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captioning funded by cbs good morning. it is monday, february 6, 2012. welcome to studio 57 of the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. it is deja vu for big blue as the giants beat the patriots in a nailbiter. overseas. the governor of egypt is threatening to put 19 americans on trial. we'll talk with susan rice about that. and also the growing violence in syria. i'm gayle king. when i see you at 8:00, we'll go to london where festivities are under way marking the 60th anniversary of queen elizabeth's reign. hollywood hoyle at this stops by. the one and only brad pitt is here. in washington state, the husband of susan powell blows up
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his house and two young children. a back door tax will make mortgages more expensive for the next decade. first, we begin with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. barring a foul, the game ends here. to the end zone. incomplete. and the new york giants are the super bowl champs. eli manning rallies the new york giants over the new england patriots to win their fourth nfl championship. >> we dealt with everything all season and came out strong. >> that was the season moments ago in times square. >> i do not enjoy being like this. new york is number one, baby. >> josh powell inteng ally set this fire. he killed himself and his kids. >> the disappearance of his wife, he takes his own life and that of his two young boys. >> a short e-mail which said "i'm sorry, goodbye." >> if that's not deeply wrong, i
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don't know what is. >> military leaders say they'll put 43 people, including 19 americans on trial. >> the americans, including the son of cabinet secretary ray lahood are barred now from leaving. >> a former white house intern is sharing intimate details about her affair with president kennedy. >> madonna's guest singer giving the finger to the camera. why did she do that? >> airlifting farmers to safety. >> nevada. >> and all that matters. >> you'll be watching highlights of that catch for years. >> one punch. >> fumble takes down the dachshund. >> on "cbs this morning." >> the patriots are going to have a tough flight home. the tsa is like remove any cell phones, loose change, rings. oops, sorry. that is the empire state building where all the lights are blue this morning honoring the super bowl champion new york
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giants. welcome to "cbs this morning." for the second time in four years, giants fans are celebrating and patriots fans are crushed. one look at the front pages will tell you why. >> the giants beat the pats 21-17 last night in the super bowl, winning in the final minute as they did four years ago. we're at the site of super bowl xlvi. cindy, good morning. >> good morning, erica. it was a terrific game. if you like symmetry, it was that. we began by talking about the manning not playing in super bowl xlvi and we ended the week talking about his little brother who won it. >> bring up eli manning. >> the giants fourth super bowl win was a testimony to a team that managed to overcome injury and adversity and turn an uneven start to an unforgettable finish. >> it's been a wild game, wild season. we've got a great bunch of guys. >> eli manning who completed 30 of 40 passes set a super bowl
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record completing his first nine. he led the giants to the game's first touchdown finding wide receiver victor cruz in the end zone. tom brady had a nightmarish start, called for a safety on the patriots first play. but the four-time mvp gathered himself and his team. taking them on a super bowl record 96-yard touchdown drive and a 10-9 halftime lead. the third quarter saw brady strike again and the patriots were leading 17-9. sniemd touchdown hernandez. >> big blue pulled to within two. with time running out, eli solidified its place among nfl greats, methodically moving his team 88 yards in the final minute for what proved to be the game-winning touchdown. one failed tom brady hail mary later, super bowl xlvi was history. >> i think there was missed opportunities out there. every guy in the locker room
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wishes he could have done a little bit more. >> madonna's halftime performance was full of high tech dazzle. the reviews are mixed. singer m.i.a. who joined her on stage, may have upstaged the headliner with an obscene gesture. if that was the night's flow, maybe the most poignant moment came after the game when giants star jason pierre-paul shared his first super bowl victory with his close-knit haitian family, including his beloved father who has been blind most of his son's life. >> the m.i.a. situation forced nbc to issue an a immediate apology. seems familiar, doesn't it, guys? >> don't know why you'd say that, cindy. >> yeah. after the game police in riot gear had to use flash grenades to disperse angry patriots fans at the university of massachusetts amherst. 14 were arrested, no one was hurt.
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twitter reports there were an average of 10,000 tweets per second in the final minutes. setting a knew record. here in new york, there will be a victory parade tomorrow morning in lower man tant. >> not much to celebrate in egypt where a crackdown is strange relations with the u.s. 19 americans are facing criminal charges. >> one is the son of transportation secretary ray lahood. we want to bring in chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell. good morning >> good morning. they're watching this closely at the white house. so far the obama administration has said they're deeply concerned about these reports and urging the egyptian government to change course or risk more than $1.5 billion in american aid. as the chaos and protests continue in egypt, there are now threats to the safety and security of 19 americans working there. including the son of a member of president obama's own cabinet. sam lahood, the son of transportation secretary ray
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lahood heads the egypt office for the international republican institute. he and at least four of his colleagues who worked here have been banned from leaving the country and are among 40 workers from nongovernmental organizations an egyptian judge plans to charge. the situation is so serious that secretary of state hillary clinton in munich this weekend warned egyptian officials that the u.s. could cut off more than a billion dollars in financial assistance put in place over the last year. >> we will have to closely review these matters as it comes time for us to certify whether or not any of these funds from our government can be made available under these circumstances. >> it's unclear what the americans will be charged with. but it seems to be part of a troubling crackdown on international pro democracy and human rights groups in the country. in december, egyptian security forces carried out 17 raids of nongovernmental organizes, the
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country feels are responsible for the unrest plaguing the country a year after president hosni mubarak was ousted. >> this is a thin is he near of a legal investigation over a political smear campaign. >> there are reports this morning that a number of the americans who will be charged are actually hiding out in the u.s. embassy in cairo to avoid arrest. the state department won't say how many americans citing privacy concerns. nora,h, thanks, susan rice is now with us. good morning madam ambassador. >> good morning, charlie. tell me why the egyptians are insistent on this and what options we have other than withdrawing aid in. >> charlie, first of all, it's important to underscore that these americans have done absolutely nothing wrong. they do this in various different parts of the world, support democratic development in civil society. they nee to be released
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immediately and come home to their families. the work that they've done in egypt is to build and support civil society as they seek to build a more democratic egypt. >> is anything else the united states can do, though? >> the united states has been talking to the egyptian government at all levels over the course of the last several weeks and including up until most recently days and hours. we'll continue to press the egyptian government to understand that this has serious consequences for our bilateral relationship and that these individuals must be released. >> let me move to syria. has the u.s. embassy in syria been closed and where is ambassador ford? >> charlie, we've been quite concerned for many weeks about the deteriorating security situation in syria. we've asked the syrian government repeatedly to ensure the safety and security of our facilities and our personnel. we've been very concerned that
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that security protection hasn't been forthcoming. we'll consider all options to ensure the protection of our personnel. beyond that, i can't go into any details. >> why is china and russia, especially russia, not wanting to see the kind of action that you saw in the united states -- in the united nations? >> charlie, what happened on saturday was really as secretary clinton said a travesty. the entire security council, 13 countries less china and russia were ready to pass a resolution that would have been quite important. in that it would have supported the arab league plan and that plan entailed a democratic transition in which president assad would have to delegate his authority and responsibility to his vice president to negotiate the terms of a transition. russia and china rejected it. russia decided again, as it has for many months, as it's been
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protected the assad regime. it would rather stand with a dictator, protect somebody whose days are numbered than side with the people of the middle east who are protesting peacefully for their basic universal rights. this was a decision, i think, that over time russia and china will come to regret. it was shortsighted. they are the ones isolated along with the assad regime >> are we looking at a civil war in syria? >> tragically shall the risk of that is increasing. this was perhaps one of the last opportunities to back and support the arab league and their efforts to bring the parties to the table to negotiate a peaceful transition to democracy. certainly, the united states and the rest of the members of the security council minus china and russia have an interest, as do the arab league and a peaceful transition. we'll continue to promote that and step up the pressure on the assad regime through all means. but the risk of civil war is
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indeed increasing. >> ambassador rice, thank you very much for joining us. >> good to be with you. the case of missing utah mother susan powell took a horrific turn on sunday in washington state. officials say her husband who was a person of interest in that case killed their two children and himself. national correspondent ben tracy is in puyallup washington, this morning. >> good morning, erica. sad morning at the elementary school where these two children went. their father, josh powell, considered a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife ever since 2009. well, this past wednesday a judge refused to give him custody of his two boys and police say that may be why he set his house on fire killing himself and them. this home video shot minutes after firefighters first arrived on the scene shows the home of josh powell engulfed in flames. >> just heard a huge explosion. it shook my house and then i ran outside and the whole house was on fire almost immediately.
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>> inside, officials found the bodies of powell and his two young sons. seven-year-old charles and five-year-old braden. >> this wasn't an accident. this is josh powell who we believe killed his heads and himself. >> he set his attorney an e-mail before this that read i'm sorry, goodbye. minutes after his children were dropped off by a social worker for a supervised visit, the explosion occurred. >> this particular occasion, he grabbed the kids, locked her out of the house and immediately the house went up in flames. we believe that house fire went up so quick that accelerants were used. >> powell was involved in a bitter custody battle with his children's grandparents. last week a judge denied powell custody of his two sons and ordered him to undergo a psycho sexual evaluation after child pornography was found on his father's computer. susan cox powell disappeared
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from their utah home in december 2009. powell told investigators that on the night his wife went missing, he had taken his sons camping in a blizzard to a remote part of the state. in an interview with cbs news, powell denied having any involvement in her disappearance. >> did you kill your wife? >> i have no reason to hurt her. people who know me know that i could never hurt susan. >> but an attorney for the cox family said the kids recently started to open up about what happened on the night of their mother's disappearance. >> they have gone camping, their mother had been in the trunk and that later their mom and dad walked out into the desert and mommy got lost. >> at charlie and braden's school, students and parents gathered for a candlelight vigil. while investigators piece together what happened in washington, police in utah will be taking a fresh look at susan cox powell's disappearance and
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josh powell's involvement. >> this is a terrible act of murder involving two young children. let's call like it is. let's call it a horrible murder because that's exactly what we have here. >> now, state officials have reportedly said they did not consider josh powell a danger to his children. of course, given the events now, many questions being asked whether enough was done to protect these two young boys from their father. >> ben, thank you very much. senior correspondent john miller is with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> i know you've been in touch with the sheriff who who you know very well. what what happens today? where does this go from here? >> a number of things. the fire marshal continues their crime scene investigation to learn how much was done, how much preparation and premeditation went into it. the cause of death is something that they're interested in determining because they want to know if the children were killed before the explosion in the moments after they got in the house or they all died in the explosion and fire.
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they have subpoenaed all of the e-mails, not just from mr. powell but also from his father who is in jail there to see, was there any communication about this and did anybody else know. >> there was some stuff that had come out recently that we're hearing about that the children had apparently started to talk a little bit more about the night that their mother apparently disappeared. >> and there is a theory among investigators. just a theory at this point that they may have gotten past the age where they could keep secrets and more of in information might slip out or they might realize more of what they knew about the disappearance of their mother. >> when you look at this case and where it is going, do we know what the grandfather is saying? >> no. i don't. i mean, he's in prison because of the results of the search warrant of the house showed that he had taken photographs of local children on the street but also was in possession of what the authorities are saying was child pornography and that was
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the driving reason that they said the children shouldn't be in the house because that was his house. >> how much objection was this to having the kids be put in the possession of the father who killed them? >> obviously the grandparents on the mother's side objected to that. this is very common in child custody cases where, if the father is not charged with a crime, not incarcerated -- >> but suspected. >> but suspected of it. they're entitled to a supervised visit. that caseworker was supposed to get in the door with them they ran in the door and at the slammed the door shut. >> she smelled gas. rescue efforts are under way in the philippines after a powerful earthquake this morning. the 6.8 magnitude quake struck. dozens more missing. trapped and collapsed building. some victims are students at a college, at an elementary school. the cake quake set off la
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congress said extending the payroll tax cut would help the middle class. it turns out that mortgage holders will be the ones paying for it for the next decade. the investigation into the back door tax. in our next hour, go one-on-one with oscar nominee brad pitt talking about film, family and fame. you're watching "cbs this morning." where you book matters. expedia. thank you.
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you know, this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence. this time i got to take it to the white house. mitt romney was the easy winner in saturday's nevada caucuses following his win in florida. tomorrow, colorado and minnesota will hold their caucuses. welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's time to show you some of the headlines from around the globe. we begin with usa today looking ahead to spring and predicting gas prices will rise again, about $4 a gallon. in the wall street journal, a saudi arabian prince said monarchy should use the protest as an opportunity to open up and to reform themselves. this is serious flooding in australia for the second time in three years. queensland report from a town that was just evacuated after it was cut off from floodwaters. wet in australia, cold in britain where the times of london headlines a cold snap
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that could last through all of february sfwliefrnlts february. in florida, a cruise ship hit by a virus arrived in port on sunday and sailed a few hours later. three cruise ships are said to be carrying that virus. the third ship was late leaving new orleans on saturday. reportedly after 200 passengers got sick. you're about to meet a professor who has a lot to teach us. not a lot of time to do it. he'll talk about the videos of his cancer treatment that are a favorite on the internet. now helping people around the globe. stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning." your local news is next.
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i deserve a second term but we're not done. we were losing 750,000 jobs a month when we first sat down. we found out a few days before then that we lost that month 750,000. now we're creating 250,000. in a super bowl sunday interview, president obama spells out why he thinks voters should give him four more years in the white house. welcome back to "cbs this morning." as the president suggests one of the big issues is housing and the economy. we're about to show you how homebuilders will pay extra for the next ten years to make up for the payroll tax cut that congress extended in december. >> it's a story you'll see only on "cbs this morning." investigative correspondent
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sharyl attkisson talks about a back door tax increase. >> just before christmas, american workers got a rare gift from washington politicians, the current payroll tack cuts would be extended for two more months. >> i said it was critical for congress not to go home without preventing a tax increase on 160 million working americans. i'm pleased to say that they've got it done. >> on january 1st, no american worker will see an increase in their taxes. >> but there's something the politicians weren't bragging about. how they're paying for the two-month tax cut. with what's turned into a brand new fee on home buyers. it's bad news for patty anderson, ho who is buying a home in virginia. >> you'll be paying a new tax. >> a 30-year fixed mortgage. the new fee is a minimum of a tenth of one percent on fannie mae and freddie mac backed loans and is likely to go higher. it will be imposed for ten years
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on most mortgages and refinancings. it lasts for the life of the loan. for each 200,000, it's an extra $15 a month. keep in mind, patty is getting a couple hundred dollars from having her payroll tax cut extended ten months. wait until you hear how much the new mortgage fee is costing her. >> have you gotten the bad news as to what the total cost to you is. >> almost $9500. did you kind of catch your breath when he told you that? >> oh, yes. i was startled that it would add up to that much. >> the $35.7 billion collected boent go into the social security -- won't go into the social security fund to replace the lost payroll tax. it goes to the general treasury where congress can spend it however they please. bill burnett is patty's broker and president of the virginia association of mortgage brokers. you won't see the new charge in the paper work, but it's there. >> it's actually built into this rate. you would never see the fee as a cost to you.
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>> you seem to be saying pretty much everybody who refinances or buys a new house in the next ten years is going to be affected by this. >> i had would say it's a very large number. your pocketbook is being raided to pay for a tax policy issue decided at the last minute by probably people who didn't understand fully what they were legislating on. >> we went to capitol hill to ask what congress was thinking when they passed the mortgage fee hike. first, we caught up with republican house speaker john boehner. >> as you're well aware this bill came over from the senate. i don't know how they justified it. we would rather have offset that two-month extension with reductions if in spending. >> but the senate blamed the house and democrats and republicans blamed each other. we did find one congressman, republican allen west, who said he tried to blow the whistle on the whole thing before christmas. >> i read the legislation and i
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raised the flag. unfortunately, no one paid attention to what i was saying at the time. >> is this a back door tax increase on the middle class? >> it absolutely is. because you know, you're talking about homeowners. when you're talking about the people that are going to be using the fannie mae, the freddie mac, the government sponsored enterprises, it is absolutely a tax increase on them. >> obama administration official defended the mortgage fee calling it modest. she said it's unlikely to negatively affect borrowers because increases will be phased in over the next two years and it will help bring private capital back into the market which is good for borrowers over the long-term. maybe so, but patty anderson only knows that for the next 30 years she'll be haunted by the washington ghost of christmas past. >> i think it looks like washington grabbing more money. >> sharyl attkisson is with us. no one seems to be willing to
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take responsibility, even as to whether republicans or democrats. >> i can't tell you how many blamed other people across the aisle, house and senate, democrats, republicans. in the end, nobody would give a name as to whose idea it was to put this into that bill. >> going forward, where is the debate now about extended payroll tax benefits. >> it was only good for january and february. that huge fee only paid for two months. there's a bipartisan commission meeting now, democrats and republicans, to try to decide how to make that a more permanent extension and i think we're all going to be paying more attention to the fine print this time. >> because that's -- the fee was already in effect, if you paid your january mortgage it was in there? >> it started in january most banks. >> i need to look at my mortgage statement. >> it will not be in the mortgage statement. it's hidden. worked into the interest rate. you won't know it unless your bank wants to tell you. >> the banks can tell you -- >> they're charging it up front. the banks are deciding to put that in there up front.
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die. a professor who spent dk aids how to care for dying dying patients is term any ill. >> he's using the internet. before we meet him, lee cowan looks at his very public illness. >> the day david oliver got his death sentence was a day like any other. except it meant that no day could be wasted. >> how long do i have? we don't know. >> for the medical school professor at the university of missouri, death became a teachable moment. and the web became his chalkboard. >> if there was ever a time to be a good teacher, you know, this is it. >> at first he couldn't even pronounce the cancer that he would live with and die by. >> it's called nasal jerron -- i'm going to have to look at this. >> but he quickly got the hang of it. >> nasopharyngeal cancer. it's behind the nose. >> of all the lessons he had to offer, perhaps taking control was what made his blog so poignant. if he was going to lose his
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hair, it was going to be on his terms. not the cancer's. >> here's looking at you. see you around. >> these medications -- >> the lectures outline his cocktail of chemo, the grim side effects and the side of fied fighting through. >> it's not so bad if on the other hand you get to see your grandson play in the state championship football game in st. louis, missouri. which i'm going to do. it's important. you got to choose. >> he's somber, he's funny. but most of all, blunt. >> it's not curable. but it is manageable. and you know, i could get three to five years if the chemo therapy works six months. if it doesn't. >> in a few short months of treatment, the difference is painfully obvious. especially compared to that first day. >> we're going to get through it. it's going to be okay. it's going to be all right. >> miss positive attitude is
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infectious and instructive. if there is an art to living, he's teaching there's an art in dying, too. for "cbs this morning," i'm lee cowan in los angeles. >> professor david oliver is with us now. welcome. this is a very powerful story. >> thank you, charlie. >> it is a teachable moment. why did you think that this was the right thing for you to do or the imperative? >> i doesn't know at first. people that have a cancer diagnosis, one of the first decisions to make is how do i tell others? a very dear close friend of mine who happens to be my physician. i asked him how am i going to tell others about this. david i don't know. it's awkward when people come up to you and say or know that you have cancer but they don't know if you know that you know that you have cancer. the interaction is awkward. >> your wife is in the green room. she had to share in this. >> yes, she did share in that. i said to her, debbie, would you videotape me for the fak umt of
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the family and community medicine department where my academic appointment is. she said sure. i did not intend to inspire anyone. i just wanted to tell them what i had. >> but that's exactly what you've done. i have to say not to make it personal, but watching this as i watch my mother care for my father as he spent eight years dying. you think as a child you have a sense of what both the care-giver and the patient, your parents, are going through. when you hear it from your mouth and when you hear it from debbie, it gives you a completely different sense of what's really going on. >> big surprise for me personally is that i'm not afraid to die. i thought i would be. i'm a gerontologist. i studied the frail all my life. debbie is the care-giver. it's all the care-givers out there who are suffering. >> you spent your life teaching people how to deal with this as you mentioned. ha surprised you the most when you were all of a sudden on the
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learning end? >> i think the doctors assumed i knew a lot more than i did. and i know very little. in fact, i try not to read any scholarly articles about cancer because half of them are pretty scary quite frankly. >> did your own advice hold up? >> it did. the healthcare team has just been great. but you know, i've learned that them talking to each other sometimes, it's fragmented. i'm just wondering if it could be better. >> you said you're not afraid to die. >> no. >> but you still must live with some fear, fear of the unknown. >> i fear the last month. my wife is in hospice for many, many years and she does end of life research. she's seen the end-stage of dying with cancer as with other chronic illnesses. >> i don't want to leave this without this notion. the message you have for people who are discovering they have a terminal illness. >> my 92-year-old mentor told
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me. this is going to be a war for me. david versus cancer. a battle. and that would have been a terrific waste of time. instead, he said don't panic, don't struggle. relax and accept it. it is what it is. you know none of us get out of this alive. so instead of wasting my time trying to battle this silent killer, i decided to -- o it's a time to teach. if there ever was a time to teach, this is it. >> so you have another purpose in your life now. >> i do, i do. there's no shortage of topics that you can do videos on and the response from people all over the united states and seven different countries now. >> what do they say? >> they say i have a friend and i didn't know about that 21-day, what happens between chemotherapy or i have a care-giver. my doctor told me over the telephone for crying out loud. the stories tear you apart.
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the people sometimes aren't getting all the information they need about what's going on in their bodies. >> good for you. >> thank you. >> thanks very much. >> thank you, erica. the university of virginia is still shaken remembering a promising lacrosse player they loved. her former boyfriend goes on trial for her murder. we're live at the courthouse. speaking with one of the biggest movie stars there is. oscar nominee brad pitt in studio 57. you're watching "cbs this morning." cbs healthwatch sponsored by splenda essentials. get more out of what you put in. no calorie sweeteners. ™ this bowl of strawberries is loaded with vitamin c. and now, b vitamins to boot. coffee doesn't have fiber. unless you want it to. splenda® essentials™ are the first and only line of sweeteners with a small boost of fiber, or antioxidants, or b vitamins in every packet. mmm.
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that's a live picture from new orleans. the crescent city where next year it will be the host city for super bowl xlvii which you can see here on cbs. it's 8:00. i'm gayle king. do i dare hope we get to go next year. >> i would expect we would go to the super bowl next year in new orleans we need to be there. >> i hope so. check in. >> all right. i'm charlie rose with erica hill. jury selection begins with the university of virginia murder case that drew national attention two years ago. >> george huguely is accused of killing his girlfriend, a pair of athletes well-known and liked on campus. we're covering the trial in
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charlotteville, virginia. >> good morning, erica. for the first time, he will step foot inside a courtroom. he's expected to plead not guilty kicking off a grueling trial detailing a relationship gone terribly wrong. 21 months later the wounds are still deep. the slaying of a classmate with another on trial for murder. >> we feel the pain that he has inflicted on our university. >> has left the university students eager for answers. >> people are bracing themselves for answers as many of the memories will be put on the table. >> yeardley love was found dead in her apartment face down in a pool of blood. the accused killer, on and off boyfriend, george huguely, now 24. both were seniors on the university's top ranked lacrosse teams. ♪ >> their story gripped the campus in sadness and gained national attention.
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>> it forced us to take a hard look at what the school is doing as far as domestic violence and domestic abuse. >> on the day of the murder, huguely reported went into a drunken rampage. he admitted to police that he kicked in love's bedroom door, shook her and her head repeatedly hit the wall. she died officially from blunt force trauma. he had no intention to kill his attorneys argue. there were report of an abusive relationship and huguely's previous run ins in the law. the university didn't know about it until it was too late. >> i remember that call from the police. >> allen grove says following the tragedy, uva beefed up security and procedures. it prompts all students to disclose previous arrests. >> in the case of george huguely, might this policy have changed the outcome? >> possibly. i would have liked to have had that chance. >> george huguely is facing six
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felony charges ranging from first degree murder to burglary. the prosecution is seeking a life sentence. >> thank you, whit. jack ford is with us now. he joins us. i thought it was interesting, the range from burglary to first degree murder. i remember, jack, this case very, very well. it was so -- the details were devastating about this young woman. how difficult do you think it is to get an impartial jury when there have been so many details about the case? >> what's interesting about it, gayle, it's a small community. charlottesville is a small community. small circuit court. people don't realize, if you know something about a case, you're disqualified. that's not true. you could have followed the case, you could have watched it here, followed it on the internet. as long as you can say to a judge and to the lawyers i know something about it, but i haven't made up my mind yet. i'm willing to listen to both sides before i make a decision here, then you can qualify as an impartial juror. >> what interests me, in most cases when you hear jurors talk about it when there's been a
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difficult case, they sound very reasonable and took their job very seriously. >> they do. charlie, i tried a couple of dozen murder cases, prosecutor, defense, jurors work hard at doing the right job. >> what do you think the defense strategy is. >> the prosecution has a shot at felony murder which gets you into the murder one category. it's easier to prove. the defense looking at this and saying we're going to challenge the cause of delt. they've suggested she was taking medication, might have been drinking might have had something to do with the death. if i'm the defense attorney, i'm hoping to get jurors off of the murder category down into a manslaughter category. manslaughter means essentially the death was accidental when you were engaged in something that might have been unlawful or reckless. the classic situation is you're playing a with a gun, you don't realize it's loaded shoots your friend. i think the defense will argue he didn't mean to hurt her or kill her. it happened accidentally. as a consequence, they're hoping. manslaughter is ten years
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maximum as opposed to life in prison which would be with murder one or a felony. >> as horrible as it is, it made a difference on campus violence, particularly this campus and others around. friends reported, listen, she was in an abusive relationship. >> i had a daughter who was ayala cross player in college. fortunately never had these problems. kids look at these things differently. they're paying more attenti the force was back in this year's super bowl ads.
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at that years ago we saw the lovely brad pitt in an episode of dallas. this oscar nominee says the last 12 months have been about as good as it gets. i don't remember him in dallas. do you? >> i guess we have to find the tape. >> he will be here to tell us why the last few month have been so great and how he worked so hard to make the movie "moneyball." stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning."
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drinking champagne. they get a ring. but if we win, on our budget with this team will change the game. >> "moneyball" a movie about challenging conventional which is come. they needed the passion of one of the brightest stars to make the movie. it's been nominated for six cad nia wards. actor and producer brad pitt is with us. i'm glad to have you at "cbs this morning." >> thanks, charlie. >> this is a story of obsession
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or you. >> uh-huh. it's a story of an obsessive character and i was obsessive about getting it to the screen. it was this idea of value and ourself worth and how it is often tabulated by a failure and you look at the billy bean character shall he was completely devalued by his sport. he was playing for a small market team and had to rethink the game and had to question why we've been doing the things we do for so long. in doing so, found this whole talent pool of other people have been devalued and started winning games. they got a second chance and they started winning games. i thought there was a story worth telling now about success and failure. >> you felt a kinship with him. >> yes, definitely. yes. you know, he was emotional about the games, he couldn't even watch the games.
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he didn't want to cloud his thinking. i understand that. there were attributes about him and this push and this need to make things fair, to find a level playing field. if we're going to compete, let's make it fair. i'm a bit of a justice nut. >> going against the odds and the perceptions. here in this television program which is in its fourth or fifth week. we showed it to the staff at the beginning just to say here's the story of somebody going against the odds and against expectations and against conventional wisdom. >> and you can actually win in unconventional ways. >> it didn't go well for him at the beginning. >> no. he was labeled a fool until they started turning it around. started winning. >> when you move into your own life, family has meant what to you? i know as you find yourself at a career that has evolved, what has the family added to it?
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>> family has added everything to it. in a strange way, if i look at the work, the work has gotten better because i worry less about it. it's not as important as family. family becomes the nucleus, becomes the source of joy and the source of worry. and it takes any pressure of self-absorption we can have in our business, it evaporates. so it makes it freer. >> it also, i assume, makes the performance, when you're on stage more intense because you know you have less time and so there's more intensity. >> that's right. got to get on. i got to get the kids to bed. >> this will be ten takes. >> and we're going to get it right now and let the chips fall where they may. >> if you haven't adopted and had chirp, it would have been a far different life for you and for them. >> yes, absolutely.
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i mean, absolutely. i don't know that they would -- i hate to say this may not have be here. i think of the joy that we have in our family because we are together. i just -- i couldn't imagine it. >> i want you to take a look at this. this is a clip that angelina did with a conversation with bob simon. here it is. it reflect i think a philosophy. >> used to be a pretty bad girl. you are an ambassador, a member of the council on foreign relations. >> uh-huh. >> you're a humanitarian activist. do you ever miss being a bad girl? >> i'm still a bad girl. >> yeah? >> you know, i still have that side of me that is -- it's in its place now. it belongs -- you know, it belongs to brad or it belongs to our adventures. >> there is a kind of attitude -- >> she's still a bad girl. >> she's a bad girl.
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>>? what way. >> it's not for public consumption. >> i'm struck by the fact that you two have this dual career when she's maybing a film, you're with her. when you're promoting a film, she's with you. >> and they're with us. >> the kids are all there. >> always. >> is that easier for them or difficult for them or like the idea? >> they're quite used to jet lag and moving to a new location. as long as we're together. the home is always intact. >> they take their own blankets. >> they got to pack their own bags. they're responsible if they leave their chargers behind and so on and so forth. >> you're also a person taking an interest in the living conditions of people in new orleans after katrina with your passion for architecture. how is that going? >> i keep saying this. it keeps exceeding my expectation s. we got in there as a justice issue. the people were put in a
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dangerous situation living behind inadequately built walls, told they could live there. built on a slab. people were killed because of it. we felt a need to make that right, to just do it right. do it right the first time. so we won't suffer from these kinds of catastrophes and by the way, it's a lot cheaper. >> the project is to redefine low income housing in a way that has what? >> that is built sustain bablel and at a competitive price. that's a game changer. we learn so much on this project. to build other nucleuses around. this is where we got to go. >> you've been to the white house, you know the president. you support the president? >> i wouldn't say i know him. i've had -- i've been able to meet him. >> you've had a conversation with him. >> yes. i am absolutely a supporter. >> is there a role for the federal government here? >> well, you know, hud helped us out a lot.
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hud is doing some great things in this direction. but i think it's got to be the nasa program. let's make the shift. why are we -- why are we still exporting so much of our gdp, have a trillion dollars to support this dependency on oil. why are we still fighting it with our military? why are we still polluting the environment? it just makes no sense for us anymore. >> you have those kinds much conversations with politicians as well as friends? >> yes, i had a great conversation approximate it a few weeks ago with the vice president actually. >> he's responsive to the idea? >> very much so. >> if someone said tomorrow you had to give up acting, that would be a hard day for you? >> yes, it would. because i -- i am on the produce orrial side now, i'm developing stories that i think resonate with our time in some way.
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i feel like i'm now more than ever clear about what i can add to this great art of storytelling. >> do you see a role model that represents the kind of life that you would like to have? if you look at the kind of life that paul newman had. he was an actor at the same time he had the passions away from film, racing. he also in a sense had an evolution in terms of the kinds of roles he wanted to do. >> yeah. i think we could learn a lot from his example and if i get anywhere near that, i'd be pretty satisfied. >> there was one thing that i found amazing as i looked at the thing about you. it was the notion, speaking of politic, that newt gingrich may not be the first person said if there was somebody to follow my life i would like it to be brad pitt. >> really? i just insulted him last week in an interview. i think he would move on to someone else now. thank you. >> brad pitt, we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs this back. you'r[ male announcer ]is this was how my day began.
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sorry. >> that was definitely one of my favorites. welcome back to "cbs this morning." you know we expected a star wars sequel from the volkswagen guys during the super bowl. but the dog is getting a lot more play this morning. >> we want to look at some of the scenes from last night's ads. take out the hits and misses. with us to do that is stuart elliott. nice to have you with us. >> nice to be here. thank you. >> we saw that volkswagen one. the chevy ad is controversial. let's take a look at it. >> we're safe. day didn't drive the longest lasting most dependable truck on the road. dave drove a ford. >> twinkie? >> yeah. >> looks like we made it ♪ chevy silverado from the beginning of the workday until
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the end of the world. >> ford not happy with that ford asked gm to pull it. >> yes, they did. gm said no. it was wonderful free publicity all during the day leading up to the commercial running. >> don't the ford people sell more trucks, though? >> there's something called creative license. i think chevy was taking some creative license by saying that a chevy will get you through the ultimate apocalypse of all-time whereas a ford might not. again, you take that with a very large grain of salt. >> you've been doing this a number of years. how did this crop of advertisements measure up against previous super bowl sies advertisements? >> i think there was a little bit more better ones, but largely it was a disappointment because so many of the same formulas repeated over and over again. dogs and babies and second class celebrities and --
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>> hot girls. >> and sex. >> we're going to show some of them again this morning. this is a telefloral ad. >> guys, valentine's day is not that complicated. give and you shall receive. >> you didn't like that one? >> i just -- it's such a waste of time and money. it's just so tasteless and vulgar. the setting, it's a family event. everybody is watching. this is what -- all they could come up with. >> i don't know about you, stuart. but i don't know anybody that sleeps with a guy because i got a telefloral bouquet. charlie, you send one. my point exactly. i don't know anybody that does that. i'm wondering if you're a little
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jaded when you said you don't think the commercials are good. i sat there with a notepad. there were so many that i liked. you thought they didn't rate this year? >> i thought it was great fun. >> my feeling is that so much of it is just repeats the same tired -- >> the dogs and babies work. >> on one level. but on the other level you kind of hope that the creative minds of madison avenue would come up with something different. like for instance the chevy commercial which i thought was cute and sort of was timely because of all the jokes about how the world is going to end in 2012. i thought that was a good one. >> the clint eastwood is getting fairly positive buzz too. we have that in case you missed it. >> and how do we win? detroit is showing us it can be done. and what's true about them is true about all of us. this country can't be knocked out in one punch. we get right back up again and
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when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our engines. yeah. it's halftime america and our second half is about to begin. >> like mean joe green. >> clint eastwood in a commercial. >> that was very powerful. there were a number of commercials last night that sort of touched on this theme of america, where are we going, the economy, american renewal. there were two commercials from general electric along those lines. best buy had a commercial like that which talked about american ingenuity and inventiveness and this chrysler commercial which sort of harkens back to the spot they ran last year with this thing called imported from detroit which is very successful for them. >> what was your favorite? >> ooh. >> good question. >> i liked a lot of the auto commercials. i thought the truck spot was very funny. i thought the volkswagen commercial was a nice way for them to sort of meet all the expectations people had from
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last year with the little boy dressed up as darth vader. this time they had something that looked completely different and at the end darth vader shows up and they make a joke about -- o it's a commercial about a commercial. so that was cute. acura i liked also because they have celebrities in their commercial, but they were -- both known to be car collectors. >> how much did they pay per 30 seconds? >> this year the estimate was that the advertisers were paying $3.5 million for every 30 seconds and a number of commercials were of 0 or 90 seconds or two minutes, which is a lot of money. >> does the price vary where it's at in the super bowl? >> yeah. there's sliding scales and rates that change. >> it all starts again for 2013. >> yes. there are companies -- >> starting this morning. >> there are companies that do ha. >> thanks for being here this morning. the halftime show led to controversy and apologies from
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the nfl. roman soldiers and all, madonna, was the brainchild of a man named jamie king who is a superstar in his own right ace bill whitaker shows us. >>. ♪ >> there was nothing halfway about madonna's super bowl halftime show. every aspect of this star studded 12-minute spectacle from choreography to lighting, costumes to sets was overseen by one man, madonna's kree a sif director for 13 years. jamie king. >> what were you hoping people experienced? >> hopefully, halftime is supposed to be about celebration. that's kind of how i look at it. we want to put on a great show and madonna knows certainly, madonna of all people knows how to put on a great show. >> this isn't jamie king's first super bowl experience. he choreographed diana ross' halftime show in 1996 and danced
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with his idol michael jackson in the early '90s at the super bowl and on tour. today he's the most successful concert director of all-time. he shows with the likes of britney spears, christina aguilera. and ricky martin. grossed nearly $2 billion. >> so when i see concert director, i'm not quite sure what that is. >> you know what, neither am i. thank you for being so honest. i'm not sure what that is either. you know, when i started in this game, i started as a dancer, then a became creative director for madonna, which turned into director for ricky and britney and rihanna and madonna. it kept growing. >> he's responsible for some of the most iconic pop culture moments. that infamous kiss between madonna and britney spears and
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christina aguilera. it was jamie's idea. and remember ricky martin's star making grammy performance? part of the credit goes to jamie king. >> i was asked by his management to do a meeting with ricky martin. i said absolutely. i don't know who he is. i didn't. america didn't know who ricky martin was at the time. i took the job, met him. felt his enthusiasm and i knew that i had to work with this guy because he's fantastic. >> now king is bringing his talent to a whole new stage. producing and starring with jennifer lopez and marc anthony in the talent search reality show. que viva. >> jamie is consistently and visionary. the sign of a true genius, you can't duplicate what he creates because the process is so unique. that's what makes jamie, jamie. >> bringing his career full circle, king is the director of
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the michael jackson inspired cirque du soleil show, the immortal. >> everything i do, everything i create is from the place of a fan. if i get excited by what i'm creating, i feel like i'm on to something. that's kind of how i do my job. >> and it feels like home ♪ >> for "cbs this morning," i'm bill whitaker in los angeles. >> you thought she was weighted down? >> by the whole process. >> this is the thing, everybody thought it was going to be outrageous and what could madonna do? that's what i loved about it, charlie. she knew it was a family audience. she tailored it for that. she's got great dance moves and can do more than she did. that's what i loved about it. it was appropriate. the production. i did not see the m.i.a. giving the finger until they showed it on the news this morning. that was unfortunate. >> my point was it made -- it weighted her down in terms of the -- >> the whole process. >> you can still do that.
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this morning, britain is celebrating the 60-year reign of queen elizabeth. this is in scotland. morning phillips is there where the queen made an appearance. mark, hello to you. >> good morning, gayle. this is ak session day the anniversary of when she came to the throne. she commemorates the death of her father.
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this being the diamond jubilee year, the 60th anniversary, it was decided that she should be seen and not at home on a cold winter's day with the royal feet beside the royal fire. >> as the international celebrities go, the queen cuts an increasingly unlikely figure. a small woman, bent a little with age now or maybe just huddled against the cold as these festivities for the 60th anniversary of her rein begins. there's only been one british monarch who reigned longer. the venerable victoria who lasted 63 years. it was easier to be queen then. >> this is the first woman who has reigned through a modern media age, who reigned through so much social change. from the cold war through the jet age an the space age, the digital age the beatles, the rolling stones. you name it, she has seen pretty much the 20th century at firsthand. she's still going strong. >> the kids at a school put on a
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play about the queen's reign. she seem delighted she usually does. it's her job. they don't do job approval ratings for queens. in an age when celebrities come and go, a public figure who has maintained her popularity through 12 british prime ministers and 12 american presidents could give lessons in public relations. >> she's never put a foot wrong. she doesn't believe in the press. she doesn't believe in celebrity. so she's a great contraindicator. we can look up to it as a person who is never -- always done her duty. it's incredible in this day and age to find somebody who has managed not to get it wrong. >> it's even more remarkable considering the royal soap opera of the failed marriages of her children that played in the background. if there was a hiccup in ee liz wet's reign, it was in her initial reluctance with the
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it's not uncommon for women to buy jason wu's designs, spending thousands of dollars on a dress. even fans on a budget can make their designer dreams come true now. forget black friday. the new shopping super event is this collection. >> it won't be pretty. >> you have the blue dress. i got it. >> limited pieces from high end designers. >> i got everything. >> briefly available to the masses. on sunday, it was a debut of jason wu for target. >> there's a signature t-shirt of the collection. >> known for his sleek, timeless designs wu will forever be linked to first lady michelle obama. >> you're well-known for
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designing the first lady's inauguration gown which is at the smithsonian. >> when i moved to america, i came here to become a designer. it's the ultimate american dream to end up being in the smithsonian part of american history. >> but perhaps the true sign he's made it, this line outside a new york target yesterday morning. >> i wanted to sort of expand my reach. i felt like target was the perfect partner. i felt like i would be joining such a great group. miss own i. >> the italian fashion house with zigzag knits threw shoppers into a frenzy. it soiled out within minutes. >> all the collaborations are meant to drive traffic and drive buzz. so when the collections are limited time and there's a limited quantity, it really creates a sense of urgency.
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>> urgency which can quickly lead to frustration. >> online traffic for missoni crashed the website. shoppers who went the brick and mortar route found mostly empty shelves. >> when you saw what happened with missoni were you concerned about jason wu for target? >> i was thinking how can we make it different. sort of full squirt kirt in a l trim. >> this is three pieces compared to 400. >> pleated skirt. >> all priced under $60. the selection went live on target.com on sunday, just after midnight. most items sold out before sunrise. susan teaches fashion law at fordham university. >> part of what makes this collaboration safe for a designer is they are operating on this principle. if it doesn't sell out, if nobody likes the merchandise, if
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there's too much merchandise left on the shelves then it doesn't look special. >> before the collection even launched, pieces were already selling on e-bay for more than four times the expected retail price. while the shoppers we met wouldn't say if they planned to resell, they walked away with enough to try. >> the thing about that resale, you get two different camps. susan said, look, if things fell out, it shows that they have value. even jason wu said if the collection sells out, i know it's a success. target said to us, well, if we put something up for $60 and it shows up for $600. we don't think that's fair for everybody. people might say then just make more. >> did you see anything you wanted to take home. i couldn't get anything. it was gone. i tweeted target and they said look we hope to have more online later this week. >> i wore a jason wu dress in honor of you.
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