. good morning. it is thursday, august 23, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. our new poll shows mitt romney gaining in battleground states. the man who helped kill osama bin laden is telling his story and only on "cbs this morning" roger clemens, his first national interview, since he was cleared of lying about steroids. we begin this morning with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> if we had to make that decision to cancel or postpone or to move the convention, we will do that. >> tropical storm isaac churns towards tampa and the republican national convention. >> isaac is expected to be a category 1 hurricane by the time it approaches hispaniola

tonight. >> threats to parts of the gulf coast. >> it happened four years ago. the republican convention nearly destroyed by hurricane sarah. do you remember that? >> we are in the midst of one of the biggest outbreaks of west nile virus ever. >> there have been 41 deaths nationwide. >> last week it was 693 illnesses and now it's 1,118. >> three times the norm. >> the worst outbreak since 1999. >> west nile virus is endemic to the united states right now. it will be here for years to come. >> a chilling firsthand account of the way they killed osama bin laden is set to hit store shelves next month. written by a navy seal. >> curiosity making a first test drive. the rover will begin it's month-long trip searching for signs of life. >> extreme flooding is happening in nevada. las vegas. shut down roads and intersections.

>> police are looking for the person behind a cruel prank. a turtle was spotted duct taped and dangling from balloons. >> that's a nice play. that's hard to do. >> if you're googling harry nude photos. make sure you spell harry right. trust me on that. >> folks, i can tell you that i've known eight presidents. >> on "cbs this morning" imt. >> ll cool j took down a suspected burglar inside his home. broke his nose and his jaw. then held him down in the kitchen until the cops showed up. >> of all the houses that guy could have picked, ll cool j's was probably not his best could have picked, ll cool j's was probably not his best choice. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." new poll numbers from three important swing states show a tight presidential race is getting tighter. new york times quinnipiac cbs news poll shows president obama's lead in florida is down

to just three points. mr. obama had a six-point lead at the end of july. >> the president is still leading mitt romney in ohio. however, in wisconsin, the home state of romney's running mate, he's in a virtual tie. just two points behind. jan crawford is in madison, wisconsin. good morning to you, jan. >> good morning gayle and charlie. in 2008, president obama won wisconsin by 14 points. now the latest poll shows that huge advantage is gone. this swing state is up for grabs. >> i'm delighted that i got paul ryan to help me get that job done. >> romney has reason to be delighted. tapping ryan as his vp moved the needle and made the badger state a battleground. >> one in three wisconsin voters are more likely to support romney since he put ryan on his ticket. >> ryan is viewed more favorably here than vice president biden who had negative ratings in all

three swing states we polled. since the announcement of ryan for vp in all those states, republican enthusiasm for the election is up. >> gop voters say they're more excited about voting than they were four years ago. by wide margins over democrats. 17 points in florida, 11 in ohio and 16 in wisconsin. >> massive changes in medicare. >> but voters aren't enthused about changes to medicare. by a two to one margin, voters favor keeping medicare as it is rather than a voucher type program the gop supports. the white house has been looking to expand that advantage. >> they'll give you a set -- the government will give you a set amount of money to go out and find your own insurance policy. right now, it's guaranteed. >> but the romney campaign has been fighting back. arguing the president is the one taking money from medicare. >> what president obama will not tell you is that he took $716 billion from the medicare

program to pay for the obama care program. >> leaking medicare to the president's health care law is where republicans see an opportunity. our polls show the president's signature achievement remains unpopular in all three states. another challenge for romney is the gender gap. he trails the president among women by 12 points in florida, 13 in ohio and 9 points in wisconsin. so expect more introductions like this one on wednesday from iowa's lieutenant governorment. >> president obama is yet again on the attack trying to divert attention from his failed economic policies which have been especially devastating to women. >> now, the gender gap could continue to be an issue for romney, especially in light of the controversial comments about missouri senate candidate todd akin who talked about rape and abortion. our poll does not take those comments into account, though. gayle and charlie, it remains an open question, what, if any,

impact they'll have on this presidential race. >> jan crawford, thank you. the republicans have spent years planning their 2012 convention in tampa. this morning, tampa's mayor says they are ready to call it off if they have to because tropical storm isaac could reach the city by monday night. david bernard is chief meteorologist of our miami station. that would be cbs 4 watching the storm. david, what's happening with isaac right now and should tampa be worried? >> tampa should be concerned, as well as the entire state of florida. let me explain what's going on, gayle. the good news is when we look at the latest advisory, the storm is not any stronger than it was last night. it has 40 mile per hour winds. the thinking is, as it approaches the coastline of haiti and the dominican republic, by friday afternoon, it could be a category 1 hurricane. those mountains might weaken it again. but as it travels over the very warm atlantic and florida straits, we could be looking at a hurricane again by sunday night into early monday morning

somewhere in the florida keys or over southern florida and passing close to the vicinity of tampa monday night into tuesday morning. now, here's why i think this storm is going to take the general path that we've been calling for the last couple of days. this blocking high has been driving it to the west. but that is going to be breaking down. that's going to open up an alleyway to turn the storm toward the north. here's where the devil's in the details. we don't know how far west the storm is going to get before it begins a northward turn or how far east it will get. that's what will determine exactly where the storm ends up. in other words, would it be more of a direct impact on tampa, stay west of them or hang back further to the east and the east coast of florida more toward miami. it's going to be a real tricky forecast over the next few days. there's going to be probably a lot of little turns in the path you might say as well as the intensity as far as how strong this storm could eventually get. we'll know more by late friday into early saturday.

>> david bernard, thank you. this morning the deadly outbreak of west nile virus is taking off. the number of reported cases jumped 60% last week. the virus has been detected. ktvt has the story from hard-hit texas. >> good morning. airplanes took off again here last night as aerial spraying for mosquitoes expanded to several cities across dallas county. the entire city of dallas has already been sprayed twice. and the centers for disease control is here to analyze mosquito traps and see if this plan of attack working. nationwide, 1118 people have been infected with west nile virus and 41 people have died. one of the largest outbreaks in u.s. history. here in texas, where half of the infections have been reported, the mild winter and hot summer have aligned with a severe drought to create the perfect outbreak conditions. >> the drought means there are very few water sources

available. that's where the mosquitoes breed and then the birds which carry the virus go to those water sources, the mosquitoes bite them, they're infected and then the mosquitoes bite us. >> only one in five infected people get sick with fever and aches. but 1 in 150 people develop severe symptoms, including disorientation, coma and paralysis. >> i almost lost my dad to a simple little bug. >> it was kind of shocking. >> 12 days after contracting west nile virus from a mosquito bite, this man suffered pain in his abdomen and lost control of his legs. >> by that time he wasn't alert anymore. he couldn't move. he was very confused. >> currently, there is no anti-viral treatment for west nile. a vaccine has been available for horses since 2003. but there was never enough demand for the vaccine to be developed for humans. >> people need to remain vigilant. it only takes one infected mosquito to contract west nile. we're never going to get every

single mosquito out there. it's very, very important that people continue to use deet and take their personal precautions. >> infections are expected to continue to rise. some health officials believe this may just be a taste of the future. some of them think that changing weather patterns may allow mosquitoes carrying the disease to continue to flourish. charlie, gayle? >> thank you, sir. a shift in the wind is helping firefighters in northern california as they battle a massive wildfire. the ponderosa fire is 55% contained. a state of emergency has been declared in three counties. flames are -- crews turned the fire away from two other small towns that were threatened. the fast-moving fire destroyed 69 buildings, including many homes. mitt romney is outlining a new energy policy to open up more areas to oil drilling and coal mining. he says it would make america energy independent by 2020. four years ago, t. boone pickens

presented his pickens plan to reduce america's dependence on foreign oil. t. boone pickens, welcome. >> thank you. uch read a brief outline of what mitt romney is going to say. what do you think of his plan? >> i was disappointed they didn't mention natural gas. the united states has more natural gas than any other country in the real, the cheapest energy of any other country in the world. natural gas, oil and gasoline. they never mention that. i cannot believe an energy plan that i saw and i know i saw the outline, but there's no mention of natural gas. you use natural gas to replace diesel in the 8 million 18-wheelers in the united states, there are 250 million vehicles in the united states. take 8 million of them and go to natural gas and you'll cut opec by 75%. >> and america will become a net producer of energy rather than user of energy? >> we'll still be a user, because we want to use and work

with the canadian and with mexico. a north american energy alliance would make a lot of sense and to put together mexico, the united states and canada and then we would be energy independent. >> when you look at energy plans, has america ever had an energy plan? >> no, never. we're the only country in the world without an energy plan. we use more energy than anybody else. we use about 20 million barrels a day. next to us is china. ten million barrels. we import half that we use and we import that they wroo. >> on natural gas, are you sure the price will remain where it is to make it so attractive. >> i guarantee that a price stay where it is? >> no. what's your expectation of price? >> let's get to btu, our energy value for oil and gas. it's six to one. we've never seen it, for instance, if you had $100 oil

that you would have $6 gas. so we're at $3 gas. >> i read an interesting article about you last week that said the romney-ryan campaign would benefit with a sit-down session with you. are you interesting in sitting down with them. >> i've sat down with them. >> are you interested in playing more of a role in the campaign. they said you were the guy to call to get the energy situation straight. >> i've sat down with them. i mean, if that's the energy plan right there, i didn't have much input on it. >> that's my point. you didn't convince them. >> natural gas is not part of the plan. >> exactly. i didn't influence anybody. if the outline i've seen and we haven't seen the plan, but the plan has to have all the resources in america. >> what about president obama and his energy plan? >> i don't know. his comments, i saw that rae lease that we've got to go to

renewables and gas mileage on cars. renewables are less than 2%. get serious. if you're going to have renewal bls, wind and solar, you have to subsidize the heck out of them. >> you're a big man on wind. all you talked about was wind when we did a 6 o minutes piece on you. >> you know why? >> why? >> you could do wind then because natural gas was $6. wind is priced off the margin. with natural gas at $3, no wind. >> that's why i asked the question about natural gas of $3. >> it's not going to stay $3. >> it goes up to $6, what happens? >> you start to bring wind into the picture. >> do you expect -- why is it that the united states has not had the kind of energy plan? what's the problem? is it politics or is it something else? >> honest answer. >> you really want the answer? >> they don't know anything about energy in washington. they don't understand it. and but one thing that we're missing in in conversation, the

industry in the united states has done a fabulous job of providing oil and gas. we're one of the two countries in the world, last year that increased oil production. we have as many wells drilled in the united states as the rest of the world. meaning we punched holes all over the place. okay, just a second. but we've done nothing for demand. all we talk about is supply. romney is talking about opening up the east coast, west coast, federal lands, everything. hey, look, our industry is -- >> and conservation too demand and conservation. >> everybody talks about conservation. what does it mean? i don't know. but i mean -- our industry has poured out the supply to the united states and they've done nothing about demand. now you're talking about, well, natural gas, we have so much natural gas, we'll -- we'll export it. hey, wait a minute, we're still

importing crude. why are we going to take clean natural gas and send it out of the country? that tells you there's no plan. i mean, nobody sat down, understood they ought to call a summit and bring together -- >> there you go. there's a plan. kr don't you do that? >> you could do that. >> i already know what to do. i don't need a summit. >> you're saying they need a summit and you could contribute to the summit. have a summit about energy. >> i've contributed. they don't pay any attention to me. >> great to see you. >> thank. >> t. boone pickens. some of the heaviest fighting this month in syria broke out in the capital of damascus. as charlie d'agata reports from amman, jordan, government forces fired on the same day the last u.n. monitors left the country. >> the outskirts of damascus, the western suburbs, they say that helicopter gunships, tanks and mortars are being used. they say the government forces are advancing into those neighborhoods going house to

house in order to clear rebel fighters. despite the violence over the last couple of days reported to be the heaviest damascus has seen this month comes as u.n. monitors are pulling out. their mission had ended, it was decided that it wouldn't be extended because the situation is far too dangerous and frankly, they weren't doing much to stop the bloodshed in the first place. there's also fighting reported in aleppo, the second city in syria. syrian state television showed what they called a pro-government rally in aleppo and the capture of weapons from rebel fighters. as the situation continues to deteriorate in syria, there are raising concerns about the stockpile of chemical weapons from the regime. earlier this week, president obama said that the use of those weapons would be considered a red line and would carry enormous consequences. to that end, the president called david cameron yesterday to discuss the chemical weapons

and said even the threat of using the weapons would cause the united states and britain to revisit their approach on syria. for "cbs this morning," i'm charlie d'agata in amman, jordan. the mars rover curiosity, completed its first test drive. the first photos show that curiosity rolled forward about 15 feet yesterday, leaving tracks in the martian soil. in the next few days, curiosity is scheduled to start a first big trip to a point 1500 feet away. it's expected to take 1.5 months. it's time to show you the headlines. the washington post has a warning from the congressional budget office saying the economy will fall back into recession if congress does nat act to stop tax increases and budget cuts from taking effect in january. the federal reserve is inclined to act fairly soon to boost the economic recovery. >> google has a shrinking number of women in positions of power. so the tech giant is trying to figure out how to recruit and retain female executives.

too many women drop out of the interviewing process and don't get promoted at the same rate as men. >> economic troubles are forcing europeans to cut back on coffee. consumers are skipping their daily business to local coffee bars and there's a growing demand for less expensive coffee blends. the new york post reports an aspiring actress is trying to extort millions of dollars from harvey weinstein. she threatened to kill the producers and members of his family if he turned down the demand. shaw targeted at least four other tycoons and families. he's being held without bail in

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." the los angeles police department has spent 20 years trying to overcome an image of being tough and sometimes brutal. this morning, bryan mulligan, a banker connected to the movie industry claims he was kidnapped and beaten by l.a. police officers. so he's filed a $50 million with the city. john miller, former lapd deputy commissioner, joins us now. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. this is a bizarre story. like a lot of hollywood stories, there are two versions of the script here. while the actors are the same, the plot lines couldn't be more different. according to police, mulligan was acting strangely out of

control and had to be subdued. according to mulligan, he had three separate encounters with police that night. part of a bizarre conspiracy to rob him or frame him, but here, you listen to mulligan's version first and then what the police say happened. >> this is what bryan mulligan looked like in his lawyer's office this week. >> i anticipate we're going to have to file a lawsuit. >> the very picture of a powerful hollywood banker. but this is what he looked like after his encounter with the lapd in may. >> he got hit right across the face. fracturing his nose in 15 spots. and then they jumped on him and they caused a lot of other scrapes about his body, lacerations to his face. >> here is mulligan's version as told by his lawyers. on may 15th, mulligan was stopped by police on the street near a medical marijuana dispensary. he says he was detained and

questioned and then told to go into this building to meet another police officer. mulligan claims he heard a man being beaten inside so he fled. two hours later and blocks away, mulligan says he was detained by other officers and then taken to a motel where he claims he was told by police, if he left, he would be killed. according to his lawyers, mulligan suspected the police might be after the $5,000 in cash they found in his possession. later, fearful, he left the motel but was found by police a few blocks away. mulligan's lawyer claims police chased mulligan down and beat him up. >> here's a guy that was unarmed that had committed no crimes and why they're using this kind of force to take him into custody is just absolutely mind-boggling. >> here is the lapd version of the story.

police say officers responded to calls about a man trying to break into cars near this jack-in-the-box. when they came upon mulligan, they questioned him and they say they found $5,000 in cash in his possession. the police report says mulligan admitted to police that he had used marijuana and ingested bath salts four days earlier. >> he was very much out of it. they believed he was under the influence of some type of controlled substance. so they called out a drug recognition expert to do a field examination. the lapd says he passed the test and asked to be dropped off at this motel to get some rest. >> mr. mulligan was taken to a motel at his request. the officers were doing what they felt was in the best interest of his public safety. >> hours later, police say they spotted mulligan again now running through traffic trying to get into occupied

automobiles. when police confronted him, the police report says mulligan abruptly turned around and took a combative stance by arching his back, holding up both arms above his head, contorting his hands in a claw-like manner while simultaneously bearing his teeth and snarling. >> it was at that point that the officers grabbed ahold of him to control him, took him to the ground and handcuffed him. during that process, that use of force, he did sustain some injuries that required hospitalization. >> mulligan's lawyers claim the facts contained in the police report are just part of the cover-up. >> the officers are trying to exculpate themselves from their unmerciful beating of mr. mulligan. >> so there you have two versions of what happened that night. one thing is clear in this story. someone is lying. now, both sides have their own investigations. mulligan's lawyers demanded documents and hired

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♪ five years after roger clemens threw his last major league pitch and two months after he was found not guilty of

perjury in a steroid scandal, he is returning to pro baseball this weekend. as jim axelrod reports, clemens says he just wants to have some fun. >> gives me great pleasure to introduce the newest sugar land skeeter, mr. roger clemens. >> yes. you heard that right. the newest skeeter is roger clemens. the roger clemens. the rocket. owner of 354 major league wins and more than 4600 strikeouts. >> 3-2 pitch. >> the last time clemens took the pitching mound professionally was in 2007 for the new york yankees. saturday he'll do it again in the quaint confines of constellation field in a houston suburb. the question is, why? >> i believe that part of this is a comeback trail. it's a comeback from what? his name has just been dragged through the mud. >> clemens was dogged by allegations leveled by his

trainer that he had taken performance enhancing drugs as a player. a charge he denied to mike wallace on "60 minutes" in early 2008. >> never. i've trained hard my entire career. just it didn't happen. >> why would brian mcnamee want to betray you? >> you know, i don't know. >> it's a denial he would repeat under oath to congress later that year. >> i have never taken steroids or hgh. thank you. >> government prosecutors said that was a lie and took clemens to court twice. the first attempt to prosecute the pitcher ended in mistrial. then this past june he was acquitted of all charges. >> it's been a hard five years. >> now clemens returns to the place he's most comfortable and at his best. on a hill 60 feet 6 inches from home plate.

who knows where his trail could lead? >> there's always somebody who will take a chance on roger clemens being a draw. >> for "cbs this morning," i'm jim axelrod in new york. >> we welcome roger clemens for his first national interview since his trial. good morning, roger. >> good morning. >> why are you coming back? obviously, it will be fun. is there more to this? >> well, my former hitting coach with the houston astros is the manager with the sugar land skeeters. we started talking about this back in april. and it was so far away, so far down the road to even think about. ee were talking about different players that were going to come through the independent league and play and try and work their way back to the big leagues. we've been talking and i've been throwing and running and working out. we thought it would be fun to do. it's been a little more work than i would have liked to get out there even to go through what i'm going to go through here, which will be like a spring training start.

it might be one, two, three innings depending on how i feel out there. so we're having some fun with it. it's got great publicity, obviously. deservingly so. this is a great ballpark in sugar land that the guys put together. we're going to have some fun. >> i understand all of that. is this the first step of an effort by you to get back to the major leagues? >> charlie, i appreciate the flattery. it's a lot of work to get back to where i would be five years ago. we've got fun things planned hopefully in the future. if i can get through saturday and we'll see where it goes from there. >> do you think it's possible? >> i'm not even close. >> you're not close. is it possible to get back to the form you showed in 2007? >> i think anything is possible if you have the mind-set and the will and desire to do it and put the time in. but it's a little different what i'm doing than running three miles at memorial park twice a we week. >> would you be doing that if you didn't want to make it to

the majors? >> i've already made it to the majors and retired three times and back. i've got my hands full at the house. i wish it was that easy. i am fortunate that my body responds well to ice and so we'll go out here and like i said, it will be -- i'm going to try -- >> you're being hard on me, roger. you're -- >> i wish i could worry about that, look that far ahead. we have some fun things planned. maybe another surprise or two. we'll wait and see what happens after saturday. >> do you happen to answer to the question that mike wallace asked you more than once. why would andy pettitte and brian mcnamee testify against you? have you found out? do you come to some understanding of why they did and said what they said? >> charlie, i'm not even going to get into that. we've handled that. i handled it in a fair setting. it was fantastic.

andy pettitte really testified for me of what we all said and what we knew. we finally got a fair setting to do that instead of speculations and everybody's thoughts. i would appreciate the people making comments about it to do a little more reading and understand and read what's real tli. >> are things good with you roger and andy pettitte these days? >> i haven't talked to andy. i heard a few comments about this little episode i am going to do on saturday with the skeeters. and andy has been positive. i've always been in his court, even during his comeback. i think it's great for the yankees that andy is back. he can help some of the young pitchers and he's a great leader. >> i'm curious about you and the skeeters. as we said in the piece, yes, it's the roger clemens. you are still considered one of the baseball greats. how are you feel getting ready to pitch for the skeeters? are you humbled, embarrassed, excited? >> well, all of that. like i said, i've had my foundation here in houston for 20 years now.

that's what we do. we help others. if i have the opportunity to help others, i'm going to try and do it. if we can make it fun, great. i might not look too good out there. but i am going to go out there. there are a lot of people that will be excited. some people haven't seen me throw before. it won't be like five years ago. we're not kidding anybody. i'm going to go out there and try and get guys out. there's a few guys on the team i want to help. same thing talking to mr. crane with the houston astros, there's some guys there with my personal contract that when i have the opportunity to talk to those kids and root for the underdog, i'm trying to get them to the major leagues also. >> roger, if you don't make it to the major leagues for whatever reason and maybe that's not your intent, clearly, a man who has had your record in baseball wants to be in the hall of fame. do you believe this controversy about steroids will affect your chances of making it to a hall of fame? >> i can't control that, charlie. again, like i said, all i can

do -- i went out to play the game of baseball because i love to play it. i did it right, i did it the right way. i worked hard doing it. during the comebacks that i had, i would have never made the comebacks if somebody that i think highly of or that i admire a lot called me and asked me to come back and go to work for them. that took a lot of effort. the hall of fame is great. i got a lot of great buddies there. the guys paved the way for me to do what i loved to do. make a lot of money doing it. take care of my family. i'm appreciative about that. i can't control t it's not going to change my life either way. >> we have a lot more questions. we also have a clock. roger, thank you so much for joining us from houston. >> thanks, guys. >> thank

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hanging out by the pool at the hotel on friday. by the way, if you're googling harry nude photos, spell harry right. buckingham palace confirmed that the pictures are harry which is -- we at least knew he was british. i just think it's refreshing to see a famous redhead drunken stripping that isn't lindsay lohan for example. many people say he's 27 in a private room. i would like to know who leaked the pictures. >> who do you think it might be? >> a former friend. a former friend. it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. i'm charlie rose. a controversy focusing on the raid that killed osama bin laden.

as bob orr reports, it's a first person story told by one of the navy seals who helped take down one of the world's most wanted terrorist. >> it takes us inside the counterterrorism since 9/11. no easy day. the mission that killed osama bin laden was written by one of the navy seals who led the assault on the a abbottabad compound. the author using the fictitious name mark owen has changed the names of all the seals involved to pro teblgt identities. the book due out on september 11th is being published by dutton. cbs news learned owen may not get the manuscript approved by the white house, the cia. the publisher in a statement says the book has been cleared by a former special operations attorney. he vetted it for tactical, technical and procedural information, as well as classified information and found it could be without risk to national security. while much has been reported

about the raid, including the crash much one of the blackhawk helicopters use in the assault and bin laden's final moments, the book marks the first time someone who was there has revealed the tales of the operation. it fuels some debate. >> tonight i can report -- killed osama bin laden. -- >> while the mission is widely seen as one of president obama ace greatest foreign policy successes, the release in the middle of the president's reelection campaign potentially could impact the election. >> the former special operations officers has already accused the president of revealing sensitive information about the mission and politicizing it for the campaign. >> when was the last time you saw bin laden? >> and conservative groups are also angry about an upcoming movie, zero dark 30. that film about the bin laden raid is rumored to be set for an october release.

unlike the new book, it will appear after the election. for "cbs this morning," bob orr in washington. senior correspondent john miller is here again. he's a former deputy director of national intelligence. he intended a briefing after bin laden was killed. i find this fascinating. the manno owe spoke for nsa, not nsa, but the national security adviser to the president. a man who is a press spokesman for the navy, a press spokesman for panetta don't know anything about the book and haven't read it. >> i made the rounds yesterday and said was this book vetted? i say this because i had to take a pen and sign a nondisclosure agreement in the intelligence community saying i would never reveal classified information that i learned in the course that work. i'm bound to that by law.

as is any navy seal. anybody with a top secret clearance. what you see here is an interesting gambit. they've skirted the process. they hired their own expert. think said you vet it. that is not the way -- this is not an elective. this is a requirement. this is a mandatory. so i guess the gamble is here you have a true american hero, part of the team that went in after osama bin laden and took him down. i guess the gamble is, is the government really going to come after a guy like that. the question is did he do a good job of vetting his own book? >> are you surprised he would even do a book. that's what i find astounding. >> i don't. >> you don't? >> i tell you, gayle, this had to happen. >> so soon? >> well, it had to happen sometime. the clock starts ticking the moment that one of the couple dozen people on the team that hit that compound retires. the clock is ticking as somebody is going to tell this story.

the question is who is going to do it and who is going to do it first. the person who does it first, let's be candid here, it's a moment in history, it needs to be told. but the person who tells it first, is going to be in a lucrative position to sell that story. >> do we say this is a former seal who since retired after the raid or was a man who still is on seal team 6? >> we would assume it's a former seal who retired sometime after the raid. because that's what we've been told by the publisher. but also, if he was a current member of seal team 6 and he wrote a book like this, he'd be a former seal tomorrow. >> what happens if the government decide he revealed seek -- >> there's lieutenant colonel shaver who wrote a book. defense intelligence guy. what happened is the government reviewed the book, didn't see anything as a problem. then it was later reviewed by the nsa and others.

they said there's 50 things to take out of here. so they bought, bought for 57 -- $47,000 the 10,000 copies of the initial run of the book and shredded them. so in the great law of unintended consequences, they made him an instant best seller. because they sold out his first run and got a second printing. >> there's one quick aspect. some has it tied to politics. some will say it's an effort by certain people to benefit the president because it was, in fact, a historic and much praised -- >> fascinating question. so that gets to two disparate arguments. who is mark owen, the former navy seal and what are his connections to politics, if any. there shouldn't be any. it also kind of blunts the argument that politicians shouldn't be telling these stories. the navy seals know what's safe to say and what's not. if he's laying out the story, it makes it harder to say this

stuff shouldn't be told. >> thank you, john. >> fascinating story. thank you, john miller. it is older dads may be better prepared to take care of their kids. but there's new evidence that shows their children have a greater risk for conditions like autism. we'll take a look at that next on "cbs this morning." [ loud party sounds ]

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turtle down. the humane society is now investigating. somebody's idea of a very bad joke. britain's prince harry faces possible military discipline for the nude photos put online this week. in the old days, those pictures would have been all over the london tabloids. not this time. kelly kolb a is outside buckingham palace and joins us with the story. kel, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, gayle. we understand that prince harry is back from his vacation in las vegas where the pictures were taken. the real shocker in this country is not so much what harry revealed but what the british tabloids did not. it's a story no tabloid editor could resist. photos of a naked prince harry in a las vegas hotel room. look closer. that's a newspaper reporter posing for a reenactment. not a single british paper printed the actual pictures. wherever prince harry goes, the

cameras are usually close behind. whether he is attending to the queen ace businesslike here as her representative at the olympics closing ceremony or in his younger years wearing a nazi costume and lunging at the paparazzi, the tabloids have never shied away from embarrassing snapshots. they've shown a shirtless harry in vegas, but the palace says the other photos are out of bounds because what happens in the privacy of a hotel room should stay there. yesterday royal officials went to the press regulator to push their case. after the phone hacking scandal add the leaf son inquiry into standards, the tabloids did something they don't usually do. they backed off. not everyone agrees they should. >> the national press that most people read have been cowered by the inquiry to be basically too scared to runt stories they have traditionally run for many years. >> still if the palace is

worried about another scandal affecting its reputation, the queen can rest easy. most hearsay let him be. >> really and truly, he's just a young lad having a bit of fun. >> he's an ordinary person. he's still an ordinary person. i say good on him. >> prince harry isn't it? >> ah, if only his boss agreed. prince harry is a captain in the army air corps and he's likely to get an earful from the head of the armed forces who, by the way, also happens to be his grandmother, the queen. gayle? >> i just heard the man on the street say good on you, prince harry. any idea when she will meet her grandson, kelly? >> we haven't heard that from the palace. we might get dribs and drabs of what happens in the meeting but i seriously doubt the palace will resleel that conversation. >> thank you very much, kelly. >> do you book vacations on travel websites?

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in russia, this man opens his backpack, takes out a very, very smile bike. he's actually going to ride off. you have to wonder if he would have been better off walking. he's got good knees. in today's "healthwatch," autism and older parents. as men get older, they're more likely to father children with conditions like autism. >> the study has a surprise. a mother's eggs has almost no impact on whether her chirp developmental problems.

we have the director of the center for autism. and columbia university medical center. welcome. >> nice to be here. >> tell me about the study and what it says to us new about autism. >> the study looked at a small number of families with children with autism. children who eventually developed schizophrenia and other disorders and what they found was that, as the father's age increased, the number of mutations that have been found to be generally related to these conditions also increased. >> how significant is the increase? >> it's statistically quite significant. that's the power of the study. it was elegant the way that they analyzed the data. but it really means that, if the rate of autism is 1 in 100 or 1 in 88, with these increases, they would expect if an older

father might have the risk of about 2% instead of a little bit over 1%. >> how do they define older? >> that's a very good question. the study is based on a small number of analyses, very small number of families and the range of these analyses was actually from 18 to 40. so they're not very much older. they had a few fathers who were over 40. but not enough to really look at the statistics of that. >> my understanding of developmental issues that come from older fathers is that they always have raised certain questions about developmental and brain-related injuries. >> that's right. i mean, this study builds on a number of other studies that had similar findings. what the study did is more complex statistics trying to sort out maternal age versus paternal age. the problem there is that they're so highly correlated that in this study, no mother and father were more than four years age difference.

what's interesting to me, gayle, is the notion of why men and there's no relationship, no correlation from women. from the mother. >> i was wondering, what is happening with the fathers as they age that could be causing this condition? >> well, there's general deterioration in your genetics. that is, you have more mutations and with fathers, those mutations occur more often and they're more likely to be passed on to their children. so it's a statistical factor that you have more of these and maybe one of them is associated with autism or schizophrenia or something else. >> back to charlie's point. why do you suppose, doctor, that it's affecting the men and not the women. >> part of it is men have a broader age range of conceiving children. so the women are narrower by definition and partly on the whole of the studies, there aren't 45-year-old with 20-year-old husbands. >> yes. >> i think that it becomes more --

>> is there anything that the men can do? >> well, one of the suggestions in the editorial was eventually we may encourage young men to freeze sperm, put it away and then if you decide at 50, you want to have a baby, then bring it out. that could be true for women as well. i don't think that's an immediate recommendation. >> the question, the kind of genetic development that men experience different than the genetic development that women experience? >> well, it's that there are more frequent reproductions in sperm. >> right. >> so that means the more you row produce, the more likely things are to go awry. >> thank you, doctor skbliefrjt the big travel websites are supposed to save you money. now a lawsuit accuses them of making deals with hotel chains to fix the prices. we'll have advice to find a good deal on "cbs this morning." your local news is coming up next.

♪ ♪ makes you want to go somewhere, doesn't it? welcome back to "cbs this morning." if you use online travel sites to find the best hotel deals, you may be wasting your time. that's according to a lawsuit filed in california this week. >> it claims there's a lot of price fixing going on. travel editor peter greenberg is with us now. what is it this complaint alleges? >> it alleges the major online travel agencies, expedia, travelocity and others colluded

to set minimum prices below. when consumers go to each site, there's no basis of comparison shopping. >> that happened because the hotel discovered that they were losing money? >> well, a couple of years ago at the height of the recession, a lot of the travel agencies went to the hotel chains and said let us sell your unsold inventory. some revenue is better than none. they said great. they found out that they were selling all the rooms at that those rates and in some cases, they got mad and threw them out of the system. this lawsuit raises how do they make up and how do they kiss? >> charlie, we reached out to some of the online chains and the hotels and starting with orbits, they say there's no merit and completely misrepresents how hotel reservations are marketed online. travelocity weighed in after we contacted them. we have no comment on the lawsuit other than to deny the travelocity or any other company

has engaged in any competitive action. >> what's your anti-competitive action? what's your best advice for people who book online? >> advice before this lawsuit was filed is don't lose the art of the conversation. have a conversation with the travel provider. the biggest myth about the internet is that all the available inventory is on the web. it's not. they only relate what they want and only put what they want. they hold back a lot. why wouldn't you have that conversation. negotiate the best price you can directly with the hole tell. >> if you can get them on the phone, peter. >> you do not call the 8 hundred number. that gets you to a clear house. they can't negotiate price. if you ask to -- they'll reroute you to the 800 number. what you do is ask to call to speak to the manager on duty or director of sales. a wedding canceled last night and they have 60 rooms to sell, it won't be reflected. you're in a position it negotiate. like expedia and orbitz told them, you'll never recoup an

unsold room. you can use the websites to research and buy to get the best deal. always like talking to a human being. >> i'll tell you what i know. when i book my next vacation, peter is going to book it for me. >> first you have to call me and have the conversation. >> i know peter greenberg. see where that gets you, charm i. >> thank you, peter. every summer there's a retreat inviting veterans for r

♪ >> this week in nevada president obama accused governor mitt romney of planning education cuts to pay for tax cuts. but so far education has not been a dominant issue in the campaign. >> that's a problem for the american federation of teachers. the second largest teachers union.

randi weingarten is with us. >> it's great to be with the two of you. >> tell pea what the debate ought to be in this campaign about education? >> so the debate ought to be about not the rhetorical we want to help all kids learn and achieve their potential. the debate ought to be about the house. for the last 30 years, every presidential candidate has said, of course, we want all kids to succeed. that is the way we build a middle class. that's the way we build a capitalist democracy in the united states of america. but what we've fallen down on is the house. so what the bush administration did in terms of the house was no child left behind which was an accountability test driven system across the country. what's happened is that parents and teachers have said, that doesn't work. the obama administration has started walking away from that because people know it doesn't work. but what we need to do, what will work is how to ensure that

all kids get the skills that they need for the 21st century, which is is not rote memorization. but how to apply knowledge. >> what about race to the top. >> race to the top, in some states it's worked. in some states it hasn't. but it's a competition. it's about winners and losers. what we have to do in this country is about all kids. what we've tried to do is think about solution driven unionism. >> do we have solution driven unionism? >> we have in a bunch of places solution driven yun unionism. you take connecticut, they changed the contract. they're focused on who is teaching the classrooms. how to do something in a way that all kids succeed, not just some kids. in mcdowell county, west virgin virginia, what we're doing through a public/private partnership, nontraditional, let's look at how we help the

entire county. half the kids in that county have parents that don't have jobs. let's work on the schools and let's work on things like broadband and getting jobs in the county, whatever. bottom line, this is how we're going to help all kids. when you look at the numts, randi, it's disappointing out ever the 34 countries, we're 14th in reading, 17 in science, 25th in math. what are the other countries doing that we're not? >> i'm so glad you raised that question. what's happened with us is that we actually have the best scores, test scores that we've ever had and the best graduation rate. but what these countries have done, singapore and finland, is they've jumped over this. we're going there this. they're going like this. this is what they do. they prepare their teachers like we prepare doctors and lawyers so they really invest in the front end. number two, they make sure that schools are really about respect and focus and aligning. it's kids who are focused on education and teachers.

>> here's one. interesting things that's happened in the last several years. mitch daniels, former governor of indiana, jeb bush, former governor of florida, have praised president obama and his education program and arne duncan. part of it is they have a new attitude about teachers' union. it's one of the reasons they praised them. the president is going against his natural constituency in the recommendations he's making having to do with testing, tenure and a lot of other issues. >> let me actually take a step back and say, look, we've all done things that we shouldn't have done. so our union focused like unions do, we focused too much on fairness. like fairness is really important in schools and fairness is really important for teachers. teachers work really hard and need to be treated fairly. they need to have the autonomy to do their jobs and get paid decently. what we didn't focus on enough was on quality. that is what we've tried to do in terms of you and i have had this conversation about overhauling tenure.

we believe that tenure is important or fairness is important. but it can't be a job for life. it can't be an excuse for managers not to manage. it has to be about fairness. what do you have to do? you have to have real evaluation systems. what these other republican governors are doing is they are actually blaming the people who are in schools as opposed to increasing -- big budget deficits, the fact we have to be -- >> because of what gayle said about those alarming numbers, it ought to be a debate that's being taken place in the political campaign. we've got to go. that's real it most important thing. >> yes. >> thanks so much. you have a lot to say. for more than a century working women have traveled to a retreat in new york state to relax and recharge. it's reaching out to female veterans who carry psychological scars. lee woodruff met a group of vets that are helping others get

better. >> i was not naive to the world but i was naive to the things that went on in the military. >> she was 18 years old when she signed up to serve her country in the first gulf war. >> just that you're a woman, that your service is not so much to the military but to the men. i was not prepared for that at all. >> while stationed in germany in 1988 to '91, bridgett claims she was sexually assaulted by a noncommanding officer. >> i had to work with him the next day. i was in country in germany. i didn't know anybody or anything. so i just went back to work. >> like many of the women here, she's suffers from mst. military sexual trauma. the depression her mst brought on wasn't diagnosed until years later. >> in some ways the healing begins had they decide to come. >> naj wykoff is the founder of creative healing connections. one much many nonprofits that use wiawaka house for women seeking recovery from trauma.

>> wiawaka adds another dimension because of its history and because it is a place for women. >> during their time here, women veterans gather for talk therapy, healing massage and arts programming. this is brigette's second visit. >> seems like the atmosphere was sex for us. it just like someone said okay, there's women veterans, they're going to come. we have to have everything right for them. that's what it feels like. it feels like -- we have to have everything right for them. we come here and it feels right as rain. >> that's exactly what wiawaka's founders had in mind. this 60-acre lakefront property was deeded to activist mary fuller to serve as a place of respite for women working in new york's garment factories. the secluded camp on lake george, became a place of rest, discovery, a place where the world became new again. >> to come up to the adirondacks

with clean air, water, recreate and take leisure is something the lower classes did not do at that time in hisry. >> it was 1956. >> these are my mother's older sisters. >> incredible. >> who went to work and help support the family. >> christine rem spent 30 years in the military. she's descended from garment factory workers who also sought refuge at wiawaka. >> oh, wiawaka, they used to talk about wiawaka. >> it really meant a lot to me. not only was it the woman's veteran retreat, but wiawaka meant a lot to me. >> there's not really very many places you can go and sit with other women veterans who you don't have to explain yourself. >> a connection no matter when and where they served. >> do you feel in a sense that generations of other women who have come before you. >> i think that's it as well. >> wiawaka translated means the great spirit of women. the women come here to heal. they leave here to carry it on.

>> most of the women come out here are leaders and advocates. they're going back to their communities. you got to be strong and have enough to carry back. >> lee woodruff joins us now. hey, lee. >> how are you? >> i'm all right. at the end of the day, how do they measure success? >> you can see it on their faces. two of the women at lunch sought they would need anti-anxiety and sleep medication. they didn't use it once the entire time. they felt rested and relaxed. >> and isn't that what you want, rested and relaxed? think about what the women go through. that's why it's interesting what they're doing. >> check out a letter on the web. to all the future women. we made a beautiful piece with some of the pictures. >> we can see it? >> on the web. cbs.com. thank you. the election in november could be could be decided by the debates in october. we'll ask what to expect here next on "cbs this morning."

the first televised presidential debate took place in 1960. it was between john f. kennedy and richard nixon. before we look at the 2012 debates, we go back to some of the most telling moments from past debates. >> i think in the final analysis, it depends on what we do here. i think it's time america started moving again. >> there is no soviet domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration. >> governor reagan, again, typically is against such a proposal. >> governor, here you go again. >> your definition of national strength is to throw money at the defense department. >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for

political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> under my plan, i will put medicare in an ironclad lockbox. i will keep social security in a lockbox and that pays down the national debt. >> you know who voted for it? might never know. that one. you know who voted against it? me. >> more than 60 million americans watched the presidential debates in 2008. in a new article james fallows a national correspondent for the atlantic magazine says the debates could be more decisive this year. he joins us now. >> thank you very much. >> why could the debates be more decisive. >> because this election shows every sign of being a close one. bill clinton in 1996, jimmy carter in 1980, as we had with george w. bush in 20034. when you have a vulnerable incumbent, the debates are usually the way the challenger either sells him search or doesn't as being an acceptable alternative. >> go ahead. >> in the article, it was so

interesting, charlie, you said actually the challenger has the advantage. the incumbent has to work twice as hard. why is that so? >> it's the only time a u.s. president ever stands on absolutely equal footing with another american citizen. it doesn't happen in the rest of highs h. his time in the wiet house. because of the economy, the case is largely made. the economy is bad. all the challenger has to do is say i'm okay. you can feel comfortable with that. >> there's also in this. in a case in which the challenger has not been identified, it gives him an opportunity to identify himself in a new way as we saw with reagan. it will eliminate misconceptions. >> the most consequential may have been the 1981 between reagan and jimmy carter. they only had one debate. kartder wouldn't agree to the terms. he was having a lot of trouble. the race was razor thin. after that, people felt okay about reagan. the elite, won 40-plus states.

>> that's part of the challenge for mitt romney. >> what kind of debate do you expect and how do you look at the two people coming into this debate? >> interestingly, debating is the best thing that romney does. it's almost the worst thing that barack does. you have one candidate at the top of his game and the other vulnerable. mitt romney is great when prepared at making an attack, a defense. he's shown consistent vulnerability when taken by surprise. the obama challenge is to force him into a terrain he's not expectingment. how do you assess the president? >> he's a gifted speaker. the debates last time, both the primaries and the general, it wasn't his greatest strength. he got through but hillary clinton often beat him on the actual points. the challenge he has for any incumbent is preparing because a president is never challenged. you both know that very well. everyone defers to him. to be prepared for an i am polite debate is hard to do. >> you said the president often

lives in a bubble. doesn't really hear the truth you said. >> yes. at any given moment there are a hundred things he could be doing. prepping is hard. >> the aesthetics, how do they work in. >> we remember some kwips from the debates as you showed in the clips. usually you can tell the impact if you didn't listen to the sound. the one who seems more confident and dominant and more likeable usually is the one seeing as won the debate. >> famously, as you know, richard nixon by people who heard on the radio was thought to have won the first debate, while people on television had a different -- >> there's an academic argument of that. we saw with the shifty look of his eyes, you can see why would be. back to the notion of the debate itself. i mean, what will you be looking for? >> what i'll be looking for is whether president obama is able to maintain a sense of confidence and ease and

sunniness of not looking beleaguered in a way that president carter for whom i worked did in 1980. and whether mitt romney is able to take things in stride. when something happens unexpected. whether he's able to handle it better than primary moments. >> guess who is playing in the debate preparation mitt romney in the obama campaign? senator kerry. john kerry. we do not yet know who is going to play president obama or do we? >> i do not. somebody knows presumably. i believe they started the preparation which i think is a good sign for the obama team. i don't know who it is. >> are you making any predictions at this time? or no? >> my prediction is that after the first debate, most people will think that mitt romney has beaten expectations. that's usually how it works. >> expectations -- >> indeed. >> great to see. atlantic magazine. who will win the debates. that does it for us. up next, local news. we'll see you tomorrow here on up next, local news. we'll see you tomorrow here on "cbs this morning." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com