fingers, says he does it to remind himself and his fans to seek god. he left st. louis. there was a front page of the st. louis post dispatch yesterday that said pujols turns his back on st. louis. what do you think of him going to california? >> well, you know what? everybody ultimately wants to look out for their family first and foremost. i had to leave new england after '08 season and go to new orleans because it was what was best for the evans' team and ultimately that is what albert has done. albert is a guy i know

personally. he is one of the most humble superstars you'll ever meet and the people that truly know him would never second-guess or fault him for making what is a business/family decision. so we need more guys like albert pujols, more guys like tim tebow that are constantly trying to find ways to praise teammates and do it the right way and live life full of character and integrity and not always trying to point the limelight at themselves. >> heath evans, nice to have you with us this morning. thanks. >> thank you. up next here, frugal fatigue. experts think we may be spending more because we are tired of cutting back. >> we will find out, though, if all that spending could backfire on the economy and also on the spenders. this is "the early show" on cbs. come in for sears super saturday sale with friday preview. save with low prices on denim for everyone on your list. plus, spend $50 on clothing and get a $10 award card to use later. that's real gifts for real joy. sears

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you may feel like you're tired of pinching pennies and it it turns out you're not alone. retail experts are calling it frugal fatigue and they say this could explain why holiday shopping is way up this year.

>> but what if that feel good spending spree now causes a january hangover? financial contributor carmen wong ulrich is here to help us look past the holidays and prepare. >> for realty? >> talk about the hangover, jeff! fix this! >> seriously. don't we always get frugal fatigue around the holidays because we just want to forgot about it for a second? >> it started in the spring. frugal fatigue started in the spring and we saw spending numbers start changing. a study was done and 60% of americans said i'm tired of pinching pennies and just tired. however, they did also say but i'm going to continue to do so because things don't look so good. again, the spending numbers are changing. so i think that we are shifting this year. >> so it's more than just, you know, combating that with i'll buy myself a pedi but i guess we are spending more and i guess on credit? >> but big ticket items too. million more cars sold this year. 13. million this year so far. and also in terms of credit too.

$52.4 billion was spent over the black friday weekend. but keep in mind this. that's a record number. the same thing happened in 2008. and then we shut our wallets and didn't spend barely the rest of the holiday season and so we have to see what happens. >> are there darker clouds on the horizon? >> credit card usage up 10% this past quarter. >> wow! >> credit card use over black friday up 7%. big numbers there and we have to pay attention to it and revolving debt is two-year high. $2.5 trillion. we were doing so well pulling back and now back to charging more. >> we have talked about this a lot over the last few weeks. still millions of people paying off their holiday debt from last year still this year. >> exactly. >> so it sounds like with these numbers there is a potential to add to those numbers. >> there is. that's what you want to really, really avoid. here is the thing. employment numbers are getting pa better and folks are more numbers to spend.

debit cards are getting more expensive so folks are using credit more. the national endowment for financial education found that 63% of americans do not have a budget for this holiday. shame. you got to have a budget! you must have a budget! and 45% are going to pay with their credit cards. now that is fine if you pay off the balance. but only 32% say they are going to pay off the balance and 13% will not be able to pay off the balance. that is that 14 million you're talking about we are going to add to. >> always nice to see you. >> yes. >> did you get all of those numbers? >> i have them all right here. >> i will check your statements next month. >> stay with us. this is "the early show" on cbs. done done done,done,done almost done. done done done done done,done,done,done,done done done

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♪ welcome back to "the early show," everyone. it is a friday morning indeed. i'm jeff glor, along with erica hill. chris wragge is off today. we are been talking about staying in shape at all ages. we will talk to four long time friends in their 60s and 70s who have played basketball together for 40 years. how awesome is that? they plan their lives around the tuesday night game with where the old guys play against the young guys and tell us why they do it and how they prepare for it and how long they think it can continue for and how it might help. >> forget poker night. i love it. they have a pickup game. this year's top

entertainers. "entertainment weekly" out with its best of the year issue. adele, you can count on. daniel radcliff. don't count out the ladies from bridesmaids! an amazing movie. we will get a preview from jess cagle from "entertainment weekly" in a few minutes. first, more on thursday's shooting at virginia tech. yesterday afternoon, as we watched this, many people thought it's happening again. remembering how 33 people were massacred on that campus just four years ago. >> in this latest incident, virginia tech plivers deriek, an army veteran, with a wife and five children, were ambushed and shot to beth. police say the gunman then shot himself. joining us is larry hincker, vice president of human relations. give us a sense. how is everybody doing this morning? >> good morning.

erica, we appreciate the opportunity to talk with you. obviously, there is a profound sense of sadness on this campus that is certainly amplived by the tragedy that struck us once before, four years ago. so at this point, the campus is just waking up and beginning to come back to life again. i think the important thing is that this is a very resilient, tight-knit community, and we have come together and we will come together once again like we did before. >> larry, on the investigation, any better sense at all of a motive here? >> no, we don't. the state police are very close to final identification. they are just going through the final process. i think, as you know, and you may have reported, that forensically, they have linked through ballistic testing the weapon that killed the officer crouse, as well as killed the other person in the parking lot.

motive and process, at that point, is still yet to be determined. we hope to have an additional briefing that will be conducted by the virginia state police. as you know, they have a lead on the investigation. we hope to do that later this morning, certainly no later than this afternoon. >> larry, you guys changed the way you did things after the last shooting. how did students respond yesterday? >> you know, our students responded very well. you know, the world changed on april of 2007. nobody would have expected anything like that to happen on a university campus. nobody had the protocols and the emergency notification systems that we have today. and so as a result, our campus was able to alert the student body, the university community very quickly and, as a result, our students can exactly what we asked them to do, which was stay secure, stay indoors until they heard from us again. >> and by all accounts from it,

a lot of the students i know who spoke with cbs news, most of them saying they felt this time around they got the information they needed, especially kids who, unfortunately, were there for the last one. what more can you tell us about deriek crouse, the campus police officer who was killed? how is his family holding up this morning? >> i'm afraid i don't know. i checked in with our police department this morning. our chief of police was with the family yesterday and we're still just now getting that and i'm really sorry that i don't have anything to report in that regard. we will, again, be posting memorial information locations where people can make contribution and i've already begun to get questions can they make contributions. we will post that up on our website later as you can imagine, we are coming back to life after a long night last night. >> larry hincker, appreciate your time this morning, thank you. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. 4 minutes past the hour. here is betty nguyen at the news desk with a check of

today's other headlines for us. good morning. >> good morning. most members of the european union agreed early today on a deal to head off the economic crisis. and shore up their common currency, the euro. germany and france pushed the deal through but four members of the european union voted no, including britain, which doesn't use the euro. >> we're never going to join the euro and we're never going to give up the sort of sovereignty these countries are having to give up in order to enter a physical union. >> i hope that united kingdom will contribute also in the future in this agreement. >> the new deal allows unprecedented involvement by the european union. a national budgets. 23 countries agreed to cap their deficits and declare in advance how much debt they plan to take on. occupy wall street protesters in boston defied a midnight deadline to leave their downtown camp and police did not try to enforce it.

but when protesters blocked a nearby street, at least two were arrested. and we have new video this morning of former imf chief daum nek strauss-kahn and the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault. the surveillance video from last may shows strauss-kahn checking out of his new york hotel and leaving in a cab while inside his accuser described the attack to hotel staff who called police. in another area, though, two men appear to be celebrating but the hotel denies claims that the incident was a plot to derail strauss-kahn's bid to become president of france. the charges against him were later dropped. to scott atlanta now. it has been hit with what some are calling a weather bomb. check this out. violent gale force winds up to 160 miles per hour sent massive waves

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series on active aging. for 40 years, four friends in new york city have gone together every tuesday night for a game of pickup basketball. >> the pace may have slowed just a bit over the decades but these guys are staying very fit and still having time of their lives. >> i got it! >> we started playing in this game in 1971. the original pickup game had 18 and now we're down to four of the onchs. >> thank god, we have reversible uniforms now. shirt and skins we would look pretty ugly. >> if you miss it tuesday, wednesday morning, a phone call, what happened? >> we will arrange our vacations, our business trips, we fly in the day of the game. >> bob is the oldest. i'm the second oldest. >> i'm 71 and i've been playing for 40 years in this game. >> i look at bob and say, i want

to go till his age even though it's only about three years. >> walking into the gym is therapeutic. once you cross that thresh hole and enter the gymnasium, it's a different world. >> it's worth it now because of the camaraderie. >> in this day and age, you know, it's tough to find good friends that you have something in common with and it's definitely like a family and we fight like a family and sometimes we've gotten into some pretty heated arguments here. and then we go after dinner after and it's all forgotten. they keep the old guys together and we take two of the better young guys and then we play against the young guys. >> i always tell them, like, i wish i'm able to play basketball into my 60s. first, i wish i could live to be in my 60s and as bob, he is 71, so if i could live to that age, i'd be happy, let alone play basketball. >> it's wonderful to have them carrying this game forward and i have no doubt it will.

>> people say, how could you still play? well, i think that playing has helped me feel more spirited. i think it's helped my body. i mean, you can't run the same way, you can't jump the same way, but you can still have the same good time. >> originally, when we first started to play, it was come, get on the court and start running. now it's come, warm up for 10, 15 minutes and then you can start to run. >> good shot, buddy! >> yeah! >> i used to score a lot of baskets. now, i just want to take a few shots. some of them go in, that's great. i don't want to get hurt. >> it's great to have a win, but the most important thing, you know, you leave, you feel good, you're not injured, you've gotten some shots off, and you've had a good time. >> i thought maybe i'd play till 40. i mean, it was like because i was of the generation people weren't as active as they are today. >> i intend on playing for as

long as i can. >> my goal is to keep playing. and i see no reason to stop. >> a reminder, as always, if, before you start any new major program here, consult with a doctor. >> consult with your doctor, exactly. us that our disclaimer legally. if you're not aware. this is an important day. it's national believe day. today, macy's, one of them will happen right here when we come back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. . stick around. announcer: this portion of "the early show" sponsored by bayer. you know. n it's different. first, it's been re-engineered with micro-particles. second, it enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes relief to the site of your tough pain. the best part? it's proven to relieve pain twice as fast as before.

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it's national believe day when dozens of wishes will be granted from coast-to-coast. >> here to tell us more about the campaign's message and generosity is martine reardon and make a wish recipient, ceci christenson. what is planned today? >> national believe day is so important. it is the day we grant 55 wishes simultaneously across the country and so, today, very special wishes will be granted for one very important young woman in texas, her name is grace, and we are doing a great party to send her off on her trip to the bahamas and then going all the way to minnesota to give a ballerina of the day, a very special wish for charlotte to become a ballerina of the day. a fun day of making those 55 wishes come true. >> what a great way to highlight all of the wonderful things that the make a wish foundation does and that do you in connection with them. ceci, your wish is being granted today too.

we're in the process of granting it at this moment. tell us what your wish was and how it's coming true? >> my wish was to promote the need for national mayor registry on a national publication so i'm so thrilled to be here. thank you. it's so close to my heart because it's my story. i was diagnosed with ail failure of the bone marrow in 2009 and like many diseases, a transplant is the only known cure. thanks to my two perfect matches, i received my stem cell transplant. they were my brothers but most people never find a match. >> that's why you want to promote the marrow registry because it's so important to everyone. >> yes. it can save a life. >> what do you do? i don't think a lot of people know this. they with register and get tested. >> it's simple to join. go to my website which is ceci's climb.com. you can have a kit sent to your house and you can literally join

from your couch. >> ceci's climb. you do this from your couch and you can literally save a life? >> yeah. all you have to do is a simple cotton swab at the inside of your cheeks. the guidelines you have to be between 18 and 60 and in good health and willing to donate to anyone in need. and then from there, you'll see if you're a possible match for someone and save a life. >> it's great. the make a wish foundation and everything they do is incredible any day of the year, but especially on a day when you're granting more than 55 wishes. how do you decide which ones to grant? they are all so wonderful and so deserving. >> you're right, they are. we make sure. we partner with the make a wish foundation and that what makes it happen. what is also very special about today, every day during the campaign for every letter that you bring to macy's, we donate a dollar but on national believe day, we are donating $2 for every letter received. last year, when we did it we rais raised 200,000 letters in one day. the importance of getting out there and putting that letter into a macy's mailbox today will

double the donation and, so far, we're up to 577,000 letters. so our goal is a million. so get out there, get those letters into our mailboxes and let's continue all the great work we are doing with ceci and the make a wish foundation. >> which is great. plenty of time before christmas to get your letter in there. my son still hasn't written his so we need to get it down to macy's today. >> please do. >> what else is part of your wish today, ceci? you wanted a national program and come on tv to promote the marrow rejectgistry. >> my wish is get the word out to people they have the power to save someone's life and i hope they jump to the opportunity. >> it's great. i'd say she is a natural. what do you think? >> i would say so. >> we may have to keep you around! >> i don't know about that. but thanks. >> we always love looking at the believe meter here. besides writing a letter or checking out ceci's climb, i

think it's a great idea to do, what else can people do? >> you can go to local make a wish foundation and volunteer their time. there is so much work to be done in the local chapters. whether it's doing office work or helping granted some of these wishes, we welcome both macy's and the make a wish foundation, for anybody who wants to just donate their time. >> there really is captainer. no matter where you live, there is a local chapter. i can remember the first time i was introduced to it, it was in middle school and this was our fund-raiser every year for student council and it's amazing to see how it's grown. >> 63 chapters across the country and almost not one in every state, but pretty close to that. so i just encourage all people to really, it's such an incredible cause. macy's have been involved with the make a wish foundation for more than six years now. this is our fourth year of doing the believe campaign. and each year, we try to build it it and make it better, so although we say a million dollars, we end up, because of national believe day, with much more than a million because of

the double tow donation. >> ceci, you can say this better than we can. this is not just a wish that gets granted for the wish recipient but it means so much to your family probably too and to everybody else who has been involved. your brothers who were a match for you. but this is a toll when anyone is suffering from an illness on everyone. >> it's a heartbreaking situation and you're so unsure of what would happen. next year i wondered would i be there next christmas or next year? you don't know. make a wish and macy's have made it amazingly for my family and i. >> great to have you here, ceci and martine. >> we hope for big numbers today with your letters. for more, go to earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >> and ceci's climb. you're watching "the early show" on cbs.

♪ want to go skating in central park later together? >> that would be fun. i've never done that. >> neither have i. welcome back to "the early show," i'm jeff glor, along with erica hill, my date for the day. coming up here, shailene woodley co-starring with george clooney in "the descendents." she is already winning awards. we are going to ask her about what it's like to get so much attention at her age and also the number one lesson she took from george clooney. also ahead, who would you pick for entertainer of the year if had you to pick one person? >> maybe clooney, right?

>> he is getting a lot of good buzz. there are plenty of candidates. daniel radcliff made it big in movies and on broadway, adele became the hottest new performer in pop music and getting mainstream attention. brad pitt had his best year in a long time. just ahead, "entertainment weekly" editor jess cagle will join us for his picks for the best of 2011. if you're walking around today and you don't have any change to put in the salvation army kettle, that will not stop you from donating any more. >> that's right. charity has gone high tech you may have noticed. c-net.com editor bridget carey is here with more. this is something we have seen as a cashless society. i would imagine that the more we rely on plastic, debit or credit, the better it is for charities. >> charities have to respond and make it easier on us now because we are carrying less cash with us. there is studies that show in the amount of cash that we are

carrying is less to the point that in 2015, 200 billion less. just last year alone, 3% less. they are responding and the salvation army is taking plastic now. >> how about this? on the street corners the salvation army will take your credit card? >> yeah. the famous red kettles, the bell ringers somebody are taking credit cards in select places. it's simple. you hand them your card and they will pull out their phone and stick this white device into the headset jack and called the square and swipe the card on it. when it's time foe you to sign you sign your finger on the touch screen. >> turn their phone into a touch card reader? >> exactly. >> do we feel secure in using these? i have to ask. >> it's a good website and a lot of small businesses use it and developed by the guy who made twitter. >> so, therefore, all is okay. we have also seen for a number of years now whenever there is a major tragedy, we can donate by text. this is really growing, though,

isn't it? >> because of the outpouring to the red cross like the earthquake in haiti happened. now more charities are saying let's try this too. for the holidays, let's text. the salvation army is taking text messages now. text the five-digit number to give and it shows up on your phone bill. expect to see more groups doing this, even religious groups like your local church might start doing it. >> what if it we want to do some really old-fashioned donating like getting on the world wide web? >> oh, the worldwi wide web on e internet. >> on logging on the internet? >> you just do your normal activities online and you'll start to earn money. it's an extra couple of steps. instead of going straight to google or yahoo! to do your search go to goodsearch.com and do your everyday web producesing will send a penny to every time you search to cause of your choice. if you have shopping to the online and instead of going straight to macy's.com or

target.com go to goodshop.com and shop as normal. a percentage of everything you spend will go to a charity of your choice. >> that's great. you don't have to worry about it. a little bit of controversy surrounding the donations i forget who to, but credit cards transactions. are most of the charities pi picking up those fees? they are. it's like the same cost they have to spend anyways on marketing so they will spend it on doing those fees. >> ultimately, could probably bring in more business then because it is so easy for people? >> right. exactly, when you don't have cash out, you always have your cell phone on you. >> bridget carey, thank you. >> thank you. here is betty nguyen at the news desk with a final check of today's other headlines for us. >> great ways to donate. i've always said you guys can donate to me any time of the day

e.p.a. reports it has evidence the technique called fracking to extract natural gas can contaminate drinking water. the water contains beneene equal to the level of household bleach but wyoming's government remains skeptical. >> before we draw any conclusions one way or another we make sure we go back and do the peer review area money testing and more analysis and whatever it is, it is. >> 65% of wyoming's tax revenue comes from the energy industry. it's been pushing fracking as a way to boost domestic gas production. >> the former chief of the puke see sha daiichi plant has been diagnosed with cancer. masao yoshida led the march last

year. he has esophageal cancer and doctors don't think it's related to the move in that plant. cbs news correspondent bill whitaker has the story. >> reporter: american motorists had the locate lowest fatality rate than ever. according to transportation secretary ray lahood. >> it's the result of three important factors. roads are safer. >> reporter: and constantly improving with better light and better signs and less obstructed intersections. more are using seat belts. graduated licensing has helped bring teen fatalities down 39%, more than any other group. >> cars are safer. >> reporter: front and side air bags now are standard in newer cars. air bag shaved shelley burkehart's life. >> if the air bag didn't deploy,

i would have gone through the windshield. >> reporter: as dramatic as the drop in fatalities might be, the national transportation safety board says we could be doing better. more than 50% of people killed in passenger cars were not wearing seat belts. almost a third of fatal accidents involved drivers impaired by alcohol and these days, more and more drivers are distracted by cell phones and texting. jeremy anwell of the auto website edmonds.com says future cars will compensate for human behavior. >> if you're distracted or not paying attention and there is a dangerous situation that is developing, the car will actually alert you or if you're kind of sleepy at the while, the car will wake up up. >> reporter: meanwhile, the downward trend continues. in the first quarter of this years fatalities dropped another percentage point. bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. and speaking of motorist. this one is unparalleled as we should say. check it out. a security camera caught a new york driver forcing his way

some of the best reviews for the new george clooney movie "the sdepdescendents" are going shailene woodley.

shailene woodley joins us morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> how are you doing? >> i'm really good. how are you? >> i'm well. i was even better after i saw this movie. actually, i say it before we had booked the segment and it's wonderful. >> thank you. thank you. >> best supporting actress, national border of you already. is that insane to think about? >> yeah, it's surreal! i don't know. it's so crazy! i think it's the kind of thing you can't really wrap your head around. you go to bed at night and go, whoa, what just happened today. >> how about the movie find you? >> i auditioned to alexander payne almost two and a half years ago and it was jaw standard audition. a few months later, i got a call and he told me i booked it. >> he we got a clip here when you're talking to your dad who is george clooney. let's take a listen. >> you really don't have a clue, do you?

dad. dad, mom was cheating on you. that is what we fought about. when i was home at christmas, i caught her with a guy. >> there was some powerful scenes in this movie from you were 18, 19, when you shot this? >> i was 18 when i shot this. >> there was a scene. there is a scene under water that is one of the more powerful scenes of the year. >> yeah. i was so lucky. i got to go under water and cry. so cool! you never get to do that! >> was that in the script or any part of that ad-lib or what? >> it was part of the script where she gets in the water and distorts her face and i interpreted that as she goes under water and loses herself. i got to cry. it was my own self-therapy session. >> your toughest role yet, this movie? >> i don't know if i would say toughest but it was a different role. i've never played a 17-year-old going through our angst period who had to kind of come into her

own so that was exciting. and i was working with george clooney, so it definitely raised the bar. >> did you enjoy the chance to use the sanctioned "r" rated language? >> it was awesome. it was messy and fun! >> say to mom and dad, it's in the script, i got to do it. >> i have to say those words. sorry. >> one lesson from george clooney you took away? >> philanthropy, generosity and gratitude. he is most important person i've met in my life. you don't hear him being philanthropic but he is so [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices... in more ways than ever.

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>> get out my underwear, you fr! >> no, back inside. put on a swimsuit. >> why? >> now! >> real good job you're doing. >> part of why i brought you here. you have to help me with her. i don't know what to do with her. >> maybe if you spent more time with her, she wouldn't act like such a complete spaz. >> shailene is here. shea? >> shea. >> one lesson from alexander payne, the director. >> owner alexander is such a powerful man. he is the kind of guy who thinks before he speaks, so every word he says is deliberately placed in a sentence. and he's so creative and is so soft and calm and he makes the set comfortable. i've learned patience and serenity from him. >> by the way, the way he speaks is also the way he makes movies. he doesn't rush into stuff.

>> yeah. >> he takes years in case to do it. and they come out great, we should say. how was hawaii, by the way? that is where "the descendents" was shot. >> magical. i've never been there. a magical place on this planet. it's the abundance of oxygen was so welcomingly overwhelming to my body. >> i like the way that's said. >> more chickens than buildings. >> you started commercial acting? >> yeah. commercial. i started acting when i was 5 and just kind of a fun thing to do when i was young and i started in commercials and did like small things on tv and then then it worked up from there. >> it's helped you. now so you're a veteran actor at this stage in. >> i'm 20! i'm not a veteran of any sorts! but, yes, i've had fun. >> speaking of acting. so your parents laid down some rules or maybe the family came together and you got together with a bunch of rules for what you had to do to continue

acting. what were they? >> when i was 5, the opportunity came up and my parents were like you want to try it? sure, let's do it. over the years, they weren't really like if you break this rule, you're done! but it was kind of more of a relaxed environment but i had to stay the person they knew i was and do good in school and have fun and as long as all three of those were constantly accomplished, then i could continue to act. >> you're doing all three of those? >> i did. i did do good in school because i loved it. i loved to learn and i'm one of those nerds, i'm a book nerd. >> still live with mom and dad? >> i still live with my mom. i'm so lucky. i live outside the smog far away from l.a. >> what is next? >> still working on the show "the secret life" and we will see. i'd love to do another film. >> shailene woodley, a wonderful movie and wonderful performance. thanks for coming in. >> yeah. thank you for having me. talk about a memorable year

in showbiz and not just shailene and "the descendents" but across the board. "entertainment weekly" is releasing their highlights. jess cagle is here with the highlights. i love this issue. it's so much fun. >> it was great. a lot of good entertainment this year. >> how do you whittle that down? >> well, we fight a lot. you know? the whole cast -- i don't know. we give probably a hundred nominations and then we whilttl it down and get it down to 15 and fight more about who is the number one entertainer of the year. >> the number one we can reveal? he's on the cover. >> yes! >> daniel radcliff. >> how did he get top billing here? >> i would have to say it was dan radcliffe or adele. >> tough call! >> with daniel radcliffe, we

thought nobody had a year like him ever and probably no one ever will have a year like him because of "harry potter." he was in this movie that was -- grossed $1.3 billion and capped off a franchise that was nearly $8 billion. and he spent 11 months learning to dance so he could star on broadway and how to succeed in business and he was great. then somewhere along the way, he found time to shoot a thriller called "the woman in black," which is coming out in february. >> so he would probably -- i think he deserved it. >> he did okay for themself. >> just an a for effort at least. >> every time we play adele's song here. >> we do play her songs a lot. >> it gives you goose bumps. >> i don't think any singer these days touches this like adele does. we had julia roberts write an essay about her and julia made a very good point there is so much of her soul and so much soul in her music that you feel like you really know her. so there is more than a lot of

musicians we feel a personal connection to her. plus, she sold a lot of records. >> and people feel not only a connection to her but something in all of her music you can somehow relate to. her writing is so raw and the emotions are so obvious. >> i think she is so young and those emotions and heartbreak is new to her and she is able to articulate that. she is amazing. >> a few of us watched "moneyball" together the other day and he's on the list. >> had he two movies this year and one was "moneyball" and the other was "tree of life." there year was a tremendous artistic peak for brad pitt. i feel like the conversation with brad pitt started to move a little bit away from his personal life which is, obviously, fascinating and more toward his accomplishments as an actor and i think as he ages, he's becoming kind of an elder statesman of movies. >> because doesn't act for too

long. >> who knows how long he'll want to do it. he keeps threatening. i hope he keeps on. >> we hope he does too. the cast of "bridesmaids" you don't need to say anything. they are so fantastic. even in the picture i love them more and more. viola davis, she has a couple of phenomenal years. >> she has. she always been very respected and very popular in hollywood. this year, i think she kind of broke out and a lot of people know who viola davis is who maybe did not before because of the help. it was an amazing performance. we actually had merle streep write her essay and merle streep said something about her modesty is her imagimajesty is a great o describe viola davis and her work. >> she and viola davis are going head-to-head for the oscars. >> she wrote this lovely

article. one of the interesting things in the issue too you mentioned julia roberts wrote about adele and viola davis, merle streep wrote about her. >> we went to celebrities who had a personal or professional relationship to that person. merle is a peer of viola. and others were big fans. julia on adele. we had sandra bullock, we found out she loves south park and the book. >> your new tablet app is out. >> "entertainment weekly" is on the tablet. you can buy movies and download books and movie tickets. >> we will check it out. jess cagle, good to see you and happy holidays. >> thank you. earlier, we talked about national believe day for the make a wish foundation and macy's. speaking of believing. the animated special "yes,

virginia" airs tonight on cbs at 8:00. >> to learn more about the macy believe campaign and make a wish logon to earlyshow.cbsnews.com and you'll find information there for ceci's climb. the young woman whose young wish is being granted today, in part, on our show. you can get more information on that at the website as well. >> i may go on ceci's climb when we finish and then crews to ew app for this afternoon and then watch cbs later on. a good plan, isn't it? >> i like it. hey, hope your plan is as good for your day and your weekend. tomorrow, "the early show saturday."