good morning. it is thursday, june 21, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. gayle king is off today. tensions hit a new high between the white house and republicans over the fast and furious scandal. plus, hillary clinton tells us why iran must be stopped before they can develop a nuclear weapon. i'm erica hill. as the east coast faces another day of blazing heat, parts of midwest are under water from nearly a foot of rain. plus, a community rallies around a bus monitor after videos of students bullying her hits the internet. why is big pizza picking on big government. we begin as we always day we begin with "eye opener" your

world in 90 seconds. the notion you can withhold information and documents from congress is wrong. >> a house committee votes to hold the attorney general in con temperature. >> accusing eric holder of stonewalling the investigation. >> over the fast and furious gun trafficking operation. president obama invoked executive privilege, withholding documents demanded by the panel. >> executive privilege, hallowed passage. closing arguments set with jerry sandusky's child molestation case. >> the defense rested and sandusky did not take the stand. >> this man who so many witnesses for the defense testified that he was the greatest thing since sliced bread sat quietly. >> plus, flooding turns streets into surging rivers in duluth, minnesota. >> more than a dozen animals drowned at the zoo. seals. rescued from the street. >> and northeast with record-breaking heat wave.

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welcome to "cbs this morning." democrats and republicans in washington are at each other's throats over the controversial begun-running program called "fast and furious". >> on wednesday the obama administration claimed executive privilege for the first time at a house committee voted to charge attorney general eric holder with contempt of congress. this morning the attorney general is speaking out. nancy cordes is on capitol hill with the latest. nancy, what is he saying? >> reporter: well, erica, he's traveling through copenhagen in denmark and he just said the con temperatu const contempt vote is unwarranted, unnecessary. he still thinks this conflict can be resolved but right now neither side of showing signs of conceding. >> the ayes have it and a contempt report is ordered. >> reporter: the republicans argue the move was the only way to force attorney general eric

holder to hand over documents they asked for eight months ago. >> when you keep getting stone-walled, what is it about these documents so sensitive? >> reporter: the white house added an extra layer of intrigue by claiming executive privilege over the documents, a tool the administration can use to protect internal discussions. where republicans see a cover-up, democrats see a witch hunt. >> it's painful to sit here and watch it turn into a partisan political theater. >> reporter: the disagreement centers around an atf operation called "fast and furious" which allowed drug cartels to buy more than 2,000 weapons from gun dealers. the goal was to track the guns and take down a major cartel but it didn't work. two were found at the murder scene of a u.s. border patrol scene. holder has handed over 8,000 pages of documents but republicans want more and say the white house use of executive privilege brings up new questions about the documents. >> it raises a lot of suspicion

about how high up in this administration the decision to have "fast and furious" goes. >> reporter: this is the first time president obama has exerted executive privilege. in 2007 then-senator obama criticized president bush for the practice. >> there's been a tendency on the part of this administration to try to hide behind executive privilege every time there's something a little shaky that's taking place. >> reporter: now that a contempt vote is headed to the house floor, former house of representatives counsel stanley brand says he expects both sides to give a little. >> there's always this back and forth. some portion or some element of the documents will be made available to congress. >> reporter: if the full house votes in favor of contempt next week, it will be the first time an administration official from the top levels of the cabinet has been held in con temperature, but then, charlie and erica, this matter gets handed over to the local u.s.

attorney who is unlikely to do anything with this matter because he's not going to prosecute his own boss, eric holder. >> nancy, thank you. also in washington this morning, national journal white house correspondent major garrett, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> is this a battle over documents or a battle over politi politics? >> it's a battle over both. as nancy's piece indicated, there is negotiations going on to negotiate between the house and the justice department and the white house over these documents and over what the attorney general might under certain circumstances be willing to give the house of representatives to avert a full contempt vote by the full house scheduled for next week. this story isn't over. but the house basically believes it has asserted a legitimate right to acquire about high-level negotiations about "fast and furious" as yet undisclosed by the justice department. the justice departmented your request is too widespread, too

diffuse. if you narrow your request, perhaps we can strike a deal. >> what's in the documents they think they need to see? >> what house republicans want to see is how seriously was the attorney general involved in the "fast and furious" operation. this operation did begin in the bush administration under a different name. it was called "operation wide receiver" but expanded tactically and in ambitions to expand them to cartels. the tracks has been a complete failure. what house republicans want to know, how much did attorney general eric holder know about it, how much did his deputies know about it. there's been recent evidence of wire taps at the high levels of the justice department that was substantially knowledge of this program, more than disclosed publicly. >> is there any indication, for lack of a better term, which side will blink first here? >> one thing is certain.

you saw this in the statement from john boehner yesterday. the house will have this vote. there's no distance between the house leadership and darrell issa. there had been for a while. house republicans are united on this. they do believe they are asserting a legitimate congressional prerogative. the administration by claiming executive privilege has also amped this up, so both sides are girding for battle. sometimes in washington that means a perpetual battle. sometimes it means they're battling first to negotiate later. we don't know quite yet which it's going to be. >> is the white house looking for a fight with house republicans? >> i think there are aspects of this they are warming up to. this is the first time they've asserted executive privilege. they say we haven't been doing this willie nilly. it also wants to say, maybe mitt romney ought to talk about this because democrats have raised issues about the transparency of

governor romney when he was running things in boston while governor of massachusetts. the obama campaign has turned these on mitt romney and his governship in massachusetts, so the campaign at least for the obama people thinks there might be some ground to dig into here. and they are girded and interested and eager to have that fight. >> major garrett, thank you. closing arguments are set to begin this morning in the sex abuse trial of jerry sandusky. defense rested on wednesday without calling the former penn state assistant football coach to testify. armen keteyian is at the courthouse. >> reporter: sandusky faces charges from invoe deviant sexual intercourse to endangering a minor child. if convicted on any of the more serious charges, the 6-year-old sandusky could spend the rest of hi life in prison. before the jury weighs the evidence, first the defense, then the prosecution, will have

one final say. depicting in closing arguments sandusky as a man misunderstood, a father figure driven to help troubled young boy or as a seial sexual predator who used the charity he founded to nurture and then betray the trust of the boys brought into his home. earlier this week the defense offered clear signs of how it will argue innocence. conflicting statements in some of the eight alleged victims' testify, an overzealous police investigation that led or coached kids into matching testimony. the desire to cash in on potential civil lawsuits. a parade of character witnesses lauding sandusky as wonderful, revered and amazing. what the defense won't have is sandusky's testimony. yesterday in a decision that was debated until the very last minute, sandusky chose not to testify in his own defense. a decision based in part on lead attorney's belief the defense, quote, got in everything they needed, ultimately outweighing the rufk of what could have been

a withering cross-examination by lead prosecutor joseph mcgettigan. the heart of the case and closing argument will sometimes be the tearful, often graphic testimony of eight accusers, now ages 18 to 28. but in the end, his strongest card may well be the testimony of former penn state coach mike mcqueary, the only independent eyewitness to any alleged abuse. it was mcqueary who in a decisive voice told the court he saw sandusky pin a young boy against the wall from behind in an extremely sexual position in a coach's shower back in february 2001. an account the defense, despite ultimate attempts, appeared unable to shake. the jury will likely get this case early this afternoon. yesterday the senior judge in this case replaced juror number six, a female, what he described as health reasons.

making the makeup seven women, five men. many with ties to penn state. >> armen, thank you so much. we go to cbs news legal analyst jack ford. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> is this about a confident defense or a defense that does not want to take a risk? >> you know what, charlie, again, it's probably a little bit of both. we talked about this yesterday as a possibility. the idea that the defense, despite all the signals they had sent that jerry sandusky will take the stand, testify, defend himself, took a look at it and as armen said, said they said, what do we have here? they're saying we have the testimony from psychologist, which is bizarre, awkward conduct, withins who came next young men who said we spent a lot of time with jerry sandusky, we never had a problem, he never attacked us and some young men who said we felt the investigators were pushing us to say something bad about him. they probably did a risk/benefit

analysis, charlie, and said, you know what, the risk of putting him on the stand and perhaps not being a good and effective witness and being battered by the prosecution when we compare that to the benefit of him testifying, ultimately they said, you know what, we think we've got as much as we could hope here and we don't want to put ourselves in a situation where the case could be damaged by what might be uneffective testimony by him. despite all the signals they sent, ultimately they said, we're not putting him on the stand. >> jurors take their instructions very seriously, but is there a chance not putting jerry sandusky on the stand could have an impact in their mind at all? >> that's such a good and difficult question, airkerica. jurors take their instructions, and a judge says you cannot hold it against a defendant if he does not choose to take the stand. the defense doesn't have toy prove anything in this case. i'm sure the fear in the

sandusky camp is, even with that instruction being given, and jurors working hard to follow that instruction, you worry deep within their subconscious, you worry someone might say if i was an icon like jerry sandusky at penn state and charged with these crimes, if i was innocent, you couldn't keep me off that witness stand. now, they're not going to say that in the room when they're deliberating because they're not allowed to, but the fear is if it's floating around there somewhere in their heart, soul or subconscious, might it have an impact on the deliberations? erica, that's something i'm sure they're very, very worried about right now. >> jack, thank you so much. >> all right, charlie. >> i was in washington on wednesday to moderate the second installment of "conversations on diplomacy," between the secretary of state and former secretaries of state. our guests were secretaries of state hillary clinton and one of her predecessors james baker who spoke about the challenge of dealing with iran's nuclear ambitions. >> at the end of the day, if we don't get it done the way the

administration's working on it now, which i totally agree with, then we ought to take him out. >> secretary clinton? >> we're working hard. we're working hard. look, i think jim and i both would agree that everybody needs to know, most particularly the iranians, that we are serious that they cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. it's not only about iran and about iran's intentions, however one tries to discern them. it's about the arms race that would take place in the region with such unforeseen consequences because you name any country with the means, anywhere near iran that is an arab country, if iran has a nuclear weapon, i can absolutely bet on it and know i will win,

they will be in the market within hours. and that is going to create a cascade of difficult challenges for us and for israel and for all of our friends and partners. >> this morning duluth, minnesota, is under a state of emergency after floodwaters swept through the city. hundreds of homes have been evacuated. many streets remain closed this morning. bill hudson of our minneapolis station wcco-tv is in duluth where parts of the city are still under water. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. good morning, charlie. it's hard to imagine rainfall alone doing so much damage to roads and bridges but over 9 inches of it streaming down the city's steep hillside did just that, flooding basements, stranding motorists, even freeing animals from the city's zoo. a normally pristine port city is awash in floodwaters.

at duluth zoo animal enclosures were useless with rising floodwaters. >> it's amazing they got the polar bear and seal in there. >> reporter: the bear was tranquilized and returned to safety. the seals were corralled off nearby streets. some farm animals weren't so lucky and drowned in the raging waters. >> i advise nobody to come down here and look at the dam. we're going to keep it closed. it's just dangerous right now. we're really hoping the bridge doesn't wash out. >> reporter: the swollen st. louis river is threatening to take out this steel bridge, but water has to be released upstream or risk losing the entire dam. already dozens of vehicles are trapped in flooded parking lots. >> i was in the back right-hand seat. >> reporter: college student nick weber's story is among the most frightening. a passenger in his brother's car when suddenly they were swallowed up by a giant sinkhole. >> you know, the hole road everywhere, water was gashing

everywhere. when we came, it looked like the rest of the road. we obviously didn't see it or we wouldn't have drove in it. >> reporter: absolutely amazing story there. now, later on this morning, minnesota governor mark dayton will be up here in duluth touring the damage to look at it, survey it, talk with city officials. they'll also be seeking a federal disaster declaration to seek help in paying for the tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure damage alone. erica, charlie? >> bill hudson of wcco television, thank you. time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "the wall street journal" reports the federal reserve is warning the economy remains at risk. chairman bernanke said the fed would extend its program to drive down interest rates through the end of the year. >> the orlando sentinel says the police chief who was criticized for the handling of the trayvon martin case has been fired. they say bill lee lost the trust of the citizen there is. "usa today" looks back at the life of leroy neiman, famous for his handlebar mustache and

colorful paintings of the olympics and other sporting events. he died yesterday at a manhattan hospital. he was 91. detroit free press says the three automakers are closing the gap. they figure better in that survey. one of the biggest complaints from new car owners came when it was about audio entertainment and navigation systems. "the chicago tribune" reports on a plan to replace college football bcs starting in 2014. it reportedly will use a 14 playoff for top teams chosen by special selection committee. it will be presented to ncaa presidents next week. the northeast is facing another day of miserable and potentially dangerous heat. near triple digit temperatures are in the forecast for washington, philadelphia and new york and boston. heat advisories are posted from virginia all the way up to maine. yesterday the first official day of summer, temperature records fell in several cities

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good morning. >> good morning, charlie. those on board say it was quite a ride. new details are emerging about what it was like on the jetblue flight. we caught up with one of the 155 very shaken passengers. passengers on sunday's jetblue flight 194 from las vegas to new york's john f. kennedy airport describe four terrifying hours in the air. it began right after takeoff. as if something was trying to get into gear. didn't sound like the landing gore. i fly a lot. >> reporter: the pilots call air traffic control to declare an emergency. >> jetblue 194 roger, just verify the nature of the emergency. >> well, right now it's quite a few things but the initial thing is we lost our hydraulic systems. >> reporter: the airbus a-320 with 155 people on board continued to maneuver on reserve hydraulics. >> we know we're circling, doing huge banking turns and not

leaving las vegas. >> reporter: soon tom mizer says the pilot made an announcement. >> he said we lost hydraulics and we're going through our emergency checklist and we'll get back to you. the first thing that went through my mind is, this is it. >> reporter: people became sick, says mizer, vomiting as the plane continued to turn and bounce violently in the unstable desert air. >> people were lining up to the bathroom, even though it was jostling. they went up to the bathroom. >> reporter: in spite of the bumps, mizer and fellow passengers say the flight attendants were rock stars. >> one of them said to me, i'm smiling. do i look scared? you don't need to be scared. >> reporter: the aviation experts say the crew did what it was supposed to. >> what you saw was a textbook answer to what ultimately happens after the training comes into play and the results are most satisfactory. >> reporter: for four hours it circled l.a., burning fuel to is

could safely land. once on the ground passengers deplaned and another plane was flown in to fly them to new york. while the ordeal was terrifying, jetblue says at no time was there a total loss of hydraulics. these planes are designed with double, triple redundancy. the idea, when one set fails, there are others to make sure the plane is completely operable. >> jim axelrod, thanks. not exactly what you want to experience in the air. this morning america's biggest pizza chains are starting a big fight with government regulators. as jeff glor reports, lobbyists went to capitol hill to deliver a message about proposed nutrition rules. >> reporter: watching the cheese bubble on a fresh, hot pizza, it can be hard to resist, and most of us don't. 3 billion pizzas are sold in the u.s. eacher year. >> pizza is one of the top ten

leading sources of calories in the american diets. >> reporter: and the food and drug administration wants consumers to know that. as part of the health care bill, restaurant chains with more than 20 stores will be required to post calorie content right on their menu boards. the pizza industry says that is not a recipe that works for them. >> there are 34 million different ways that you can make a pizza. and that's an actual number. we did the math. and you can't really calorie label that on a menu board. >> reporter: it is true different combinations of toppings and crust can drastically change the calorie content of a pizza. just look at this domino's menu in new york city where calorie count have been required since 2008. you can see the wide range a single pie can have. >> the idea that the range of calories is so great it's meaningless, i don't think holds any water or mozzarella cheese at all, because it at least gives you a ballpark figure. >> reporter: americans consume on average 2.1 slices of pizza

per serving. there's another issue here. unlike in most chain restaurants, many people order pizza online or by the phone, which means they never see the menu board in the first place. spokes people for the pizza industry insist they are not trying to avoid calorie labeling all together. >> we're offering to do this online and in hand-held menus that would be in the stores. >> reporter: so far there's not much evidence whether posting calorie counts affects consumers' decisions. no matter what gets posted, it might be tough to break our love affair with the simple guilty beauty of cheese, sauce and dough. for "cbs this morning," i'm jeff glor, new york. >> yum. >> yum, yum. >> in many way, the pizza is the perfect food. you have your vegetables, dairy, a grain. maybe throw in extra protein. >> and no downside. >> everything in moderation. >> all right. fire crews are finally

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good morning, pittsburgh. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is news on the trayvon martin case this morning. for the first time we're hearing what george zimmerman told police just after he shot martin. those taped statements were posted on zimmerman's defense website just a short time ago. >> i was asking for help and i got a little leverage and i started to sit up and then he took my head and he slammed it into the concrete several times. i started screaming for help. and he covered my nose with one hand and my mouth with the other

one. and he told me shut the [ bleep ] up. and i couldn't breathe. i was suffocating. when i shifted, my jacket came up and my shirt came up and exposed my firearm. and that's when he said addition he like, sat up and looked and said, you're going to die tonight [ bleep ]. i felt him take one hand off my mouth and slide it down my chest. and i just pinched his arm and i grabbed my gun and i aimed it at him and fired one shot. >> zimmerman is in jail, facing second-degree murder charges for killing martin. the high park wildfire in northern colorado has been raging for nearly two weeks. it's 55% contained. but hot, dry weather has been a major obstacle for firefighters this morning lower temperatures and high humidity is giving

firefighters a break. forecasters say temperatures will rise again over the weekend. dick sallinger is watching the most destructive fire in colorado history. >> reporter: this is what firefighters in colorado have been up against. high winds, hot weather and dried timber, fueling the blaze that started 12 days ago. earlier this week, the men and women on the front lines were warned that mother nature remains unpredictable. >> you guys take them off, don't get too crazy getting up in there right away. we're making plans. >> reporter: cooler temperature are giving ground forces the upper hand, with more evacue vv allowed back in their home. >> we have an opportunity with this weather condition to start getting some lines, start getting more containment. >> of course, things can change. that optimistic outlook could change as well. >> reporter: temperatures are expected to hit the high 90s this weekend. and with the heat comes the threat. this fire could grow even larger. for "cbs this morning," i'm rick sallinger in denver.

every year there are forest fires in the west but now they seem to be bigger and more frequent than ever. with us in studio 57 is m. sanjayan, cbs news scientist and lead scientist at nature conservatory. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is unusual. >> very unusual. there's a recent study done by the university of arizona and southern methodist university. they looked at 1,500 years of -- at looks at tree rings to see what happened in the past. they say mega fires are becoming a new normal and we haven't seen them before. & >> and what caused them? >> that's a trickier question. probably three things. change in temperature, long-term fire prevention. you know, the smokey the bear said, don't stop forest fires. well, there's good fires and bad fires. we've suppressed the good fires, which means when the bad fires happen, they become huge. they explode.

and then a beelgt, a little beetle spreading in the west. if you go out to colorado or montana or new mexico, you'll see many, many trees dead because of those beatles. >> you mentioned the good fires. this is part of nature's process for there to be naturally-occurring fires. do we still have those when we need those?& >> we do, but those tend to be controlled burns. the u.s. forest service, nature conservatory, lots of other groups, do these controlled fires. they're harder to do today. people don't like to have smoke in the areas. we are very aggressive at stopping those. >> what do we do now? how do we get a handle on this direction we're headed? >> probably do three things. the first thing we need to do is just really have the u.s. forest service increase its budget for forest management. it's right now exact season to do that kind of conversation. the second is, people need to understand that they need to

create defensible areas around their homes. third, we need to worry about long-term climate change because it is going to make these mega fires a common occurrence in the future. >> tell me one more thing -- one more time about the beetle. >> right. there's a little beetle. no normal, headlighty forests. they're kept suppressed because of cold winter temperature but as you start having less cold winters, this beetle starts spreading. >> global warming or something -- >> it's global warming but also other things. i mean, just local climate. but global warming is contributing to it. it kills a tree. there's no cure for it. once it gets in your tree, your tree dies. you see it around. >> and more and more beeltles because -- >> you look at western forests today and you'll see hundreds -- tens of thousands of dead trees. >> thank you so much. good to see you. >> thank you. >> nice to have you in the studio, sanjayan.

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you talk about swimsuits and for me, i've noticed, i've been trying to diet, i lost so much weight -- no, no, i want to say, the problem is that none of my clothes fit me, so if you put your hands in your pocket, your clothes fall down. you go to any lengths to change the subject. i'll go to any lengths. >> now i'm thinking, should i take my pants off? ♪ >> i'll come over -- you turn -- i'm coming over there. let me pull my pants up. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm charlie rose.& gayle king is off. >> i'm erica hill.

a new study reveals young women are not the only ones who suffer from eating disorders. a study found 13% of women add milted having an he'ding disorder, 8% admit to purging. >> dr. cynthia bulik led the study, director of the university of north carolina's

and with us now in the studio is dr. cynthia bulik, director of the eating disorders program at the university of north carolina and author of this new study called body image of women 50 and older which has surprising result. it came up in our news meeting and a collective gasp came across the news room. 62% of women over the age of 50 state their weight or shape negatively impacts their life. were you surprised by that finding? >> you know, i wasn't but i think the world will be. you know, there's this stereotype that eating disorders affect mainly adolescent and young adult women but that's not what i've been hearing on the street and that's not what we've been seeing in the clinic and these numbers bear that out. >> why are they increasing? >> why are they increasing? i think there's such pressure on older women to not look like they're becoming older. everything is about looking younger, trying to stay thin and attractive, whether that means surgery or cosmetics or whatever. the pressure to not age is so strong. that leads them down the path of

uneating diet and eating behaviors. >> something starting later in life or a continuation of something women dealt with earlier? >> we're seeing three patterns. we're seeing some women who had eating disorders when they were adolescents, got better, recovered, had children, got married, but then a relapse later in life. we see some women with chronic eating disorders and continue to suffer later in life. and then we're seeing this intriguing group who develop eating disorders later in life. >> so is this something that triggers it or does it begin in adolescen adolescents? >> not necessarily. we know all eating disorders have a genetic and biological component but the real question is, what are those triggers hitting older women? what we're seeing are things like, divorce, pressure to not age, children leaving home, loss, loss of a spouse. children coming back when you're not expecting them to. these are all emotion am triggers that can trigger eating disorders later in life. >> some of these things have been happening throughout history.

this pressure maybe not as much but people have been getting divorced, people die, kids leave, come back. why now? >> it's that critical convergence that you can't look older. you have to stay young and fit. there's no niche for a grandma anymore. >> i don't know if you heard that, but that's what happened, and i say this very seriously, in the meeting, a lot of us said, we thought at 50 we could stop worrying about this. and stop constantly feeling like you're inadequate. it doesn't happen anymore. >> it doesn't stop. this seems to be a cradle to grave ball and chain many women carry around. >> how do you change that? >> most important thing is we've got to get ourselves out of this appearance focus. one of the things do i in the book is i get women to look in the mirror. instead of looking for flaws and figuring out what's wrong, say something positive about yourself. not about your appearance but about some other enduring characteristic that will be there long after your looks fade. >> what about men, none of this is -- >> that's the next book. i think you guys are just a little behind the eight-ball. you'll catch up.

>> what's interesting about you, you're not only at the department of nutrition but also the department of psychiatry, so you're combining both aspects of this to understand it. >> exactly. and i think that's really the key. because it's not just about food. eating disorder are never just about food. it's really about self-esteem, body esteem and the whole psychology associated with development across the life span. >> when you told charlie men are behind here, do you mean they haven't quite caught up to feeling as inadequate? that's a good thing if they're behind us. >> i think what's happening -- >> what, feeling inadequate? >> you know, about women feeling inadequate about their bodies. ou're saying men are behind. >> we shouldn't feel inadequate. >> no, absolutely not. but if men are starting to, that's another issue. >> i think men are being targeted a little more now. we've been targeted a lot by the media, the fashion industry to constantly feel like there's something wrong. now they're realizing there's a market in you folks as well and they're starting to pick at you, trying to make you feel a little

inadequate as well. >> i feel fine. >> i'm glad to hear. >> thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> nice to have you here. the world is rallying to the defense of a bullying victim in western new york. in a youtube video, the bus monitor is the target of some brutal taunting from middle school students. you'll hear from her this morning. also we'll tell you about an online charity effort that's really paying off. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." yep. the longer you stay with us, the more you save. and when you switch from another company to us, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right? well, we have something. show her, tom. huh? you should see november! oh, yeah? giving you more. now that's progressive. call or click today.

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middle school students torme tormenting their school bus monitor, poke her, mock her, and even ask her if she has an std. in the end she may have the last laugh. >> you old troll. >> reporter: this video posted on youtube show students are viciously taunting and even threatening their bus monitor went viral, outraging viewers across the country. >> do you have heres. >> reporter: the students are from greece, new york, near rochester, between 12 and 13 years old. >> i'm going to water down your face? >> i'm crying. i'm crying all over. >> yeah, she probably misses her box of twinkies. >> unless you have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. >> reporter: karen klein, who drove a bus for 20 years, kept her cool, but she told wroc, our rochester affiliate, one remark in particular really hurt.

>> something about me being fat and ugly your kids should probably commit suicide. i don't think they knew my son had. >> you don't have a family because they all killed themselves. >> i wanted to punch them s what i wanted to do, that's why i stayed laid back and just trying to ignore it, because i really wanted to hurt them. you know, i said, you can't do that. >> reporter: a shocked community rallied around karen. a family friend started a fund to send her on vacation with a modest goal of $5,000. but wednesday as word spread online, the fund exploded. this morning it's raised more than $110,000 and is still growing. police are now investigating. klein says she doesn't want the kids to be criminally charged but wouldn't mind seeing them

grounded all summer and if nothing else, she just wants a simple apology. >> terrell, thank you. >> so disturbing to hear them talk that way. >> unbelievable. >> it is. i don't know what i would do if my kids spoke that way. hopefully everyone learns from this one. >> i know what you'd do. >> i'd call in the big guns. i'd say charlie rose is here and he wants to have a word with. >> you we need to talk. >> exactly. it's time for this morning's "healthwatch." here's dr. holly phillips. good morning. in today's "healthwatch," ginseng might help fight cancer-related fatigue. a new study found high dose of again sing, an herbal supplement, effectively reduced the tiredness that comes from cancer freements. researchers studied 360 patients treated for cancer or whom had completed treatments. at the start everyone was asked to rate their level of fatigue on 100-point scale. half the group was given a placebo and the other half took

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some very smart people have tried to play the ups and downs of the financial market. one trader on wall street thought, you know what, maybe it's the hormones.

>> so john coates quit to become a neuroscientist and then tested his theory that body chemistry plays a role in the moving marke markets. john coates joins us. welcome. >> thank you. >> buy did you want to do this? >> i was running a trading desk on wall street. >> why were you doing that? >> just to make money. just to make money. no other reason. although i did have a background in economics and the spark had gone out. i no longer thought i was splining the markets. when i was trading and taking large financial risks and observing my colleagues doing the same, i realized this was a profoundly physical activity. economics usually assumes that financial risk taking is a purely intellectual activity. you know, rational minds. but your body is so completely wrapped up in the event that it i began thinking that the body was more intimately involved in

what was going on in wall street than anyone really accounted for. so, i worked on a hypothesis and went back to cambridge to try to test it. >> and did training in neuroscience? >> yes. >> you found out hormones were playing what role? >> i started this research at a time when everyone was trying to figure out what irrational exuberance was and now i think we're more concerned with irrational pessimism. we were looking, you know, generally how the body can produce these -- these pathologies in risk taking. we started out looking at hormones. recently we looked more into the nervous system. we hook up traders with various electronic monitors. we take hormone samples throughout the course of the day. >> you're basically looking at some conclusion that it is not just some academic analysis of market, market trends and all that economic analysis. it has a lot to do with the behavioral aspects of a person doing the trading? >> yeah. it has to do with how their body gears up for taking risks.

i mean, we're built -- you can't separate our brain from our body. they both act as a single functional unit when we take risks. and when -- so, when you take risks, you know, your blood pressure increases, your immune system stands on high alert. whole bodywide reaction to the risk. under some circumstances that can cause your risk taking to become pathological. >> what's the winner effect? >> it's the model we originally tested. it's a very robust finding from animal behavior in which an animal that's just won a fight is more likely to win the next fight he goes into. it's been robustly tested in a number of species. they wondered what was driving it. they eventually found out that what happens, when animals go into a fight, testosterone levels rise. this prepares them for the competition. gives them lean muscle mass, hemoglobin to carry oxygen and increases their appetite for risk. the competition comes out with higher levels of testosterone and goes into the next round of

competition with an edge. wins again and you get this positive feedback loop. after a while, unfortunately, in this winner effect, is the testosterone levels rise. the risk taking becomes -- you take too much risk with bad risk/reward tradeoffs. i thought that describes perfectly what happens to a trader when they're on a winning streak. >> you found it was, in fact, the testosterone and cortisol that impacted it here up. looked mainly at men. >> yeah. >> what about women, though. this is a male-dominated field on wall street or does it affect women in the same way because we have different hormones? >> not only women, older men as well. men and women have different pathologies but it looks like we're right, that the biology is shifting risk preferences -- appetite for risk on wall street systematically so we're taking too much risk in bull markets and too risk in the crash that one way of dealing with that source of instability is to have

more women and older men managing money. >> because? >> for one thing women have much lesser testosterone levels than young men so they may be less prone to the winner effect. during a crash, they have -- women at any rate have the same levels of stress hormones but they react slightly differently to different events. >> didn't i read somewhere, correct me if i'm wrong, traders were taking testosterone supplements? crazy? >> nutso. it's like building a sports car that, you know, is constantly on full speed but doesn't have a brake. >> so if, in fact, people knew what you know now, cue coo we have avoided some of the financial disasters? >> i think so. we've got to stop looking at traders as computers. risk management in the banks right now take sort of statistical snapshots of the positions in the bank, but those

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elizabeth palmer is outside buckingham palace. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. no brass bands and no parade for william, duke of cambridge. he'll be celebrating quietly with a small group of close friends and, of course, his wife at a time when thing are looking pretty rosy. it should be a happy birthday for prince william. he's married to his college sweetheart. unlike most 30-year-old men, he doesn't have a mortgage to worry about. also, whether he likes it or not, he's got a job for life. one unlikely to end in quiet retirement, but on the throne as britain's king. william's main challenge at the moment, though, is managing his growing public role. in effect, his apprenticeship. >> really in the last couple of years we've seen prince william really come into his own as a stand-alone royal ambassador. it started -- he was sent by the queen to new zealand and open

earthquake he was back there as the queen's emissary. >> reporter: the jubilee celebrations earlier this month showed how close prince william is to the monarch, queen elizabeth ii. >> how grateful we all are for this extraordinary devotion and love you have shown the people of this country and the commonwealth. >> reporter: after all she is his grandmother. but he's still a long way from the top job. he'll only get it after his father, prince charles does, and that won't happen as long as the queen herself is alive and well. >> your majesty, mommy -- >> reporter: this affectionate just over two weeks boosted charles' shaky pop layer in britain. until recently, many thought the crown should skip him and go straight to william. but charles is suddenly back in

favor. in the latest poll, 44% want him as the next king. and only 38% want william. who is, anyway, busy enjoying his current career as a royal air force search and rescue helicopter pilot in wales. it's real work for a young man who as much as possible has tried to join in real life. >> from school age he's always been king to mucking at every stage of his life. he's been in the thick of it, whether he's scrubbing toilets in chile, on army maneuvers. he likes to get his hands dirty. he likes to live. he likes to get out of the royal cocoon. >> reporter: every king in waiting needs a royal base camp. this coming year william will establish his. in london's kensington palace, where he spent his childhood, and where his mother, princess diana, was living in 1997 when

she was killed in a car crash. these grand rooms, full of memories, will be a home for prince william, his wife catherine, and the family they say they want. married just over a year, the young couple are already high-profile public figures, on the meet and greet circuit. >> there's always been this royal paradox on the one hand we want the royal family to be just like us and we want them to be different. we want them to royal. and it's always been a juggling act. >> reporter: a tricky and very public act. 30 years young today prince william is making it look he's is i. the icing on william's cake, if you will, is a $16 million inheritance he gets today from his late mother's estate, which is a sumptous birthday gift, even for a prince. charlie and erica. >> even for a prince, thanks. not a bad birthday gift. >> $60 million? >> i'd take it.

from the summer of woodstock to the summer of 2012, crosby, stills & nash have sung together and they look back with us at the harmony

♪ getting to the point where i'm no fun anymore ♪ ♪ i am sorry >> david crosby, steven stills came together 40 years ago to form the super group crosby, stills & nash. the singer/songwriters have become one of the most endearing musical acts of their generation. >> they are hitting the road and have more than 60 shows scheduled throughout the united states and releasing csn 2012 a live performance cd next month. they are with us right here in studio 57. welcome.

>> hi, charlie. >> good morning. >> how is it to be back on tour? >> we never stopped. the only time we weren't on tour is when crosby was in jail and it gets a little difficult. johnny cash we're not, you know. >> so you are out, well and healthy now, david? >> i am. happy, too. happy to be doing it. >> what makes it still good and fresh and interesting for you guys? >> the three hours you're on stage. the other 21 hours -- >> that's actually why we get paid. the music, the music. >> it is the music. that's what keeps us together. you know, we long since realized the best part of our relationship is not the back-stabbing, not the i don't like you this year. none of that stuff is important. the music is the most important stuff. >> you had a bit of that. >> we've had a little in our past, yes. >> everybody has. every band. >> is that all in the past now, moved past that, really the focus is now the music? >> seems that way, yes. everything seems to be coming together. you know, there are many, many people on backsides, on seats

out there. we seem to be really pleasing the audience. we seem to be pleasing ourselves. everything's good. >> when you were on stage, did the audiences seem different? i mean, is the mix different? >> no. >> a sea of gray. >> we've actually studied the demographics of our audience and somewhere between 14 and 63. >> so parents come with their children? >> yeah. and parents are turning their children onto our music. >> actually, the parents are over here and the children are over here because they won't be seen together. >> you can drive me there, but you can't sit next to me. >> right. >> not in the same row, mom. >> you have seen the music business here, there and now where it is. where is it and is it better or worse? >> it's the same. there's always bad stuff out there and there's always good stuff. you hope that the good stuff rises to the top and then you find out about it. >> what about the business

because of what's happened with the digital revolution? >> it's changed quite a bit because of that. i don't think the record companies really understood what digital meant. they thought it was -- >> they still don't. >> -- another way to sell more stuff with a different label. unless you have a really huge hit, you don't make money off records. we make money off live performance almost entirely. >> that's how it is for most artists these days? >> most artists. >> what is it like for you as song writers? charlie was talking about how the industry has changed. when you listen to the music today, do you think the approach is different at all from the way you approached the songs you write? >> i'm fining the retro stuff really good and one of my favorite is brandy carlisle. sounds like she could be in the '60s and s. >> what has been the biggest influence on your music? >> you know, everything from the weavers to woody gutty, bob dylan, peter paul and mary --

>> that's a strong folk group you just described. >> yeah. >> it's more than that. it's real. their music was real. they talked about real subjects. they talked about real things that were happening between people and how to deal with them. how they dealt with them. the music was more real to me. >> if you could have somebody in all the musical history write songs for you today, who would it be? >> paul mccartney. >> would it be mccartney? >> he has an incredible sense. the kid's good. >> how is it different from john? >> john was good. he's the hard edge. he did for paul and the rest the guys what neil does to us. you know, when we have a certain sound, as crosby, stills and nash, when neil joins us, it's different. it's a darker edge. it's more mysterious. he brings a certain different kind of music to us. and i think john and paul did the same thing. i think -- i think when you listen to songs, you can really tell who wrote what. >> where would you put neil as a songwriter in all this stuff?

>> neil is a brilliant songwriter. >> and still has it. >> i believe he does, yes. >> he still has the potential. i haven't really liked his last couple of records, but i think he's -- you know, still the guy who wrote "old man" and "pot of gold". >> "pot of gold". >> he's got cool stuff. he set the bar high early on so we have high expectations of him. >> i like his songs. >> exactly. not bad, are they? >> yeah. >> can you imagine doing anything other than playing music? >> sure. >> what? >> living. >> music is only a part of our lives. >> but music is what makes you alive, isn't it? >> it's one of the things. >> what else? >> painting, collecting, photographing. there's a million things. where you put your energy is what you want to do. >> it's great seeing you guys back. you haven't been away, i know. but seeing you back together, a

chance to see you on tour and -- >> we're very good this year. people are really responding well. >> without understanding the dimensions of this question, will neil come back? will there be one performance, one time in which crosby, stills and -- >> for our purposes today, no. >> on the other hand, we are just almost finished up with a brand new crosby, stills, nash and young record, which is our 74-stadium arena tour in 1974. it's brilliant music. >> when can i get that? >> first quarter of next year. >> that's great. >> so you have a record -- >> don't have you to go and perform? don't have you to -- you know, you have to -- >> all that -- >> i don't know, do you? >> thank you. crosby, stills and nash. >> this saturday morning crosby, stills and nash will be performing right here in studio 57 on "cbs this morning: saturday." still to come this morning,

we have watched michele williams grow up on screen. she's here this morning with a new film where she plays a young married woman who falls for the guy across the street and then has some tough decisions to make. we'll be right back.

♪ up on cripple creek she gives me ♪ >> michele williams first became a familiar face on the teen tv drama "dawson's creek," later nominated for academy award for "brokeback mountain". >> and then later "blue valentine" and "my week with marilyn." she plays a new neighbor

attracted to her neighbor. >> where are you going? >> it's our anniversary. every year we see a movie at the royal. >> hop in. i'll give you a ride. >> oh, no, that's fine. >> are you serious? >> yes, i am. >> i've always wanted to ride in one of these. awesome! >> really? >> really, yeah, come on. what are you doing? come on. >> we have enough time. >> he's going to give us a ride in the rick shaw. just get in. >> get in. it's your anniversary. >> just do it. >> michele williams, welcome. >> thank you very much. >> you play a character who loves her husband but? >> but, yes, the mysterious but. i always thought about it as a sort of coming of age story, a different coming of age, unsung period in your life when you're making a transition from being a girl into being a woman. and sort of on the cusp kind of thing when you're sort of trying to leave behind more childish things and it's really kind of a last step into an adult life.

>> and the dilemma she faces? >> i thought of it as a kind of -- as a struggle between your selfish side, your pleasurable side and your moral side. >> which wins? >> she give it all away, charlie. sara pauley, the director, she's a huge fan of yours. she talks about your wisdom. she says there's a poetry about you and that you're the greatest actor of your generation. which must feel pretty good. >> i feel the same about had her. i admire her. i saw her when i was 15 or 16 and it made such a big impression on me and i thought, that's the kind of work i do. whatever it is, wherever it is, that's what i want to do. if that girl is doing it, maybe there's a space for me. i followed her and admired her for so many years. when it came around, i was thrilled. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say, that kind of work is very much about your raw emotion, even in this role. i mean, there is dialogue that really strikes you. but it's so much about your

physical performance and your face and it really feel your entire person is in there. >> good. >> which seems a lot more difficult. is it? >> i wouldn't know how to compartmentalize. i wouldn't know how to separate the to. i mean, i think -- i do like to think of it as sort of a generous act and that you give your entire self of whatever you have available. so, that's what i love about it. >> what does a good director do for you? >> sometimes nothing. sometimes -- for me, it's creating a space. i mean, sometimes there's people who can come in and just say a few records that are what you needed and they give you the adjustment in the scene you were struggling, that you were searching for. but a lot of it, i think, is creating a quiet, safe, calm environment where you feel you can jump. >> when you played marilyn and all the aftermath, did it give

you insight into what it means to be famous today? >> honestly, i don't try to think of it too much. i don't think of myself as a famous person. it's not the way i'd like to think of myself. so, i don't really put a lot of -- i don't put a lot of effort into figuring it out because i don't really want to attach very strongly to it. >> and naets one of the attractions of acting, the fact that you can become different people? >> i think so. i think it's sort of a disappearing act that's appealed to me. it appeals in a different way now than it did -- i started when i was very young, a young teenager. i think i liked the disappearing more then and now i like my life and i want to be more present. so that separation is a bit -- isn't what i love anymore. it's more an exploration. >> when you mentioned starting when you were a young teen, so at 15 you got your ged so you could be emancipated from your parents, not because there were issues but so you could pursue this work. which is a big decision to make when you're 15 years old.

>> a bad decision, a silly decision, a reckless decision, it was a strange decision. it worked out well for me. but i wouldn't -- don't think i would recommend it. >> would it freak you out if your daughter came to you and said, hey, mom, i have this great idea. >> yeah, it would. it would. absolutely would. >> when you look at all the things you've learned about acting, would you have done anything different? i mean, has it simply evolved in a way that's made you the way you are today? >> i think so. things that i think -- the black marks on a career, the things i sort of wish i hadn't done, in fact, they're just as important as the things i've been successful with. >> you learn from what you shouldn't have done -- >> i know everybody says it but i don't think it can be emphasized enough. those are just as valuable as the movies i've made i'm incredibly proud of. i've learned just as much from the ones -- >> how confident are you now in terms of just having the experience you've had and the performance as you've had and

here is another one that you can pretty much handle anything? pretty confident. >> can i? i don't know. i feel like there's always a struggle. i feel in my work, i feel like every time i approach a project, i feel like a child. i feel like i'm starting it for the first time. everything is new. the world is a big unknown. why am i here? whatmy going to do? why me? i feel maybe more confident as a person as now a 31-year-old woman. i feel some sort of grounding in that. but my work always feels like -- like the first day of preschool school. >> thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. nice to see you. >> it's a remarkable thing that you have done. it's always good to see you. when i look at you this morning, i think the person i saw last on film was playing marilyn. it says something, you know, about what craft is all about. >> and talent. >> thank you. >> michele williams. up next, your local news. we'll see you tomorrow right here on "cbs this morning."

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