good morning. it's tuesday, august 21st, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. america's top general is safe after an attack in afghanistan. and a plea for forgiveness this morning as pressure mounts on senate candidate todd akin to drop out after his rape remarks. the number one golfer in the world talks to us about the home of the masters agreeing to have women as members. and is facebook failing its investors? but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. we are breaking news now from afghanistan. >> afghan insurgents target america's top military man. >> the plane of joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey

being hit with shrapnel from two rockets at bagram air base. >> dempsey was in his quarters at the time of the midnight attack and was not injured or in any danger. his comments about rape were deeply offensive, and i can't defend what he said, i can't defend him. >> pressure builds on republican todd akin after his explosive remark on rape and abortion. >> the views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. the clock is ticking. despite an apology for congressman todd akin to exit his missouri senate race. >> i used the wrong words in the wrong way, and for that, i apologize. >> i told akin, if you don't keep your promise to be on the show, then you are what we call in britain a gutless little twerp. firefighters in northern california are struggling to gain control of the growing wildfire that is threatening 3,000 homes. augusta national is no longer an all-boys club. condoleezza rice and darla moore will become the first women to wear the coveted green jacket. a pensacola police officer

fired for what he did in full view of his dashboard camera. the public bus made an unscheduled stop today inside somebody's house. a couple of people were inside that home. police say they're both okay. some unusual and hungry visitors are spotted near the jersey shore. dozens of sharks were jumping out of the water. all that -- >> 96, cunningham, punishes mike vick, and he's still down. >> kevin yoder apologized for swimming nude in the sea of galilee. here we have his excuses -- i can't swim naked, but barney frank can walk around like this? and all that matters -- >> a crewman aboard the international space station launched a satellite by hand. on "cbs this morning." >> pioneering comedian phyllis diller has died. her career spanned six decades. >> i want a peek-a-boo blouse and people would peek, then they'd boo. captioning funded by cbs

welcome to "cbs this morning." charlie rose is off. we begin with breaking news from afghanistan, where a plane of america's chairman of the joint chief of staff, general martin dempsey, was the target of troops. >> they attacked that at a.s base, but dempsey was not injured. kitty logan is in afghanistan. kitty, what do we know this morning? >> reporter: we know that rockets were fired into the u.s. air base late last night. they hit the plane, which general dempsey was due to fly out of. now, we understand that general dempsey was nowhere near the aircraft at the time. he was sleeping in his quarters. he was, of course, unharmed. he has since left the country. two military maintenance men were slightly injured by shrapnel from the rocket. also, he has now left the country, but the taliban has since claimed responsibility for this particular attack. they say they knew the exact location of his aircraft. now, international spokespeople here from the military are keen to point out that this was

perhaps a lucky shot, but rockets were fired into bagram air base as often as twice a month with very little damage usually caused. but certainly, this caused alarm. and as i mentioned, general dempsey was here in the country to discuss the military progress and to discuss the latest in the attacks, but he has safely left the country. >> kitty logan, thank you. now to politics. nearly everyone, including many republicans, have denounced senate candidate todd akin's comments about rape and abortion. >> this morning, the missouri republican is resisting calls from his own party to step aside. and in this campaign ad, he is asking voters in his home state to forgive him. >> rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way, and for that, i apologize. as the father of two daughters, i want tough justice for predators. i have a compassionate heart for the victims of sexual assault and i pray for them. the fact is, rape could lead to pregnancy. the truth is, rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the

words i said, not in the heart i hold. i ask for your forgiveness. >> jane crawford jan crawford i massachusetts covering mitt romney's campaign. good morning to you. >> reporter: listen, you heard in that ad, he can sks for forgiveness and people can forgive him, but that doesn't mea they have to vote for him, and that's the concern of the republican party, and that is why you're seeing a full court press from republican leaders to get him out of the race. >> i can't defend what he said, i can't defend him, and he needs to take these next, well, 24 hours to spend time with himself, with his family and conclude what's right for him and his family and also for the thin he believes in, for the country. >> reporter: romney and other party leaders suggested akin should ste aside after the missouri senate candidate said this when asked if abortion should be legal for victims of rape. >> it seems to be, first of all, from what i understand from

doctors, that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> reporter: the reaction from republicans was unforgiving, leading senators called the remarks offensive and inexcusable and urged him to reconsider his candidacy. >> if it was me and i had an opportunity to let someone else run to actually give ourselves a better chance of winning, i would step aside. >> reporter: akin repeatedly apologized but is refusing to drop out, even after increasing pressure from influential conservative commentators, including sean hannity. >> have you thought about the consequences of that? democrats now have a ton of ammunition. i would at least be thinking about what is in the best interest of the party. >> i made a single error in one sentence. one of the things that has to happen is we've got to win this senate seat. i still believe that i'm in the strongest position to do that. >> reporter: president obama, whose campaign is using the akin comments to argue republicans are bad for women, also weighed

in. >> the views expressed were offensive. rape is rape. what i think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women. >> reporter: now, republican leaders who really were never keen on akin as the candidate to begin with are going to be keeping up the pressure. texas senator john cornyn is leading the charge, and we have confirmed, cbs news has confirmed that vice presidential nominee paul ryan called akin yesterday. and there is a growing frustration from some of these leaders that he has not already stepped aside, that he's still hanging on. i talked to a senior gop source last night. he kind of reflected some of this frustration. he said it's hard to reason with an idiot. >> yikes! jan crawford, thank you very much. cbs news political director john dickerson is here now as well as soon-to-be "cbs this morning" host norah o'donnell. >> thanks! >> we'll see you at this table a lot more. welcome, guys.

john, everyone pretty much has abandoned todd akin at this point. does he have any reasonable options to continue the campaign? >> reasonable, if he were. i mean, everybody has said stop, go, be done with this, and he's not moving so far, so his option would be to continue on and continue on against his party and threaten the chance that his party has to take over the senate. i mean, he is a pariah. he would be sort of an all-star pariah if he stayed on beyond this deadline that missouri has for him to withdraw in the state. >> nobody wants to be an all-star pariah, but do you think there's a small part of him that may be considering -- we keep hearing about the 6:00 deadline. because sometimes what people say publicly is not what they're thinking privately. >> sure, that's possible, but what we're hearing is that he's resisting, and there have been plenty of people are opening exit doors for him. and you know, they keep opening these exit doors and he's not walking through them. so, he may have some grand scheme about getting out before 6:00, but the people most concerned about getting him outdo not see this scheme and

they're worried he's not going to take it. >> top republicans have called him and said you're done. we're not going to give you $5 million from the senate committee. crossroads, an independent super pac, says they're not giving him $5 million. this has already cost him $10 million. some republicans say he doesn't have enough money to win and that's why he put out this fund-raising appeal. in terms of the democrats, you heard the president coming before the press corps after avoiding them for eight weeks to slam the statement, but then also to try and tie akin and his comments to the republican party's platform, to a bill that akin has co-sponsored with congressman ryan to try and make this larger political point about the republican party and women's rights. so, you see the democrats also at this point saying, hey, we hope akin sta in. >> yes. >> because claire mccaskill was the most endangered democrat in the united states senate, and now she has a hope of victory. >> and even she is saying, listen, let the missouri voters decide, leave him alone. >> yeah. >> leave him alone. >> right. >> please leave him alone! >> she's getting some more rope

for him to continue hanging himself. what norah said is really important, though. the obama campaign was already attacking mitt romney on the republican platform on abortion, which doesn't have an explicit exemption for rape and incest, and so they were already about this business. and so, now a republican senator here, key to their chance of taking over the senate, comes out and does this, it falls already into an existing strategy. >> john and i were talking about this. we're less than a week away from the republican convention. >> yeah. >> mitt romney and paul ryan want to present themselves in the most favorable light to the american people, talk about their biography, talk about their plan for the future and why they have a better plan on the economy. if akin is still running for the united states senate, everybody is going to be asking about akin, abortion rights, women's rights, et cetera, during the republican convention. >> and i should quickly note that mitt ryan does believe in an exemption for rape and incest. >> mitt ryan? >> you know, there's so much -- >> quite the combination!

hard to think we won't hear something from todd akin before 6:00 tonight. do the republicans have someone to step in? >> they do. they have two other republicans who are running for the nomination, who they favored. so, there are other republicans who could quickly take over. >> also, when i spoke to you about this, this rare news conference we got from the president yesterday, where he got a lot of questions about the tone of his campaign. he tried to distance himself from these ads you've both seen, the super pac ad that suggested the death of a steelworker's wife was somehow due to mitt romney and what he did at bain capital. let's quickley listen to that. >> i don't believe governor romney is somehow responsible for the death of the woman that was portrayed in that ad. but keep in mind, this is an ad that i didn't approve, i did not produce, and as far as i can tell, has barely run. >> norah, he seems to skirt around it just a little bit. why not just announce it and say this should never have been on the air? >> that's an interesting point and nancy cordes asked a great

question to the president. >> yes, she did. >> why not denounce this and say it should never have been on the air? i thought it was noteworthy for the president to know it only aired once. that's the level of detail, even though his campaign did not run the ad. this is something obama has to answer for, the tone of the campaign. many believed obama was about hope and change in 2008, but it is true, he ran a very negative campaign in 2008 as well. there was a tough race. it was a tough race against hillary clinton and it was a tough race against john mccain, and they are running another tough race again in 2012. so, you know, i think as the word has been used, it's not patty-cake in politics. it wasn't in 2008 and it's not in 2012. >> they don't call it a blood sport for nothing. >> that's right. >> thank you, both. >> thanks, guys. norah, we'll see you back here soon. in monday's white house news conference, the president also gave a blunt warn to syrian president bashar al assad, saying if he used chemical or biological weapons against opposition forces, the u.s. would consider a military response. >> we have been very clear to

the assad regime, but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus. that would change my position. >> the president's statement echoes jordan's king abdullah who told charlie rose two weeks ago that the use of chemical weapons by syria would be a trip wire for many nations. ten years ago, the nasters golf tournament was hit by controversy over the all-male membership of its host. the augusta national golf club in georgia did not change anything until monday. >> augusta national now says two women have been invited to join one of the world's most exclusive clubs. we'll hear from the world's top golfer in a moment, but first, armen keteyian reports on the women breaking down the barriers. >> reporter: former secretary of state condoleezza rice started playing golf just seven years ago at age 50, a way to ease the

white-hot pressures of washington. today she plays to a very respectable 15 handicap, has two swing coaches and is a member of five clubs, including now augusta national, the hallowed home of the masters and an all-male enclave since 1933. but no longer. on monday, the club announced that rice and south carolina banking executive darla moore had accepted invitations to become members at augusta. in explaining the historic decision, current club chairman billy payne said, "these accomplished women share our passion for the game of golf and both are well known and respected by our membership. it will be a proud moment when we present condoleezza and darla their green jackets when the club opens this fall." in a statement, rice said she was "delighted and honored" and had "long admired the important role augusta national has played in the traditions and history of golf." as for the 58-year-old moore, in the 1980s, she became the

highest paid woman in the banking industry and the first ever profiled on the cover of "fortune" magazine. earlier this year, augusta once again found itself caught up in the all-male controversy after newly appointed ibm ceo virginia rometti was not offered membership. a key corporate sponsor, ibm's four previous male ceos had all been members of augusta. the first major protest against the club's all-male policy surfaced a decade ago, led by women's rights advocate martha burke. on monday, burke called the decision a milestone for women. >> this is a victory not only for the u.s. women's movement but for women in business, working women who now have access to one more hall of power. >> reporter: and at long last, a masterful moment as well. for "cbs this morning," armen keteyian, new york. >> and on monday, charlie got reaction to this historic

announcement from pga champion rory mcilroy. >> the masters announced that they have two, offered invitations to two new female members. it's a good thing. >> it's a great thing. it's a great thing for golf, it's a great thing for augusta. i think it's something that they should have done a while ago, but it's great to see and it's great to see that, you know, they're moving with the times, things move forward and that would be great to see some female members at augusta. >> i assume this is just the beginning of it, too. they wanted to do it on their own time. >> yeah, for sure. and i think people have to respect that as well. you know, it's such -- the club's full of such tradition and such history, and i'm sure making a decision like that was, you know, from the outside would seem easy, but you know, from the inside, i'm sure it was a lot more complicated. >> we'll hear more from charlie's interview with rory mcilroy tomorrow, only on "cbs this morning."

this morning, three generations of comedians are remembering a stand-up pioneer. phyllis diller died monday at her los angeles home. she was 95 years old. diller was one of the first women to make it in stand-up, starting in the 1950s. she was known for that cackling laugh and her wardrobe as much as her jokes. we'll hear some of those jokes and talk to diller's colleague and friend joan rivers, next hour. the ponderosa wildfire north of sacramento, california, is getting close to three small towns this morning. more than 1,800 firefighters are trying to get it under control and the weather is starting to help them. tammy litener is at the fire command post in red bluff. tammy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff and gayle. this is day four in the battle of this fire, a fire they are continuing to describe as challenging. the wildfire is now 35% contained but has devoured more than 16,000 acres, destroying seven homes. >> i know.

it will be okay, though. it will be okay, promise. everything will be fine, i promise. >> reporter: after living in manton for 15 years, jamie ann fredericks watched his fire burn in hours. >> it's devastation, and this is nothing compared to a few miles up the road. >> from a distance, it looks like anatomic bomb went off. >> balancean chief shane lauderdale says there was little firefighters could do to initially protect the homes. the quick-burning fire ripped through nine miles in just the first ten hours. why is this one gone and this one's still safe? >> it's really a matter of what was done to protect the house ahead of time. they've cleared up all the vegetation around it, then we have a fighting chance. >> reporter: firefighters had taken the fight to the air, but heavy smoke has hampered their efforts, so additional crews have been brought in, working tirelessly. >> we know we saved well over 300 structures. >> reporter: fire officials tell us they can usually contain a

fire within one day and keep it under five acres, so that really gives us some perspective on just how big and serious this fire is. it is time now to show you some of this morning's headlines. the "wall street journal" says apple is now the most valuable u.s. company ever. apple's total value surged to more than $632 billion on monday. "los angeles times" reports nasa has given the green light for a new mission to mars. the news comes two weeks after landing of the curiosity rover. the new mission is scheduled for launch in 2016. they will explore how mars was formed by measuring seismic activity. the "new york daily news" says that rosie o'donnell suffered a heart attack last week. according to her blog, she had symptoms, she looked them up online, took a few aspirin, then went to the cardiologist the next day. doctors found that a coronary artery was 99% blocked, so o'donnell was hospitalized and had a stent inserted. yesterday, she wrote "i am lucky to be here."

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check this out. new research shows that angelina jolie and hillary clinton are actually ninth cousins twice removed. or as one guy put it, i think it's time for a family reunion. welcome back to "cbs this morning." facebook's stock hit another all-time low on monday, then bounced back to finish the day at just over $20 a share. that's about half the stock's original price, and some wall street watchers are wondering if facebook's ceo, mark zuckerberg, is doing enough to help. >> one man who was not surprised by any of this is alexei ohanian of reddit.com. look what he said before facebook went public in may. >> why would you not touch thi thing with a long pole?

>> well, i've got some reservations, and in part because the facebook business model is one that replies on display ads, sort of like google, but doesn't have the same purchasing at that moment that google does. when you do a google search and see a relevant ad, it's because you're seeking something out. but on facebook, you're looking at photos from your dad's fishing trip, and i'm not convinced they can continue to grow this business in a way that still treats users well, and that's the concern here. >> was he right? alexis ohanian is here along with rebecca jarvis. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> let's start with you, alexis. what did you see that others did not? >> the price they were hoping to get of the ipo did not seem to be justified based on the business model they had, and if they're going to justify it, it's going to have to be something bigger and better than just display ads, especially now that more than half of facebook's traffic comes from mobile, where the display ads don't really work, and that unfortunately, you know, while they are profitable, they're not as wildly profitable as that ipo

would have led investors to believe, and it's going to take a big change. >> let's assume the ipo was priced too high, then. is this more just ipo hangover or is this true intrinsic business problems? >> i would say for the time being still hangover. i'm not yet convinced, because you know, facebook is still a huge, huge company. it's like something we've never seen before in terms of the impact it has. if they can invent their way to a new business model, one that still respects users, like i said, because they are notoriously fickle. look at myspace. look at friendster. look at all the others before it. it's going to take something big, and i think they've got the right people in the company to do it. i just don't know because expectations, obviously, have been set really, really high. >> mark zuckerberg seems to be keeping a low profile these days. do you think he should be doing more things publicly, rebecca, to reassure investors? >> well, i think it depends who you're asking about this. within the company, what he really has to do is assure his employees that facebook is on the right track. you don't want to lose those

minds, and that's really what facebook is about, it's about the technology, it's about the engineers that exist within facebook that are going to come up with something, a way, ideally, to make money for the company, but also ways to make our user experience better. those billion people who are using facebook are very valuable, but facebook still has to find a way to make them valuable and to make them count. and like alexis said, selling ads isn't the only way they're probably going to do it in the future. they have to reinvent that. >> but we should point out that facebook is not the only internet company that's facing stock problems right now. you've got zynga, there is groupon, which has slid dramatically. the question has been, is this another dot-com bubble? is it fair to call it one of those, rebecca? >> i think what you're seeing here is stocks that get priced at ipo based off of the frenzy that investors have around them as opposed to what the fundamentals of these companies are saying about their future. these are long-term stories in most cases, and the way that investors invest in public stocks is very short-term.

and when you focus on that short-term element, you can price a stock way above where it should actually be, and that's what you've seen, and most investors would say that's what you saw on facebook, that's what you saw with groupon. >> what's the difference between now and the dot-com bubble as you see it? >> well, so, back then, it cost a lot more money to start a company. now you literally can just have a laptop and get going. >> and a room, yeah. >> and that means that you can't justify nearly taking as much of the investment as companies used to 10 or 15 years ago. like, some of those obscene valuations were based on the obscene amounts of money they were taking to get started. then you also have just the fact that the internet has become such a bigger part of our lives. there are start-ups, epic failures like webvam from the last bubble that are now seeing born again as things like freshtrack. i don't know many new yorkers who go to the grocery store when they can go online and have it delivered. >> the companies are still making the money. at the end of the day, the big

difference between the dot-com bubble and right now is when these companies go public, they might not be making as much money as we'd like them to make, but they have a steady stream of revenue. >> should we read anything into the fact that the famed investors, peter, an angel investor, sold his facebook shares yesterday, 20 million of them? >> he got in a long time ago, before this was a public company. so, there is some of that in the same way that employees are selling out of some of their stake. you do see investors that invested in this company getting out because they need to show a return to their other investors. i think that, you know, anybody who's looking at this stock needs to think about it individually for themselves and they need to realize this is a highly traded stock, it is not a long-term hold right now for most investors. >> all right. rebecca jarvis. >> rebecca jarvis, alexis ohanian, thank you very much. >> thank you. america is dealing with many problems right now, but author and columnist thomas friedman says there are solutions out

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people are out of work and they're hurting, and they're all wondering what they're going to do to make a comeback, and we're all scared because this isn't a game. the people of detroit know a little something about this. they almost lost everything. but we all pulled together. now motor city is fighting again. >> 100 million americans saw that chrysler ad during this year's super bowl. "the new york times" columnist thomas friedman is using it as a jumping off point for a new edition of his latest book. >> he and co-author michael mandelbaum focus on four major challenges facing the u.s. in "that used to be us: how america fell behind in the world and how

we can come back." tom friedman is here in studio 57. welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> i read this book when it came out. it's hard not to have a strong reaction to it. you start with that ad, which was a controversial ad at the time. why start the book with that? >> well, you know, clint eastwood was really telling an important story about how we have fallen behind in the world. think about what that ad focused on, jeff. he was talking about the auto industry and what happened. now, basically, back in the '80s, you know, people said japan is the big threat. when you think about it, japan really threatened two american industries, consumer electronics and autos, and challenged one american town, detroit, which that ad focused on. where we are today, 30 years later, which is the merger of globalization and the information technology revolution, that merger challenges every american town and every american industry. that is what is new. >> so, the challenges come from where then? >> well, the challenges come from the fact that, you know,

when i sat down to write this book with michael, i actually went back to the first edition of the book i wrote in 2004-2005, called "the world is flat," which is about the world getting connected. >> yeah. >> and i opened that book up to the index. facebook wasn't in it. you were just talking about facebook. >> oh, man. >> yeah. >> so, when i wrote "the world is flat," facebook wasn't around, twitter wasn't around, the cloud wasn't around, linkedin wasn't around. so what's happened is we've got from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. and what that means is, if the world were a single classroom, the whole global curve just rose. why it's d it rise? because every boss now, including yours and mine, has access to cheaper software, automation, robotics, cheap labor and cheap genius than ever before. and hence, i think, you know, michael and i would agree, the most important chapter in this book is so much about education, it's called "average is over." >> yep. >> average is over.

>> yeah, yeah. >> you have the old saying in texas, if all you ever do is all you've ever done, all you ever get is all you've ever got. that's not applicable now. it's not all you'll ever get. we all have the effort. >> but you say the lack of jobs is not what's holding us back. that's not what it is. it is in your opinion? >> well, so many other things, gayle. it's infrastructure, it's immigration, it's the right rules to incent risk-taking and prevent recklessness, all of these. everyone wants kind of a one-stop solution to all our problems. we got here because we did a lot of things right. we had a formula for success, which was educate our people to use the best technology in the world, have the best infrastructure, have the most immigration of talented, energetic people, have the right rules, have the most government-funded research. if you go down that list today, you'll see we're falling behind in all five categories. >> do you think people realize, tom, how crucial education is? you know, when people start talking about education, a lot

of times their eyes glaze over, but it's so important that we get this right. >> well, it's so important, because today, gayle, even with the merger of globalization and the i.t. revolution, there is no decent job that doesn't require more education. you know, i was at san francisco airport last week at the premiere counter now. i had to check myself in using the machine there. i noticed there was just two united employees behind this long counter, okay? everyone else was checking themselves in, and even the guy moving the bags was a contractor. he didn't work for united. so, in other words, all those, you know, those jobs that were at that level, they're gone now. you have two people there. and someone maybe is running those machines out there. that's a good job but a higher level skill that it will take. >> i want to ask you you about syria. >> please. >> before you leave here, because the president mentioned chemical and biological weapons as a trip wire. are there other trip wires, in your estimation, that would get

the u.s. involved? >> you know, i think that's the big one, jeff, because syria has somewhere between 30 and 40 sites where they were storing chemical weapons, and you see that country collapsing, you see order in that country collapsing. the people are asking most of all about that are the israelis. they're saying who's got the chemical weapons? who's in charge, al qaeda or one of their affiliates, those in there? what happens? we're right next door. >> will this strike iran. >> i think it's now a 50/50 proposition. i think we're really getting close, when reading the israeli press, to a big decision. >> all right, thomas friedman, thank you. >> pleasure. thank you guys. >> may i mention your book? >> fantastic read. check it out if you get a chance. >> the expanded paperback edition of "that used to be

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♪ during her swim, diana nyad faced more difficult conditions on the fourth day of her marathon trip from cuba to florida. another storm slowed her down overnight, and there are conflicting reports at this hour on whether she just ended her attempt. >> she had hoped to celebrate her birthday tomorrow as the first person to complete that swim without a shark cage. elaine quijano is in key largo, florida, this morning. elaine, good morning to you. what are we hearing? >> reporter: good morning to you, jeff and gayle. well, there are reports that diana nyad has been pulled from the water, but we've been unable to confirm that. now, what i can tell you is that not too long ago, in fact, about 15 minutes ago, "cbs this morning" did talk to members of diana nyad's support team, and what they told us is that overnight, diana nyad did suffer some serious jellyfish stings.

now, this is on top of injuries that she received earlier in her swim when she also was jellyfish. what they said to us is that they are concerned certainly about her health, that that, in fact, was her top priority, and they were working to assess her health at that time. they also said that diana nyad made very clear she did not want to get out of the water. in fact, one person, a team member, said "she's a tough, old bird," but diana nyad clearly wanted to continue this attempt. now, diana nyad had tried this three times before. this, in fact, was her fourth attempt, and she had been on track to head to key west. however, she suffered a series of setbacks, including a couple of storm swells. unclear right now what her status is. we're working to gather more details. gayle and jeff? >> all right, elaine, thank you for the update. phyllis diller said that she became a stand-up comic because she had a sit-down husband. we'll remember the woman behind

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it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. charlie rose is off today. >> and i'm jeff glor and we have some breaking news at this hour about diana nyad. cbs news has confirmed that she has abandoned her attempt to swim from cuba to florida. nyad was taken out of the water a short time ago after more than 60 hours of swimming. this was her fourth attempt. so, once again, diana nyad is out of the water this morning. tough news for her. >> yeah, but the most important thing is her health. jellyfish stings cannot be a good thing. she wanted to stay. >> she was going through a lot. phyllis diller made americans laugh for nearly 60 years, and as we told you earlier, she died in los angeles monday at the age of 95.

before we speak with her friend and colleague, joan rivers, bill whitaker looks back at a comedy pioneer who loved life and loved to laugh. >> reporter: for phyllis diller, comedy was not pretty. >> i am in the 14th year of a ten-day beauty plan. >> reporter: it was sarcastic, self-deprecating and funny. >> i do dinner in three phases -- serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead. >> reporter: phyllis ada driver was born in 1917. she was a house wife and a mother until her then husband, who was unemployed, forced her in her late 30s to become a comedian to support the family. >> someone had to make a living. turned out, it had to be me. i have a theory that to make a comic, you have to have suffered some kind of an abandonment or loss or lack in childhood. i was raised on fear all my life. >> reporter: she was a hit doing stand-up in clubs around the san

francisco bay area. then, discovered by bob hope, diller started doing tv with early appearances on groucho marks' "you bet your life" and the game show "what's my line?" soon, she was on tv and in nightclubs everywhere. >> i was actually the world's ugliest baby. when i was born, the doctor slapped everybody. >> reporter: or her mythical husband, fang, a creation that was only an extreme exaggeration of two of her real-life husbands. >> the last time there was a gleam in fang's eye there was a short in his electric blanket. [ laughter ] that's my real laugh. in the beginning, it was nerves, nerves. just, you know how when people are nervous, they giggle? >> reporter: phyllis diller did a few movies with bob hope but mainly stuck to what she knew best, and it might surprise you that one of the things she knew best was playing the piano.

♪ but what we knew best were the outrageous outfits, the proud admissions of plastic surgery, one of the first celebrities to do so, and the nonstop one-liners. >> i'm in such bad shape, i wear prescription underwear. >> reporter: phyllis diller paved the way for countless female comedians and always had the last laugh. [ laughter ] >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," bill whitaker, los angeles. >> phyllis diller called joan rivers her protege, and joan is with us now to talk about her longtime friend. hello, joan rivers. >> nice to see you. sad to see you in this moment. >> no, no, i feel the same. i know you and daughter melissa had lunch with her a month ago. >> yes. >> what did she mean to you? >> she represented the first woman stand-up that just stood up, didn't sing, didn't dance, just went out and competed with the men on their turf and did it

brilliantly and was a great, a great gag writer, you know. she cared about each word. she was very precise. i was crazy about her. and lovely. very kind. >> kind. >> to the people coming up. she saw me first in greenwich village and i was on the bill with barbra streisand. she had all the as in her name. you know how long ago that was. and phyllis came and sat in the front and laughed and applauded and was so generous when she went backstage. >> what was she like three weeks ago when you saw her at lunch? was she ill? >> no! >> how did she seem? >> she was 95. >> yeah, yeah. but she was lucid, correct? >> beyond lucid. >> yeah. >> we exchanged -- we both were wearing jewelry, we exchanged necklaces. and i said to her, she got the better deal. she was fine. she was losing her eyesight a

little bit, but boy, oh, boy, sharp. we were talking about comics and the internet. i mean, right up there. >> if she was first -- and she was first -- how long was it, do you think, before she was accepted? >> she had a long -- well, she started late. >> 37, right. >> yeah, and she was in advertising, you know, copyrighter. it took her a long time because she was a first and people didn't want to see a woman. and she was good looking in private life. she made herself that very, with the hair and, and um, i think it took her longer because she was a woman and she had to make herself really homely. she had to unsex herself totally. >> she was so comfortable, joan, talking about plastic surgery, the first thing most women don't do. >> no, and she wanted to look good and the money came late and she wanted to look good. she had five children and bad marriages and she wanted to look good. and she was chic in real life.

i was crazy about her. >> did she inspire you in terms of talking about your own plastic surgery and things you've gone through? >> well, i was like, i think if phyllis can do it, i can do it, and i can stay under the radar because they were making such jokes about her at the time. >> she talked about the nerves she dealt with in the beginning. >> in the beginning, yes. >> did she still deal with those? >> i still do, but not -- she had more confidence than i. she walked out on a stage, and to the end, from the first time i saw her to the last time i saw her, i never walked away without saying, why didn't i think of that? she was so smart and she cared so much. she never skimmed. >> you know what i thought was interesting when i was reading about her life? number one, she lived to 95, as you said. >> great life. >> i think so, too, and it said, joan, that she died with a smile on her face. i'm thinking if you've got to go, in your sleep with a smile on your face, not so bad. >> the last time melissa and i went to her house at brunch, i

said to her, is there a man in your life? and she said, "yes!" [ laughter ] so, she had friends, had kids in her house. she had a great life. >> you mentioned when she was in the audience there in the front. do you have a favorite memory other than that or a favorite joke? >> a favorite joke was, again, she taught me to be very simple. one of the first jokes i heard her say was so easy. she said i always serve chocolate cake at my house because it doesn't show the dirt. well, that tells you who she is, what she is, what she hates. >> can i just say, in the car coming here this morning on the radio they were playing her stuff. she says "you know you're old when a walker has an airbag." i thought that was -- even the driver started laughing. i thought that was really good. she was really able to laugh at herself and make fun of herself and that's always a good thing. >> i just, i usually, when somebody dies -- i've been tearing up all day. i really liked her so much, so much. >> we did, too. joan rivers, thank you very much. >> thank you.

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♪ for years, the music industry has struggled to keep up with the digital revolution and lost big money because of online piracy. one estimate says that americans

illegally download between $7 and $20 million worth of music every year. >> so the industry is turning in part to live music, including music festivals, as an important source of cash. rebecca jarvis has been checking out the festival scene this summer. rebecca, good morning. >> tough assignment, jeff. well, when you think of music festivals, images of mud cake, rain-drenched seas of humanity may come to mind, but times, tastes and prices have changed, and events featuring music of every genre are springing up all over the nation. ♪ >> reporter: almost half a century ago, concert promoters on both coasts gathered together some of the biggest names in music. built stages in open fields. and the american festival scene was born. ♪ this summer alone, more than 500 festivals took place. they now cater to every musical

genre, from rock and roll and folk -- ♪ well, there's a man down there ♪ >> reporter: -- to classical and jazz. ♪ the fans' musical styles may vary, but they gather for one common purpose. ♪ she lies and says she's in love with him ♪ >> reporter: to immerse themselves in music. >> this isn't like, oh, i leave my home and my job and i go to a concert and spend a couple hours there, and then i get back to my life. this is like, i'm going to go in and i'm going to spend three, four, five days just living and breathing music and music bands or the music lifestyle. and i think that is a real special part of why people keep paying up. ♪ >> reporter: and paying up they are. while the recording industry has seen a steady decline over the past decade, live music is thriving. from 1999 to 2009, concert ticket sales tripled from $1.5 billion to $4.6 billion, thanks

in part to festivals. >> for tickets as cheap as $35, $40, $50, you might be getting access to, you know, 20 or 30 artists instead of just getting access to one. >> one of the challenges is just going to get the event out there. >> reporter: dave is a 28-year-old concert promoter who recently introduced a festival of his own. he's hoping to cash in on the fans' appetite for a bargain as well as an artist's willingness to play the festival circuit. >> you can't take away the experience. it's not going anywhere, the festival experience, it's not disappearing. >> reporter: music festivals, though, are by no means guarantee money-makers. in fact, he expects to take a loss. he's more concerned about fans walking away with a weekend to remember. why take the risk? >> i suppose, in my eyes,

creating something like this is, it's like a baby for me to create, you know, creating something from nothing that becomes a really positive thing in people's lives all the time. ♪ >> reporter: country star jason aldean understands the value of a live show, but like many others, he jumps at the chance to play festivals, like wisconsin's country thunder, not necessarily for the money but for the scene. >> gives you a chance to come out and do some shows with some other acts, and i think it's cool for the fans, too. everybody that comes out to these things are here for two reasons, you know. they're here for the music and they're here for the party. and that is two things that go hand in hand in my opinion. ♪ now hang me up to dry >> reporter: so, while the music industry searches for a way to stay ahead of the digital age, fans and artists are reaping the benefits of an experience that simply cannot be replicated.

>> you just can't replace that emotion, that feeling, that connectedness of being in a room with 15,000 people losing your mind all together to an artist that you love or a new artist that you've just discovered. ♪ >> nothing beats the experience of live music, nothing. and i know you're a j.d. fan. >> oh, yes. >> so he has a big one coming. >> huge in philadelphia. >> from drake to pearl jam. >> exactly. >> you're taking us, correct? i remember being at woodstock '99. >> yes, you do remember. >> you weren't there, unfortunately. >> i wish they could find a way to have chairs at music festivals, but that eliminates the fun, right? >> gayle, come on. >> well, you can take a break, go back to it. >> exactly right. i know, i know, my age is showing. i get it. i get it. great fun. >> lots of fun. >> always great, rebecca. thank you very much. all around the world people are dressing up in white and

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♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." new york's lincoln center for the performing arts became a work of art itself last night. >> that's because more than 3,000 people all dressed in white gathered for a very unusual dinner party. the guests did not know where it would be until an hour before dinner time, but we got a behind-the-scenes look. this is what dinner on blanc looks like when it's under way. a few hours earlier, people walking by had no idea what was

to come. sandy safey helped organize the dinner. >> the guests are very involved in the event. they are actually participants in the event. >> people signed up on the internet and paid $25 each to attend. most brought their own forks and tables and chairs. dinner enblanc started in paris in 1988 and from humble beginnings has exploded in popularity. last year was the first time it was held in new york and it was a turning point. >> after new york, the buzz was worldwide, really. and then we started receiving requests from all over, not just the united states or north america, but all the way to australia, sydney, singapore, and even rwanda. >> this year, the party is getting even bigger. events are scheduled in more than 22 cities on five continents. the founder's son has been the driving force behind the explosive growth. >> we do this first for passion, and it became a big success in paris, because if it works in

france, it could work everywhere. >> facebook and twitter are important tools in getting the message out. but old-fashioned word of mouth still plays a role. to find out the exact location, diners met at points across the city. this group met in midtown manhattan at 5:00. >> that's a mystery. >> can you tell me the secret place? >> no, i can't tell you right now, but we'll all leave from here together. >> let's go. we're going. >> each group was assigned a leader, who led the way to the still-secret location. >> i thought we were going to central park, but i don't know, maybe we're going to lincoln center? >> only about 20 production staffers and 100 volunteers were needed to put on the event. >> it's terrific. there is an excitement in the air. >> pretty awesome, huh? the cultural hub of new york city, some may say the world. >> from different points in the city they arrive, and they arrive at the same moment at the same place. it's amazing. i love it. [ cheers and applause ]

>> this was a crowd of serious foodies. >> lots of cheese, tomatoes, salad. >> they're having a dish of light salad. >> as day turned night, the mood became positively giddy. >> it's me and like eight girls. >> 11. >> 11. [ laughter ] >> i'm not complaining at all. >> and the other part is the dance. ♪ >> probably in the mood of, wow, let's go party now. [ laughter ] >> i feel fantastic. i feel that everybody had a good time. >> but all good things must come to an end. by 11:00, the diners had done their own cleanup and the event was just a memory. >> i think i saw you dancing. >> i want to go. i want to go! >> i thought i saw you dancing in there somewhere. >> i wish. my bedtime is 8:06, but that is my idea, jeff, of a good time.

you sit down, you have a lovely meal with nice people. i like it. >> well, we have the thing about the music festivals. we have a flash dinner, you could do a flash music festival. >> i like it. a cold beer goes well with a warm dinner. we'll meet the man who brought us samuel adams beer. there he is, jim cook

now to show that he's a regular guy, president obama, you know what he does? >> huh? >> you know what president obama chose to do that he's -- >> huh? >> he brews his own beer at the white house. >> oh, no, no, no. >> yeah. he and, i guess the cabinet buddies get together -- >> ah hah! >> he's like a regular samuel adams, apparently brewing, smelling the hops. >> samuel adams was a founding father who made his own beer, and so is jim cook, founder and chairman of the boston beer company. in 1984, he started selling his samuel adams boston lagger in

about 25 bars and restaurants. >> today his company produced 2 million barrels of sam adams a year. jim cook is with us this morning and joins us at the table. hello to you, jim cook. >> good morning. >> here you are, you go into harvard undergrad business and law because the family is thinking maybe you'll do something else, and he says, nope! i want to go into the family business. >> yeah, my dad was not really thrilled when i told him i was going to leave a good career, high-paying job, to go back into what my family had done for 150 years, which is, you know, make beer on a small scale. he thought that was about the dumbest thing i had ever thought of. >> they call you the johnny appleseed of beer, so, what is it you like so much about this concoction? >> well, to me, beer is one of the great treasures of mankind, you know. it's been with us -- >> treasures? >> -- for 12,000 years. it's been part of our civilization since people settled down into villages.

and for many years in the u.s., it's become this kind of mass-marketed, mass-produced product, and it lost the dignity and nobility and respect that beer deserves, and i'm trying to bring back flavorful beer that will earn that respect. >> and that was the goal or the point from the very beginning? >> well, in the beginning, it was to survive, you know? we were two people with this tiny little beer in an industry just dominated by these huge companies. so, i just wanted to find a little niche by making beer that had a lot of malt, a lot of hops, a lot of taste and went the opposite way of making lighter and lighter beer, making richer, more flavorful beer. >> and now you're doing 2 million barrels a day. >> i know. it sounds like a big thing now. we just made it to 1% of the u.s. beer business, so 28 years to get to 1%, and i'm proud of that. >> but you have to feel good.

so, you see david letterman, so you're part of the american culture. probably remember the beer summit they had at the white house with the professor and the police officer. wasn't there a sam adams on the table? >> yes. professor gates brought a sam adams with him. >> yes. >> shows why he's so smart. >> yes, he is that. so, when you see your product that way, what are you thinking inside? you've got to feel so great about that. >> well, that is, to me, it's this wonderful thing that, you know, quality beer has entered the mainstream of american culture, and a little guy who starts in his kitchen, you know. 28 years ago i was making sam adams in my kitchen. and in this country, i had an opportunity to not only succeed as a business but help create a beer culture in america that's really changing the way americans think about beer. >> have you had this beer, this white house beer, by the way? >> no, i haven't. >> do you want it? >> well, i was reading about it, and he has a little ways to go as a brewer. >> oh, boy!

oh, wow, okay. >> they're making a honey ale, and i've made some of those, and they've become too sweet. that old coin, you know, beer needs to be balanced and complex. so, if i were to give him a little advice, i'd say add some lemon zest in the kettle to balance the sweetness, and then make a honey-lemon ginger ale, because the spiciness of the ginger will balance that honey. and ironically, that's the recipe of another president. three of the first four presidents were brewers -- george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison were all brewers. you know, john adams wasn't because he had his cousin, sam adams, make beer for him. and in thomas jefferson's journals, there's a recipe for a honey-lemon ginner ale, which is really good. >> i think we're finding a common link in all these great men, and it clearly is beer.

jim, i want to ask you, what is craft beer? i know it's a little bit of a moving target. are you still craft beer? >> yes. there is a brewers association, which is the association of craft brewers. and craft beer, technically, it's small, independent, traditional brewers. so, basically, the little guys like sam adams and 2,000 other craft brewers out there who are making the more flavorful, bigger, more interesting beers. >> and we should mention, by the way, i mean, you know, you talk about the tradition of beer and where it started, but really, i mean, america has been at the forefront of taking beer that step forward in the past 20 or 25 years, and that continues. i mean, nobody else is doing it like this. >> no. very few people in america realize that today, america is the envy of brewers in the rest of the world. the craft brewing movement in the united states has spawned craft brewer breweries in engla

belgium, because they're going through now the same mass market consolidation with a handful of huge brewers, and in the rest of the world, the entrepreneurs are taking their inspiration from american craft brewers. we get german brewers coming to our brewery in boston wanting to know, how are you doing this? this is really cool! we want to do this in germany. >> can i just say i love the enthusiasm that you have for what you do. you really, you can feel it, too, jeff, can't you? >> oh, yes. >> no, really, i love the enthusiasm for what you do. >> well, i'm very lucky. you know, i get to get up every day and do what i love. >> and you taste every batch. that's what i read. i'm thinking, you don't look like a drunk, mr. jim cook. >> well, i am a professional, a trained professional. >> he's a craftsman. my brother's a brew master, trained in germany. my brother went over there. now as he mentioned, a lot of people are coming to the u.s. to learn as well. as my brother says, it's beer.

if you're not having fun with it, probably get out of the business. >> yeah, there's something wrong with you if you can't have fun making beer. >> you talk about the dignity of beer. i think for most people, they're thinking i'll just grab a couple of brew skis. i don't think of it as a dignified drink, and you say, no, no, it's very much so. >> yeah. beer is going through the transformation that wine has already gone through. there was a time when a wino was an alcoholic derelict and the preserved serving vessel was a brown bag. beer is going through that, and america is now creating a beer culture, just like we created a wine culture. >> i'm curious, we only have 20 seconds left, jim, but do you drink things other than beer, wine or anything else? >> not much. i sometimes try lesser beverages, but i try to stick to beer. >> lesser beverages. >> yeah, i like that. you named it samuel adams instead of after the cook family. i'm thinking since it's in the family, why sam adams? what's that mean to you? >> well, sam adams was a wonderful historical figure. >> yes. >> he was a brewer, he was a patriot, he was a revolutionary, and he, for america, declared

political independence. i wanted sam adams the beer to declare beer independence for america. >> well, i think you can say you did that. >> cheers. are you, quickly, holding out hope the red sox can make the wild card or not? >> no. >> really? >> not really. >> tossing out the season. >> no, i'm going to drown my sorrows in beer. >> jim cook, always a pleasure to see you, sir. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. listen carefully. up next, we're taking you to two of the quietest spots on earth. it is not jim cook's brewing room. >> right. >> that's up next on "cbs this morning." ♪ a little less conversation, a little more action ♪

you know, there are a lot of cute animal videos online, probably too many, but this is the best one i've seen in a while. let's see that again in slow motion, if we could. way up in the air! like the johnny knoxville of dogs. >> just when you think not another animal video, they show one and you say i haven't seen that one. >> that was pretty good. >> that is pretty good. peace and quiet is not easy to find in our busy world, as we showed you weeks ago. jeff went looking for it in the olympic park. >> the two places are drastically different but offer something hardly ever experienced today, the actual sound of silence. deep in the rain forest of olympic national park in the

northwest corner of washington state, there's a place that to gordon hempton means everything, because there is nothing. >> once where it was just silence was a drain for a long time. >> this tiny plot of land, a five-hour drive from seattle, a two-hour hike after that, is what hempton says is the single quietest place in the lower 48 states. why is this area so quiet? >> well, because it's in the corner of the united states and it also gets so much cloud cover. >> once we approach the location, hempton allows no one to speak. >> if you speak or you stir light, if i catch you checking your e-mail or anything like that, you're going to get the look that will haunt you for the rest of your life, so don't you try it. >> you want no sound like that. >> actually, i want only the sound of nature.

>> it sounds like this. [ birds chirping ] >> when you put the headphones on, it's an awakening. it's unusual what you hear, right? do you get that reaction a lot? >> i get that reaction all the time. >> i mean, i was hearing things i've never heard before. he's been tracking the sounds of silence for 30 years, looking for locations where nature is uninterrupted by manmade noise. he says they're disappearing fast. >> noise pollution has increased unprecedented levels in this country, where noise-induced hearing loss is now the number one occupational illness. so, i think as the world is getting noisier and we feel the assault, we really realize, you know what, quiet is an essential quality of life.

there are no quiet places. >> this is the room on the right. >> well, there is one. it's freaky looking. >> it is. >> but it's by no means natural. first of all, why are we floating? >> because this is what's called a full chamber. >> reporter: located at orrfield laboratories in minneapolis, the world's quietest room is completely sound-proof. decibel levels can reach an incredible negative 9. compared that to 72 decibels of background noise at the airport, 59 in a car, 57 if you're lucky in a quiet office. >> this is the only place you'll ever be where the only thing you hear is the source of the sound and you hear no background noise level. >> anacoic chambers can test almost any product, even an air force plane, but not everyone can handle this one. >> people go nuts in here. >> people could. >> after just a few minutes.

>> there are people who have walked into the room, taken one step on to the floor, said they were disoriented and they didn't want to be in here and they walked out. >> total silence can be so jarring that some experience hallucinatio hallucinations. orfield says the longest an outsider has lasted inside the chamber is 45 minutes. so, we let him lock me in. orfield and the production crew monitored my progress via headphone. >> i hear your stomach gurgling. >> and didn't free me until 46 minutes later. >> it's bright. coming in and assaulting me with a camera? >> that's right. so, tell me about your experience. did you hear your heartbeat? >> i definitely heard my bodily sounds. >> right. >> i guess the bottom line is, it is very difficult to achieve silence. >> it is. it's very difficult. the world, in my view, it's

basically gone. >> 1,600 miles away, gordon hempton might not be able to hear us, but it sounds like he agrees. >> there is a tremendous momentum that's been created by industry that's telling you that noise is important. play it loud, be loud, live loud. well, quiet is the new loud. >> the beauty of washington state. >> amazing. >> it's still -- i remember the first time i saw that piece and thought i want to go there. >> it's a gorgeous, gorgeous -- it's not easy to get to. >> i see. >> but i would encourage anyone if you get a chance to check out one square inch of silence, go. >> and the purpose of a quiet room is what, jeff? >> they do a lot of testing in there, product testing, essentially. whether it's a speaker system or whatever else. but that's why he's built that. but it is, it is a very odd feeling to go in there. >> i'll bet. >> because you start shaking.

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