good morning. they are hiring 230,000 people as the unemployment rate hits its lowest level in three years, but president obama warns it's not enough. >> we have made real progress. now is not the time to stop. new hampshire takes center stage. the crucial primary is just three days away and with republican candidates scrambling for votes, the question is whether mitt romney's momentum can hold back conservatives longing for a white night. tucson healing. one year after the horrific shooting that left the city and the nation scarred, a memorial

to remember the victims and celebrate the recovery of gabby giffords. the man who claims he never wanted to be a hero joins us. and white house tension. a new book is taking a look behind the scenes at the life in the executive mansion. it shows the first lady's intense relationships with top aides and frustrated at the constraints in her new home. "early" this saturday morning, january 7th, 2012. captioning funded by cbs welcome back to "the early show." i'm rebecca jarvis. >> i'm john miller. good morning. >> by the way, you might notice we're in our temporary digs here. eve temporary home. >> scott, can i have the keys? >> scott pelley did give them to us and we are broadcasting from

here this morning on monday. it will be our brand-new studio that opens up when cbs "this morning," premiers on monday. >> we have a lot of news for you this morning. >> topping it is the economic news coming out on the economy. a burst of hiring last month sent the jobless rates to 8.5%, the lowest level in almost three years. and sixth month in a row the economy has added 300,000 jobs and president obama said the nation is making some improvement but too many businesses are still struggling. anthony mason has more. >> reporter: the economy picked up speed in december with the job market showing surprising strength. the 200,000 new jobs added in month was the best showing since september. is the economy stronger than you thought it would be at this point? >> it is. it's held up better than we had expected. >> reporter: economist julia

coronado liked the gain in manufacturing jobs. >> those are good high quality jobs. >> reporter: and the economy added 23 how thousand of them. in illinois, bison gear and engineering is hiring. the ceo makes gear boxes and motors for everything from railroad crossing arms to treadmills. >> last year, we hired over 20 folks. this year, we could be hiring about the same again. >> reporter: but more than 13 million americans are still out of work and even at this rate of job growth, it will take at least three to five more years for unemployment to return to pre-recession levels. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. for more on the economy, we are joined by liz ann saunders, a chief investment strategist for charles schwab. great to have you with us. >> thank you. >> reporter: you see the jobs report come out a lot better than many were expected. the stock market surprised me. it didn't reflect any positivity. did that surprise you? >> i never would be surprised by what the stock market does.

i think if we didn't have the jump in the beginning of the year and the strength in december that may have been a different story. i think what happens oftentimes is -- there had been some hope the jobs number would be better. i think live anticipatory buying. the market will do something different than what the day's economic numbers suggest is appropriate but that is nature of the beast. >> there were a lot of seasonal hires in or we assume there were in december. those could be temporary jobs relate to the holidays. how big is that number given it's a december month? >> well, the one surprise in the number was over 40,000 of the jobs created were in couriers and messagers and some sense that may be holiday sales being bias to online sales. some is business and it's long term and relates to better business environment but we will have to see how much of a

falloff we get. december numbers can be a little tricky. hiring was across the board. it was t just in messenger and couriers and across most of the sectors and that is good news. >> do you think the likelihood people will change their growth estimate this year is high and do you think it's a positive bias as opposed to a negative bias? >> i think it is a positive bias because of the strength we saw in 2011 that i think surprised a lot of economists. you could get possibly 4% growth in the fourth quarter of 2011. yet estimates for the first half of 2012 are quite low, something in the sub 2% range and i think took wide of a gap and i think the gap will narrow by economists ranging slightly first half numbers. >> where do you expect the unemployment rate to be before the election in november? >> i would never forecast or gauge the numbers. i think a steadily decline and probably volatile which is nature of the unemployment numbers but steady decline. no sharp decline will be expected, unfortunately.

>> still above 8%? >> by november, by the election? it's possible we could go to under 8%, if the kind of traction we have seen recently holds. >> liz ann saunders, thank you so much. >> thank you. now on to politics. the republican primary in new hampshire on tuesday. mitt romney has solidify his front-runner status. he holds commanding leads in the next two primary states of new hampshire and south carolina but his rivals are doing everything they can to bring him down. chief political correspondent jan crawford is in berry, new hampshire. good morning, jan. >> reporter: good morning, john. mitt romney has spent an enormous amount of time the last four years. the voters know him and say they are coming out to support him. those polls look like it's going to break very well for mitt romney in new hampshire. but, now, the other candidates are jumping in. the gloves are coming off as they stump across the granite

state. last night, mitt romney was back in new hampshire greeting voters after a quick trip to south s carolina. and he brought a supporter with him. south carolina governor nikki haley. >> so why would a conservative governor from a southern state want mitt romney to be president? because i need a partner in the white house. mitt romney is not part of the chaos. he'll be a part of the solution. >> reporter: romney hopes to cement his front-runner status here and polls show he has a commanding lead. the former senator rick santorum is pushing hard to build support as the anti-romney candidate. it worked in iowa. but his conservatism is being met with some concept tichl here. at one event, santorum faced a tough crowd but he shrugged it off. >> i come from southwestern pennsylvania, all right? i represented a district that had more steel workers in it than any district in america.

this is cake! >> reporter: he'll need to be tough as former house speaker newt gingrich continues to hammer away at him as he attempts to regain front-runner status and consolidate the conservative base. jon huntsman has put all of his hopes into new jersey opting to skip iowa to focus on this state but if he doesn't fare well here, his campaign could be over. now the pundits have been flying this week particularly for gingrich directing his at romney and rick santorum. tonight is the big event and when all of these guys, after this week standing on the stage beside each other for a big debate and it could be very ugly. john? jan crawford, thanks. joining us is three people who know this race as well as anyone. john dickerson, cbs news political director, caroline horn, cbs news senior political producer, and national correspondent dean reynolds. they are in manchester, new hampshire. good morning to all of you.

>> good morning. >> dean, the description that i like best was that mitt romney is now surrounded by a political -- a circular firing squad from his own party. >> it's a good description, but, you know, romney has to expand from the country club chamber of commerce kind of republican to the tea party republicans that have really been against him and, so far, the only place that we see that he is expanding really where it's making an impact is in south carolina. i mean, he is supposed to do well up here in new hampshire and he squeaked by in iowa, but if he can hold that support that we see now developing in south carolina, then i think you got to say that he has expanded that base from the traditional republicans into the more

conservative ranks. >> let's go to john dickerson. a new poll out saying that romney is picking up steam even in a republican -- conservative southern state. what do you attribute that to? is this the growing sense of inevitability, a steam roller? >> yeah. well winning helps for him and also the floundering of his opponents, you know? if everybody else is falling down and people are starting to pay attention, they rally behind the one last person left who looks like they are going to be the nominee. a bit of a band wagon effect for romney but the key question to look at is south carolina. we see in one of the latest polls, romney went up 17 points. he hasn't gone up 17 points in a poll all year. it looks like what every challenger has done this year which is have a bit of a surge. the wrap against romney is that he's got a ceiling of supporters. he got 25% in iowa, that's what he got in 2008. if it looks in south carolina like he it actually grow his vote, that he can bring in these

new voters who weren't part of his coalition before that suggests he really is kind of a candidate with a little bit more momentum than we have seen all year. >> caroline, if romney is building steam, it seems that rick santorum is on a roller coaster on a down swing now. how do you look where he is going? he had a rough day yesterday in a shouting match with gay supporters and so on. >> that's absolutely true. and one thing that is always going to be tough for rick santorum here in new hampshire it's not his natural base. he appealed to evangelical voters in iowa. there are fewer of those here in new hampshire. and when he goes to these events, every single time that he gets asked a question about social issues, a lot of times it's been students or supporters of other campaigns or even, in some cases, democrats. these are not people that are going to be voting for him, so he gets into these back and forth with supporters -- with voters who are not supporting him and it's a missed

opportunity for him to actually address people that might support him and he has come to this state trying to talk about the economy and he has been taken quite off message with all of these questions about social issues. >> so let's go to john dickerson. what can you predict in terms of -- what are your progre prognostications in terms of the week ahead. >> there will be an election in new hampshire is about all i can predict for you. we will see romney do well in new hampshire and see his campaign moving to the other states. he was in south carolina yesterday and the day before. then there is already a lot of talk about what he is planning and got going in florida. he is trying to lock up this race, even though the delegate count, could, if he had a real challenger, make this race go on for months. romney is trying to put it away. why is he trying to do that? it will make the rest of his winter easier but also will suggest he's a strong front-runner. if it looks like romney is inevitable as a lot of the

people in the party believe the question is what kind of a candidate will be coming out of this process. the romney wants him to look like a strong candidate and not because he wins because everybody else falls down so what to look for coming out of new hampshire where romney still looks quite strong and just a question of who finishes in second will it be ron paul or rick santorum be able to do something to build on his momentum out of eye with was? that is what i'm looking for. >> thanks, john and caroline and dean. now here is rebecca. a texas teenager who was deported to colombia is back home but many questions remain about how a then 14-year-old u.s. citizen could be sent to a country where she is not a citizen. as we hear from correspondent anna werner the girl is only home because her family stepped in. >> reporter: 15-year-old jakadrein turner is finally back in the united states and found last month in colombia by an unikely computer sleuth. lorene turner tracked her

daughter facebook post from dallas to houston and finally to bogota, colombia. >> i thought it was a joke. i kept reading and each time, colombia came up. >> reporter: it turned out the girl, a u.s. citizen, had somehow been deported from the united states by federal officials. the confusion began when jakadrien turner was arrested by police for a theft and a report shows the teen used a fake name and claimed to be a colombian citizen. immigration officials say she maintained the false identity through the hearing and with the judge. despite the fact she doesn't even spanish. what is your reaction to their statement? >> i just think that they are trying to be covered up because they know they made a mistake and they need to undo their mistake. >> reporter: finally, someone did.

jakadrien turner arrived home last night. anna werner, cbs news, dallas. >> the family's attorney says jakadrien is glad to be home and the family is ecstatic. u.s. immigration officials say they followed procedure and found nothing to indicate the girl was not a colombia woman living illegally in the united states. now here is john. on to a controversy that has hollywood and washington buzzing. that's the death of osama bin laden and whether secret information about the navy s.e.a.l.s raid on bin laden was leaked to some filmmakers possibly putting lives in danger. joining us now congressman peter king, chairman of the house home land security committee. good morning, peter. >> good morning, john. >> these are allegations you've brought your letters back and forth to the intelligence agencies. what evidence have you seen, if any, that was this leaked and from where?

>> first of all, it began with media reports last summer there was unprecedented access being given to sony pictures by the highest level of the administration. i know prior to that, going back to may and june, there was definitely information being leaked to the media generally such as assets we had in pakistan, ended up being in jail as a result of that and also information being given out how helicopters invaded pakistani radar. a number of people also in the intelligence community, sources i have, reached out to me, said they are very concerned. back in august, i sent letters to the cia and the defense department. it was brushed off by the administration and jay carney i had more important things to do than about the making of a film in hollywood. this isn't me now. this is the defense department and done a preliminary investigation and based on that the inspector general scheduled a full investigation of the entire issue which they would not be doing unless they found sufficient reason to go forward.

also the cia has said that they are going to set procedures in place to ensure that no improper information is given out. again, i think what is significant, john, the defense department after doing their own preliminary investigation has now, as of two weeks ago, said they are going to conduct a full investigation. >> well, one of the questions that is, obviously, going to come up is the information that leaked a long time ago. i was in the intelligence community at the time and i read the classified stuff, so first of all, it's good to see you again. i read the classified material and saw what was coming out in the newspapers. there doesn't seem to be any connection that anybody has made between those leaks and they are coming from these filmmakers so some are casting this as a political attack. >> i can see people saying that, but it's not me now. it's the defense department itself which has said after they have gone through the preliminary investigations, they now have determined that a full investigation is necessary. the reason i was talking about those leaks that seemed to show a mindset in the administration

and then when you have people like maureen dowd talking about unprecedented access that sony pictures was getting and the top executives were getting, you also add to that the fact the executives at sony are big supporters of the president. i thought it warranted an investigation. >> we got about 20 seconds left. i want to change directions on you for one second because we have you. you know the u.s. navy rescued iranians on board a boat captured by pirates in somalia and as you also know, we have several issues there including a missing former fbi agent in iran. as we're returning these people we rescued, do you think that issue should be brought up, the issue of missing fbi agent robert levinson in iran? >> you know i have a personal interest in that case. i would ask our intelligence community to do all it possibly can to bring him honel and if that involves negotiations, if that involves any trading -- i

don't want to get involved in how to do it but i hope that robert levinson could be brought home to physicihis family as so possible. if that involves a hostage trade, if you will, or any trip of trade with pirates to me it should e done but i'm not telling them how to do their business. i'm convinced the cia is doing all they can on this. >> thank you for joining us, congressman peter king. for the rest of this morning's headlines, cbs news correspondent and morning news anchor, betty nguyen is at the news desk. >> good morning. new zealand is in shock this morning after worst aviation disaster in almost 50 years. it involves a hot air balloon. families of the 11 people who were killed gathered near the crash scene. the balloon burst into flames after hitting power lines. two of those killed jumped out of the balloon bask trying to escape the flame. a fire bomb that failed to explode is being described by seattle police as attempted

arson. someone left a fire bomb under an atm at a bank in the early hours on friday. the fire bomb was discovered when a couple reported seeing a suspicious package. now police may have a good lead. anyone entering the atm area had to swipe an i.d. card to get in. and imagine hitting a big lottery jackpot for the second time. oh, yeah. it happened to a group of clerical workers at a school district near los angeles. last year, they pooled their money together and successfully picked a ticket worth $12 million. now they have done it again! winning a megamillion jackpot worth more $225,000. lonnie, i don't know about you. i can't even win one shrom these folks have won twice now? >> i'm thrilled for them but it seems unfair. >> share the wealth, will you? >> see what i can do. get to my weather headlines. there will be some snow that moves into the rockies today.

not talking a big snowstorm. 5 to 10 inches. the higher elevations. elsewhere, gusty winds for southern california. and you could be seeing some gusts up to like 60 miles per hour as they blow through the l.a. basin. that's all because of the santa ana. there is the rocky mountain snow but elsewhere pretty quiet setup relatively mild temperatures for the entire lower 48. vi you make it a great saturday. >> lonnie, thanks so much. appreciate it. a new book, a rare glimpse

inside the obama white house. >> it portrays first lady mb as fiercely protective of her husband to the point where she clashed with former top aides to the president. >> it also shows how living in the white house was not easy at first for the obamas. david brouedy has the storstory >> reporter: according to the book the first lady and emmanuel had a tense relationship. the book says michelle obama delayed moving into the white house until after their two daughters had finished the school year in chicago. that notion was squashed but the book says mrs. obama chafed at the constraints of the white house and the harvard educated attorney was insecure and frustrated about her role. first african-american first lady, the book says mrs. obama wanted everything to be flawless and sophisticated the book says mrs. obama was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake, end quote. the book says president obama

doesn't like camp david because he finds it artificial and cut off. but mrs. obama loves it because she can roam free of photographers. according to the book, her tentativeness as first lady has vanished and mrs. obama is now clearly focused on her husband's re-election. dave browdy, cbs news, new york. coming up, why some parents say georgia's anti-obesity ads targeting overweight kids are backfiring. >> it's kiled wawild card weeke cbs. james brown, host of "nfl today" will take a look at the big playoff games that begin today.

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♪ welcome back to "the early show." i'm john miller. >> and i'm rebecca jarvis. good morning, john. >> good morning. ahead this half-hour a real stunner in a peruvian courtroom as joran van der sloot prices prosecutors with an request. >> and anti-obesity ads they say send the wrong message. >> and the nfl playoffs start today. james brown will look into his crystal ball and tell us who he thinks will advance to the top round. a hotly contested weekend coming up, john. >> on friday, joran van der

sloot is charged with the murder of 21 yearly stephanie flores, a pa revi p citizen from peru. betty nguyen has more. >> reporter: wearing a bullet broof vest underneath his blazer, van der sloot is on trial for murder of 21-year-old stephanie flores. although he was expected to enter a guilty plea, van der sloot asked the judge for more time telling the court i want to accept the sincere confession but i'm not in agreement with all of the aggravating circumstances they have presented. a panel of judge agreed to suspend the trial but van der sloot will be required to enter a formal plea january 11th when the trial resumes. van der sloot is famous for being arrested but never charged in the 2005 disappearance of

another woman, natalee holloway on the caribbean eyelid of aruba but in this case the evidence is more solid. he was captured on videotape in a casino and admitted to police in a taped confession that he killed her. after the trial ended, the victim's father spoke to the media saying this rapidly concludes, i hope, i think this will allow my family to later have a little peace and some closure. betty nguyen, cbs news, new york. for more on this, we turn to the chairman of the new york litigation group. barry, good morning. >> good morning, john. how are you? >> well, this is an interesting development. is there a strategy here? >> oh, absolutely. van der sloot does not want to go to jail. i think he has come to the realization he is going to jail. at this point, this is determinative of the fact how many years?

is it 30 or is it eight years? and that is what is in play. >> reporter: the evidence in the flores case which he has now seen a lot of of is very compelling. what kind of sentence could he be looking for here? i mean, he was facing at least 30 years. >> well, that's for murder. his lawyer is telling the world, my client was emotionally disturbed. he was not guilty by reason of insanity. as a result of that, let him plead to simple murder. that's eight years. versus murder, which is 30 pyears. >> now, is there a possibility that this would work? >> sure, it is. i mean, there are three judges, three women, who are going to make a determination as to what his sentence is. if he is allowed to plead guilty to simple homicide, it's 8 to 20, not 30. >> as a defense lawyer who has defended everyone from bernahar

goetz to john gotti falsely accused as you say in the business, how would you feel going up with a potential serial killer of women against three female judges? >> i've had more pleasant experiences in my life but you deal with the cards you've been dealt with. the fact of the matter is that you make the plea to them. this is not murder. this is a disturbed individual. he was emotionally disturbed. insanity. >> two separate issues. one, the natalee holloway case. is there a plea if you plead guilty to this you have to admit to the natalee holloway case and tell the family where the body is? >> absolutely. it's alleged that van der sloot tried to get money by revealing where the body was. i don't think anybody questions the fact he knows where the body is. >> that is the second issue you just touched on. he allegedly tried to extort the family of nationalee holloway f

20,000. >> i think ultimately we will allow them in peru and aruba to take care of this i issue. we've had enough of him. >> thank you, barry. thank you for joining us and great to see you again. now here is lonnie with another check on the weather. >> john, thanks very much. good morning, everybody. here are my weather headlines right now. this is obvious, right? it's definitely wintertime. we are finishing up the first full week of january. yes, it's winter. but, wow, there is no arctic air and i mean anywhere in the country. look at the forecasted highs all across the good old us of a. no one dealing with bitterly cold air and what is called the eye box of the country, international falls, high temperature today is 23 degrees. more times during the winter i pointed there and told you a high of 6 below zero. not now. why? because of the flow in the jet

stream. normally, we get a big, huge dip and what that does is it pulls in the cold canadian air for about everybody. we're not seeing that. almost leveling out over a good portion. yes, you get a little bit of that drop out around, say, the rockies and places like international falls where you have a cold temperature of 23 but it's not brutally cold for anybody. let's check in on some local temperatures because that's the national picture. have a great rebecca, in the 50s in new york city today. enjoy it. >> this has been amazing especially like what a difference a year makes. last year, at this time we were covered in snow. >> about two and a half feet

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>> mom? i'm fat. >> i don't like going to school because all of the other kids pick on me. >> my doctor says i have something called hypertension. i'm really scared. >> joining us now is dr. holly phillips to discuss the commercials. dr. phillips, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> thanks for being with us. as a doctor, do you think this type of advertising can make a positive impact? >> you know, this is extremely controversial. you know, part of the cons of this ad campaign is that you never want to do anything to undermine children's self-esteem. that will make them less confident and less successful at everything they attempt, even losing weight. but, on the other hand, here we are talking about childhood obesity and communication is really where we are lacking in this fight. so it's definitely caught our attention which is a pro, but

you just don't want kids to feel further stigmatized or brought down by the ad. >> by having the children doing the talking and directing it to parents, there's sort of twofold audience here. you have other kids who might watch it and say i feel some sort of commonality with them but the parents thinking how can i help my child. >> i think the parents are the ones who will benefit most from this. the ads are specifically targeted to parents. in georgia, two towns were surveyed and 75% of parents who had overweight children didn't realize that their children were overweight. so this is one way to really stimulate conversation. the other thing is that parents apparently have an easier time talking to their children about sex than about their weight. >> really? >> so really whatever we can do to get parents and family thinking about this and talking about this will benefit our kids. i think we have to remember this is not to criticize children in

terms of the way they look, but we are failing our children as a nation in terms of their health. they are really going to end up unhealthy. an 8-year-old with high buy pressure is not okay. >> in terms of advice to parents how much of it is having the conversation versus acting differently, assuming new habits? >> probably the biggest criticism of this campaign is that it doesn't offer any solutions. it really just points out the problem, which is valid, but it doesn't offer parents any solution of how we're going to attack this. you know, there is a multibillion dollar industry that gets us to eat recreationalally processed food and fast foods and chips, everything, you name it. kids are more sedsedan taer.

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the nfl and 16-game game season complete. there are two playoff games today and two tomorrow and here to break it down it james brown, host of "nfl today" on cbs. good morning. >> good to be here, john. this is a fun time of the season for us. >> with the bengals coming off their game with the ravens, how are they going to do with the texans? >> you know what? houston is a tough team. in a dome that is really -- a stadium that is very loud. andre johnson arguably the best

wide receiver coming back into action. they have a two-headed running attack with ben tate and arian foster and i think is tough to overcome. cincinnati is one of the surprise teams of the season but i think it ends here. >> so the saints with drew brees against the lions. what do you see there? >> the lions may go down. drew brees with nine records set this season. he has a great running attack. darren sproles who changes the momentum, i think he is the free agent pickup of the season as well too. i think new orleans is going to be too tough to overcome but detroit, give them big nod for having gotten to the postseason in like a thousand years. >> here in new york, the giants against the falcons. >> you know what? many people are thinking the falcons because they have got a speed offense. they are playing extremely good football right now. i can understand that argument but there is just an intangible, in my mind says the giants will pull it out. i like that nasty defense of the new york giants. they got it done against the

dallas cowboys with just their front four being able to put pressure on tony romo without blitzing. i like the new york giants. they have been there before. >> so you got the denver broncos with tim tebow also and talking about elite quarterback, 5,000-yard passers. he is not one of them. what do you see there? >> no, he isn't but he's a guy that lifts the level of play of everybody around him. i love what he stands for. he's a good, clean-cut role model but in terms of what he brings on the field he is still developing as a quarterback. he doesn't have the skill set yet to be dangerous. i think that is going to hurt denver. denver's defense has been as much a reason why they have been successful this season as tebow has been the story as well but, no, i think the pittsburgh steelers, even given all they have got with some injuries, ben roethlisberger still a little nicked up, i still think that defense travels well. pittsburgh will get it done. >> has this become the league of the elite quarterbacks? >> unquestionably. my colleague warren sapp, the great tampa bay pucknear player

says it's almost like an autobahn down the middle of the field. the quarterbacks are well protected and wide receivers you can't play physical with them beyond five yards from the line of scrimmage and great athletes out there and you got three quarterbacks who passed for 5,000 or more yards and eli manning at the cusp and two other close to it so it is the year of the quarterback, no question. >> a minute left. two questions. crystal ball, super bowl. >> oh, man! you know what? you wouldn't want to go to the bank with this at all but if i had to hazard a guess and it is a guess, on the afc side of the house, pittsburgh and baltimore are probably the most balanced teams there. so i would think it will be one of those two. on the nfc side of the house, it's got to be between new orleans and the green bay packers in my book. >> all right. now let's go to college for a minute. penn state, new coach coming off of joe paterno. what is the big challenge for that person? >> bill o'brien who is the offensive coordinator for the new england patriots, his biggest challenge is off the

field, i think, as opposed to on the field. reestablishing some credibility there. penn state, they wanted one of their own to be brought into the fold there but bill o'brien brings credibility, integrity. you know, he has worked with a team that is considered to be a dynasty in the nfl of this era of parody, they being the new england patriots. i think he has the ability to get it done there. >> j.b., thank you. >> my pleasure being here. >> you can catch the afc wild card game tomorrow. coverage begins tomorrow at 4:00 and followed by pittsburgh and denver. >> don't want to miss that. coming up next, the teachers who helped me and john be the eople who re are today. this is "the early show" on cbs.

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♪ welcome back to "the early show." i am rebecca jarvis. >> i'm john miller. people have been hunting big foot or sashkatch for decades. coming up you'll meet a man who swears that he got this close, not one -- to not one but two big foot -- or big feet. and who made his life mission to capture the elusive creature. >> ah, very interesting. >> the dish hits the road this morning. we are going to the kitchen of the new iron chef jeffrey

zachrian. >> i can't wait to try his dish. also the new hampshire primary is this tuesday. mitt romney is going into the contest with a commanding lead over his rival republican candidates and chief political correspondent is in new hampshire, jan crawford. this is a big debate set for tonight. do you think there will be a lot of fireworks especially from former speaker gingrich who has taken a much harsher tone of late? >> oh, yeah! he has been beating up on mitt romney all week. chris wallace said last night he is going to wear a face mask and carrying in a chain saw to go after gingrich. that is the tone we have been seeing from him. he is angry at what he perceived as some negative attacks from a super pact responding out in iowa. he has seen his poll numbers

plummet. now he is lucky if he finishes in third or fourth place. he has a lotto try to make up. it's not about the republican candidates beating up on each other. it's about them beating barack obama so this could backfire on newt gingrich but i think, yeah, we are going to see some fireworks tonight. >> the case that what a difference a couple of weeks or even days in this race can make. if romney wins in new hampshire and then in south carolina, do you think the other candidates can still stop him? >> reporter: oh, yeah, absolutely. this race is not over although he sure does have a commanding lead. he is up 20 points here in new hampshire and new polls out in south carolina that suggest he's got a lead there anywhere from 7 to 10 points but that could evaporate. romney would say to the voters last night these polls can change in a second. like you said we have seen that. so this race could turn

dramatically in the next week or two. south carolina is wide open. rick santorum is make ago real push there. and, remember, south carolina a little more conservative socially than new hampshire so santorum thinks he can do pretty well there and give romney a real run for the money. >> jan, you'll be covering it all along the way. thanks so much to jan crawford, live from new hampshire this morning morning. for the rest of the new headlines, here is betty nguyen. >> good morning to you at home. in northwest georgia, two people were shot dead inside a hospital. police say a man opened fire killing his wife and mother-in-law. he then drove to the police station and turned himself in. now, the victims were visiting another family member in the intensive care unit. the mayor says the shooting stem from a domestic dispute. the internal revenue service is out with a report on unpaid taxes. the figures are huge. in 2006, the most recent year

for available data, americans failed to pay the federal government 450 billion dollars that it was owed. most of the money is in underreported income. now, that lost money dwarfed the federal budget deficit for 2006 which was $248 billion. texas desperately needs some rain. 2011 was the driest year ever recorded in the lone star state. the national weather service says the average rainfall there last year was just under 15 inches, and it could use some cool air as well. in 2011, texas recorded the hottest summer in u.s. history with an average temperature of nearly 87 degrees. and not much relief is expected this year. i tell you what, though, lonnie. i was in texas for the holidays with my family. i didn't see a drop of rain but it was cooler than 87 degrees. >> as a rule, we are running generally above average with the temperatures. 10 out of the last 12 months

have been above average. whether that is the case for global warming or not, i'm not going down that road. just know we have been trending pretty warm around here. talk what is going on right now. the rockies will be picking up about 5 to 10 inches of snow and higher elevations. 7,000 feet or higher. not a huge snowstorm but it's out there today. elsewhere, maine you won't see much snow. a snow shower here or there. the gulf coast you won't see much of anything. here is the reason why. there is a blanket of fog. i'm talking from brownsville, texas, to new orleans and pensacola, to tallahassee. the visibility right now at this hour is less than a quarter of a mile and that is going to be the situation through mid-morning. possibly extending into the early afternoon hours.

announcer: this portion of "the early show" sponsored by nico nicoderm. tomorrow, marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly massacre in tucson, arizona. eight people were gunned down and 13 others wounded, including congresswoman gabrielle giffords. she and her husband mark kelly are expected to attend a memorial service there. national correspondent ben tracy takes a look back. >> reporter: it was a sunny saturday morning in tucson. at 10:11, the shots rang out. >> gabby giffords has been hit. >> reporter: by the time jared loughner emptied his handgun, six people dead and 13 wounded

and giffords shot in the head. daniel hernandez had been her intern for five days and he ran toward the gunfire and covering the wound in his boss' head to hold back the blood and talking to her even as paramedics arrived. >> took over the medical side but i wanted to stay with her because i knew that one of the things that observe happens, especially in that kind of situation, is you often ignore the emotional side. >> reporter: daniel is now a senior at the university of arizona. he was recently elected to the tucson school board. >> we are grateful. >> reporter: he doesn't much like being called a hero but at a memorial service after the shooting, the president didn't much care. >> daniel, i'm sorry. you may deny it, but we have decided you are a hero because you ran through the chaos to administer to your boss and tended to her wounds and help keep her alive. >> reporter: actions that helped in giffords remarkable recovery. she has learned to walk again and recorded a message for her constituents this fall. >> i'm getting stronger.

i'm getting better. there is a lot to say. i will speak better. i want to get back to work. >> ben tracy, cbs news, tucson. joining us from tucson now is daniel hernandez. good morning, dan. >> good morning. thanks for having me, john. >> it's good to see you. you know, in the piece, once again, you heard president obama refer to you as a hero. you have resisted that label for a long time. do you still feel that way? >> i still feel the same way that i felt back in january of last year. it's hard to disagree with the president but i'm going to keep doing it because i still don't think i deserve the title. >> i think the title emanates largely from the fact that when the shots were fired and a lot of people instinctive run the other way, you ran into the fray. he what did you first see and what do you do? >> when i got to the front of the line because i was in the back of the line registering

people as they were coming in, i saw multiple injuries. so i started trying to figure out who we can actually help. trying to check for pullses and check respirations. it was after two or three people hi checked before you say that the congresswoman had been injured and that is when she became my main priority because she had a very clear gunshot wound to the head. >> you were actually holding her head. she was bleeding and you were talking to her. i'm wondering where from within do you get the calm to kind of talk her through that and what do you find to say? >> you know, i knew that she was alert and she was conscious and it was really important thing to keep her up engaged as much as possible because she had stained a brain injury. it was letting her know what is going on around her and she probably would want to know what is going on around her because she is curious and inquisitive about everything and giving her the details around her while she was incapacitated. >> you had the presence of mind

to do that. i got to ask you a personal question. as a reporter, you see a lot of terrible things. you usually get there after the fact. i've worked in police departments where i've seen terrible things that have followed me in nightmares. you have to have a part of this that has followed you. how did that manifest itself and does it still affect you? >> you know, i've been very fortunate that i've had to talk about it as much as i have which has really helped me make sure i don't have those nightmares and those flashbacks but i do think what happened on january 8th quite often and it's something i take as a moment to reflect on what we can do better and how we can make sure we prevent things like what happened on january the 8th. >> we got about 20 seconds left. you know you're going to see congresswoman gabby giffords for the first time since the shooting tomorrow. what are you going to say to her? >> i'm just really looking forward to being able to see her back home in tucson. it's going to be a great moment for a lot of us.

>> daniel, i don't care what you say. i'm with the president on this one. i think you're a hero. thanks for joining us today. >> i appreciate it, john. thank you so much. up next, monday is a big day here on cbs. charlie rose, gayle king, and erica hill talk about the exciting debut of a whole new type of morning show. it's called cbs "this morning." we will be right back. nversatio] come for a smoke? yeah. no. you telling me you quit? yeah, i'm on my way. i'm trying nicoderm cq. [ male announcer ] every time you say no to a cigarette, celebrate a little win with nicoderm cq, the patch with smart control technology that gives you a burst of nicotine in the morning then continues working for up to 24 hours so you can go from one little win to another. until you reach your goal. nicoderm cq. quit one day at a time. and it hasn't been going exactly as planned. cut. cut! [ monica ] i thought we'd be on location for 3 days -- it's been 3 weeks.

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in just 48 hours here at cbs news, we launch the new program cbs "morning." joining us now are the program hosts, gayle king. charlie rose. >> good morning. >> and erica hill. great to have all of you with us. thanks, guys. >> thanks, rebecca. i was fine until you said "in 48 hours." >> are you ready to rock? >> i am ready. >> i can tell you, she's ready. she has been ready. >> i think we're anxious to get

going. >> we are all rehearsed out. we are now just ready to turn on the camera and 7:00 a.m., turn the red light on and let's go. >> you look to my left and my right, you see why i'm confident. >> what are you most excited about, erica? >> sitting by charlie and hearing his comments all day. i'm excited to try something new in the morning and excited they are giving us the freedom to stretch our legs and the beauty of it nothing is set in stone on this show. we get to figure it out as we go along like the news every day. it evolves every day but i'm really excited to sit next to charlie and gayle and to learn from them. we have all such varied experience. but you know, everybody brings so much to the table. i'm excited about that. >> i'm excited about the fact that in an extraordinary year, tumultuous year. politics, the economic crisis. things we can't imagine today will be live from 7:00 to 9:00 every day with the cbs facility, the cbs resources and cbs news and these two colleagues telling

stories. >> i'm excited, first, to figure it all out. we will go on the air as you said in 48 hours and we will -- you will see really figuring it out as we good along. i only ask that people just give us a shot and give us a chance, because we are psyched and really ready to go. >> there is going to be some surprises here, too, right, charlie? what do you think will surprise people the most about seeing you in this format? >> first of all, i have a good start. >> are you sick of that joke, charlie? >> i am very much indeed because it's not true. i'm up at 5:00 anyway. >> i would think i'm tired of that but everywhere i go, they say is charlie rose going to make it on time? it's such an exaggeration. i'm thinking, okay, when we go on at 7:00, you will be there. >> i will indeed be there. >> and you will be there for some time. >> i'm an early reason riser and now i will do what i used to do

early like exercise and things like that after the show. i like watching the world come alive. now to have the chance to sort of cover it and speak to it is an extraordinary opportunity. >> erica, you've been a morning person for multiple years now. you know what it's like to hit the alarm that early. what do you think in terms of the things that you might cover here that you couldn't cover or that you didn't cover previously that you're going to see in this new program? >> one of the things i think that you'll see differently on cbs "this morning" campaigned compared to the other things we have done at cbs news, we are going to have a little bit more time to have that conversation. we are three very curious people as pretty much everybody at home is who is watching. so we have the ability to let an interview breathe a little bit, to ask questions, to not be limited to these very strict three-minute, two and a half minute interviews. when, oftentimes, they do warrant more time and i think people at home would like to have them breathe a little bit more and have more time as well. >> plus the fact we have got a very interesting people, not only in terms of taped pieces and then debrief them, but also

john miller and jeff and a lot of other people, you. >> you! >> you! >> i was hoping for that. >> that would be rebecca. >> you take an interesting idea. you tell the audience what you know about it and then you engage them by a conversation with a group of people who we hope will share the curiosity of the audience. >> if nothing else, i keep hearing i can't wait to see what you guys do. you know? and it's not a comparison to anybody else or to knock anybody else, but it is an opportunity for all of us. i don't care who you are in this organization, whether you work at the very top or you do something that is considered very entry level. it's a huge opportunity for everybody to be involved. somebody said to me the other day, you know, cbs hasn't been number one since captain kangaroo! i go hopefully we will put a dent in that. >> i like captain kangaroo too. >> do you? >> i do. >> what was he like, charlie? >> he was very nice! >> no, no, i remember captain

kangaroo too. but hopefully we can put a dent in that. >> you all come from different backgrounds and you have different point of views. do you see any taungs you're looking forward to going head to head on? >> i haven't thought of anything clash wise, no. >> i don't know her politics. she doesn't know mine and probably won't find out. >> i don't know these people! >> i don't know what her religion is yet. >> i don't think politically you'll hear it say it on the air either. definitely not our role. but i guess that is part of the fun, isn't it? >> to discover who we are. as we do this program moment by moment, we will learn things about each other and may come back to them. >> we are looking forward to seeing all it. >> i'm going to help them both. that's why i'm here. >> take them by hand. >> i will help them both. >> i'm sure everyone is going to look forward to all of you. a lot of surprises to come and it all debuts right here on cbs news in 48 hours, 7:00 a.m., be here this monday morning. now here is john.

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♪ this week on trend benders, the hottest tweets and viral videos and the biggest buzz. here with what everyone is talking about on the web is senior editor for guilty city. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> people are talking about politics and politicians talking politic on the internet. >> president obama is our first social media president and has connected with the supporters on facebook, twitter and tumbler and now on instagram and it's a photo sharing app that allows you to upload it from your ipod or iphone and put a filter on the effect and share them with their friends. >> what did the president upload? >> when is he at conferences, working with his staff. he only has five photos but

500,000 followers so people are curious what he is up to. >> this instagram thing can you give a flare to your photographs. has he taken that up at all? >> he really hasn't. he has kept it simple. >> speaking of artistic moments let's take a look at the dough doritos commercial. >> i'll show you today how to make your own. to save time, i've gathered the ingredients. now the hardest part about this is finding a unicorn and making it cry. cool ranch, add two dashes after an autumn breeze and half of a horse's winning. we are done and time to enjoy -- eye made gold again! what am i going to do with all of this gold? >> so this is actually entered into a doritos ad contest and it lost which is hard to imagine. >> yes! it's a funny commercial.

>> i think it's quirky and offspeed and going super viral. it's had 500,000 views so far. >> doritos has to love it. win or lose, this contest, they are winning the contest of getting more eyeballs on their product. >> free advertising and very hilarious. >> we did hear from casey anthony this week. she had a video that came out earlier in the week. i want to take a quick listen to it. >> just a little surreal how much things have changed since july and how many things haven't changed. the good thing is that things are starting to look up and things are starting to change in a good way. >> so here is the thing. her attorney is claiming that she didn't release this. she didn't want to release, but then as of last night, another video surfaces. she has darker hair now. what do you think? is she behind this or could this

be a leak from someone else? it's honestly really hard to tell because this seems like such an intimate moment she is sharing with her web cam and might use it in future counseling sessions and seems like a strange series of events. the first video was intermediate in october and why it would be released now is really puzzling. >> it is puzzling but hard to understand why she would come out with more things last night and also from a security standpoint, if this came out and they knew that it had been leaked, wouldn't they really put the clamp down and find a way to cut off anything else? >> right. it's interesting because she says in the first video that she really doesn't like to be in the spotlight and we haven't heard much from her until now and now she is kind of owning the spotlight. >> a good point. maggie coglan, thank you so much. >> thank you. coming up, new proof that big foot really exists from the man who has been hunting the elusive woodland beast for over 25 years. we are going to hear from him right on "the early show" on cbs.

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>> from big foot to lonnie. here is what i've got for you, guys. get to my weather headlines. first thing we talk about, no arctic air anywhere in the united states. i'm talking no frigid air mass. yeah, there is some cold temperatures below 32 so, consequently, the rocky mountains will pick up 5 to 10 inches of snow in the higher elevation and santa ana area the winds blowing 50 to 60 miles per hour. there is the low pressure system. that is going to bring the snow. to the north of it is the high pressure system. in between that is how you get the strong winds that will blow through louisiana maybe 50 to 60 miles per hour at times.

what do you say we do a shout-out? it goes to island park, idaho. their wild west winter fest. that kind of rhymes. they have a snowmobile parade and sled and swap flea market and bratwurst feed. we want to thank everybody for watching "the early show" on channel 3 eyewitness news. that does it for weather. as the new year gets under way sometimes the best solution to fixing an old problem can be found inside your house. here with seven items you can use to make your life easier in 2012 is mary kate mcgraph senior editor of "real simple" magazine. you can smell the onions on this set and the candle and the knives and the matches. what are we doing? >> this is an old wives trick that work. when you chop onion and have a

lit candle nearby what happens is the tears start coming and your mascara starts running. the candle fumes take away the consent of the onion to the -- >> does it matter what consent the candle is? >> unconsentscented candle willd of the tears. >> the next time the snow starts coming, take your shovel and literally apply cooking spray. it will save us from too much. >> i need to do this. >> go ahead. >> so we're putting cooking spray on here. then what? >> like your pan of brownies, the cooking spray will be nice adherence the snow comes right off. >> then you can make a pan of broken y brownies in the oven with the shovel. that will be nice. >> new year's came and went. in case you have bottles of champagne around the house, a raisin can return the bubbles

back. >> can i pour some and play around with the raisins? you pour it in the glass and put raisins in with it? >> yeah. this glass has a lot left and maybe this bottle you opened the night before and left it uncorked and went to bed and wanted a mimosa this morning. >> i can't imagine doing such a thing. a raisin you'll see how it's working right there. the carbon monoxide of the raisin will stick to the champagne. >> it's very fancy sitting there in the glasses. >> you know the plastic bags that you have? the best thing to do is to corral them in a tissue box holder. here we have the tissues and here the plastic bag. one at a time they come out. easy to use. >> i thought putting them under my kitchen sink shoving them under there. >> you will of that is making your life simple! >> this is a good idea. i like using toilet paper. >> interesting.

>> you know you have the extension cords in a closet and jumbled in a big mess. a toilet paper roll holds them up together. >> now you can store them. >> you pront want to use a full toilet paper roll so wait until -- >> after it serves its first purpose. >> i had not heard this one. >> necklaces not like mine. thin chained necklaces. that often get little knots in them. a drop or two of bap oil, rub it on the knot, use a straight pin and kind of pick away at the knot and it comes out in minutes. >> it's not going to hurt the metal? >> no. if the necklace had a lot of stones on it, you might want to be careful and not do this trick there, but for any fine chain, it's fine to use. >> very good. then we have our last little bit of advice. >> i love this. who doesn't want a wrapping center in their dream home? >> so martha stewart. >> use a paper towel holder. >> and real simple.

>> real simple! use a paper towel holder to line up all of your ribbons. grab what you need. when you're done use a little piece of tape and stick it together. >> it's real simple. everything made easier. thank you so much. appreciate it. >> for more on these simple solutions, head to cbsnews.com/saturday. coming up next, the man who got within 15 feet of big foot and who is now obsessed with finding the mysterious hairy beast. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing

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one of america's most enduring mysteries, big foot, its existence has been rumored for decades and people swear they have seen sasquatch as it's known and even taking photos. now one man has dedicated his life to finding this hairy creature of the forest. matt moneymaker is founder and president of the big foot field researchers organization. he is one of the stars of "animal planet" hit series, "finding big foot" which has just kicked off its seventh season. have you seen big foot yet? >> i have fairly close to me. several years ago but that incident showed me that all the time i had put into it before that was well worthwhile. >> and where did that happen? >> it happened in eastern ohio in 1994 and it was in a berlin

wildlife refugrefuge. >> picture, no picture? >> no. we went in there to figure out where we were going to set up a surveillance camera and that night, we went in, had a gun with me but we didn't have camer cameras. the thing came up and approached us. i've heard them dozens of times and they have been fairly close to me a number of times. that time it was particularly close. >> now, actually you know, your color is great because i've never seen you anything but night vision green. but a lot of running around in the show and twig snap and noises here. you run over there and you run over there. but there are not visual encounters with big foot. although pictures from other people, right? >> there are. we will get them. no doubt. with the production crew, the whole different thing going up than when we are out by ourselves. we don't have usually as many people and not the same kind of light situation so we have had them fairly close in those situations and we know we will

get that again. we did it vit in one episode and one probably got within 50 feet of the crew and cast and threw rocks. >> you say one. we all say the search for big foot. but there is no big foot. there is big feet, right? >> big foots. they say big foots are sasquatchs. big feet would be what we have. you have a big foot. >> are there many big foots or sasquatchs? do they have children? >> yes. probably throughout all of north america which would be like from alaska through candidaada and florida the estimates range between 2,000 on the low end to up to 10,000 which sounds like a lot if they were all in the same area but if you spread that outline across north america, it's not. >> they say the best camera is the camera you have with you. now everybody has a camera with them and that is true for a couple of years. with all of this technology, satellite and night vision and

smart phones how is it that nobody has gotten the clear picture? >> gotten a clear picture? you're talking about an animal that will turn and run away. to get a clear picture of something, it has to hold still for a while. out in the open in daylight. and these things, if you're close enough to see them in those conditions, they will see you and they usually never far from cover. they don't stand out in the open near the road during the day. you spot one quickly it will probably running too fast for you to pull the camera out and point it. >> one film from the e'60s that shows a big foot walking. that has never been verified but how do you feel about it? >> it kind of has been verified. the misconception they thought that proved to be a hoax and that was because of a show a few years back that they tried to talk about all of the world's greatest hopes. that was one because some guy had come forward saying he was the person in the costume. which is pretty flimsy.

he didn't have the costume. it was just a claim. >> i have a big foot. man or animal? >> animal. they are a line of apes. not anything related to humans, in my opinion. >> matt moneymaker, thanks for coming. >> thank you. up next, the dish goes on the road, although fonelonly to blfew blocks. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge!

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♪ last week, we said good-bye to our studio in the general motors building here in new york. while putting the finishing touches on our new home, we decided to take "the dish" on the road and visit jeffrey zacharian. one of the his staunrestaurants the lambs club here in manhattan. he is known for his take on american cuisine and brings us his ultimate dish cod wrapped in cabbage. >> thank you for coming to my restaurant. >> the restaurant is amazing. it's gorgeous. that is the first impression. >> it is really beautiful by i really had not much to do with it. the first owner spent seven years to rebuild it and it is remarkable. >> what you do on the plate is remarkable. >> today, we will have really i think a nice light dinner. we have first main course is cod that is wrapped in cabbage.

it's called a pappios which is a french word for wrapping something and steaming it and then stuffed with tuna and then mashed potatoes and it's foam and lighter and not as heavy. >> i love it. i love it. >> and a drink which is our hallmark drink which is the gold rush which was bourbon. cheers. happy holidays. >> happy holidays. >> bourbon, honey, and lemon. >> lemon. >> it's really amazing. the balance of sour and sweet and a lot of people don't want this drink and we say try it and they say they don't like bourbon but when you taste the bourbon this way it's a knock out and will knock you out if you have more than one. >> you have roots both armenian and polish descent. >> i have cashage. my roots are strongly

mediterrane mediterranean. anchovies, olives, oil, garlic, yogurt, white cheeses, things like that i bring them together. it's not specific to armenian or pole land roots but a bask et o vegetables of tastes i pull from. >> were you pulling from that on the iron chef? >> i pulled wherever i could from iron chef. one hour, you do what you have to do. >> is it crazy? one hour to do all of that? it just looks crazy so it must be the things going through your head have to be -- >> well, it's definitely the most challenge i've ever been in. what you don't realize about it is the physicality. it's just amazingly physical work and you're alone. it's like you have no help. >> did you pump iron in advance? >> i actually went to the gym just because i asked what to expect from a few people who had done it before. they said expect to be exhausted and wiped out because it's hard physically. the cooking is like riding a

bike. you put a food in front of me, i'll cook it, but i wasn't ready for the physical aspect of it which is really hard. >> you beat out a lot of incredible chefs. >> i did. >> for the title. >> i'm very fortunate. but it's a game that anyone on any day can beat anybody is what it is. the best chef and the less experienced chef can be the same on one day because it's so difficult, a challenge, and you just -- you're a little tired one day, a little off and you'll lose. >> you will. >> you will lose. >> this industry in general, it's a difficult industry to win in and you have this restaurant, the national restaurants here in new york. >> and the miami tudor house. >> how do you consistently open restaurants to such great reviews? >> i think i do have some experience doing it, a. but that's not enough. you really have to bring an incredible -- you have to bring in an enlightened staff and understanding of what a staff is and the culture that they bring to that restaurant. the mistakes are -- they will be made but they are small and not

magnified. >> you learn from them. >> you learn from them but you bring really great staff and you really take care of them and give them dignity. for the most part, it works at least getting the restaurant off the ground and takes another six months to make it operational so it works financially. >> financially is a big part. >> big part. >> you open some restaurants here in twin. that was like hard final for the economy and especially in new york with september 11th. >> yeah. now the economy, thankfully, is starting to like sing again but it's going to be a while before we get anywhere near where we were before. >> if you were to share this meal with anyone, who would it be? >> wow. well, my present family excluded, i would say my mom, because i think she would see some things on here that would make her happy. >> very cool. we do this with all of our chefs. we would love it if you would sign a dish for us. >> who do i sign it to? just anyone? >> you sign it to "the early

show," the dish. you can just make it out to the dish. >> there you go. >> thank you. it was great meeting with. >> let's have another cheer. happy new year. >> happy new year. >> thank you. >> tough gig, huh, john? >> somebody had to do it. >> i was pretty happy it was me. i'm a foodie. are you? >> i am a basics. i'm spaghetti and meat balls and hamburger. is it hard to eat while you do an interview? >> it is. i enjoy eating so much so it's tough to talk and eat at the same time. to get the chef's recipes go to cbsnews.com/saturday. we will be right back. announcer: this portion of "the early show" sponsored by new prego veggie smart sauce. the way to get your veggies.

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so it's a very exciting day here at cbs on monday. it's the premiere of cbs "this morning." >> and charlie rose and gayle king are sitting here with some incredible guests and whole new field to morning television. this is going to be incredible. we are all really looking forward to it here at cbs news. but also i know that the team is looking forward to and it i know there a lot of you out there who are looking forward to it. if you want to catch it, it kicks off monday at 7:00 eastern. we will be right back with you from our beautiful new home next weekend with cbs "this morning

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