it is wednesday, may 23, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. facebook, nasdaq and now morgan stanley, all under pressure over the falling price of facebook's stock. what went wrong with the high profile public offering? i'm erica hill. the director of the secret service speaks out for the first time today, answering tough questions about his agency's sex scandal. should you be responsible for sending texts to someone else while they're driving? i'm gayle king. john miller goes undercover of a ring of spies right here in the u.s. and gregg allman stops by studio

57. we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. there's no debating. this is a misadventure of epic proportion. >> regulators take a closer look at facebook's ipo flop. >> a company subpoenaed, did it give clients inside information before facebook went public? >> facebook stocks sliding another 9%. the value of the social networking company is down $40 billion. >> the hype around the facebook ipo is like the average facebook profile picture. way sexier than the real thing. >> a new twist in the columbian hooker scandal. >> the agency is claimed they're being made scapegoats for behavior that's long been tolerated. >> the director of the secret service will be testifying before senate homeland security committee. >> obama committee released an ad calling president number one in job creation in colombia.

>> turnout expected to be high as egyptians are voting in their first free presidential election. >> a homeowner's lawn becomes a wrestling ring. >> yes, that's the heir to the british throne, getting a lesson in deejaying. >> just his schtick, you know. i say that's why his [ bleep ] got schtuck, you know. >> i think you're wonderful. >> a couple in kansas celebrated their wedding day with a tornado in the backdrop. >> on "cbs this morning." >> dc comics are announcing plans to out one of its major super heroes next month as openly gay. >> look at that. coming, honey! >> i wish.

welcome to "cbs this morning." the bank behind facebook's stock offering is denying allegations that it broke the law. regulators are looking at whether morgan stanley shared key information with some clients before facebook went public. >> the social networking site has been on the market just three days and has already lost $7 a share. rebecca jarvis is with us for more. good morning. >> good morning to you. since facebook debuted as a public company on friday, it's been a case of murphy's law. whatever can go wrong, has. from trading glitches to shareholder misconduct, it has lost millions. >> as facebook continued its nose dive on wall street tuesday, allegations emerged that some of the very banks selling the ipo privately told certain clients the social network wouldn't grow as quickly as forecast. the securities and exchange

commission and wall street watch dog finra are investigating the matter. while regulators in massachusetts have subpoenaed morgan stanley. >> there are issues we need to look at, specifically with respect to facebook. >> reporter: sources close to the situation allege analysts at morgan stanley, jpmorgan and goldman sachs, the lead banks on the deal, cut facebook's revenue forecast just days before it went public. but only shared the iformation with a select few. at the same time, morgan stanley increased facebook's offering price and the size of the deal, signaling greater demand at a higher price than actually existed among institutional investors. >> it's not what you're allowed to do. it's not what you're encouraged to do and not what a successful ipo includes. >> reporter: in a statement morgan stanley said its procedures were, quote, in compliance with all applicable regulations. tuesday facebook stock price tumbled another $3, closing at

$31 a share, down 18% in just three days of trading. >> back up, guys. >> reporter: adding to the company's tarnished image, at least two unhappy investors have filed lawsuits related to the questionable deal. >> because it's an epic deal, the eyes of the world are on it. it was a chance to restore the public's faith in wall street and i think it fell well short of that mark. >> and that's the concern, with investor confidence already weak as a result of the financial crisis, sources tell me the impact of this facebook ipo could reach well beyond the shares in the social network. they fear it will turn retail investors off of stocks entirely. erica and charlie? >> thank you. on tuesday regulators who oversee america's largest banks testify to a senate committee about jpmorgan chase's $3 billion trading loss. >> as nancy cordes reports, they also explained why they're having so much trouble keeping wall street in check. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, erica and charlie. the head of the securities and

exchange commission told congress that jpmorgan chase, when investigators want to know about the company is whether it was honest with investors and regulators as this sophisticated bet was falling apart. jpmorgan chase has deep ties on capitol hill, spending $7 million last year alone to lobby congress. financial regulators are examining what jpmorgan chase executives said and did in the month before their $3 billion loss was made public. >> what did they know and when did they know it? >> reporter: senator richard shelby is the top republican member of the senate banking committee. >> did they see this trade going sour back in april? if so, did they notify their regulators? did they have a duty to do other things? we don't know that yet. >> reporter: the regulators acknowledge they don't are the resources or the technology to keep tabs on wall street the way congress called for in financial

reform legislation crafted in the wake of the recession. >> i liken it to football. if you're a football fan, imagine if all of a sudden there were eight times the number of teams but no more referees and then instead of having seven on the field, you had one on the field. what would happen? there would be mayhem on the field. >> reporter: jpmorgan ceo jamie dimon has agreed to testify before the banking committee next month. it's a group he knows well because his bank gives more money to the committee's members than all but one other donor. in the last six years, jpmorgan and its employees have contributed to 17 of the 22 members on the committee for a total of nearly $500,000. and the banking committee's democratic staff director is a former jpmorgan chase lobbyist. >> the revolving door spins really fast. >> reporter: senator shelby has received $73,000 from jpmorgan chase in the past five years. it's his second biggest donor. how does it affect you? does it affect you when you're

looking into jpmorgan? >> absolutely not. i'm going to do my duty, whoever comes before the banking committee. and i believe my duty is to represent the taxpayers, the american people. those people who sent me to washington. >> reporter: ceo jamie dimon has said even he wasn't fully aware of the scope of the losses from this one bet until about two weeks ago, charlie and erica. and he says that as soon as he found out, he went public with the information. >> nancy cordes, thank you very much. with us now, tech stock analyst henry blodget, editor of business insider blog, and he was banned for life from the securities industry with charges of using false research. pleased to have you here. give us the ramifications for facebook, the underwriters and also for people who own shares in facebook now. >> i think you laid out exactly what happened here, which is that the underwriter analyst produce estimates that most investors weren't aware of. in the middle of the road show,

which no one has seen before, i certainly haven't, those estimates were suddenly cut because facebook said our quarter is weak, have you to take the numbers down. to any investor, that's material information. so, the fact that it was only distributed verbally to a handful of institutions as opposed to all investors is a problem. >> is it a violation of law? >> i don't know. nobody's seen an estimate changed like this before. and i think what morgan stanley and others will say, look, this is the practice. what i would say, and you mentioned my background, unfortunately, not that you mentioned it, but the unfortunate background, is that a lot of things that happen on wall street are sort of convention, it's the way things have developed. when you look from the outside, they're just, frankly, unfair to individual investors. this practice of analysts developing estimates and sharing them only with a few investors is unfair. so, that rule should be changed, even if it, in fact, is the rule. >> so, is that the answer, more regulation or better oversight? >> i think in this case it's just a better rule. really, what happened here is you have analysts working with the company to come up with

forecasts and then the ipo is price based on those forecasts. that's not a bad thing to happen. what's bad is to only distribute those estimates to a few people. really, if you publish the estimates and make them available to the public, then everybody can evaluate them. >> was it sheer incompetence they valued it too high at $38 a share, the opening? >> no. i think what happened -- >> misread demand? >> i think one, what we just talked about, may have played into this, is that institutions, their demand for the stock was dampened by the estimate cut and some other things. they were willing to pay a lower price than individuals who may not have known about these things. so, there was a difference there. there was tremendous demand. i think morgan stanley thought the demand would hold up. but i think the other thing that happened is a lot of people who bought this stock, bought it expecting to get a huge first day pop, which we sometimes see in ipos, were disappointed they didn't get that and immediately sold and that's what brought it down to the level where big investors are comfortable buying

it. >> switching to the story of bank regulations and at the same time, lobbying, where do we put that? how do we weigh the impact banks have on regulation being created to restrain their activities? >> i think there has to be input from wall street on regulation. there are a lot of things that happen that are very complex. obviously, you have to have wall street involved. the revolving door is a main problem. and congress just has to get together and do the right thing. to me, the right thing is, not to police every trade that these banks make and try to regulate everything, but just let them gamble if they want to gamble, but make it possible for them to fail without taking the economy down and without taxpayers paying the price. that's actually not that hard to do. you just have to be willing to set it up in advance. >> inspite all the money the companies have to bring in. >> thank you. the director of the secret service plans to tell congress today that the colombian prostitution scandal did not

endanger the president and was an isolated incident. >> however, a group of agents let go because of the scandal say their alleged misconduct is nothing new. bill plante at the white house, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the administration, particularly the secret service, were hoping when director mark sullivan testified today, that will put this whole scandal to rest. but some of the agents involved aren't ready to end it because they think they've been railroaded. four secret service employees accused of having sex with prostitutes in cartagena, colombia, are fighting their dismissals, according to "the washington post." they say they were made scapegoats for behavior that was always tolerated in the past. the rowdy behavior was known inside the agency as the secret circus and referred to what happened whenever a large group of agents descended on a city. last month former secret service agent brian stafford told cbs news the cartagena incident

painted a much bigger picture. >> i've never heard secret service and prostitute in the same sentence until this saga unfolded. >> reporter: in april yan etna pal tan notice told the senate judiciary committee it's inexcusable. >> any mother of a common teenager knows common defense is, everybody else is doing it on i get to do it. first, not everybody else is doing it. second, this behavior is not part of the secret service way of doing business. >> reporter: the four agents who either resigned or were fired are now trying to get their jobs back. some of them are arguing they did not pay for sex. others, that they did not know the women were prostitutes. members of congress have said that the cartagena incident calls into question the ability of the secret service to carry out its primary mission. >> is the national security of the united states protected and is the president's life properly protected? >> reporter: secret service

director mark sullivan gives his first public accounting of the scandal today in testimony to congress. he will attempt to reassure critics that no intelligence was compromised. he says in his statement, at the time the misconduct occurred, none of the individuals involved had received any specific protective information, sensitive security documents, firearms, radios or other security-related equipment in their hotel room. charlie, erica. >> thank you very much. this morning the turnout in -- is overwhelming in egypt's first free presidential election. it happens more than a year after protests forced long-time president hosni mubarak out of office. elizabeth palmer is outside a polling station in cairo. tell us what you're seeing and what the mood is in egypt today. >> reporter: well, in a word real excitement. we've been talking to people in the lineup. they say we've been ruled by pharaohs and kings and dictatorships but we've never had our own democratically

elected president. 54 million egyptians are eligible to vote today in 13,000 polling stations across the country. and the election officials have gone to some trouble to set up quite elaborate checks and balances so that the people will believe in the results, so that there won't be allegations of fraud. there are american monitors here, teams from the carter center with president jimmy carter. but by and large, people really do seem to have faith in the system. they're voting for four leading candidates, two associated with hosni mubarak's now deposed regime, and two islamic. >> elizabeth, thank you very much. we'll have more on this very important election in egypt tonight on the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. in the u.s., presidential race, mitt romney won primaries in arkansas and kentucky yesterday. bringing him closer to cinching the republican nomination. as jan crawford reports, president obama's campaign is

advertising harder against romney. >> reporter: voters tell us the economy is the thing they worry about most. high unemployment, tens of millions of people looking for work and romney's saying he can fix that. what we're seeing is the obama campaign doing everything it can to undermine his argument that he can turn things around. >> folks, making money for your investors, which romney did very well, is not the president's job. >> reporter: on the campaign trail in new hampshire, vice president joe biden dismissed or outright mocked mitt romney's business experience. >> that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber. it doesn't -- and by the way, there are a lot of awful smart plumbers. >> reporter: romney has pointed to his time at the private equity firm, bain capital, which he founded and ran for more than a decade, to show he understands business and how to turn around the economy. the obama campaign has been fighting to knock down that argument and supporters are

ratcheting up the rhetoric. like this on tuesday from democratic congressman james clyburn. >> and there's something about raping companies and leaving them in debt. >> reporter: clyburn's use of the word rape to describe romney's business experience was condemned by the obama campaign, but the campaign continues to question romney's readiness to be president, which is a line of attacks mr. obama saw firsthand in the 2008 election. then first-term senator obama came under fire for his experience as a community organizer, a law professor and a former illinois state senator. even the president's democratic opponent, hillary clinton, used the attack against him. >> senator mccain will bring a lifetime of experience to the campaign. i will bring a lifetime of experience. and senator obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002. >> reporter: now the romney campaign is out with a new web ad this morning, making a point this is all a distraction. this election isn't about bain

capital, but president obama's failed economic policy. they'll be highlighting romney's time as massachusetts governor, his work turning around the salt lake city olympics but president supporters are doubling down on this and outside groups supporting him is reportedly going to spend another $3 million on these anti-bain capital ads. >> jan crawford in washington, thank you. the jury in the john edwards trial deliberates for a fourth day today. edwards faces up to 30 years in prison. if the jury convicts him on all six counts of campaign finance corruption. anna werner at the courthouse in greensboro, north carolina. any word on the deliberations? >> reporter: well, good morning, erica. you know, i think some people really were not expecting this was going to take this long. the jury deliberates between five and six hours every day. this is their fourth day. so far, they've asked for three rounds of exhibits. all of them relate to donations coming from rachel "bunny," and

some speculate they're wondering her intent in giving the money. that's the key question, was the money for political purposes to help make john edwards president or personal reasons? her lawyer testified during trial that she adored john edwards and would have given him money in any case. we'll be trying to glean any insight today as to whether this is the last thing they're looking at or just getting started on the first two of the six felony charges. charlie and erica, back to you. >> thank

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a -- someplace and there's a guy and you beat up a guy that was trying to hug you or -- >> i didn't beat up a guy. we were doing an interview, right? he says, man, you know, like -- he's a reporter. he says, i'm your biggest fan. can i have a hug? so i go to give this joker a hug and he, like, tries to lean in to like kiss me. they were saying, oh, no, we're sorry, you know, it's just his schtick, you know. and i said, well, that's why his ass got schtuck, you know. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> if you're texting and driving and you have an accident, it's your fault. what about the person texts with

you? as mark strassmann reports, that's the heart of a lawsuit in new jersey. >> this involves an accident as horrific as needless. the cause was a driver who admitted in court he was looking down to read a text but this lawsuit says he's not the only one at fault. >> reporter: david and linda's lives were shattered in seconds, about the time it takes to send a text message. >> this is a senseless crash that didn't have to happen. >> reporter: accident photos tell the story. on september 21, 2009 they were riding their motorcycle about a mile from their new jersey home the chevy chuck swefbed across the center line and hit them head-on and they saw it coming. >> what i saw was the gentleman in the truck steering with his elbows, with his head down. i could tell he was text messaging. i looked down after the impact and my leg was torn off. and i asked my wife if she was okay. and she told me the bones in her

legs were going through her pants. >> reporter: both lost a leg in the crash. kyle best, then 18, pleaded guilty to three motor vehicle violations, including using a hand-held device while driving. they are now suing him as a distracted driver for civil damages and in a novel twist, are also suing shannon, his girlfriend, for sending him text messages while he was driving and distracting him. phone records show they exchanged 62 texts that day. and skippy, says she was electronically present in the crash. she may have known he was driving as they exchanged text messages leading up to the crash. >> what i find interesting is that her testimony is she answered by saying, this is what teenagers do. >> yeah, i believe if she knew he was driving and answering her back with texts, that, yeah, she's partially responsible, too.

>> reporter: lawsuits in distracted driving cases increasingly involve third-parties. >> we know it takes two people to text. >> reporter: todd clemens, a dallas trial lawyer, he arg gus the text sender could be held liable. >> it seems to make sense both people involved in the activity could very well be liable, including the sender that's not actually behind the wheel. if this case goes forward, i think what you'll see is a new awareness throughout the country, a new responsibility on the part of both the sender as well as the receiver of a text message not to continue this negligent activity. >> reporter: lawyers did not return our e-mails, but they say the lawsuit against shannon is a leap of logic and should be dismised. the couple says both text senders and receivers need to be held accountable. >> if we can get this out to the public and hopefully we are, maybe somebody won't end up like us. >> or worse.

>> or worse. >> 38 states have banned texting behind the wheel. government statistics say 24% of can be attributed to phone use while driving. on friday a new jersey judge will decide whether there's a case against the sender of a text message. >> also with us, criminal defense attorney and legal analyst, rikki. >> thank you. >> does this have a chance? >> we do have sanctions against people who have texts while driving. we don't yet have any sanctions for those who send a text. and judges shouldn't be in the business of law-making. legislators should be in the business of law making. >> mark in your research you found some very interesting other cases with somewhat similar -- >> there's nothing that's identical to this. >> yeah, no precedence. >> no precedent whatsoever. there are cases, of course, where now you have companies who

have to pay multimillion dollar payments when their employees get behind the wheel and start to text. that's not the same thing. because this is a case where are basically trying to find someone who wasn't in the car ride and hold them partially responsible for it. the argument that the couple's lawyer makes is the equivalent as if the girlfriend had put her hands over his eyes while he was driving. if that had been the case, would she have been responsible? if that would have been the case, she would have been in the car. >> that's right. you can't extend this kind of liabili liability. that would stop texting all together. do we want to know if someone walking down the street and they're going to walk into traffic, is that person responsible? where does it end? so if a legislator says, look, we need to pass a new law, we're going to call it erica's law, we'll let them go ahead, but not a judge. >> what if they knew the person sending the text knew the other person was driving a car at that moment? >> doesn't matter to me,

charlie. it doesn't. i think that that's what the plaintiffs are trying to show. they're saying, of course she knew he was driving. for heaven's sake, she exchanged these text messages all day long. she knew where he went and when he went there. that's not the test. she's not aiding and abetting him from far, far away. it's the driver's responsibility not to look at that text or not to answer it. >> because she said, and she has said, i may have known he was driving. >> and she probably did know. >> this comes down, in your mind, to personal responsibility. just because a person sends a text, you don't are to drive it. >> that's right. it may not be a bad idea to legislate we shouldn't have someone texting when they know someone else is driving but you can't have one judge who suddenly find a duty, suddenly find negligence, suddenly finds cause when there has never been a case like this before. >> what if there was a smoking gun text where the driver said, i'm driving home now.

>> right. >> and the sender continued to send? >> the sender continues to send and he says, i'm driving home now, then it's his responsibility to say, i've sent that message and i'm not going to read the messages anymore. >> is there any responsibility to the sender? >> no. might it be a lovely idea? yes. but not now under the law. >> i think you covered it. >> i think i should be arguing this case in court. >> you want to see the legislators take care of this. >> and they may. >> even if there was intent, even if in fact the driver says, i'm in the car driving, i need you to text me, even then does not move the responsibility or share responsibility on the part of both people? >> no. and it's really my greatest worry, charlie, that when we keep extending and extending and extending, it is where does it end? unless we would like to outlaw texting in the entire world because we don't know where people are, i mean, if i'm walking through times square and

i'm in the middle the traffic and i say to my husband, i'm nwt texting times square, don't text me and he text ms. me and i look, and all sorts of cars collide, i don't want my husband to be responsible. >> especially your husband. >> that's it, my husband. very good point. >> nice to have you both here. thank you. online auction is getting a lot of interest, both pro and con. up for sale, a vial which is said to contain traces of president ronald reagan's blood. you can imagine there is plenty of backlash here and we'll take a look at that. you're watching "cbs this morning." it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils

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dark day in mrs. reagan's life is now up for sale. >> his son calls this sale outrageous as bob orr reports, plenty of other people agree with him. >> reporter: in the hours after president reagan was shot in 1981, doctors sent vials of his blood to a maryland lab for testing. now one of the procesamples hasn up for sale online. an auction house is offering a small glass vial that they say contains traces of the president's blood. it contains his name, the last name of his doctor, with the designation thor, meaning mr. reagan was a thoracic patient with a chest wound, and stamped march 30, 1981, the date of the assassination attempt. reagan foundation says mr. reagan's blood should not be traded or sold like a baseball card. >> this is the tissue of the

president of the united states. this is something that doesn't belong out in the public. it belongs with the family. it belongs with the estate. >> reporter: the anonymous seller says the vial of blood has been in his family for 31 years, ever since his mother brought it home from the blood lab where she worked at the time. the auction house has offered no proof the sample is actually legitimate but historian douglas brinkley says there are bigger concerns. >> it's just basic human dignity. this strikes me as being something tacky. it's taking the presidential memorabilia notion to a very bizarre new level. >> reporter: it's worth noting very personal presidential memorabilia has been collected and sold before. facial hairs were plucked from abraham lincoln after his death and then worn in his honor. and looks of john f. kennedy's hair sold for $3,000 in 2010. some historians argue this auction crosses the line, but the bidding goes on. the sale closes thursday.

for "cbs this morning," bob orr in washington. >> it's just strange. i mean, there's no -- there's no way around it. it's an odd thing to see. >> but somehow, when you hear those things, it never surprises you what some people are prepared to do. >> sadly, especially where it's easy for someone to make a buck off it.

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a & e is canceling "the bounty hunter." they told fans of dog they were taking him to the country to run. >> it's good to see jimmy fallon. 8:00, welcome back to "cbs this morning," i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. the fbi is bringing back memories of the world war ii ads that said, loose lips sink ships. officials say they've responded to two threats, the sophisticated computer hacking skills of outside intelligence agencies and the possibility of a trusted insider giving away secrets. >> senior correspondent john miller, a former fbi deputy

director is here with a rare look into this dark world. john, good morning. >> good morning 37. this is a multi-city media campaign targeting areas where the government intelligence agencies or private contractors, who work on classified military projects, are located. the idea is to let those employees and the public know about the dangers of cyber espionage. >> reporter: what are you seeing is very rare, actual rid yoe of a spy caught in his own web. the u.s. intelligence officer was still wearing his navy uniform when he showed up in the hotel room intending to sell secrets to a chinese agent. >> i know exactly what i'm giving you. >> reporter: 22-year-old brian martin is trying to sell classified information about u.s. military operations. >> i have a fairly good idea. >> please explain that.

>> imagery, reports, things from secret. >> reporter: the man martin believes is a chinese intelligence officer is really an undercover fbi agent. but listen while he explains the secrets are worth paying for. >> for instance, this one not only shows the threats that we perceive, it identifies weaknesses and how we are not sure, not capable, not prepared. >> for him, it was all about money. >> i enjoy compensation. >> reporter: for martin, the pay offwas 34 years in federal prison. >> don't move. >> reporter: fbi assistant director is in charge of counterintelligence. he's the bureau's top spy catcher. >> we used to be concerned about people carrying briefcases out of their job place full of documents. today, we're concerned about

people transforming in milliseconds terabytes of data, downloading on thumb drives and walking out with corporate proprietary information. >> what i've done is copied it on hard disks and put it in a safety deposit box. >> reporter: he believed he was meeting with an israeli agent to sell secrets about u.s. satellite. >> i gave you even in this first run some of the most classified information that there is. >> reporter: and he was clear and unbothered about his motive. it was for the money. >> now, i've made a career choice. >> countries know it's always easier to steal our research and technology than it is to develop it themselves. in some cases, even our allies will spy on us if it's in their economic interest.

>> reporter: what's the biggest growth area in the business? >> bar none, it's cyber. >> reporter: and it's not just countries. it's also companies. general michael hayden, former director of the cia and the national security agency. at the chertoff group in washington, he works with companies targeted by countries like china. what company is most vulnerable to economic espionage? . >> a company that's actually got a secret. that it actually has something that gives them undeniable competitive advantage. the chinese go after those kind of secrets, very straightforward. >> reporter: he says it doesn't matter if the target is a company working on a classified military contract or just a company that's developed something that will make a lot of money. foreign intelligence services will try to steal the secrets. >> there are different motivations. one, traditional espionage purpose, military edge. the other, for the nontraditional purpose, which is commercial advantage.

>> reporter: chemical maker lubrizol had to pay a ransom for their own secret formulas after this employee sold them to a south korean competitor. again, secrets stolen by an insider. but the biggest external threat for companies comes not from the spy but from the mouse. >> fundamentally if somebody wants to get in, they're getting in. all right, good, accept that. >> reporter: cyber espionage is one of the fastest growing crimes in the united states. government and corporate secrets are targeted daily from thousands of miles away to the tune of $13 billion in trade secrets lost. >> what we tell client is, number one, you're in the fight, whether you thought you were or not. number two, you almost certainly are penetrated. number three, take heart. there are other lines of defense that you can and should rely on to minimize damage. >> this is a battleground for, in fact, a war now. >> it is. and i think the reason behind this ad campaign is they're

really saying to people -- you know, this is in a number of cities, in areas where there's government contractors working on classified things, but as you're on the highway, they want people to see those signs, those electronic billboards, that talk about the impact, how much money is being lost, and to make people think, what about that person in the next cubicle, why are they -- and then they go into the warning signs. why are they coming in in the middle of the night to do odd shifts? why are they leaving work with a briefcase full of files? why am i watching them plug, you know, thumb drives and hard drives into computers and take things out? they really had an experience with the ames case, with the robert hansen case and the fbi, and other cases where they interviewed so many people who said, i saw the indicators, but i knew this person so well, i just thought, i must be imagining it and i didn't call. >> that it can't be. i always think, john, as former

fbi director, fbi is certainly your homeies, that you always know more than you can really say. tell us something we're not supposed to know. that's what i would like to know. >> well, i could tell you that, but then i'd have to kill you all. you've got a whole show to do. >> i'm fascinated, john, that people still get caught in stings. don't people think, i could possibly be being recorded? the guy is leaning back in his chair saying, i enjoy compensation. i would just think at some point you would think a camera's recording you. i'm always amazed at how the fbi does this. >> without answering that question directly, imagine a scenario where the individual reaches out to somebody they know is a real foreign contact and that that is kind of a fly ball picked up in the middle by the fbi or an intelligence agency and they insert their person in the middle. so, that person has a hieightend confidence that the person on the other side of that conversation is a real spy. >> fascinating stuff. thank you, john miller. >> thank you.

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in today's "healthwatch," curing hiccups, nearly everyone gets them and there's no foolproof way to get hid of them. >> or so we thought. terrell brown has the story of a 13-year-old girl who may are the solution, and it's on a stick. terrell, i can't wait to hear. >> yeah, take a look at it. it's called a hiccupop and the

teen who invented them in her kitchen is pretty much confident she's stumbled onto something big. mallory kievman hopes to get a hopefully game-changing product into every household. >> reporter: among the most annoying of bodily functions, the hiccups can also be the most frustrating to stop. though there's no shortage of those willing to share remedies. common causes of hiccups include eating too fast, drinking too much or swallowing too much air. >> pretty much just as simple as adding all these ingredient together and making them on the stove. >> reporter: while scientists still stumped for a cure, the answer, according to 13-year-old mallory kievman, could be as simple as a lollipop. >> a few summers ago i was having problems with hiccups myself. naturally, i really wanted to stop, so i researched rumored cures for hiccups. >> reporter: mallory decided to

combine three of the ingredients that halted her own hiccup. >> sugar, water and the apple cider vinegar mix. >> reporter: and came up with the hiccupop. how does it work? >> the ingredients in the lollipop we found overstimulate a set of nerves in your throat and mouth responsible for the hiccup reflex. >> reporter: mallory hasn't conducted any scientific study but found her confection offer relief in about 80% of those who tried it. that's how it's supposed to smell? >> yeah. >> reporter: that's the whole point? >> yeah. >> reporter: who are the guinea pigs, then? >> mainly friends, family, younger siblings. >> reporter: is that how it comes out? though she whips up her semisweet, semisour solution for hiccups from her kitchen -- when you first saw this, did you think it was going to taste good? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: she's determined to see hiccupops in stores across country. >> we need market research to support the overall business.

>> reporter: last week mallory met with grad students from the university of connecticut. they'll spend the summer planning a strategy to better manufacture and market the hiccupop. this could be a pretty big deal. >> this could be a huge deal. >> there's a lot of potential markets we could go into with this. >> with a 100% incident rate per year, all americans having hiccups over the course of a year eight to ten times apiece, that's a pretty significant market. >> reporter: curing the hiccups, however, is not a claim mallory is ready or even authorized by the fda to make. >> we can't say this cures the hiccups. we can't say that this does something for certain bodily functions. >> reporter: instead, it will be marketed as a candy. still, there are doctors who have expressed high hopes for hiccupops. >> in some cases it may work pretty nicely. >> it's pretty good. >> reporter: i'm going to trust you here. here we go. >> what she's trying to do is break that reflex arc by sucking

on the lollipop, stimulating it with cider and sugar, and breaking up the arc path way of the hiccup. >> reporter: not bad. i like it. tastes like normal candy. >> yeah, that's -- that's the good part so far. >> can i just say that while she was making this thing, the way it was smelling and the way it was looking, i was not trying to taste this hiccupop. >> that's why i was surprised when you tasted it and said, mm. i wondered if it was a camera reaction or -- >> no, look, look. if everyone has one, why am i the only one sucking on the hiccupop. >> because we have questions. she talks about this hiccup arc reflex, could you achieve that same thing by sucking on a normal lollipop? does it have to be this specific blend? >> of all remedies mentioned at the beginning of the piece, all of that stuff works for certain people. it's all about what works for

you. this, though, could be something special for particular cases. if you're swallowing too much air, that's one of the things you're doing, this may work for you. but if you have hiccups because you've eaten too much or drank too much, this may not work. >> if a doctor says this works, could they make billions of dollars. >> it would be a gold mine. that's why businesses and even consumers are so interested. >> charlie, you should get in now. >> i hope it works. i like that it's -- >> an ipo company. >> did you notice, your slug for her says ceo of hiccupops. i love that. >> why didn't i think of that? 13 years old. >> you go, mallory, you go. what a place -- what place -- for people who can't spell >> or read. >> or read. i want to do that over. roll back, please. i want to redeem myself. what place is full of people who can't spell? we'll make that "long story short." you're watching "cbs this morning."

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as we looked around the web this morning, we saw a few reasons to make some "long stories short." the new york daily news says americans can't spell because they're hooked on spellcheck. 2,000 were given a test. we're dumbing ourselves down. >> let's not get on misuse of they're, there, their. accomiley cyrus said sex is beautiful thing and a few pictures showing off her grownup body. she describes sex as magic when you connect with somebody. >> listen, i happen to think

she's right. it's just hard to hear it from miley. >> it's hard because they think of her as hannah montana. britain's telegraph wants to know, is prince charles looking for a new job? he tried his hand as i deejay, and scratch a record, where you roll it back and forth and they said he did okay. earlier this month charles played the bbc weatherman in scotland. maybe being a prince isn't all it's cracked up. >> as harry told seth doane this year. maxim magazine put out it's list of hot 100. stephen colbert was also on the list and amanda knox, number 92, not sitting well with everybody. "usa today" says u.s. airlines is dropping early boarding for those with small children. united says it just wanted to

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♪ i've got to run >> we know that. welcome back to "cbs this morning." it is really hard to exaggerate just how popular and influential the allman brothers were with rock 'n' roll artist and fans. in a moment we'll talk about that with gregg allman, here, live in studio 57. >> but first we look back at the life of this great musician who had been performing for crowds around the world since the late 1960s. ♪ lord i was born a ramblein' man ♪ ♪ trying to make a living and doing the best i can ♪ >> reporter: for more than 40 years the allman brothers band have made a living attorney

southern rock songs into classic rock anthems. from "ramblin man" to "midnight rider", their compositions combine elements of blues, country and jazz, to a sound now synonymous with their macon, georgia, roots. in 1971 they released "at fillmore east," which "rolling stone" called the best album. the album propelled the band to a level of stardom it was perhaps unprepared for as singer/songwriter gregg allman told cbs sunday morning last year. >> i remember going to the grocery store and seeing my face everywhere. i thought, what is happening? >> reporter: seven months after

the landmark recording, the first in a series of tragedies struck the group. gregg's brother, founding member and guitar great, duane allman was killed riding his motorcycle in macon, georgia, road. >> i ran into the hospital and i guy met me and took me into the chapel. i knew it right then. oh, man. >> reporter: one year later, bass player raymond barry oakley iii met a similar fate in an accident just three blocks away. ♪ when you can't find the lane on a cloudy day ♪ >> reporter: as for gregg allman, he spent years dealing with drug addiction and heartbreak, while chronicling his life in songs and touring relentlessly. a health scare in 2010 required a live transplant, but it hasn't slowed him down. his sixth solo album released last year was nominated for a

grammy award and this summer he'll spend many a night behind the keys of a worn-in organ performing songs that have made him a legendary figure in american history. >> legendary it is, gregg allman is telling the story of his life and career in a brutally honest memoir called "my cross to bear." very pleased to have him here at studio 57. welcome. >> thank you, charlie. >> looking at that life, what your son said about you in 2009 rings true. he said, when my dad sings, he's pulling for life, he's pulling from life. he has an innate ability to draw on that despair. do you think that's what it's about, as well as the joy of your life and put it into music? >> maybe subconsciously, but i

don't know. i've tried all this despair you speak of, i try to really rise above it. when i think back on my life, the happy times, they surface. >> it must be happy because you keep doing it. >> yeah. >> yes, you do, you keep doing it. i was so touched by your book, gregg. i read it last night. i took a big chunk of the evening and read it. you had so many life-changing moments. you call it "cross to bear" and you talk very poignantly about your brother duane. you said not a day goes by that you don't think about him. he didn't get to see the full success of the band. as little kid you wanted to be like your brother. would you talk about that, what he meant to you. >> my father was -- he came home

from korea, picked up the wrong hitchhiker, he unloaded a gun on him. i was 2 years old. my brother was a year and 18 days older than me. and i guess when mom kind of took over as mom and dad both, and did a hell of a job. and then he -- he was like a father figure, older brother figure. like when we went to that military school. we went in the third grade and fourth grade, and i went back in tenth and eleventh. >> you got a lot out of military school. you said if you had to do one thing over, it would be the drug use and abuse. you said you went to rehab 11 times, but you finally kicked it. it wasn't in rehab.

. how did you finally kick it? >> well, after receiving the award of the hall of fame awa , awaraward award, -- >> and you don't even remember that speech. you say you don't remember getting the speech because you were so out of it. >> the next day i saw a playback of it. oh, i was mortified. probably the best thing that could have happened because i -- i then hired a male nurse to come into my house. unlike the other 11 times, i didn't have that little spark of a voice saying, yeah, we'll go in here, do the dance for these people, but down the road, i'll have a couple beers watching the game, you know. it will be all right. that wasn't there this time. and because of that, i mean, i quit smoking, drinking, snorting, everything, all at once. >> good. >> it's the music that is you,

though, to me. i mean, all the stories and all that you've been through, in the end it's the music. and that's the legacy. >> that's it. >> what song, what moment is greatest for you? what will you take with you when you hear the last? >> lots to choose from. >> you're right. which song? >> yeah. >> i don't know. i get that question a lot, what's your favorite song -- >> yeah, i was trying to make it a little different. >> i would say the next one. >> yeah. but you listed all those classics. i mean, this is really -- this is part of people who are my age, it's part of who we were, we are and it shaped our sense of the culture. >> right.

and it's been a wonderful ride. >> well, charlie, gregg, talks about for him it's the music. for me it's the women. you've been married six times. and then i heard that you speak to two of them, including cher. i think that's great. and then i heard you're thinking about getting married again. do we really want to do this? i don't know. i'm worried about you. does your mother approve? do we really want to get married again? >> does your mother approve. >> your mother is 90-something. >> 94. >> i'm serious. do you really think you want to try it again? clearly you do. and why? you say in the book you don't like being alone. >> because -- because this is my first. >> how so? >> it's just -- it's all together different. i'm sober. i don't know. for a while i thought, man, it's definitely you. it's got to be you.

but -- well, a few things i could tell you, but they're private. >> no, no, you don't have to be that private. i just want to make sure you're okay. >> oh, i'm okay. >> you're okay. >> i'm totally okay. >> you're back on the road? >> yes, sir. >> you've had a liver transplant and you're ready to -- >> take off. >> oh, god, have i ever had a liver transplant. and with that i got a hernia. most people get -- they go and cut -- >> you basically have said, if i have to go, i want to go out on the road playing music. that's who i am. that's what i love. i want to be with my people and singing and playing. >> that's it. >> and that's what makes -- >> not i bad way to go, gregg allman. >> love to see you at the beacon. thanks for coming. >> we'll look for you. >> okay. i'll be there. >> you'll see her. >> i'll be there. believe me, you won't miss me, gregg allman. you won't miss me. >> the book is called "my cross

to bear" on sale now. if you haven't seen this yet, get ready for the craziest, cutest photos any parent has ever taken of a

jason lee is a professional photographer with two adorable daughters. you would expect him to take family portraits. >> but he's taken the tradition to a whole other level. >> reporter: like most proud parents, jason lee loves taking photos of his kids. like most kids, 8-year-old kristin and 5-year-old kayla, can ham it up in front of the camera. and now lots of people are looking at their pictures. >> everybody in california. >> reporter: actually, online, more than a million people everywhere have been looking at the family photo album with pictures of the girls floating

from balloons, flying on roomsticks and hanging from a ceiling fan. do people think you really do this to your kids? >> yeah, people do. they say, is that photoshop? yeah, there is a lot of editing, i guess, involved. >> reporter: of course, kayla is not actually stuck to the wall with duct tape. and when the girls are hanging out, this isn't how they do it. this didn't really happen? >> it's a total of three photos. one for each child. and then one for the coat hanger. >> reporter: in another photo, lee suggested his own titles for a popular series of books. what do they say? >> how to make a mess and blame it on your sister for dummies. and then the other book, the younger daughter, she's holding a book that says, avoiding blame for dummies. >> reporter: by profession, lee is a wedding photographer and he always used his photographer's eye to capture the best in his children. part of it, clearly, it's your work. you're also blessed with adorable daughters. >> yeah, they're cute in

pictures, but in real life they're like crazy animals. >> reporter: his family photos took a particularly creative turn when his mother was diagnosed with cancer and it seemed that her granddaughters could make the chemotherapy easier to take. >> i guess i kind of wanted to, you know, bring a smile to her face by looking at the photos. and i think it just kind of grew from there. you know, the ideas kind of got a little crazier or more outrageous, i guess. >> reporter: the pictures posted online on lee's photo blog were originally meant mostly for family and friends. this is when they were really small. >> yeah, yeah. you can tell, you know. i always say, this is when we were really small. >> reporter: but as happens on the internet, word started to spread that these were more than snapshots. >> this is just a play on, you know, cat in the hat, you know, the section where the cat's holding up all the umbrellas.

>> reporter: suddenly kristin and kayla were making people smile around the world. >> we're maim mouse? uh-huh. yeah, famous. >> it's just a little overwhelming, you know. if you can imagine just suddenly, you know, you're getting hundreds of calls and e-mails. >> sometimes it's boring. >> reporter: lee has been getting lots of requests, of course, to add child portraits to his wedding photography business. and there's a possibility his photos of kristin and kayla may become a book. >> i would love to just do a book, just to kind of like tell, you know, the story and kind of share the photos, but it's not really about, you know, the money. it's more of a personal satisfaction. >> reporter: kristin and kayla's grandmother is doing fine now, in remission, so the photos may no longer be needed to lift her spirits. but jason lee sees no reason to stop sharing the fun with her or the rest of the world.

for "cbs this morning," john blackstone in san ramone, california. >> happy they shared them. >> me, too. >> that is definitely a book. kids are cute. dad's cute. i would buy the book. >> good looking family. i would buy it, too. >> nice job. >> he's been called the most talented seafood chef on earth. if you've ever been to new york's famd la bernidand, you know why. we'll talk about his latest and greatest honor when "cbs this morning" continues.

♪ i'm a shining star no matter who you are ♪ >> that's a great way to introduce our guest. getting a four-star review from the new york times is a huge achievement for any restaurant. keeping those four stars for more than 25 years is unheard of. we're on camera. >> i know we are. i'm looking. look at this.

moving ever forward like a fish. so, what's the secret here, sir? every rating -- the new york times has not reviewed you since 2005. >> yes. >> were you anxious, nervous, wondering what might happen here? >> and you are who? eric ripert. we should give you proper introduction. congratulations to you. >> thank you. >> thank you, eric ripert. >> last night i slept through the award but i think it's the tequila. yes, you get anxious and you get nervous. >> you get nervous, too? >> yes, of course. you know, we are judged all the time by bloggers and different guides and "the new york times" is one of the biggest moment for a restaurant. >> do you know when they're coming? do you have an idea when they're coming? >> we have an idea sometimes. i mean, we recognize the particular, i think, when he was to order dessert. >> but the other thing is there's a michelin.

>> yes, the maximum, three stars, "new york times" is four. >> so you have nowhere to go. >> what do you mean i have nowhere to go? >> you just have to -- >> i'm looking for the next one. >> let he me tell you, i've been to your restaurant a couple times, and the halibut, i honestly thought angels were coming down. t was so good. >> thank you. >> the decor, i think, is beautiful, the atmosphere. it's not one of those places that's so loud. some restaurants are so loud you can't even hear the conversation. so, what is it you want people to feel when they walk into your place? it's an experience you create there. >> yes. and what we want is -- we want people to come and -- everybody is seeking a different experience. we really have to deliver for the people. some people just come for the good and they're foodies and they focus on the quality of the food. some people come to celebrate. some people come for business and so on. however, in between the wait staff and us in the kitchen, we are here to make the moment

memorable. that's really what is the secret. >> one thing that -- >> no, go ahead. >> speaking of that in the review from pete wells in "the new york times," he said what sets your restaurant apart is no one told me i was lucky to be there, but i was. you don't are to feel uncomfortable walking into the restaurant kind of thing. >> i'm very happy. we want people to feel welcome and people to be comfortable and have a good time. people don't come to le bernardin to look at us first, showing off. we're here to serve you. we are here to make sure that you have a great time and great food. >> your action is so gorgeous. >> i have an accent? >> yes. just a tea puff. it's so gorgeous. you described yourself as a hollerer which is hard for me to be a hollerer and screamer. it's hard to imagine, eric. how? >> i was very abusive chef, new

york chef, because i was trained the old fashioned way, which was being kicked in the butt, humiliated. i thought that was the right thing to do. therefore, when i came to america and i had my first chef job, i was doing what my predecessor taught me. and i lost most of my staff. it made me think. i was very unhappy in my life, to be angry. >> why are so many chefs doing television? i don't mean appearances on programs, but having their own programs. >> i cannot speak for other chefs. i know i like to be on television. i have a show. i like to be on television because i like to share my knowledge. i have -- i like to have new experiences and inspiration. and it's great to be on tv. charlie, you know that. >> i should know that. i do know that. i celebrated my birthday with him, by the way. he said no other restaurant in the city makes the simple cooking of fish and the fish at

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