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>> sometimes it's nice to get recognition from the opposite sex that you've still got it a little bit. >> i wouldn't have know what you're talking about. >> right. right. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." u.s. officials expected outrage after the killing of 16 civilians by an american soldier and they're seeing it this morning. >> officials were attacked at the scene of the massacre and there are other protests as well. mandy clark is in kabul, the capital of afghanistan. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. dozens of people in kandahar held a religious service in memory of the shooting victims, and around a thousand students in east afghanistan gathered to voice their anger over the killings. burning and chanting death to
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america. the protesters in the eastern city demanded the u.s. soldier responsible for killing 16 civilians face a public trial in afghanistan. >> translator: we don't want a strategic partnership with foreign troops, the student said. >> reporter: the protesters also called for american troops to leave afghanistan now, describing them as tyrants and crusaders. it's the first significant protest. the taliban has issued another threat to the u.s. forces. in a statement the insurgent group said the islamic emirates warn the american animals that we'll avenge them and with the help will kill and behead your sadistic and murderous soldiers. today they ambushed an afghan delegation that was visiting the attack. gunfire killed two soldiers and
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wounding two others. >> mandy, thank you very much. pentagon officials are investigating the suspect and expressing grief for sunday's deadly rampage. >> national security correspondent david martin is at the pent gone. david, good morning. >> good morning. the army has not yet brought charges against the sergeant who still refuses to identify, but late monday defense secretary leon panetta says prosecutors could seek the death penalty. on a trip to asia in the middle east, panetta seemed resigned to the fact that as long as u.s. troops are in afghanistan, bad things are bound to happen. >> war is hell. these kinds of events and incidents are going to take place. they've taken place in any war. they're terrible events, and this is not the first of those events, and it probably won't be the last. >> reporter: the motive for the shootings is still unknown. investigators will pore over the personal documents and writings of the 38-year-old sergeant,
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searching for evidence of his state of mind. did he set out to kill when he left the base. >> written letters, e-mails, all of his accounts is going to be seize and locked down, hint of any indication, facebook pages are often the source of what people are thinking. >> reporter: there are eyewitnesss who claim they saw him drag young boys by hair and shoot them in the mouth. some of the victims were as young as two. attorney kneel puckett who spesizes in these cases thinks they should be able to capture the shells. >> assuming bullets are recovered and the rifle that he used are available, i think that would be a very simple task for them. >> reporter: four years ago the sergeant passed a battery of psychological tests in order to qualify as a sniper. then in 2010 he was evaluated for a minor traumatic brain injury after rolling his vehicle
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in iraq but he was fit to return to duty. he was stationed at lewis-mcchord in washington state but toured three tours to iraq and was on his first appointment to afghanistan, training villagers in southern afghanistan how to fend for themselves. the sergeant is married with two children, and for their own safety, his family has been moved out of their home and onto joint base lewis-mcchord. >> david, thank you very much. with us now retired general michael hayden. general, welcome. >> good morning. >> the administration says it has no viable alternative but to continue the course it's on and begin assembling the endgame. >> right. >> do you agree with that? >> i do. i remember a fishing trip with my grandfather. he warned me nerve make big decisions when you're tired, angry, or sad.
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all of these things apply. let it settle and choose our options carefully as we go forward. >> this has been a ten-year war. are the afghans up to taking on the burden if u.s. continues to withdr withdraw, especially when you see what appears to be a resurgence of the taliban. >> that's the $64 question and the pivot point on which our strategy will succeed or fail. i think one important thing we've got to keep in mind is as we do this hand-off, our afghan allies cannot perceive we're leaving them behind. we've done that once before. we've left them to their own devic devices. that can't happen. there has to be continuity in the american presence and in supporting them over the long term. >> the president brought it up yesterday. someone asked about moving out. we don't want to move out too quickly because we don't want to
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have to go back. is that something we could face, especially based on afghanistan? >> i hope not. the current trajectory is too quick. we've deployed fewer in the surge than were originally called for, we're pulling them out earlier than anticipated and now there's some talk of moving that 2014 hand-off date back toward 2013. all of that sent signals to the afghanistans that were leaving, the undercuts. >> let me understand what you're saying. that general allen, the commander in afghanistan, does not agree with the timetable that the president has put in motion. >> no. what i will say is in open congressional testimony when commanders were asked with the numbers and the pace of withdrawal surge forces were consistent with the recommendations that had been made, they said no, that that was not one of the optionings they put forward.
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>> are you talking about mullen or who are the people -- >> i believe it was the commander at the time. look, charlie, we put the surge forces in there. it takes a while to put the brigades in there. they were there for one full fighting season. they're leaving before the end of the second fighting season. they're moving out. let me be very harsh here, all right? they're being pulled back based upon the north american timetable not a south asia timetable. >> when we look at afghanistan, can we ever do anything unless we get some kind of understanding from the pakistans about the border and their own support? >> that's going to test the fundamentals of counter insurgency doctrine. can you actually win a war in one country while the enemy maintains a safe haven in another country. >> what do you say? >> i say there are three things. one was end the safe haven, second was to increase afghan government capacity and the
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third at the time was to push down the drug trade, which was poisoning everything. >> and most of those three goals have not been met. >> oh, that's correct. that's right. >> therefore, why should we be in afghanistan? >> we should be in there for our own self-interest. i believe if we leave there it becomes chaos, another ungoverned area, an area in which the al qaeda feels comfortable. >> but you don't see a chance to succeed. >> i didn't say that. >> you said about the power of the government to do what it needs to do. >> anyone who knows how to do that, point to afghanistan on the map knows it's going to be a long project, that it's going to take a very long period of time. keep in mind, we're trying to negotiate a presence there in this strategic framework agreement, both 2014. >> good to see you.
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>> thank you. turn noug to atlanta where a delta air lines jet rolled off the runway this morning. luckily no one was injured. the brakes on the plane failed. there were no passengers on board. the jet did sustain significant damage. it is another primary day in the republican presidential race. mississippi and alabama vote today followed by late-night republican caucus in hawaii. polls in the race show things incredibly close. jan crawford is in birmingham, alabama. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. a week ago they would have said rick santorum would have won this state. but gingrich has really made it a fight. it is now so close that when you talk to senior republicans here, people who have followed politic as long time in this state, they say they have no idea who's going to win. it could be santorum, it could be gingrich. it even could be romney. he was down, but he wouldn't get
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out. now gingrich is back and sounding confident. >> we have momentum, but we haven't won. we still have to go out and finish the sale. >> reporter: but gingrich's gain is santorum's pain, causing the former pennsylvania senator crucial delegates if he tries to edge romney for the nomination. monday santorum suggested gingrich was on a fool's errand that would result in romney's victim. >> whether he revolsolves it or not, where do we go from here? >> reporter: with nearly half the states having already voted. santorum says gingrich needs to face the in fact he can't run. >> he's run three states. this is his fourth and fifth states. >> reporter: but gingrich who is appealing to southern voters by
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expressing his southern tight says he's's the only one who can beat bowe. >> i do not believe the other two candidates can beat obama and i believe it is the most important race of our lifetime and i will not leave the field. >> reporter: romney seems to have a clear path forward, yet he's still making unforced errors that paint him as rich and out of touch. now romney's already left. both he and ron paul skipped a presidential forum here in birmingham. that left the stage to rick santorum. the crowd last night, they had their supporters, but like the voters in this state, it was pretty evenly divided too. >> thank you. the latest cbs/new york times poll shows the president's approval rating is already down low. 9 points since last month.
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one of the reasons? the rising gas prices. the president talked about it yesterday. >> understand people get frustrated when the gas prices go up. i think the american people understand we don't have a silver bullet when it comes to gas prices. there's no silver bullet here. >> bob sheafer is with us this morning. bob, good morning. >> hey. >> the president has a point, doesn't he? there's little he can do necessarily in the short term to affect gas prices and gas prices hurt his political chances. >> that's right on all counts, charlie. you know, but the problem is, and in this cbs news poll that just came out, people think there are things he can do about it. i mean the fact of the matter is the reason gas prices are so high is because you have, you know, the turmoil that's going on in the middle east. you have oil speculators, and you have china, which continues to buy more and more oil. and those are the things that are really keeping gas prices
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up. but people go to the -- go to that gas pump and they look at ghaj. i went the other day myself, charlie, and bought my first $75 tank of gas, and i wasn't buying premium gachlts it stunned me so much i went home and told my wife and i said do you know how much i just paid for a tank of gas. >> what kind of car are you driving? >> there are a lot of folks -- i'm getting along fine. but $75 for a tank of gas and it stairs you in the face and it really makes you mad. >> and many americans need their car to drive to work, and, therefore, it hurts them in a very deep way. >> mine was 60 bucks the other day, and it was very upsetting. it seems the republicans have made this quite a campaign issue. we know newt gingrich has been out there saying i'm going to get gas down do the $2.50 mark. president obama or the white house coming out and hammering on that point. are they getting nervous about
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where this narrative is going in the country? >> well, i think they ought to because it has upset. when you see now the president's approval rating is down to 41%. it was at 50%. and then you look at the republican race going on and our poll shows that half the republican voters still say it's too early to decide who they're going to vote for, what occurs to me, erica, is what if we had an election and nobody won? people are frustrated with both sides. they don't see anybody riding to the rescue yet. republicans are split over who they want and you continue to have this frustration on the other side with the white house because even though the economy is looking better, even though the market is up, even though, you know, unemployment is coming
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down, going to that pump and looking at that $75 tank of gas, it's -- people are really nervous and they're really frustrated now. >> bob, thank you so much. >> you bet. >> it is time now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. "the wall street journal" reports that faulty water well may be the reason why some water is contaminated in colorado. environmentists had blamed fracking, a drilling technique using high pressured water and a fan. it's headed to a federal court in washington. the hewn kron kale reports they rejected the law, saying it could discriminate against minority owners. nike is stirring up controversy with its new black and tan sneakers, they're named after a popular groudrink, not
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group. they approved plans yesterday to rebuild the boardwalk using concrete and plastic lumber. residents say it will turn their beloved boardwalk into a sidewalk. spring may not officially begin until next week but it's nushlily warm in the country. you're looking at washington, d.c., where the expected high is 78 degrees.
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fortunately romney had a chance to use a slightly more recent song reference at a rally last friday with randy owen of the country group alabama. i'd love to hear "sweet home alabama." ♪ sweet home alabama where the skies are so blue ♪ ♪ that song is lynyrd skynyrd everything he learned about the south he learned from a jeff fox worthy routine ♪ it is called prince harry's coming of age tour.
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it ended over the weekend in brazil where the prince sat down with seth doan to talk about the trip and his charitable work among other things. it's an interview you'll see only on "cbs this morning" and seth is back with us. >> finally back. >> we're glad to have you back. >> the prince told us his trip seem like a blur and traveling for much of it we could certainly see why. he was ushered to event after event often by a motorcade. when he sad down with us he seemed at ease and quite candid. on these sprawling grounds, we had a chance to sit down with seth doan. the royal family seldom grants one-on-ones, so every moment was precious. he just reached the end of his ten-day, four-nation tourks and was eager to discuss his
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charitable work with children of an african nation. >> let's talk about what brought you to the countryside. what has made you so passionate about this group of kids in this remote part of africa. >> i'm thinking back to how it all started. it was a simple case where i went traveling for about eight weeks. i was asked to go for a country where basically the city was the one for my visit. after eight weeks of seeing the kids, the people, the country, the problem, and getting sort of attached with it, once i finished i, came back. >> reporter: in 2006 harry found an organization that helps children in the african nation. working with his counterpart, they have raised $11 million so far. >> when you co-founded this
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charity, you in dedicated it in part to your mother, princess diana. have you thought about her on this trip? >> i haven't had time to think about her in my own personal reflex of places, yes, but a simple case of not forgetting the children and not forgetting our mother, who i lost at a fairly young age it's clear from what these kids have from being affiliated with you. but what do you get from them? >> i get a lot from the kid, not just the kids in the city, but kids in general. obviously me being me has brought a lot of attention to a country that needs attention, but, yeah, every time i spend time with the kids, it is fantastic. you get a buzz. i'm still a very much a kid and spending time with them keeps me grounded. >> i suppose it's nice to be out of the spotlight in some ways.
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>> yeah, it is. >> we watched the throngs of people waiting just to see you, to catch a glimpse. what is that like from the inside? everyone seems to have this fascination with royalty. does it live up to the fairy tale? >> no, not at all. it's like, oh, my gosh, he's a prince, no. the job it entails -- look at me. i'm 27 years old, not looking for someone to fulfill the roll but someone to take it on. it has been strange, this trip especially, because i'm representing my grandmother. people go crazy for royalty and david beckham. the warmth of reception was anything beyond what i'd ever
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expect. >> in the commonwealth nation of belize, the bahamas, and jamaica, the prince brought a message of good will from the queen. >> the magesty is offered to extend her great wishes to all and is sorry she can't be here so you're stuck with me. but don't worry because every little thing is going to be all right. >> let me ask you about your grandmother. this was a very public way of making a tribute of her. you spoke glowingly of your grandmother in the last ten days. do you have private ways that you're going to honor her? >> i'm sure when i get back ideas will start flowing. hopefully we'll be able to have dinner, do something fun, take her out on the town, i don't know. >> does the queen go out on the town? >> i don't know. but, no, you know, she -- she's a fantastic mother not only as a
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grandmother but as a queen, everybody knows. me being asked to kick off the jubilee tour was an honor, and i never expected the reception, as i said, that we've been given in all these countries. she's only come in this country two or three teams. the impact she has from so far away is quite astonishing. it checked me out a bit. to me she's granny. but to all the countries, she's the queen, a great thing they respect and love. it's been an emotional tour, but great. >> reporter: throughout his journey, the cameras remained focused on the prince. as they did at this children's hospital in jamaica. we watched and wondered if it's difficult to connect with these kids. while flashing lights follow every move. >> believe me, i spend so much
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time with the kids and the camera there. >> you tune it out. >> you can try but you can't tune it out. when the cameras leave is when i get time to enjoy the kids. >> is it tough with a camera? >> a lot of people can drop them off, but i can't. i always know what's going on around me. i know who's where, i can recognize the faces. >> that military training was on display during his tour as he piloted a helicopter to montego bay in jamaica and took aim at this firing range. the prince spent 77 days on the front lines in afghanistan in 2007 to 2008 until his position was disclosed by media, making him too much of a target to stay. >> you said you want to go back to afghanistan. you lo 'do not have to do it.
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is it for you, the british people, the queen? >> at the end of the day, i've done my training. it's cost the army money to train me and if they didn't think they could get me out there, they wow. . it's as simple as that. he talked about his military and what it means to him wanting to go back to afghanistan. but it is what also -- it is their friends an their comrades in battle. >> that is one of the things that i ke79 coming out through our time. he loves the moments he can just be a kid, he's a kid at heart. he loves when the kids don't know who he is. i'm just a tall white guy you can climb on. he's the same in his military
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outfit, doing what he was told to do. thichlks those are the moments he really is it. >> he actually did well. now a certified apashy pilot this spring. >> i mean he and his brother both put the time in there to be active in the military. >> absolutely. one thing worth noegt is we sat down buffer the terrible news broke out. >> he has a special quality, to understand who he is at the same time as he communicates with the people on his journey. >> absolutely. think if you did what you were told to do by all the people around you, you would be a very stiff person because the steaks are so. that spotlight of the camera is so right.
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it's very clear to see him stepout side. he says these countries are fun places to be. you're relaxed and easy going and you have to be too, or they'll consider you a fraud that when you'll hear from prince harry and his chaerty work and testimony examples setpy his mother. that aahead on "cbs this morning." >> there is outrage. no federal aid is coming to the aura. we'll show you why. you've watching "cbs this morning."
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washington. >> reporter: this was harrisburg, illinois, hours after an ef-4 tornado roared through town, leaving twisted 2 x 4s in its wake. residents learned they won't receive relief funding from the government. harrisburg mayor eric graig. >> i think they owe us an explanation. the whole premise of government is to protect and serve. >> reporter: fema surveyed the damage and determined it was not o of such severity and magny tut as to be beyond the capenabilits of the state and voluntary agencies. >> wre have to look to the impacts to the state and go are there other ways to meet these needs. >> this decision by fema is out of touch with reality. >> reporter: illinois senator
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hello, los angeles. wake up. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> and i'm charlie rose with erica hill. the american soldier who allegedly killed 16 afghan civilians served three tours of duty in iraq before serving in afghanistan. >> some say u.s. troops are being stretched too thin and it's having an effect. ben tracy is in washington this morning. that's where the suspect was stationed until just a few months ago. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. we're told that that suspect's family has now been moved onto the base here for their own protection. we talked with a soldier who's
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worried that men and women are being stretched to their breaking points. >> it will get better and easier, but you won't ever forget faces and things that you saw. it just becomes part of you. >> reporter: this specialist should be in afghanistan fighting alongside the very soldier suspected of killing 16 civilians. >> he's in the same brigade i'm in, in a unit i've done work with. very well summomeone i could ha crossed paths with and done training with. >> reporter: he spent nearly two tours in iraq where he saw one of his best friends die right in front of him. like hundreds of others at joint base lewis-mcchord he was diagnosed with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder i e-mail having nightmares, flashbacks, i'm feeling
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completely on edge. >> reporter: and the news about how the base is responding to the soldier's issues has been dismal. last month the head of the base medical center was placed on leave for reversing the diagnosis of soldiers who were told they had ptsd, allegedly to save the military money. jared was one of them, but his diagnosis has been reinstate and he's about to be discharged, yet he worries about his fellow soldiers who have endured more than a decade of employment. 30 thousand have been be employed and 30,000 have served multiple tours. >> is two tours too much? is five tours too much? who's to say. there needs to be a better system in place. >> reporter: he's particularly upset about this. in just the past two years, 26 soldiers at lewis-mcchord have committed suicide. >> some of that should never have happened, and the only way it's not going to happen is with
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guys getting the help that they need. >> reporter: members of congress are now looking into how those ptsd cases have been handled at the base. as for jared, he tells us if he could, he'd prefer being over in afghanistan. being in a battle zone is where he now feels the most normal. >> very interesting, ben. thank you very much. senior correspondent john miller is with us. he was part of the counterterrorism efforts with the fbi and cia. what are the threats here? >> there are two. what will the threat be in afghanistan, but the second threat is what is the threat on u.s. soil. yesterday at the fbi in their ops 3 intelligence center, a lot of conference calls going on saying what do we do, who do we warn, do we come out with a homeland security bonus saying
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extra vigilance, increased security at military installations here on u.s. soil, especially recruiting stations which are widely accessible and open to the public. and they're still trying to figure out how to set the right tone on that and assess what the threat is. >> i was wondering, are there any specific, i was thinking civilian target we should be worried about, thearities, the subways, the malls? >> any of that is always possible and trying to engage what's the most likely target can be difficult. obviously the military target is the obvious one here. what we've seen in the past is kind of interesting. i asked a key intelligence analyst about this yesterday. what she said was we haven't seen when there was an incident like this an immediate reaction here. what we have seen, for instance, when there were the cartoons in the danish newspaper, it was a complex plot. it was more than two years later. it hatched out of chicago.
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taking over the newspaper in denmark, holding hostages, beheading people on television. it took a long time to put together. the reaction is not always immediate. >> tom, thank you. the girlfriend of a mob boss is changing her tune and some of the victims not happy about it. >> national correspondent jim axelrod is here with more on the story. good morning to you. >> good morning. the headlines here, after pleading not guilty last summer, she wants to plead. the key is she'll not have to testify against her long-time boyfriend whitey bulger. >> some of the alleged victims who met with federal prosecutor on monday are angry. >> she's pretty much, if you ask me, like everybody else, got a sweetheart deal. >> they were told she will plead guilty to three charges to.
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while each carries a maximum of five years in prison, she could get as little as 32 months total. >> she helped keep that guy on the run. we could have had questions and answers 16 years ago. >> last summer they were arrested at this apartment in santa monica, california, where they had been living under false'dtys for more than a decade. law enforcement officers raided the home. >> over $800,000 in cash, more than 30 firearms to include pit tolls, rifles, and shotguns, several types of nieves and several pieces of false identification. >> reporter: bulger, the head of the notorious winter hill gang in boston was wanted for 19 murders allegedly committed in the late 1970s and '80s. he fled boston in 1984 after a corrupt fbi agent told him he was about to be in dieted. in a signed statement she admitted to having a close relationship with him, helping
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obtain false social security numbers and birth certificates but coughed up little about the money and guns found in the apartment or any of his alleged crime. >> i can't believe nobody's in jail, everybody's walking around, and no one is taking consideration for any of the families. >> as for whitey bulger himself, his trial is scheduled for november. he loves nothing more than a circus. he's 82 years old. if he's going to die in jail, either way, he may opt for a circus of a
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frank! frank! get my jean bin, susie wants my jeans. no she doesn't. here we go. nice and loose. ohhh. those are loose, but i actually just ordered three pairs of this kind. ooooohhhh. oh. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. and i know we're still early in 2012, but this could turn out to be the sports highlight of the year. snoof well handling the dog, well handsing the dog. sometimes that works. sometimes it doesn't. if you don't get behind, you can lose control. oh, no. oh, no.
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>> i said sit. it's something we all do. when you've got to gorks you've got go. i prefer a bathroom with a door, don't you. >> then again, dogs don't seem to mind. as we looked around the web this morning we found a few reasons to make a long story short today. the "new york post" reports a series of guests with clean getaways. thieves are stealing tide. police say tide is going for currency, 5 to $10 a bottle, half the price it goes for in stores. chad ochocinco promised to pick up the tab at a top restaurant in harlem and check out the response at sylvias. after he tweeted the first 200 people by 7:00 would eat for free. there you go. everybody taking him up on that tweet. according to discovery.com
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art experts may have stumbled on a long lost work by leonardo devin i hade v devin chi. they found traces of paint that he used in the mona lisa. now they thing another masterpiece might be buried behind the wall. "the daily beast" says politics is now making the internet very unfriendly. according to a new poll, many have unfriend order defriended or blocked someone whose politics they disagree with. can't we just have a discussion anymore? >> we can, we can. the south by southwest music festival in austin, texas, some homeless people are being used as wi-fi carriers. they call it a charitable experiment but critics call it exploitive and inhumane. that's the long and short of it. >> this was on the cover of the
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"new york post" this morning. it does seem -- >> it bothers me because i know they're getting paid, and that's a good thing, but there's something very degrading and demeaning about it. >> it feels exploitive. >> not nice. >> i agree. it's not nice. >> so we don't approve. >> we do not approve. >> let's tell somebody. you shop around tr for the best places to spend your money. what about a best place to keep your cash? rebecca jarvis is here to key us in on a bank and to clue us in on five things the banks doan want you to know. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by discover card. it pays to switch. it pays to discover. brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback right now, get 5% cashback at gas stations. it pays to discover. helping strengthen our bones.
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ba da-da bam. >> rebecca jarvis is here to tell you five things your bank doesn't want you to know. first thing, bigger is not necessarily better. >> what i mean is sometimes the big commercial banks seem more convenient. there's an atm on every corner, a location everywhere you go. you end up paying for it. the bigger banks charge more. credit union, you can bank online and get a little more service. you're paying a lot less. >> you're disappointing me, mrs. hanson. she's a newlywed. when i first moved in my neighborhood, i walked around and saw chase everywhere so i went with chase. >> you didn't necessarily make the wrong decision going with chase. the reality is they make more
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money on the fees than anything else. anywhere between $4 and $20 is what you're going to pay on average. wells fargo is going to charge in six new states a $7 charge on checking accounts. they do add up. $38 billion is what they added up to. so the fees are something to watch out for. >> that's number two. >> watch the fineprint. >> are they negotiable, the fees? >> these are a nice thing. they're not going to necessarily be forthcoming with this. but if you're charged a fee and you don't want to be charge, go back to them. they have an unwritten policy if you're a good customer, they'll take that fee off of your bill because they want to keep you. >> we have three things. number four, you say, despite being a loyal customer it may not always get you the best
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deal. >> right. and this is the thing people should know. whenever you're looking for a new loan, credit card, any new form of banking that you'd like do. shop around. and the place to shop is bankrate.com. >> and you said just because you signed up with a bank and got rewards, they offered knicks tickets and i said no and then they said too late they're gone. i didn't see a catch in offering tickets to the knicks game. >> it's have interesting. a lot of people don't recognize the rewards programs are taxable. so if you receive a big reward, in excess of 60$600, you could taxed on that. in many cases the bank will take care of the taxation for that. they're going to going you the tax forms aet the next time. i don't know what knicks tickets go for these days. >> i don't think they were $600.
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>> if they're below, you're okay. if they're above, even if it's not a dollar amount or a point balance that equates to a dollar amount you could be charged. >> if there's any monetary value. >> in excess of $600. >> could we have a rule? please don't give me a gift that requires that i have to pay taxes. >> there's a lot of gifts that require to people pay taxes but i understand. and the banks, they don't necessarily have to -- in all of these cases it's within the bank's rights legally to not talk about these things. so once again the onus is on us as the consumer to do our due diligence. >> you have to read the fineprint and ask for help. >> call rebecca jarvis. it is finally time for the hunger games. excited fans camping out to see the stars of hollywood's next blockbuster. we're not going to make you sleep on the street though.
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kevin frazier, co-host of the "insider" takes a look at the movie for us and at the fans. >> reporter: outside the l.a. live complex in downtown los angeles, hundreds of hungry fans gathered for a glimpse of what's about to become hollywood's hottest cast. but to score a spot alongside the red carpet in monday's much anticipated hunger games career, you had to camp out for days. >> i might cry. i really might cry. i'm really excited. >> reporter: based on a trilogy of books that sold more than 16 million copies, hungry games shows. children are chosen by a lottery to face off until death. >> it appeals to men as well as women and a lot of mirrors with a heroine doan have that. >> reporter: according to projections "hunger games" will earn $75 million on its own.
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that doesn't include hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandise sales including t-shirts, wallets, even a pillow case. while it's uncertain if the hunger games trilogy can max the box office clout of o'box series like "twilight" and ""harry potter," they're hungry for a hit. >> it also helps movie theaters, helps popcorn sales. so the whole center is rooting for this. >> reporter: unlike "twilight," the "hunger games" will have to succeed without the vampires and like "harry potter," the real story have to to come from a good story well told. kevin frazier, the "insider," los angeles. >> in the "hunger games," kids fight for they're lives and a
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few years ago, they almost died. >> it's the focus of a new book, "american icon." the author is bryce huffman. good morning. >> good morning. >> it's an interesting story because allan malawi was not a car guy. he came from outside. but more importantly ford motor company said there's a big crisis and we're going make a big loan. >> when the banking industry wasn't a dirty word and they pushed bill ford, his own adviser adviser pushed him to borrow the biggest amount in history before the credit markets slammed shut in 2006. >> i was very fascinated by alan malawi after read your book.
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that's neat, that's cool, absolutely. >> absolutely. >> how would you describe his management style? >> you know, it's really a unique style. he's very much a coach, not a dictator or a king. he really was about building a team at ford and showing the talent that was already at the company, that they could compete with the best in the world and win. so he was really about bringing people together. taking ideas that they already had, and showing how they could implement them. they had the most caustic company in the world and they had to overcome that. >> i couldn't tell in the book but i wonder if he felt great pressure. they told him you're the guy that's going to turn ford around. he came from boeing. i didn't get the sense he felt pressure. >> if he did, he didn't show it. at first he turned it down. >> exactly. >> he accepted and then he
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turned it down. it was a gamble. even though his name wasn't a household word, he knew that everyone in the business industry knew him as the guy who saved boeing. >> they made this big borrowing before, and today, how does ford motor company, general motors, and chrysler look after the bailout? >> well, you know, i think ford is still in the strongest decision of detroit's big three because it didn't take a bailout. that generate add huge amount of good will with the american consumer. they like the fact that they saved themselves. i think all three are on the rebound, but i think ford is in the strongest position. i thenk it's not only because they didn't take the loan but they really cut back. they stopped watering the plants in the building in order to not take a government loan. >> but then they ended up with
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products that they made. are they internationally competitive today? >> i think they are. if you look at ford's products, they rank right up there with the best of the japanese. >> but yet, you know, when you look at ford, they're clearly not resting on their laurels. you say they're looking for other things to do? >> that's the key. so many times in the past, ford has had many near-death experiences before. they'd come out of them but forgot the lessons that they learned. this time they're trying to institutionalize these changes so they can continue to improve. it's like taking a page it of toyota's playbook, continuous improvement that they got rid of the landrover. >>. millimeter. >> why is it unique and different from the manufacturers. this is really the company that
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put the world on wheelsnd and one of the things he brought to the company was a return of hendry ford's position. before we saved ourselves, we needed to find out who we are. he found that by looking at a 1920s ad he took out. they had a banner headline, opening the highways to all mankind. he said we have to find ways to do that. >> it's an interesting book. >> special shout-out to bill ford who realized this is not for me. let's bring somebody in. most people can't admit i can't do something, present company excluded. congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you. we loved emily blunt in "the devil wears prada." her new movie's about fishing and she had a whale
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there are fish out of water tales and then there's salmon fishing in the yemen, which brings it to a whole other level. >> in the new film emily blunt works for a man who fishes. she calls co-star ian mcgregor to try to help make it happen. >> what are you doing? >> no. this is something i invented. >> is it. what's it called? >> this one is called the chatwood beauty. >> that's very nice. >> did i mention the star of the movie is emily blunt? the title of the meesh is called
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"salmon fishing in the yemen." >> gayle loves the title. >> i don't know what else we should call it. you know, i think they thought about other generic titles like swimming upstream. the film is so surprising and it's about yems, ma'a fishing i. >> swimming upstream. >> it would have cheap fooid it. >> we won't given it away. when you got the script and saw the title, did you like it right away? >> i was confused. i thought i misheard my agent. he said it's wonderful and really special and i think you'll like it. >> i read it and it was quite an easy yes for me after the first 30 pages. it was incredibly fresh writing. i read scripts where i feel like
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the derivative of other movies and you're reading the same movie over and over again and this one kind of crept away from the crowd of these generic scripts. >> and you get to work with ian mcgregor who we adore. >> who i love that and is now my friend. >> he was here last week. he was talking about you. what would you say about him? >> he's really silly and goofy. >> i would not have thought that about him. >> funny. like really funny and warm and one of the most generous actors you can work with. there's a lot of actors who do the work here and they're close-up and he's about the scene and spontaneous. he's lovely. i want to do it again actually. >> did you know him ahead of time? >> no. i met him on a plane -- or not met him. i was with my husband and he was with his wife and we were both going to sundance.
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it was about two years before we met. >> they think all you guys know each other. it's so funny. that's him and he's going, that's her. so you were there with your husband. >> i'm a big, big fan of the office. did you two meet at work? >> no, no, no. we met at a restaurant. >> by chance? >> by chance. >> explain. >> i can't -- i never tell this story, it's so precious to me. i almost feel like if i sum it up in a sound bite i trivialize it. >> i first became smitten with you, emily blunt, in "the devil wears prada." that was such a delicious role to play. >> it really was. >> she was so nasty. >> vial, and imperious.
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the lines were so funny. they get quoted to me every day. >> who will come up to you -- >> my stomach flew away from my goal weight. when i'm hungry i want to keep my cheese. i keep swiveling. every day i'll get a quote from, which i love. >> this is what i read. you were a stutterer when you were younger and i'm thinking it didn't seem natural for somebody to say i want to be an actress. >> what happened? >> funny enough i had a lovely teacher, mr. mickael, who i do credit for getting over it. he said, i'd like you to be in the class play. i said i kchlt well not even that. he said i've heard you messing around with your friends.
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you never stauter when you're doing someone elise voice. why don't you do with somebody else's accent. i came home crying. she was thrilled. i think that was the easing. it's actually genetic. it's a gene i have. i'll always be one if i'm tired or on the phone. >> see mr. mickael saw something in you that you didn't see in yourself. >> yes. >> are you one of these people when the move comes out do you get nervous or do you do a movie and release it? >> it's funny. i've doing it a while. i've learned it's helnot healtho worry too much. >> we highly recommend it.
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a.m. if you want to create world-class goat cheese, get ready to work like a dog. >> physically hard work. trimming hay, trimming feet. you can have a headache, but you have to go dow and milk the goats. >> reporter: she's a licensed veterinarian who suspect 12 years healing animals before hurting them. in 2006 she bought her first farm and 2,000 goats. >> reporter: how long do you work in here? >> all day. she was winning competitions over noted dairies from vermont to california. confession. goat cheese has never been my thing, until i tasted her gupta. one of seven different cheeses she makes. of course, i'm no different.
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but chef john beknell is an expert. it's one of only 23 restaurants in the world to earn the highest food score and he ranks her goat cheese as high. >> i want not just a subtle hint of it. i want to know i'm getting some. the first thing i tried from her blew me away, the texture, creekiness. i knew that's what i wanted. >> he believes part of what makes her cheese so special is the way she treats her goats. >> they know their name when you call them. >> reporter: there are some pretty weird names on this farm and she knows them all. amelia air hard, ba da bing, michelle obama, jackie onassis
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and oh prarks talk show host "o." it's pretty quirky. >> which is the prettiest goal? >> zena princess warrior. >> she has more than 50 goats at la dae da and feels maternal to them all. >> absolutely. i was there when they took their first breath. >> reporter: she means that literally. on the day we visited two kids were born. >> you have a soft spot for them, all of them. >> absolutely. you're going to make me cry. >> reporter: why. >> the soft spot? because they are what you see. there's no games. there's no pretension. they're just who they are. they're just very honest and i think that's one of the things why i always feltal connection. >> reporter: a special connection. it's one that ann jones hopes
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you'll taste in every bite of her cheese. for "cbs this morning," mark strassmann. >> i love that story. i love ann. >> she took something special to do. >> a special hug to ann jones. just the fact that she names her goats she gets high opponents for me. you can only imagine who my favorite goat was. >> zena princess warrior. >> that one too. i love what mark strassmann said, goat cheese is not for me but i tasted hers. charlie, would you please take us there? >> okay. >> have you been there? >> no. but i lived there. with that i say we get out of here and get on the plane. up next your local news.
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