smartphone. good morning. it's tuesday, august 14th, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. the campaign kicks in to gear as president obama goes after republican vice presidential pick paul ryan, and chris christie gets a high-profile role at the upcoming gop convention. new crash tests reveal some cars may not be as safe as you thought they were. plus, controversy at costco, as americans tell canadians to get out of their stores. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> he's a very articulate spokesperson for governor romney's vision. the problem is, it's the wrong vision for america. >> president obama takes on the

new gop ticket.& >> simple question, are you going to cut medicare? >> paul ryan being heckled at the iowa state fair. >> these ladies must not be from iowa or wisconsin. >> he picked paul ryan as his running mate. are you surprised by that? >> we welcome him to the campaign. >> do not move! do not move! >> three people are dead after a shooting near texas a&m university. the gunman, thomas caffall, was shot to death. he was being served an eviction notice before opening fire. >> council member was also killed. >> he always bent over backwards to help people out. helen gley brown, the longtime editor of "cosmopolitan" magazine, invited women to join the sexual revolution, has died. >> you've got a long way to go, baby, so just get in there and get started. >> in australia, ronald jackson lost his life after driving his car 7 1/2 miles in the wrong direction. two racers in colorado were able to make it through this on

sunday. they were air-lifted to the hospital and were treated and released. a monster python was captured in the florida everglades. 17'7" long. all that -- >> oh! >> going to keep the ball. >> ryan and i were talking about what a tough campaign it was going to be. >> and all that matters -- >> who puts up a swingset with no swings? >> you know, in the hood, sometimes you don't get a swing. >> on "cbs this morning." >> robert pattinson made his first tv appearance since the breakup with kristen stewart, but he didn't have much to say about it. >> boy, you ought to kick her to the curb. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose and gayle king are off. this will be another busy day in the race for the white house. president obama, vice president joe biden, governor mitt romney

and congressman paul ryan will be all campaigning in key states. >> and this morning the president is wasting no time criticizing his rival's vice presidential pick. nancy cordes is covering the obama campaign i oskaloosa, iowa. and nancy, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. the president mentioned ryan at both of his campaign rallies here in iowa yesterday. ryan was stumping in the state, too. the president called him the intellectual leader of republicans in congress and said that romney now owns all of ryan's policies. >> hi, how are you? >> reporter: the president arrived at the iowa state fair just five hours after paul ryan departed. mr. obama took pictures with supporters and tried the pork chops. >> anybody got a fork and a knife for me? >> reporter: it was the end of day one of his three-day bus tour of iowa, the battleground state that launched his presidential aspirations four years ago with a win in the iowa caucuses. >> the reason i love this state is because all of you gave me a

chance. >> reporter: yesterday he visited a family farm in drought-stricken missouri valley, iowa, and announced the government's plan to buy $170 million worth of agricultural product from struggling farmers and ranchers. >> understand this won't solve the problem. we can't make it rain. but this will help families like the mcintoshes in states across the country, including here in iowa. >> reporter: but his campaign's primary focus right now is on defining mitt romney's new running mate, who is still unknown to many undecided voters. >> my opponent chose as his running mate the ideological leader of the republicans in congress. and i've gotten to know congressman ryan. he's a good man, he's a family man, he's a very articulate spokesperson for governor romney's vision. the problem is, it's the wrong vision for america. >> reporter: both the president and vice president are painting ryan as an inspiration for the tea party, an ideologue whose proposals for radically smaller government would hurt the poor and give tax cuts to the rich.

>> gutsy. gutsy. no, i'm serious. now, look, what's gutsy about giving millionaires another tax break? >> reporter: first lady michelle obama, visiting los angeles, was asked about ryan by "the tonight show's" jay leno. >> what do you think of this choice of paul ryan as romney's running mate? >> i haven't spent much time thinking about that and don't know ryan that well, but we welcome them to the campaign. >> reporter: obama campaign officials concede that ryan has an engaging personality and is a tough debater who won't back down. but even as they attack him, anthony and rebecca, they continue to insist that he is not nearly as important as the man at the top of the ticket, mitt romney. >> nancy cordes, thank you. and mitt romney will bring his own bus tour to ohio today as he finishes a four-day trip to swing states. on monday, he told voters in

florida that he and ryan will do everything they can to make america stronger. jan crawford is in ft. lauderdale this morning. >> reporter: well, here in florida, romney really did his best to keep his focus on the struggling economy. that's a major campaign theme, an issue he pretty much stayed away from and didn't get into any detail was medicare, as he tries to figure out how he's going to talk about how his plan is different from his running mate's. campaigning in the key state of florida, aside from a brief assurance, mitt romney barely mentioned what would affect people here more than any other place in the country. >> we want to make sure that we preserve and protect medicare. >> reporter: two days after announcing his new running mate in a campaign theme of making tough choices to save america's future, it's proving to be a tricky line for romney to walk. paul ryan so far isn't trying the same balancing act. in his very first speech as the vp nominee, he said this -- >> it is our duty to save the

american dream for our children and theirs. >> reporter: ryan backs that up with a serious plan to dramatically cut the budget, rein in spending and reform entitlement programs like medicare. but romney, perhaps cautious of polls that show people like the current system, struck a more cautious and vague note on change. romney's website says ryan's plan "almost precisely mirrors mitt's ideas." in front of the press on monday, romney wouldn't even say that. >> the items we agree on i think outweigh any of the differences that might be. we haven't gone through piece by piece saying here's a place there's a difference. >> reporter: ryan made his first solo appearance as the gop vice presidential candidate at the iowa state fair. he got a warm welcome, but was interrupted by hecklers. >> iowans and wisconsin, we like to be respectful of one another and listen to each other. these ladies must not be from iowa or wisconsin.

>> reporter: a new poll shows americans are split over romney's choice of ryan. 39% call his selection excellent or pretty good, while 42% say it's only fair or poor. but the good news for ryan, 58% don't know who he is, and he has strong support from republicans who need to turn out in november. >> the decision was made somewhere that we're going to go head first up against it. we're not going to skirt it with a traditional campaign. we're going to take it straight to them. >> reporter: but not all republicans are exactly jumping up and down over this selection. some congressional democrats already are trying to link their republican opponents to ryan's controversial plan on medicare. one republican even felt the need to put out a statement yesterday, saying that she will never agree to cut the medicare. and then yesterday, little more damage control. the romney campaign, romney held an event yesterday at a well-known restaurant in miami whose owner, get this, pleaded guilty to cocaine distribution in 1999 and was sentenced to

three years in prison. for "cbs this morning," i'm jan crawford in dania beach, florida. >> cbs news political editor john dickerson is with us now. good morning, john. >> good morning, anthony. >> john, as jan just pointed out, i mean, the polls show that most americans don't know who paul ryan is. the democrats are already slapping the radical adjective on his name. the republicans say he as a congressman, he had ideas and solutions. there's a race now to define this man, isn't there? >> there absolutely is, and this is both an opportunity and a danger for the romney campaign. opportunity, because defining paul ryan in a sense redefines romney. this is important more so, perhaps, than other vice presidential picks because the romney campaign has put ryan kind of at the center of the complete campaign narrative, saying this is a bold pick, a pick about ideas. and so, how they define ryan in this period sort of defines the campaign. for democrats, that large number of people who don't know who ryan is allows them a chance to

define him first, tag him with these labels, and those are awfully hard to peel off once they get stuck on. >> john, how much sway does the vp pick typically have over how people vote? >> it doesn't have much, and we are in the sort of hot time here for the vice presidential scrutiny, but it will quickly go back to the person at the top of the ticket. in this case, though, there might be a little bit more attention paid to it because, again, the romney campaign is making such a big deal about the ryan pick and what it tells us about the person at the top who's picking. >> john, last night, governor chris christie of new jersey was chosen to be the keynote speaker at the republican convention. what do you make of that choice? >> well, he is an exciting figu figure. he is a good attack dog. he has a long and powerful critique about the president. and so, and he's a hero in the party. the convention will go nuts when he hits the stage. so, this is a typical thing. the parties put their superstars

on stage, and this will certainly get the crowd going at the convention. >> john, when you think about this campaign going forward, the president, president obama, is now framing it as romney owns all of ryan's policies, but we know from bob schieffer's interview that romney is not going to be going on ryan's budget. how long, though, can romney hold out on naming specifics with what he would do differently from what ryan has already mapped out? >> well, romney doesn't own ryan any more than senator obama owned everything senator biden said, particularly those things senator biden said that weren't nice about senator obama. however, what romney does have to do is explain where he differs from ryan, and that's tricky, because in a lot of places, he doesn't differ. and then in the places where they do differ, it's hard to say, well, we have disagreements, but i picked him because of his ideas. and also, ryan has a very detailed plan out there, and once you get into the specifics of these plans, there are a lot of hard choices that have to be made. politicians like to talk about

them in general, but when you get into the specifics of these hard choices, it can just sound unpleasant to voters and romney wants to stay away from that. he wants credit for picking an ideas guy, but then wants to go back to beating up on the president. >> john, how concerned should the romney campaign be that just 39% of voters in polls ranked the choice of ryan as excellent or pretty good? i mean, that's pretty low compared to recent past vp picks. >> it's not great. part of that number is -- i mean, they can be happy that people don't know ryan. in other words, okay, maybe they aren't totally enthusiastic, but they might learn to be. but this is a tough period here. to introduce somebody, define them, then get on to the convention, and the election's only 80-some-odd days away. so, it's very tricky here for the romney campaign to define ryan properly, because the democrats are working hard to define him in his other ways. so, it's something that the romney campaign has to be worried about. >> john dickerson, thanks.

and for continuing coverage of the race for the white house, logon to cbsnews.com. this morning, it has new analysis on whether the romney/ryan ticket's lack of foreign policy experience will be a factor for voters. the serving of an eviction notice turned into a deadly shoot-out monday near the texas a&m university campus. it was just after afternoon when police in college station -- that's north of houston -- responded to a report of gunfire. >> put your hands where i can see them! hands where i can see them! do not move! do not move! if you move -- >> the cell phone video you're watching shows police surrounding the home. the firefight lasted 30 minutes, and police say they don't know why thomas caffall opened fire and killed constable brian backman. a passerby was also killed in the gunfight. three other officers and a woman were wounded. his stepfather tells cbs station khou that caffall hadn't worked

in a year, and it was only a matter of time before he snapped. some surprising and worrying information on car safety has just come out this morning. we may not be as secure in our vehicles as we thought, in part because safety tests did not stimulate a common and deadly kind of car crash. seth doane is here with the results of a new test. good morning, seth. >> good morning to you, anthony. roughly a quarter of people killed in car crashes are killed in paa crash that is not part o the safety test. of 11 vehicles tested, only 3 earned a good or acceptable rating. we've seen these crash tests countless times. but for the first time in 17 years, a new type of frontal crash test has been conducted by the insurance institute for highway safety, and it's exposed a dangerous vulnerability. adrian lund is the group's president. >> we still have 10,000 deaths in frontal crashes each year. and we estimate that about 20%

to 25% of those deaths occur in small, overlap crashes. >> reporter: these so-called small, overlap crashes take place when the side of a car clips an obstruction and the heavy engine block does not absorb much of the blow. >> most of the automakers are not building their safety cages to account for this kind of crash. >> reporter: only the acura tl and volvo s-60 received a good overall rating, while the infinitey g was rated acceptabl. the remaining eight cars were graded either marginal or poor. with the release of this report, what's likely happening inside automobile companies? >> probably some words that we can't say on cbs will be uttered this morning as this is all reveal revealed. >> reporter: jack otter, executive editor for "cbs moneywatch" has covered the automobile industry and says he's surprised they have not built cars better able to

withstand front-corner crashes. should we, the driving public, be alarmed that no one has really focused on these types of crash tests for so long? >> you know, the way i look at it, over the years, cars have gotten much, much safer. and sure, ten years from now, there may be some new test that will reveal a vulnerability, and those cars will get even safer. i don't think we should worry that something new has been found. i think we should just be glad that progress is being made. >> reporter: we reached out to all of the automakers tested. those who replied stood by their safety record, and some said they incorporate this knowledge into designs moving forward. but mercedes questioned the testing protocol altogether. the insurance institute for highway safety says it would like to see all automakers start designing vehicles that better protect people in these crashes. in the short term, that likely means heavier, less fuel-efficient cars. >> i think that there will be some increased costs for the consumer, but in the long run, i

think these costs are going to be pretty minimal. >> reporter: what makes these results more surprising is that the insurance institute for highway safety tested luxury vehicles because it says those are the cars that usually get safety innovations first. the institute plans to look at midsized, moderately priced cars next. rebecca? >> seth doane, thank you. helen gurley brown is being remembered this morning as the woman who told other women you can have it all. the longtime editor of "cosmopolitan" died monday in a new york hospital. in 1962, her book "sex and the single girl" helped to inspire the sexual revolution for women. and for 32 years, brown used "cosmo" to show women how to make money, have sex and find love. her motto was "good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere." helen gurley brown was 90 years old. and we'll have an in-depth look at her influential life and career in our next hour, including a conversation with kate white, the current editor

of "cosmo." and time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. the "wall street journal" reports syria's government wants to use russian banks to sidestep economic sanctions imposed by the west. those sanctions are aimed at syria's oil industry and financial institutions. they don't apply to russian companies that do not do business in the west. "usa today" reports the justice department is ready to release dozens of federal prisoners after they were locked up, an appeals court ruled they had not committed a federal crime. britain's "guardian" says pope benedict's butler faces six years in prison for allegedly stealing documents from the papal apartment. on monday, a judge ordered the butler to stand trial for leaking the letters, which contained embarrassing allegations of corruption at the vatican. "the chicago tribune" reports congressman jesse jackson jr. has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. has been on medical leave for o more than two months, and he's

up for re-election in november. and "the new york daily news" says a car thief here in manhattan drove away with a maserati while the car's owner stood nearby. the owner got out to talk with a friend, leaving the car running. the thief asked formation take a photo, then jumped into the driver's seat and took off. there's no sign of the stolen car, which sells for about $150,000. >> good move. on a more serious note, a dangerous wildfire in central washington state is burning out of control this morning. the wind-driven fire started monday and quickly destroyed at least 40 homes. this morning, more homes are threatened and a firefighting crew was briefly surrounded by the fire but managed to make their way to safety.

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in bellingham, washington, north of seattle. some residents say they're tired of sharing a local costco with their canadian neighbors. as reporter michelle millman of kiro tv reports, they're calling for american-only shopping hours at the retailer. >> reporter: on any given day, cars pack the parking lot at this costco store in bellingham, washington, but most of the license plates are from across the border. >> i usually come down for the gap. >> reporter: canadians are taking advantage of their country's strong dollar, stocking up on everything from gas to groceries. >> we come down here a couple times a month and we save a fair bit of money. >> reporter: but some locals are fed up with the cross-border bargain-hunting. last month, a facebook page popped up asking costco to hold shopping hours for just americans. so far, the site has gotten more than 2,900 likes. the page includes video of shoppers clearing out several gallons of milk in a matter of seconds and photos of long lines and bad parking jobs.

the infestation of canadians in bellingham is downright gotten out of control," posted one user. another one writes, "i say we boycott costco until we get the treatment we deserve." >> the first reaction was a bit surprised. then as we read some of the postings, rather appalled that people would say some of the things they have said on the page. >> ken oplinger is the president and ceo of the local chamber of commerce. >> the county economy is reliant on canadians shopping here. we shouldn't limit access to retail stores based on nationality. >> reporter: bellingham's mayor says the growth of taxable retail sales was almost double the state average from 2010 to 2011, much of it due to people from canada. jori hall is a bellingham resident. >> to be perfectly honest, we would be in a world of hurt right now if we didn't have the canadian shoppers down here, and i don't think a lot of people realize that. >> reporter: monday, a second facebook page emerged, welcoming canadian shoppers to the area. and costco says it's doing

everything it can, hiring local off-duty police to control traffic, beefing up staff and expanding store hours. >> i know it is kind of crowded here. i would like for them to expand, but to have american-only hours kind of sounds a little out-dated. >> reporter: costco doesn't plan on changing its policy any time soon, but the company is in talks with the town to open a new, bigger location. for "cbs this morning," michelle millman, seattle. >> so, this is a net positive for costco. if they're going to open up a bigger location. >> the infestation of canadians? >> imagine if it was a different group of people and all of a sudden -- >> and they said that to us. >> -- and that conversation was happening. >> yes. >> we want to go to costco. >> they're saying you can come into orr country, you just have to pay full price. >> hallelujah. well, millions of americans are selling their jewelry, looking to cash in on the skyrocketing price of gold, but a warning, there may be companies looking to rip you off, and we're going to follow

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♪ this morning we have new information on a story we first reported earlier this year. buyers for a gold-buying company was taking customers for their cash by lying about gold jewelry. six cbs stations across the you'd led the investigation into the fraud along with julie from our affiliate. good morning. >> since our report, the company, thr & associates, shut down and is now the focus of

several state and federal investigations. as a result, a number of former employees are coming forward and coming clean. >> basically, if it's old gold or silver we say bring it in. >> reporter: one morning, he was a guest on a tv show. >> we'll get you a check on the spot. >> reporter: next, the checks bounced and he was wanted by police. >> it was very embarrassing. >> kenny birdsall says thr & associates didn't tell him the checks were bad until it was too late, and he's not alone. >> i feel sick. i have wrote checks for two days. i said, do you realize that that is fraud? >> reporter: like birdsall, dolly dubard resigned after she discovered she was writing bad checks. they are two of the dozens of thr employees across the country who have now come forward to reveal what they say was a culture of deception within one of the nation's largest gold-buying operations. many former employees attribute the bounced checks to ceo jeffrey parsons and what they call an extravagant lifestyle. while parsons did not respond to a request for comment, he owes the irs millions, and according

to his own sworn testimony, he used the company bank account as his personal bank account and splurged on luxury homes, boats, even a jet, paid for in part with silver purchased at thr shows. >> believe it or not, half of what you have on the table here is copper. >> reporter: in a joint investigation, cbs producers in five states attempted to sell gold to thr buyers, and many former employees say they weren't surprised by what we found. >> it's gold. >> reporter: four out of the five producers were either lied to, offered less than a quarter of the gold's value, or both. >> i think a lot of managers did think it was okay to lie. >> reporter: dubard says she felt pressured to take advantage of customers. the thr buying guide instructed employees to offer less than 10% of the gold's value, and those who went too high were eventually laid off. in may, we questioned spokesman matt enright about the investigation. where you're not lying, you're certainly low-balling. >> it's not illegal. do some managers maybe feel

guilty? you know, i'm sure they do. >> i was always feeling guilty. >> reporter: which is why she is coming forward now. dubard points out, in spite of pressure from the company, many buyers were honest. and while low-balling is legal, lying about the quality of the gold is not. >> there's been some issues with checks this week. >> reporter: and then there were the bad checks. the company took in more than $200 million last year, yet bounced checks worth more than $1.7 million during april of this year alone. >> it's an unfortunate situation, to be honest, i have no idea -- >> reporter: in may, thr promised to reimburse every customer, but many remain outstanding and the company continued to write bad checks, even bouncing a check to the irs. thr blamed their bank for closing its account without warning, but even the company's spokesperson did not deny the bounced checks could be due to parsons' spending. do you think the bank unexpectedly closing your account has anything to do with mr. parsons using company funds for extravagant, personal

expenses? >> i don't know. it's a great question. i don't know. >> reporter: enright resigned last month. most employees have been laid off or quit, but not before they say parsons ordered them to immediately ship him all remaining gold, in spite of laws requiring the gold stay in many jurisdictions for 30 days after purchase. >> so, they're asking me to break the law in california to ship this stuff out of state before the 30-day hold is up. and he goes, well, you put it that way, then yeah. >> i'm not going to jail for jeff parsons. i'm done doing that man's dirty work. >> jeffrey parsons is now facing civil and criminal investigations at the federal, state and local levels. his lawyers denied our request for comment, but once again, a company spokesperson says thr will make good on all bad checks. >> julie, great lesson in all this, seller beware, and you have three tips for people. >> absolutely. first things first, know what you have. take your gold to a reputable jeweler and ask about the carat

count and the weight. there are lots of websites that will tell you the going rate for scrap gold on any given day. you also need to know how to negotiate. buyers usually aren't going to give you the best price off the bat. if they know you know what you're talking about, they're likely to give you a better deal. and lastly, be willing to walk away ever wonder what your cat does all day? well, some scientists certainly

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anthony, their entire website's now dedicated to video of cats like this. >> i know. >> because it's so entertaining. speaking of cats, millions of cat owners put their pets outside in the morning and let them in at night, and we don't know what happens to them. as mark strassmann reports, new research shows the average feline has a more interesting life than we ever imagined. meet moses, a pet cat, and emily pitts's roommate for the last seven years in athens, georgia. she is a web designer. he is a bit of a mystery, like most cats. do you have any idea what he did all day? >> i didn't know what all he did all day at all. >> reporter: then pitts strapped this 3-ounce video camera around moses's neck. for a month, it recorded his neighborhood adventures while she was at work. >> so now he's just gone down into the storm drain, which is in front of our house. >> reporter: moses likes to explore, especially dirty places. shows him going in the sewer.

now, what'd you think about that? you pet that cat. >> yeah, i do pet that cat. >> reporter: researchers put kitty cams on 55 pet cats, a collaboration between the university of georgia and "national geographic." more than 2,000 hours of cat reality tv, a first, according to researchers. what you discover is the secret lives of cats. >> yes, the secret lives of cats. >> reporter: professor sonia hernandez, a specialist in wildlife diseases, had the idea for the kitty cam. she's studying the impact of cats on urban wildlife along with the risks they face outdoors. >> there's nothing more powerful than images to get the point across about what these cats are doing. >> reporter: among the findings? >> they spend a lot of time under cars, inside of cars, inside of doors, climbing roofs, climbing fences. i think they have intriguing lives because they do things that we've never expected them to do. >> reporter: but if you want loyalty, get a dog. > a lot of cats were found

heeding on their owners in that they spent a lot of time with other families and were fed by other families and slept on the beds of other families. >> reporter: the videos also showed why cats need nine lives. that is a possum. now, the possum's not bigger than the cat. >> could be. that's, now the possum's minding its own business and here's the cat. the cat thinks the possum is coming into its territory, so there's definitely an interesting, tense moment there. >> reporter: but cats are also hunters. they kill squirrels, lizards and birds. 44% of the cats in this study actively stalked wildlife, fewer than expected, but they brought back only one-fourth of what they killed. >> and that means that your average cat owner doesn't understand that their cat is killing way more, 75% more of what they see. >> reporter: that makes birders like gavin shire shutter. america had 90 million fairly or

wildcats, and all of them kill as many as 500 million birds a year. >> this study really shines a spotlight on the problem and it demonstrates in very clear and graphic forms that cats are killing birds in tremendous numbers. >> reporter: turns out, moses is not a hunter, at least according to his kitty cam, and sewers and dumpsters are his playground. one of the things the video sort of teaches you, too, is maybe some things you don't want to know. >> yeah, you don't want to know. i mean, he just, he sleeps in my bed, he's in the house, i pet him. >> reporter: at long last, kitty cams have spilled some of the secrets. the cat is finally out of the bag. for "cbs this morning," i'm mark strassmann in athens, georgia. >> i love the whiskers on the came camera. >> yes, exactly. other than hanging out in the sewer, i could get on board with that lifestyle. >> it looks pretty nice. all right, coming up, once upon a time, "cosmopolitan" was

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let's just do this. >> see, now it's meaningless. so, what are we doing here? are you all right? is everything okay? i'm worried about you and you're all right. >> my biggest problem in my life, i'm cheap, and i didn't hire a publicist. i was like, i should have -- i'm going to hire a publicist. >> the last time i had a bad breakup, ben & jerry got me through some of the tougher times. so, i thought you and i could bond over this and talk about, boy, you are better off. >> ice cream solves everything. robert pattinson visited jon stewart last night, his first appearance since it was revealed kristen stewart cheated on him.

it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning" this morning. i'm anthony mason. charlie rose and gayle king are off. >> and i'm rebecca jarvis. good to have you with us again. >> ice cream has been my problem, so this boot camp of getting up early gets better. >> happy to hear it. and the kristen stewart/pattinson breakup i know impacted you as well. >> it did, but my wife's got me well trained. all right, 50 years ago, helen gurley brown began to change the lives of american woman with a book called "sex and the single girl." she kept influencing their talk and behavior for decades, and sunday morning's marcia teichner remembers the remarkable woman who died monday at the age of 90. >> reporter: when helen gurley brown took over "cosmopolitan" magazine in 1965, she turned it into a how-to manual for the sexual revolution. women either devoured every issue or dismissed it as trash, even though they secretly read it at the hair salon.

nobody else told them this -- >> if you happen to be a single woman and you're having sex, you don't have to put your head in the oven. it's okay. don't feel guilty. >> reporter: by the time brown said it to charlie rose in 1996, not long before she stepped down after 32 years as editor in chief, it wasn't shocking anymore. she lived to see her "cosmo" girl of the '60s morph into the girls on "sex and the city." >> the only place you can control a man is in bed. >> she took endless flack. all women ahead of their time take flack. >> reporter: feminist writer erica jong. >> the criticism is cruel. they tried to silence you. but if you outlive that wave of criticism, you become an icon, and she did. >> reporter: helen gurley brown of the pink silk-lined office, was born 90 years ago in green forest, arkansas. she described herself as

ordinary, hillbilly and poor, a mouseburger. >> 18 years old, wall to wall acne, no money, mother not too long ago widowed, and she's depressed a lot. and my sister, mary, at age 19 got polio before the vaccine, so she's in a wheelchair. >> reporter: but we're talking about the queen of self-invention here. she became the original "cosmo" girl. on her way up, she worked her way through 17 secretarial jobs and an undisclosed number of men in each workplace, some of them married. >> married men i've always been controversial on that subject, but i feel as a single woman, you can use them as they use you. >> reporter: as a sexual revolutionary, brown's manifesto was "sex and the single girl," her 1962 best-seller. it was made into a film with natalie wood.

>> when i do get married, it's not going to be for love or sex or romance. i can get all of those things outside of marriage just as easily as you can. >> "sex and the single girl" was explosive in american culture. women were used to getting advice from ministers, they were used to getting advice from academics, but helen gurley brown was the first person to come along and give the kind of sister-to-sister, girl-to-girl, straight-forward talk about sex. >> reporter: that advice was scandalous to feminists, according to her biographer, bowdoin college professor jennifer scanlon. >> some feminists were horrified by helen gurley brown, because they basically, to put it in a nutshell, they wanted to change the system and helen gurley brown wanted to work the system. >> reporter: that's what she did, and her life seemed to prove her point. helen gurley brown was a huge success. at 37, she married david brown,

the man of her dreams, and now, even feminists have come around, half a century after she uttered the word sex out loud. >> sex, of course, is not the determining force in a woman's life. i say it's one of the three best things there is, and i used to say i don't know what the other two are. finally i decided what the other two are. it's called eating and breathing. >> kate white is the current editor in chief of "cosmopolitan," and she joins us this morning. welcome. >> thank you. >> so, what do you think it is about this woman that made her so powerful? >> well, she really listened to women and she listened to their needs and desires and wasn't afraid to speak candidly back to them. and i think that "cosmo," as she created it in 1965, it just was so authentic and really real, and women loved how fresh and candid it was. >> this is one of the people who really made the '60s interesting. that's what i remember. but she took a struggling

magazine -- i mean, "cosmo," you know, was on the map, but it wasn't anything like what she turned it into. she came from arkansas. how did she do this? >> she was a self-made woman. she grew up poor. she didn't want to be a hillbilly, she said, though, and became a copyrighter after becoming a secretary. and her book "sex and the single girl" was such a success, was on the best-seller list for a year, that she wanted another way to speak to women, and she went looking for a magazine to launch and "cosmopolitan" was on its really last legs, and her corporation said, look, why don't you take this and see what you can do with it? and her very first issue blew off the newsstands. her top cover line was "the pill that promises to make women more responsive," and it was the birth control pill. and she told me once that she wanted to say more responsive i think in bad to men, but management wouldn't let her do it, but women knew what she was talking about. >> this was 1965. >> yeah.

she really ushered in the sexual revolution. >> i'm just wondering how anthony mason can keep showing his blushing. as much renown as she had for being the "cosmopolitan" woman, she had a lot of self-discipline, which i'm marvelled at. >> yes, incredibly self-disciplined. i tried to go out to lunch with her over the years as a magazine editor and she always said she brought her lunch and worked at her desk through lunch. and she edited everything in the magazine. she knew what was going on. she lived a glamorous life, but she worked very hard. and i think that as a marketer, she came up with a brand and stuck with it and never wavered, and that's partly why we're still number one today. and i think it's amazing for a brand that was started in the '60s, and we're in 54 countries around the world because it resonated. >> what was her advice to you when you took over "cosmopolitan"? >> her advice to me was always just stay true to the brand and listen, trust your gut.

today i do focus groups, i do surveys. but from her i learned that deep down inside of you, if you feel something, chances are other women feel it, too, and don't be afraid to run with that. >> there was a great line in "the new york times" obit that i read this morning that described her as a janice-like figure, in that she was both looking forward and looking back, which i thought was an interesting point. >> yes, and i think that gets at why some feminists had problems, which we touched on in the tape. that on the one hand, she was saying you can have it all, that you can go after what you want. she believed that women could be happy without being married and they could have sex without being married. but at the same time, there was a lot about man-pleasing, because she believed that ultimately, women wanted mr. right. and i think in hindsight, her message really allowed women to feel that they could make it in the world of work but have those other things that deep down they wanted, too. >> kate white, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >>

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all right in today's "health watch," saving lives one concert at a time. a popular musician who survived cancer is calling on fans to step up and help other cancer patients. as manuel biojorojorquez report it's one of the most popular events of the summer. >> reporter: it's rock and roll and music with a message. >> we're rock and roll music foundation. >> reporter: at the lollapalooza festival, fans were asked to become bone marrow donors. >> it took one concert to get the word out that there was an organization literally saving lives at converts. >> reporter: shannon henn is the executive director of the love, hope, strength foundation. >> nobody's here today to become a bone marrow donor. they're all here to listen to great music, so we kind of have to get them out of their comfort zone for a bit.

so, we come in knowing just one person is all it takes, and if we walk out of here with several hundred, we're going to be ecstatic. ♪ >> reporter: founded by cancer survivors mike peters, front man of the popular 1980s rock band the alarm, and his friends james chippendale, they began the mission with adventurous trips to remote concert venues, performances from mt. kill man jari to machu picchu. >> whatever we do at love, hope and strength, we try to benefit a local community. ♪ ♪ to light the fires that i need to survive ♪ >> reporter: introducing the first mammography machines in nepal, building tanzania's first children's cancer center. >> every single child you see on the street here is a patient here. >> reporter: since 2007, love, hope, strength has criss-crossed the globe crazing awareness and money to fight cancer. they have found a permanent home

here, denver's red rocks amphitheater, where this summer they plan to be on hand for nearly 100 events. the amphitheater is a favored place of jennifer, who last year while planning her wedding, was diagnosed with leukemia. >> my whole world was turned upside down in an instant. i mean, it was just a huge, scary thing, thinking okay, if i don't have a match, what are we going to do? i mean, i have no other options. this -- i have to get a transplant. this is my only possibility of being able to live past the age of 25. >> reporter: someone on the donor registry, which love, hope, strength has helped grow by 25,000, was a perfect match. >> i mean, that was an incredible miracle. >> reporter: and that saved your life. >> it did, hmm hmm. >> reporter: each year, more than 18,000 people in the united states require a bone marrow transplant. just 30% of them will find a match in their family. the least likely to find a match are all from the hispanic and

african-american communities. which is why enrique iglesias now includes a love hope strength get on the list booth at every concert. >> i'm caleb. >> i'm jennifer. >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: caleb law joins the bone marrow registry at red rock two years ago. he's not jennifer's donor, but caleb was a match for someone. >> and the thing that really hit home for me, when i saw jen or other people, it's because i just love that tomorrow they will get a second chance at life. >> reporter: caleb's procedure, which is the least common, required a direct extraction from his hip and a few hours in the hospital. >> there is some pain involved in it. it is very minimal. there is a large misconception around donating bone marrow that even i had before i went into the process, but i think it's really cool that anybody can do this and save a life. >> reporter: just ask jennifer. though still undergoing chemotherapy after several

relapses, she got to marry the love of her life and is lanning for the future she wasn't sure she'd have. >> i want to travel with my husband and i want to have kids. i want, you know, just kind of all the normal stuff. >> reporter: while she makes those plans, mike peters and his foundation now join dozens of other bands and artists around the world to keep the music playing and that number of registered donors growing. [ cheers and applause ] for "cbs this morning," manuel bojorquez, denver. hall of fame baseball player rob carullo is an advocate for this. his daughter was plagued with it as well and she could not find a donor. and it's so painless to get on the registry with just a swab, and what bigger incentive do you need than to save a life? >> it's nice to see people teaming up, doing the things they would naturally do to team up with the causes. >> true, essence of teamwork. also, if you need a car ride fast, there is an app for that. steady customers say uber is

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this is crazy. race car takes a turn a little too fast, ends up rolling down the hill a dozen times. it happened during sunday's pikes peak international hill climb in colorado. and i think what's most amazing about all this is the driver and the co-driver, they say they're fine, just a little beaten up. they went to the hospital and came back. >> remarkable. >> yeah. >> i wouldn't want to go through that at all. >> no, thanks! >> they don't have a seat belt big enough for me with that one. nearly one-quarter of

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♪ ♪ shut up and put your money where your mouth is ♪ ♪ that's what you get for waking up in vegas ♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." look around, the economy is sluggish, unemployment is high, gas prices are going up again -- just hit $4 a gallon, the national average in california. so, you'd think that americans would be cutting back on travel. well, cbs news travel editor peter greenberg says not everyone. he's in las vegas this morning. and peter, what is going on there? >> reporter: well, what's going on here is something called virtuoso. they've been going on for 24

years. most of the public doesn't even know what goes on. imagine 4,000 people crowding into every ballroom in the bellagio. ceos, hotel owners, airline presidents, cruise ship owners and about 1,800 travel agent power people, including ministers of tourism and ambassadors. and what are they doing? they're buying and selling travel. and by the end of this week, they're doing four-minute meetings each. think about this, 350,000 individual meetings. and when that's over, about $500 million in travel will be sold. >> so, peter, it's described like a speed dating, if you will, with these ceos sitting down with travel advisers. that has to be an awfully effective sales pitch in a four-minute meeting. >> reporter: it is a very effective sales pitch because they know each other to begin with. they know their clients, and therefore, they come with a specific list, an agenda of what they want, and people are paying a substantial amount of money to do that, to travel. >> who are these people, peter, and what are they spending their money on? >> reporter: everything from a traditional week-long vacation to europe to over-the-top

safaris to islands in the south pacific, and let's not forget suborbital space. they've actually sold $10 million of the virgin galactic spaceship at $200,000 each. people are putting up $200,000 each to go up on that small, suborbital flight. >> so in a down economy, help me understand why folks are spending that kind of money on luxury travel, peter? >> reporter: bottom line is people still have money in the bank, they're taking a look at the economy and a lot of people are looking at this moment as a last mentality. if we don't go now, we'll never go. a lot of bigger multifamilies coming together to share the trips, even in an election year where people don't typically travel. >> are these all americans? i can imagine there's a great deal of money in russia. right now you have it in china, brazil. they are helping our economy here in the united states. i would guess they're a big part of this pie as well. >> reporter: a huge part of the pie as well because travel is one of america's best foreign travel exports. and in fact, it's about cross-border travel.

think about this, by the end of this year, we'll reach the point of 1 billion people crossing an international border, and that's the chinese, the brazilians, the russians, so there's a lot of money to be made. one of the averages i've seen is that on a week-long trip to america, the chinese tourist on average spend $15,000. americans don't come close to spending that. >> with the affluent being able to afford the luxury trips, the average american has to be asking, how can this help the general employment picture? >> reporter: well, it already has. when you have 1 billion people traveling, that makes the travel industry out-pacing the rest of the economy in providing jobs. this year alone, 283,000 travel jobs have been treated by the travel industry, which out-paces everything else. >> yeah, 29,000 created in last month's employment report for the people in the hospitality services industry. peter greenberg, great to have you with us. looks like a great assignment for you as well. >> reporter: you got it, and you know what? it's early in the morning here,

but the fountains are still on. >> and a lot of people are probably still up gambling behind you, too. peter greenberg, thanks. robin williams has done everything, from movies to mime, and he talked with charlie rose about comedy, and we will take a look at that conversation in a minute.

♪ dude looks like a lady good morning. we continue a look back at charlie rose's conversations with some of america's top comedians. in 2009, robin williams returned to stand-up comedy after a seven-year break. he talked with charlie about the lessons he's learned from comedy and from acting. >> stand-up, back to stand-up. >> it's been good. >> does that mean that that is your first love? >> yes, i think it was kind

of -- it has always been a wonderful kind of alternative to the acting, because it did two things, paid the bills and also great therapy. >> therapy. >> yeah, literally. i mean, to be able to talk about things, you know, whether it was things going on in my life, going on in the world it was always kind of a great relief. especially in the early days with mor-con, it was kind of the antimorph, i could do something slightly darker and crazier and wouldn't be stuck going, "hi, how are ya?" it was great to do something totally different. >> how is it today than when the days you began on the street corner in san francisco? >> i actually began doing mime in new york, which was crazy. i was going to juilliard perf m studying acting and i would perform mime and the scariest women in the world were, you would imitate them and they would be like, get away from me. it was before botox. even the animals, get away. but the thing of performing it

was get out and do it. it was that relief. >> good morning vietnam! hey, this is not a test. this is rock and roll! time to rocket from the delta to the dmz! is that me or does that sound like an elvis presley movie? viva danang. ♪ get a rope and hang me >> when you went into television and then went into film with "good morning, vietnam," and all that, was it a sense of coming home for you? because that's what you were trained to do at juilliard. you weren't trained to do stand-up at juilliard. >> no. i mean, doing television, i mean -- well, television was more like stand-up. >> acting. >> acting. when i finally did movies, that's what was strange to me that was like -- >> so that came easy to you when you made that transition? >> no, not easily. because first when you're doing film, example, "the world according to garb," i improvised, it was the first day of shooting and -- >> george hill. >> i improvise ed a line and he

goes. i go, not good. he goes, no. say the line, say the line and commit to that. and i go, okay. that was the first great lesson. second lesson came from peter weir, who said you know, you have great power listening. >> i went, really? that's the second part of the equation. when you listen to someone, it's quite fascinating and stillness is very powerful. and i went, second great lesson. and third great lesson is always find out where catering is. but the idea that these great guys were giving me great less jobs. >> listening is great. >> and the idea of great listening and what it means to be engaged in listening. and my other great gift was jeff bridges, who said whatever there's an accident, in terms of filming, not really something falling down, but a line gets flubbed or something may go off, he says that's a gift because that forces you to be in the moment and deal with it. >> what does iconic mean? >> i think it really means something that stands -- for me, if someone's doing an impression, it becomes iconic,

like, chris walken is iconic and beyond, and it's something that just stands on its own. it's so distinctive. >> guys love talking to him, don't they? >> oh, because punctuation is gone. a friend once told me he was standing in a puddle with his socks and everything, just in his socks and a friend said, what are you doing? and he said, "today, i'm an alligator," and they asked him that, said chris, if you could have anything, anything you could have, what would you want? he said, "a tail," because then you'd know if i was happy. my tail would be up and it would always move according to your motions. i'm surprised, question mark, punctuation, right now, maybe. >> good. >> yeah. >> who else do you do that you love? >> nicholson's the best, just because he's so out there. i love the fact that everybody in "the departed's" doing boston

accents. he's going, i'm not going there. just out on my own. this is who i am, you know? when he won his third academy award, i was with him, i had just won mine and he stood up and said, rob-o, i've got one for every decade. what a great night for me, yeah. >> the best. the best. >> he's pretty wild. and brando, i got to meet him and that was pretty great. he was teaching this acting class in l.a., and i got to kind of sit in on it. he said, you know, if i ever did a movie with you, it'd be really hard because i'd be laughing all the time. >> have you ever bought that there's some connection between tragedy -- >> tragic life? >> -- yeah, and comedic talent? >> well, comedic talent is a survival mechanism. yeah, i buy into that. it becomes that, because you went through and it was part of how they got through it. richard pryor said he had to be the funniest guy around just to not get the crap kicked out of him. the whole idea -- and it was

just him with the childhood of his mother working in a whore house and the comedy, doing characters, richard pryor started doing cosby and one night it snapped. i'm not doing this, and he found another side of him that tapped into the anger and all the other things, but he was funny with it, so he could get it out. >> he's one of those that everybody honors now. >> i used to see him performing at the comedy circuit getting ready for his stand-up, and he was the most amazing thing because people want him to do mud bone and he goes, oh, you people, you do it! and he would do characters and you could see him be possessed by these characters, and it was amazing to see him do and go free range with it. >> have you ached to have something you don't have? i mean, you've had enormous success. >> no. i think i am, as they say, content, and there's nothing like -- no, there's nothing i'm going, you know, envy on that level? no. i'm going, life is -- i'm at a

meet and right and so to do and as it should be and i'm in a wonderful place. >> quite a talent. >> also, talk about listening and playing off of that. so, now that i've listened to anthony mason, i know i shouldn't let all of america he blushed in that segment. >> the second time. thank you. >> i just wanted to bring that up. >> thanks. hey, folks, a company called uber says it has a better way to catch a ride. the ceo is here this morning to talk about his online car service and what he learned when his other start-ups failed. you're watching "cbs this morning."

romney unveiled his vice presidential choice at a rally on saturday morning, on the deck of the battleship "uss wisconsin," a ship on which both men served. i'm sorry, were served refreshments. the ship made for a patriotic backdrop but did have its drawbacks. while the next president of the united states makes his way down the stairs and over the monkey bars, down the rope swing. let me say this, it's a good christie. "i'll run in 2016." >> well, travis kalanick is an online entrepreneur who's been shaking up industry for years. his resume includes a bankruptcy and a multibillion dollar lawsuit, and his latest start-up, uber, is using a smartphone app to try and change the car service industry. and he joins us now here in studio. i love the way this is all introduced in that you believe

in creating disruptive businesses to upset the status quo. what does that mean in terms of your latest effort? >> well, you know, i think that's -- being disruptive is very familiar territory with tech entrepreneurs in silicon valley. for me, this go-around, my company's called uber, and our motto is "everyone's private driver." what it means is you push a button, and in minutes, a town car arrives and picks you up. it's disruptive, because for decades, in cities across the country and around the world, there hasn't been a good teran five for getting a ride in the city. the only alternative was taxis. and because of that, they've been very protective from any kind of alternative or any kind of competition. >> and it's interesting, because they still are pretty protective in many cities. you have the cab drivers, you have the other black car services in the cities banning together, saying we don't want uber here, because if uber comes here, we have new competition, but that's the whole idea behind the service. >> well, look, in almost every industry out there, competition

is a good thing, right? you have choice of restaurants, you have a choice of dry cleaners, you have a choice of almost everything you do out in any city. but for one reason or another, in transportation, they've found a way to work with city governments and lobbies so that there was no competition, and it's been that way for decades. and so, when you bring a competitive, a competitive service that's able, that gets people around, i like to say a classy and convenient ride, there's a lot of folks who get really worried who are in the incumbent industry, especially when they're not used to competing. >> i like what you said, you like to make incumbents of an industry scared. so, what are you doing that they're not doing? how do you make this ride cheaper? >> well, i think what we do that they don't is we focus on the customer, right? we focus on a desire. again, i'm from san francisco. it's really hard to get a ride in san francisco. and my co-founder and i, we were just sitting around, we'd say why can't we just push a button

and get a ride? and it's one thing to push a button and get a ride, but it's another to have a mercedes roll up. and that's kind of nice. whether it's a towncar or a mercedes, we have a cheaper alternative, too, but it's about capturing that core desire of getting a ride and use iing mato make the logistics of moving those cars much more efficient so you can do it cheaper. >> let me coattail off anthony's word, scared. you failed a number of times. i talked about a $250 billion lawsuit by media companies, large media companies. why didn't you run from the country? >> that's funny. by the way, i appreciate the intro when the segment started. that was great. [ laughter ] >> one of the reasons we had you here is because you've been so honest. but so many ceos, they're not as giving with their failures. they don't make their mistakes part of their story. >> sure. you know, i think what it's about is, whether it's about social media or blogging or some of the things that are happening

online, authenticity is how you tell your story now. and if you look at stories, you know, whether it be literature, history or just entrepreneurism, the stories can't always just be good. it has to be real, and it's the hard times that you learn from as much as the good. >> and i think that's probably a lesson a lot of people can take away, especially right now in the economy, the way it stands. i just want to clarify, you know, as far as the business goes. >> sure. >> who these cars are, how they're responding to this app in the first place. >> yeah. so, we don't own the cars. we're a technology company. we don't employ drivers. we work with small limo companies or sedan companies is the way to think of them, because they're town cars for the most part. and we give them an iphone. so, we have, i don't know, tens of thousands of these things around the world now in cars. and when a user opens up their phone and pushes the button, that request is routed to the nearest driver to them. >> and you can watch it on your phone. i've done this.

i've used this service before. as far as pricing goes, how does that work? >> typically, you know, we range between 40% and 60% more than a cab. so you know, what cabs are in that particular city, depending on what the price point is for taxis in that city, you're going to be around 50% more. >> you've been honest about having a lack of success before, twice. i think you've had two ventures that failed, right? what did you learn from those? >> i think -- i was sort of saying it before, is that in your toughest times is when you learn to be your best. and i think that is what you learned from it. and everybody has a different definition of what failure means. but in that way, you can look at, you know, your past experiences and be successful. >> resilience and perseverance is what i've taken away from your story and negotiating from a point of weakness. ten seconds on that, negotiating from a point of weakness. >> look, you've got to know --

what is it -- i can't remember the country singer that said you've got to know when to hold them and know when to fold them? and it's something like that. when you're in a weak position, sometimes you say give you a hard price and you just say yes. >> travis kalanick, thank you for being with us this morning. that does it for us. up next, your local news. and we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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