good morning. it's monday, september 3rd, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. ahead of the democratic convention, president obama accuses of -- hurricane isaac dangerous new wildfires are breaking out in california. just when you thought it was safe, more great white sharks force swimmers out of the water this labor day weekend. >> we begin this morning with a look at today's eye-opener. your world in 90 seconds. we saw nothing but insults and old slogans. >> in charlotte, the president is going to focus on a pathway to moving us forward. >> democrats prepare for their turn in the spotlight.

>> it will not be the three nights of the democratic convention but on friday when we hear again about the monthly jobs report. >> are you better off than you were four years ago? >> governor o'malley probably didn't help the democrats. >> can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago? >> no. but that's not the question of this election. >> took everything. everything is gone. >> the president will travel to louisiana today. hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses still have no power. >> losses estimated between 1.5 and $2 billion. >> a lot of homes totally lost over here. this is a horrific sight. >> the wildfire in los angeles national forest grown to 3600 acres. thousands of people had to evacuate. >> breaking news out of pakistan this morning. an attack on a u.s. government vehicle there has left two americans among the wounded. >> dramatic video of a deadly air show crash in iowa. a jet took a nosedive and crashed into a field. a monster truck lost control and careened straight into a

group of spectators during a race in oregon saturday. cape cod beaches may be opened but the fears of great white sharks that washed ashore. >> russell crowe had to be rescued by a u.s. coast guard boat after they lost their way off new york's long island. oops. all that matters. >> they didn't want a debate about clint eastwood, they wanted it about mitt romney's ideas. people are talking about the bizarre clint eastwood performance. bizarre clint eastwood performance. >> it go ahead, make my soup. captioning funded by cbs woel welcome to "cbs this morning," charlie rose and gail gail are off today. this is labor day -- president obama has been on the attack all weekend in key swing states. >> bill plante is in charlotte

where the democratic national convention gets under way tomorrow. bill, good morning to you. >> rebecca, jeff, good morning. since the republicans ended their convention and mitt romney hit the road, the obama campaign's line of attack has played off what it charges are the republican's distortion and untruths. the campaign staff and the president himself have accused the romney campaign of outright lying. in the swing state of colorado, president obama was on offense. telling voters what they should expect from his rival's campaign. >> the other side is going to spend more money than we've ever seen in our lives with an avalanche of attack ads and insults and making stuff up, just making stuff up. >> that was the same line of attack his senior aides hammered home on the sunday political talk shows using the l-word to describe the romney campaign and specifically its message on medicare and welfare reform. >> their campaign is built on a

tripod of lies. >> the one thing you're left with is they think that lying is a virtue. >> the president's advisers were on a -- >> yes or no, are americans better off today than four years ago? >> listen, george, they did a good job of reciting all the statistics everyone is familiar with. everybody understands we were this close to a great depression because of the leadership of this president, we staved that off. >> can you say that people are bet r off today than four years ago? >> no. but that's not the question. >> a message of disappointment in president obama couched more in sorrow than anger. >> we've seen these last four years a lot of disappointment, a lot of families having hard times. >> olivia? tiana, rachel. >> that general lack of enthusiasm was something the president tried to address sunday in a college town of boulder, colorado. speaking to students a little

raw that had lost to a rival football team. >> i know the rocky mountain sodown did not go down the way you wanted. i'll tell you what, we're going to give you a chance to get even. >> the president proposed a rocky mountain rumble. the students of colorado university. >> to see which school can register more voters, c.u. or colorado state. >> now, registering more voters and just as important, getting thome come out and vote, is a major goal of the president's campaign because of the number of undecided voters in the key swing states is so small. the difference between winning and losing may be people coming out to vote. this coming week, is the kickoff of barack obama's last campaign. his last best chance to rekindle the enthusiasm that got him elected four years ago. rebecca, jeff. >> bill plante, thank you very much. also this morning, los angeles

mayor antonio veer gose a, chairman of the democratic national convention. mr. mayor, good morning. >> good morning. happy labor day to all of you. >> happy labor day to you. >> and all the people behind the camera as well. >> thank you very much. we'll pass that along. a lot of democrats had a lot of problem with the question, are you better off than you were four years ago. not martino mali, we should say. what's your answer to that question? >> the answer is we are better off. we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. we lost 3.5 million jobs. the mortgage lending crisis was creating a foreclosure problem that we hadn't seen since probably the great depression. we've had 29 consecutive months of growth in private sector jobs. 4.5 million jobs. in fact, more jobs in that period of time than in the eight years under bush. remember this. if you look at how we got here, how we got to this deficit, we got into two wars that we didn't pay for.

the bush tax cuts took us here in great part. so the answer is yes, we are better off. but we've got to keep on working harder. there's no question, particularly on this labor day that we've got do more. that's what the president is proposing. invest in the middle class. make sure we're providing the education, the r&d, the workforce development, that we're investing in infrastructure to move the nation forward. >> the question is, who to put in office next. you have 23 million people in the country who are unemployed or underemployed. 5.2 million of them have been out of work for six months or longer. they come back to this question, am i better off today? they can't answer that question as a yes. >> look, when you're unemployed, you're struggling and of course, if you recently unemployed, you're not better off. but the fact of the matter is, as a nation, we are better off. and we're better off because of all of what i just said to you.

we're better off because we're investing in the middle class. if we continue the bush policies and do what romney would have us do, and that is cut $5 trillion in taxes, the ryan/romney budget would extend the deficit for 29 years. look, you know, this is a tough election and there are two clear choices ahead. i believe that the choice with president obama that invests in working people, invests in the middle class that moves us forward. according to analytics, if we stay the course, we're going to create 12 million jobs in the next four years. that's where mr. romney got the $12 million number. it wasn't from president obama. it was from moody analysts who said if we stay the course, that's what we'll create in the next four years. >> mayor, i want to ask you about the enthusiasm poll that we noticed. it says that 35% of republicans

are extremely enthusiastic about republicans. for democrats, both those numbers are low. democrats it's only 29% are extremely enthusiastic. what's behind that? >> i can tell you this. our job is to get that enthusiasm up. that's what this convention is all about. it's going to frame the election. it's going to crystallize the choices before us. it's going to be the most open and accessible convention in our history. it's going to be a working convention. we're going to get people signed up to knock on doors. we've got the most comprehensive deep ground operation. we're going to knock on doors and get them excited. get them enthusiastic about this election. when they realize what's at stake here, i think people are going to get a lot more excited. >> mayor, thanks so much for joining us. this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. we want to bring in cbs news political director john dickerson also in charlotte.

good to have you with us. >> good morning, rebecca. >> how big of an issue is this? >> the key question at the center of a reelection. we see today that the obama campaign yesterday they weren't ready to say that things are better off. now they are. >> it's been a good day in the last day. things have gotten better. it's tricky, of course. if you say things are better off, you're in conflict with the majority of the country who don't think that we're better off and don't think president obama's policies have made these better. it's to argue as the mayor did, they're better off than they would have been and better off with obama than romney. that's different than saying they're better off. >> john, is it possible we hear the man trying to make that case, bill clinton, who we'll hear from wednesday night, what will we hear from him?

>> i think we'll hear an enjoyable tale. he's one of the best story tellers in politics who will remind the country of where the country was, where it's come and where it will go. he will put everything in context. the challenge, though, is that not every voter something go to listen to that long contextual analysis of where things were and where they're going. the campaign has to hope that clinton says something that will puncture through and make the case. that people would have been worse and that's something to give the president positive points for. >> john, when you think about the structure and the strategy behind this particular convention, is the focus going to be on president obama and his record and what happens next or is it going to be more of a focus on what mitt romney brings to the table and why that wouldn't be in their view, right for america? >> it's going to be both. what will be interesting is the mix. we've seen so far in this campaign, a lot of it has been to frighten people about mitt romney and what he would propose and now adding paul ryan to the

mix. but they know, of course, that president has to put forward a positive agenda. particularly when they're saying that mitt romney and paul ryan haven't been specific about where they would take the country. that puts pressure on the president to be more specific about what he's going to do. not just the small things, but the big questions. that will be one of the big questions here. is he going to be specific about the big challenges that face the country. what kind of bump is the president expecting. >> doesn't look like much of a bump. the polls are still a little young though. he may not get a bump. >> ten hours after he finishes speaking, which is just a ready made wet blanket for his invention. nobody may get a bump it feels like an invention without bumps. we'll be back to the same hard fought election from before all this fun stuff.

>> 8.3% will stay according to many economists. thank you very much john dickerson. tomorrow morning, charlie rose and norah o'donnell will be in charlotte for the start of the democratic convention. an update on hurricane isaac. president obama will visit louisiana today. some parts of the state are still underwater and hundreds of thousands of people still blacked out. manuel bojorquez is in la place, 30 miles west of new orleans. manuel, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the water has receded in la place. stacks of ruined furniture line the streets as people begin to clean up. in hard-hit plaquemine parish some residents will have a first chance to see their homes today after enduring some of the worst flooding in the state. new video shows isaac's wrath as a category 1 hurricane when it hit plaquemine parish. >> that water is coming on top of us. >> this torrent left entire communities underwater, while new orleans was protected by a

$14.6 billion levee system, the 12 surrounding parishes experienced flooding. 3,000 evacuees remained in state-run shelters. in st. john's parish, one of the hardest hit, the water has receded. labor day is the start of what is sure to be antibiotic long cleanup. >> isaac took everything. my home, my car. everything is gone >> at the home of this woman, family members are helping. including 9-year-old enrique who struggled to put into words how he's feeling. >> terrified. >> why? >> we lost our home, we need to rebuild it. >> people are salvaging what they can. but for some, there isn't much. >> the water came up so quick. we never had water here. >> johnny owen and his family spent three days emptying out

their one-story home. he still managed to put it in perspective. >> yard sail. anything is free. >> frustrations are mounting for the thousands still without power. still lining up for water, ice and food. june marquez has barrel slept in the past five days. >> i've been sitting by the door at night watching my kids so they can sleep while i have the door open because it's so hot for us. >> and crews are working around the clock to restore that power at the height of the storm, 900,000 households were without power. this morning, that number is down to about 130,000. jeff and rebecca. >> huge, huge issues. manuel bojorquez, thank you. from storm cleanup in the south to a major wildfire in the west. firefighters are battling the huge fire this morning in the mountains north of los angeles. it forced widespread evacuations in a popular wilderness area as bill whitaker reports, dry heat and heavy brush are giving the

fire a lot of fuel to work with. labor day weekend festivities were cut short to thousands of visitors in los angeles county sunday afternoon. a fast-moving williams wildfire broke out near campgrounds about 2:30 and quickly burned across 3600 acres by nightfall. >> we were resting. the sun was gone. i'm like what happened. i looked up the hill and the fire was coming down. >> the fire forced the evacuation of thousands of people from a mobile home park and local campgrounds. >> we were camping. it was crazy. we had to get out of there. >> we woke up in the tent, saw the fire on the ridge. we had to leave. >> huge plumes of smoke like this one captured in this time lapsed video can be seen throughout the los angeles basin. about 300 firefighters assembled to battle the blaze with the help of four water dropping helicopters and nine air tankers. for "cbs this morning," i'm bill whitaker in los angeles. in afghanistan, the u.s. cut

off training of a small number of afghan forces. a response to recent deadly attacks on american and coalition forces by their afghan allies. as kitty logan reports from kabul, the move puts a strain on efforts to hand over security to the afghans by 2014. >> the u.s. military suspended training of a thousand afghan local police recruits so they can be revetted. an effort to crackdown on the insider attacks. of course, questions were raised about how effective the screening of afghan security forces has been in the past. we visited a local recruiting center. measures are being set up where in the past they were not as efficient as they should have been. intelligence officials say that even now they don't have the right resources to do proper background checks. there's an issue taken seriously at the highest level here. the deputy commanded international security forces in afghanistan. met with president karzai and

president karzai has promised his store support for any new measures required to deter future attacks. screening and perhaps rescreening of recruits. of course, it's a hard task to protect 360,000s -- all over again. perhaps that doesn't eliminate the threat because if you remember, about 75% of of the insider attacks are thought to be simply personal grievances and they are hard to check. for "cbs this morning," kitty logan, kabul. other headlines now from around the globe. the telegraph of london reports a suicide car bombing in pakistan left three dead and two americans injured. this morning's attack happened as an suv left the american consulatepeshawar. at least 19 were injured there. the reverend sun myung moon, founder of that newspaper, died early today in south korea.

the reverend moon used his church to build a huge business empire. he was well-known for holding mass weddings of his followers who were often called moonies. the reverend was 92 years old. the quad city times says an air crash in iowa is under investigation. the pilot of a soviet air and military jet was killed saturday when his plane plummeted to the ground. officials plan to reconstruct the plane to help determine the cause. >> "the new york times" says u.s. companies are bracing for the possibility that greece will soon be forced to leave the eurozone. bank of america, merrill lynch is considering sending massive amounts of cash to greece so they can continue paying workers and suppliers. ford configured computer systems to immediately handle a new greek currency. it is now coming up on 20 mi

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>> it's like fishing, really. when you go out on a pond and fish, you have to know where the fish are. >> when 49-year-old jack alvo reels riders into his new york city taxi, they always notice a difference. >> everything that i do in there has a purpose. has a meaning. i put on classical music. i can talk about the culture of new york. >> and hanging right next to the credit card swiper, a can't-miss basket of his resumes with more than 20 years' experience in trading, finance and sales. he's looking for another job. alvo is what the bureau of labor statistics calls underemployed. he's working but not doing what he was trained to do before the financial crisis. >> there's 23 million people in a similar position. >> i understand that. i feel for them. i feel for everyone. but you know, you you got to get

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working for yourself, have your head cleared. think about what you want to do next and you're bringing in a couple of bucks. >> alvo always saw the taxi job as temporary. because he sets his own hours, he keeps competitive by attending advanced executive courses, plus he says being behind the wheel has given him a front set to new york's best networking opportunity. just recently, he decided it was time to leave his resumes out for potential contacts. >> what are you hearing that makes you think you're making progress? >> there are influential new yorkers in town. they've opened up their networks in a wonderful way. a lot of people say this is the most brilliant thing i've ever seen in my life. >> you say then hire me please. >> of course. it only takes one. at the the end of it that's the driving motivation to this whole thing. it only takes one. >> it only takes one. >> it only takes one and it never hurts to ask.

>> it never hurts to ask. which is a great example, somebody continuing to be ambitious, staying motivated and one of the things that has helped him, he's in contact with people. it's difficult being unemployed when you're alone. that networking has helped him stay upbeat and stay uplifted. >> nice stuff rj. is it legal to warn other drivers? not in some spots. we'll show you how a new app is getting around the law on "cbs this morning." if you have copd like i do, you know how hard it can be to breathe and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups.

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moderate injuries. they're okay now. but not your favorite way to spend the day. >> rough stuff to watch. little strong on had labor day. >> when people drive home from labor day, they have to deal with speed traps and high gas prices. as john blackstone report, don't think about warning other drivers unless you get the app. >> it's a code all drivers share. a flash of the high beams is a warning there's a speed trap ahead. when the police in florida saw eric campbell doing it, he got slapped with $115 ticket. >> the police officer saw the blinking, he was upset. you could tell in his voice he was professional, he wasn't rude. but you could tell he was irritated. >> rarely figured there ought to be a law. in that fla, there isn't. speed trap warning was overturned in court. in some states, however, it is illegal to warn other drivers there's a speed trap ahead.

arizona and alaska forbid flashing of high beams. while the states of new jersey, new york, ohio, pennsylvania, tennessee and virginia allow it. california allows it. in fact, the state's highway patrol supports any action that gets motorists to abide by the speed limit. >> you want people to slow down. through enforcement or word-of-mouth. as long as they slow down, that's all we're concerned with. >> but that wasn't the case in texas this summer when houston resident natalie plumber got into big trouble. >> i got handcuffed, put in the back of a cop car, taken to jail for 12 hours for holding a sign on the sidewalk. >> in june, she held up a hand-drawn sign similar to this one on the side of a houston street about a block in front of this speed trap. police officers questioned her, threatened to charge her with obstructing justice and eventually arrested her. >> the lady who was booking me, what am i here for exactly?

she looked at a paper, it says here you're here for walking on the street or something. >> plummer claims she stayed on the sidewalk the whole time and accuses the cops of restricting her right to free speech. her case was eventually dismissed. but it focused attention on police efforts to clamp down on a traditional driver to driver courtesy. >> what they're being taken and arrested for are things other than the actual alert to other drivers. >> loyola law professor jessica levinson says police often have to stretch to find a legal reason to go after drivers who warn of speed traps. >> it feels like there's something unfair about the cops saying you're not allowed to tell people where we are. >> in the era of the smartphone, the tussle between police and drivers is moving beyond headlight flashing. now, there's an app for that. >> red light camera. >> red light camera coming up. >> you just heard a warning of a red light camera and you can

actually see it in the middle of the road here. >> it's called trapster. a free smartphone app that has 60 million users who can report and map speed traps, red light cameras and other road hazards for all other trapster users to see. >> right. you tap the report button and tap the red light camera in the top right there. boom. set it wherever the trap is. you hit the check box to confirm and bam, you've recorded a red light camera. >> is this legal? do i have to hide this if a policeman pulse me over? >> no, not at all. no laws against mobile apps. >> if law enforcement feels that this is not helping them, then i think, yes, the app could face some sort of question. but they're going to have to -- whoever prosecutes that company is going to have to come up with a good reason as to why this is hindering law enforcement. >> no one has attempted that yet. so trapster continues to grow

and with each touch of a button, the days of flashing headlights seem to be dimming into the past. for cbs had this morning, john blackstone, san francisco. >> would you use it? >> i would. >> i would try it, yeah. >> i got to say, i got to hand it to them as a business idea, seeing an opportunity and taking it. 16 million users? i bet it will go up. >> i bet it will. stop

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never gets old, does it? been that kind of summer on cape cod. couple of great whites spotted this weekend not far from some of the same beaches where jaws was filmed in the '70s. as terrell brown reports, local officials made people got out of the water just in time. terrell, good morning. >> good morning, rebecca. cape cod beaches, facing the atlantic oceans are some of the most desirable on the coast. apparently not just for vacationers. this summer has seen a lot more shark activity thanks to an abundance of food that doesn't seem to be going anywhere any

time soon. on this last weekend to soak up summer fun, beach-goers in cape cod, massachusetts, again found themselves with some unwanted company. two sharks were spotted thursday. prompting officials to ban swimming at some of the most popular beaches. from south beach in chatham, to the northern tip of orleans, it's keeping bathers out of the wat water. >> some people said they couldn't cam to the edge. i don't believe that. i'm staying out. >> in july a man body boarding says he was bitten by a great white stark, the first known attack in those waters in over 75 years. he survived but the incident led many to question why so many sharks are lurking off the cape. >> oh, my gosh. >> biologists and shark expert says the sharks are likely responding to an increased number of mammals, not of the human variety. >> i think we're probably seeing more white sharks in the area at

the moment and the white sharks are probably being drawn into the area by a really large increase in the number of gray seals that are in the area. >> that suspicion may have been confirmed last week. a family captured this dramatic video of a shark attacking a seal off monomoy island. >> it's estimated 350,000 of them live along the north atlantic coast. they've been protected since the 1970s by the federal marine mammal protection act. with the resident seal population showing no signs of slowing down, they have -- at least until the great whiting migrate to warmer water. >> on saturday a 13-foot great white shark. take a look at this. washed ashore in west port, massachusetts. scientists don't know why the 1500-pound shark died. one thing we know for sure, with all the sharks circling the area, officials chose safety first when they decided to ban

swimming this busy labor day weekend. guys. >> sounds like a great idea. >> if you think about it, all those businesses that are nearby the beach or in the area, when the tourists aren't there, the beach-goers aren't there, they're not making any money. the challenge for a place like cape cod is to find a solution where beach-goers are warned but not scared away altogether. the solution might be in a place like south africa or australia that deals with this. >> what is this i hear about you going shark tagging this week. >> we're going out with the guys who locate the sharks and tag them so we know where they're going. we'll be off the coast of cape cod this week with the great white. >> you're sitting in that boat? >> all you buddy. >> coming up next week on "cbs this morning." terrell brown, thank you very much. democrats are getting ready for the democratic national convention. we'll see if last week's republican national convention gave romney the lift he wanted. that's coming up on "cbs this

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snoet ♪ ♪ welcome back to "cbs this morning." on this labor day. i'm rebecca jarvis. charlie rose and gayle king are off. happy labor day, rebecca. i'm jeff glor. as democrats head to charlotte for the convention this week. republican convention nominee, mitt romney is pack on the campaign trail this week. >> chip reid is in washington with the story. chip, good morning. >> good morning. yes, mitt romney fresh off his big speech in tampa head into the fall campaign with a new message that the hope and change barack obama promised four years ago left people disappointed. >> mitt romney and paul ryan spent their time saturday in two important swing states.

ohio and florida. their post convention campaigning coincided with college football tailgating. >> take a picture. >> something both men took advantage of. ryan visited with ohio state fans and mitt romney used a sports analogy. >> millions of people are unemployed. if you have a coach that's 0-23 million. you say it's time to get a new coach. >> romney tried out that line in both states as he worked to build on a theme of disappointment that republicans started in tampa. >> it's been a disappointing four years. i think for that reason, people of ohio, even those who like him a lot say he wasn't up to the job. >> it's too soon to tell how much or how little it affected romney's standing in the poems. so far, the data shows only a small bump. some say it's critical, saying his speech lacked specifics on the economy and afghanistan.

>> you need to actually convince voters by making a positive case for the romney-ryan ticket. there's much less of that. >> and the conversation continues over whether clint eastwood's ad-libbed speech in tampa was a missed opportunity for romney. in front of a national television audience, the actor took up ten minutes arguing with an empty chair that represented president obama. >> so mr. president, how do you handle -- how do you handle promises that you've made? >> on sunday, the president weighed in saying he's a huge fan of eastwood and that he was not offended by the actor's speech in tampa. also in week, paul ryan campaigns in greenville, north carolina about 250 miles from charlotte and the democratic convention. mitt romney has set aside time to start practicing for the debates standing in for president obama will be ohio senator, rob portman. rebecca and jeff? >> chip reid, thank you very much. major garrett, national

journalist white house correspondent is in north carolina this morning. >> good morning. >> want to start with what seems to be the major shift of the morning. that is this question, are you better off than you were four years ago. they either avoided the question or said mo we're not. the party line seems to say we are belter off than four years ago. >> there were a lot of strategists who were a grieved watching them struggle with this question. they really do believe republicans teed that up at the convention as a question that will linger throughout the campaign. they said to me the obama campaign better get what they describe as a mantra, a situation that's believable and credible. whether or not that's happened, there's a shift in the emphasis. yes, the country is better off. we'll stop struggling with that issue and that question and just assert it. whether or not voters believe it and four more years of it?

we'll soon know. >> major, delegates at the dnc will get a speech from former president bill clinton. there may be risk attached to that. why do you think so? >> there's risk whenever you involve bill clinton for a couple of reasons. especially when the matters are economic. he's a capable articulator of economic theory and the way he approaches the policy of economics. that's one of the hallmarks of his two-term presidency. he may remind voters by his mere presence that the economy was stronger when bill clinton was president and more bipartisan cutting deals with spending, tax rate reductions and other things. president obama has not done those things. he's fought more aggressively with a republican congress than bill clinton did. even so, i'm confident that the obama campaign believes that bill clinton will be a net positive and he will lay down a predicate for all of the arguments that president obama will make for his reelection. they believe net-net bill

clinton is a positive for them. >> with the are we better off question, i wanted to ask you about an article you wrote over the weekend. you talk about the confidence of the obama team, you say every campaign team believes they'll win. he has a visceral sense of self-confidence that protestations to the contrary take on comically insane absurdity. why is this team so confident right now? >> because they believe the country likes this president and trusts this president. they believe those are the two most important commodities that will ultimately move undecided voters. likability and trust are the key factors. they believe the president has been traumatized by uncertainty. the likability will be the decisive factor. they believe it's put more voters in a more reliable and predictable frame of mind to vote for a democratic president and republicans do not have a nominee or a campaign capable of

beating him. that they believe it, absolutely. with a visceral sense of confidence is absolutely true. >> major garrett, thank you have. >> thank you. charlie rose and norah o'donnell will be in charlotte tomorrow covering the democratic national convention and paul ryan will be with us. that is tomorrow on a teenage girl is making football history in florida.

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a high school senior in plantation, florida, just wanted to play football and this weekend she got her chance. that's right. she. she took the field wearing number 13 as a tribute to her idol, dan marino. as the third string quarterback, her numbers were not great. but her first snap put her in the history books. >> 17-year-old erin da nagly owe didn't set out to be a pioneer, but she is one anyway. >> i've always wanted to wear a helmet and pads and play football since i was little. >> on friday night, she became the first girl to ever play quarterback for a florida high school team. >> i was the first game i've been in my entire life. it was a lot of fun. >> she came in for only two plays, both handoffs. but you would never know it from the crowd's reaction. >> people took notice. erin's story was picked up by news outlets across the country. still, playing with the boys is nothing new for erin. she was the only girl on her

first baseball team. and girls playing on boys teams is not the oddity it used to be. a few examples. from alaska, these two girls, both field goal kickers and the first girl to win a wrestling title against boys. all three in anchorage. at "cbs this morning," you may have seen the story of a young boy who won the right to play on a girls' field hockey team. how did erin end up in friday night's game? >> she came to me back when she was about 9 or 10 years old and asked to play pop warner tackle. i basically said that's not a good idea. >> it never crossed my mind. it wasn't in my mind that my daughter would be be playing tackle football. >> she did play on the flag football team. one of his star players noticed her. >> i used to warm her up before the flag football games and i used to tell our football coach she could really throw. he should give her a shot. >> if she could come out with

the boys and throw with the boys, maybe she would get humbled slightly in terms of her own ability. i think once i opened the door, erin kicked it all the way down. >> this generation of girls are very lucky. the fact that the coach would suggest this to her, it would never have occurred when i went to high school. >> not everyone has been positive. there have been a few negative blog posts. but the overwhelming reaction has been enthusiastic. >> i got chills in my body and i got really excited. i knew this was her debut. >> it was exciting for my first game because everyone was cheering my name and stuff like that. i wanted to contribute to the win. >> any time you have an opportunity to sit and watch your child fulfill her dreams, it's -- it takes you away as a parent. >> way to go, erin sn. >> we hope to see more of her. absolutely. good story. do you have trouble with your weight? you could have wheat belly.

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about three months ago i gave up eating wheat products. everything you have is pre packaged with wheat in it. i felt lethargic. since then, my allergies have left, my waist size down two inches for giving up wheat. >> the doctor who created bill o'reilly's new diet says skip the hamburger rolls and pasta salad at your labor day cookout. dr. william davis is a cardiologist and author of a book, lose the wheat, lose the weight and find your path back to health. doctor, good morning. >> good morning. >> happy labor day. >> why in your estimation is wheat so bad? >> it's not wheat. it's an 18-inch tall plant created by researchers in the eads 60s and 70s. it has many new features.

such as there's a new protein in there. i'm not addressing people with gluten and celiac disease. i'm talking about everybody ems. everybody else is susceptible to the protein that is an opiate. it gets in your brain and in most people stimulus appetite. such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days per year. i bet you're hungry right now. >> i'm always hungry right now. >> we did just check the bagels on the front of the book here. they look appetizing. it's not necessarily the wheat. it's the kind of wheat that we're eating in. >> that's right. it's not the wheat that mom had. not the wheat that grandma had. it's a different genetically changed plan. this predates the techniques of genetic modification. these techniques were proved imprecise, unpredictable. far worse than. the question asked is the product of research that occurred before the techniques of gene splicing.

this thing is very different, has many new unique properties on humans. but the appetite stimulation was probably the most standout effect of all. there are others. >> would it be possible to turn back the clock and go back to the old wheat? is that scientifically possible at this point in time? >> it's very possible. it's economically unfeesable probably because it yields tenfold more per acre. we have to ask farmers to take a loss in effect. to ask agribusiness to revert back to old seeds. they can do it, they probably won't do it. we have sparked a movement. we are having a lot of people with record drops in sales because of this. because so many people -- i think what's driving it is the -- if three people lost eight pounds, big deal. we're hundreds of thousands of people losing 30, 80, 150 pounds. diabetics become no longer diabetic. people with art lights having dramatic relief. losing leg swelling, bowel

syndrome, depression, and on and n every day. >> if people want to start eating healthier today and can't afford to manufacture their own wheat, what do they now? >> eat avocados, olives, olive oil, meats, olives, vegetables. in other words, real food. the stuff that is least likely to have been changed by agribusiness. certainly not grains. when i say grains, of course, over 90% of all grains we eat will be wheat. it's not barley or flax. it's going to be wheat. it's a wheat issue. wheat has been the recipient of this extensive set of changes. >> there are a lot of farmers that argue otherwise. the mayo clinic said you need a well-balanced diet. >> all that says is to replace something bad, white enriched products with something less bad, whole grains and apparent health benefit, let's eat a lot less bad things.

replace with filtered cigarettes, you should smoke salems. the deeply flawed logic. what if we say let's eliminate all grains, what happens then? particularly limit this thing called semi-wheat. that's when you see not improvements in health. that's when you see transformations in health. >> you gave me a weird look when i said i had a whole wheat bagel this morning. >> you're working. you got to away with it. >> generally speaking, even the whole wheat, just to reiterate, you're saying is a bad idea? >> it's a very bad idea. in fact, i'll say modern wheat is a perfect chronic poison. it causes diabetes, inflammation, it causes heart diseases, it causes high blood pressure. just because they're less harmful than white flour kos make it a good thing. we've got to use a whole new brand of clear logic on this. if we eliminate grains and wheat

really, specifically, high yield wheat, that's when we see transformations. that's when you see the diabetics get rid of their drugs. they're throwing away the drugs nor joint pain. high cholesterol is going away. you see incredible transformations in health. >> food for thought. >> a lot of food for thought. avoid the breakfast tray in the room if you would, doctor. thank you very much. >> thank you. vacationers beware. if you're staying in a hotel, fees can add up to a big bill. travel and leisure will show us the most common hidden fees to look out for. we're coming right back. heavy load in america. but mitt romney plan, a middle class to $2,000 more a year in taxes. multi-millionaires like himself hits the middle class harder... bigger break. forward for america? this message.

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ilyour own bgers are now atenny's. inspirion ca come from ywhere ♪ mj on labor day. welcome back to "cbs this morning." a new pro football season begins this week on wednesday. the regular players will be on the field but it looks like the regular officials will not. >> as tony guida reports, critics say the replacement revs

have done so badly, they shouldn't be on the field. >> a replacement referee botching a call in an nfl pre-season game between the giants and patriots last wednesday. >> we have illegal shift by the kicking team. after the kick. >> the other ref is yelling -- >> it may be no more than a blooper in a game that doesn't count. how amusing would it have been the last time these two teams met, in the super bowl? the games that do count begin wednesday and the nfl is determined to use the same fill-in referees. >> this thing could get pretty ugly pretty quickly. >> former nfl quarterback and current cbs football analyst boomer esiason fears the speed of the professional game and the stature of its star players might overwhelm officials borrowed from college football's lower ranks. >> if an official is afraid to

throw that flag or feels intimidated by a player like calvin johnson or aaron rodgers, it could be a major disaster on many fronts. >> the nfl locked out the refs after their contract expired in june. three months later, there's been minimal negotiation and no progress. >> it almost appears like a take it or leave it approach with a lockout strategy. >> president scott green is a veteran of 21 years as an nfl official. his men, he says, want only the same wage and benefit hikes they got in their last contract six years ago. >> from a league whose profits are up 50%. >> are they telling us that our value is not the same as it was in 2006? >> from the nfl only a statement to cbs news saying, no further talks are scheduled. we are proceeding with the replacement officials. the season opens wednesday night in the new jersey meadowlands, giants versus the cowboys. tony guida, cbs news, new york.

the last time the nfl started a season with replacement revs was in 2001. that lasted one weekend. >> feel a little sorry for the guys on the field. >> it is tough to see. from football to the environment. in 2008, mark tur sick gave up a powerful position at goldman sachs to become a part of a large environmental group. he's trying to change the way we feel about business an the environment. mark, good morning >> good morning. >> when you think about changing the way people think about business and the environment, what you have brought to the table is a partnership between business and an environmental group. you've received some criticism for that. >> yeah. we think about nature. it's got tremendous value for people. you should think about nature as infrastructure. something to invest in, to improve economies, to improve jobs and improve life. and so, of course, we want our allies to include the government, working joes, but business as well. big business increasingly has a

huge environmental footprint. so if we can work with business, help them understand that taking better care of the environment is good for their business, we think they can really be powerful allies to the environmental movement. >> how does somebody go from one. biggest businesses, goldman sachs at the height of the boom to a nature nonprofit? >> i think i've really been fortunate. i worked at goldman sachs for 25 years, had a very positive experience there. near the end of my clear, i wanted to shift gears. i was thinking about leaving the firm in 2005 to become an environmentalist. he said no, build an environmental effort at the firm. hank and i did that together. we looked for things that made business sense. it went really well. i'm proud of what we accomplished there. i'm so convinced of the opportunity, i joined the conservancy. i was fortunate. it was a great organization before i got there. that's for sure. i have the good privilege of leading it today and we're excited about what we can do.

>> how many of the opportunities are out there today, by the way? investment that is are good for business and for the environment at the same time? >> you know, we think it's almost unlimited to be honest. we're beginning to scratch the surface. but in case after case, we work closely with companies who have a big environmental footprint. we help them understand how their business depend on nature. and the better they understand that, the more incentivized they are by good old profit motives. to do a better job of being environmental stewards. that's a great weapon in our work. >> went on to leave the treasury, you went on to lead the nature conservancy. how do you convince, because it's not business best interest, as far as the bottom line is concerned, to be environmentally conscious. in those circumstances, how do you convince them and coming from a company like goldman sachs, you know better than anyone being a public company can means your first and foremost having to maximize shareholder value. >> it's a great question. you're right, there's a whole mix of businesses.

we don't pretend everybody is ready to be our ally. some business people are. a great example westbound ceo of dow chemical. it's one of our partners. lots of folks say why would you partner with dow chemical? i say why wouldn't we? if we can help them understand how becoming better stewards of the environment would be, imagine what we could do. he heard me argue that nature business depends on nature. he said mark, let's test that. let's take dow engineers and nature scientists and put them to work side by side. let's figure out how dow depends on nature. if the natural capital that dow depends on is vulnerable, what might we do about if? that's an exciting project for us. in the business world, people pay attention to one another. all of dow's competitors are watching our project. if we can make it work, we think we can replicate that in many places. >> you're spending a lot of time focus on -- how big a problem is

population growth? >> it's a big deal. it's one of the big stories that occurred recently without a lot of profile. >> the developing world as they grow their economies and invest in education, invest in girls, invest in family planning, population growth is coming down. so it's not our core area expertise. boy, we really support it. the u.s. government has been a good supporter of this through international aid. we hope that continues as well. >> mark, thanks for coming in. >> thank for having me. if you're traveling this labor day weekend, you can't check out until you pay the hidden charges. we're going to find out how to

♪ ♪ you should stay and keep watching, of course. >> do not go. hotel industry is on track to collect billions of dollars

in add-on fees from guests this year. it's no surprise that consumer advocates complain about hidden fees. >> here to help you avoid that, is mark or wall. he's international editor of travel and leisure magazine. >> good morning. >> so, in part, what's driving these fees and it's a little ironic is that the economy got weak so the fees went up. >> that's exactly it. this really goes back about four years or so. the people just stopped traveling. when the economy really tanked. that's one of the first things people stopped doing. the hotel general managers had to keep revenues up. one of the ways was to start adding some fees that we hadn't seen before. >> which ones are we looking at here? >> one of the big ones that everybody complains about, we've got the internet fees. one i hate is mandatory valet parking. >> mandatory? >> you can't just park your own

car. if you're using the lot -- that can be $20, $25 a day. >> resort fees. >> resort fees. thank you. those really get my goat. they could be 20, $30 a day per person. usually -- but the thing is at resorts. tried to spread the cost of the golf course and the tennis and the sports facilities. now you're even finding resort fees at urban hotels. >> where they have nothing to show for it. >> they have nothing to show for it and you're getting charged for it. >> what do you do to protect yourselves? >> there's nobody out there watching your back. you have to watch out for yourself. so when you book the hotel, you want to check on hotels website. are there any extra fees. but even that doesn't show when you go to expedia. they say caution, you might be subject to additional fees and taxes. but if you call them, you have to ask them. when you check in, you should ask. most hotels are up front about these fees.

whether you like them or not, at least they tell you about them. when you check out of your hotel, look at that. don't go home and look at the bill. look at it before you sign it. make sure you agree with every single charge on there. if you don't, dispute it at that time. they don't take the charge off when you get home, go to bat for yourself. >> is that where you right the head of the organization, the head of the company and say you don't believe in -- >> i don't think that's going to really help you. with the court of public opinion is going to be much more a good choice for you here. go to the review sites. don't go overboard. don't be heated. just explain, this is what i was charged. it's not fair. they never told me about that. >> the more factual review on trip adviser, the more inclined to believe. >> absolutely. >> typically speaking, when people at the desk are -- when you ask a manager, a couple of minutes, a check in or check out and speak to someone, explain your case, generally speaking they can be receptive. >> absolutely. they will in most cases if you

make a justifiable complaint take that charge off. the thing that really killed me about this though is that when you're booking, you're looking at two -- you might see $170 for one hotel, $210 for another hotel. when you add up the additional fees at the first hotel that's charging you, might cost you more. this is really hitting people in the pocketbooks in a big way. >> there have been some push, i think, with the airline industry to lay out, okay, if you're going to bring on extra luggage, you need to know in advance what that fee is going to cost. you need the all encompassing price of flying on an airplane. do you think there's any chance we'll see that with hotels? is there lobbying groups? >> there's a couple of good guys out there. consumer advocate ed perkins, guy named kevin mitchell, they've been pushing the ftc to do something similar to what the d.o.t. was requiring of airlines. that is to say, put all the fees up front, make them apparent. if it's mandatory, roll it into the price that people have to

pay. don't break it out separately. the trouble is, the airline industry is regulated by the department of transportation. there is no regulatory agency, per se, that oversees the hotel industry. even if there was, you know how many hotels there are in america. thousands and thousands. perhaps hundreds of thousands of hotels. how could anybody police that? i think through individual actions, perhaps the state's attorneys general making examples of the egregious hotels charging these fees, that might be more effective to get hotels back in line and be honest with the consumer. >> i think that's what everybody wants, be honest with the consumer. >> any favorite destinations this fall? what are the trends these days? >> i think people want to get out to places -- they want to go beyond the -- london, paris, the great places. but people are looking for that next new out waft destination. asia is the thing. everybody wants to go to asia and go to some of the far off the beaten path destinations.

that's where i want to go. >> good stuff. thanks mark. >> editor of travel and leisure. hot sauce is one of the hottest selling items at the supermarket. there are more flavors than ever. and a lot more heat. we're taking a taste test coming up. you're watching "cbs this morning." president clinton: this election to me is about which...

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rope as a human slingshot. turning a boat ramp. got to hurt a bit. if you come down the wrong way -- it looks like fun. >> don't try this at home, kids. >> slip and slide for grownups. >> the ramp there. we used to do the slip and slide in the backyard. and the backyard had practically no hills. it was pushing along the slip and slide. >> especially if it's not wet. >> hopefully people are getting that last day of summer in. >> by the way, one of the fastest growing industries in america is hot sauce. sales jumped 150% in the past ten years. >> wee visited a man in maryland who makes some of the hottest sauces in the world. >> we're talking about the most potent, powerful, intense ingredients on planet earth. >> on the floor of this baltimore factory, blair lazar brews a concoction of chili peppers. blair's death sauce.

lazar first served hot sauce in 1989 as a young bartender trying to force lingering customers to leave at closing time. today, you can't keep them away. >> it's a way to suddenly feel different. everything is suddenly a little bit brighter. maybe a lot a bit brighter. >> his after hours spreermt morphed into an enterprise. in part fueled by exports. 40% of the bottles made by tabasco were sent overseas. for lazar, it's 75%. here at home, there's also the changing nature of american cuisine. as immigrants from asia and latin america introduced more of the culture to capsaicin. >> i was interested in why people would be interested in something that tasted so bad. like your mouth is going to peel off. >> capsaicin is the source of heat in all chili peppers.

paul rossin has done the definitive work on why half the population wants it. >> if babies don't like it, animals hate it, why do some of us love it? >> well, there's a transformation that occurs, it occurs between ages about four and six, that kids start liking hot food. >> is it a form of punishment that people are enjoying? >> i call it benign masochism. it's not punishment. it's sort of a mind over body. i'm smarter than my body. >> what sort of things do you put hot sauce in? >> i've actually put my hot chilies into ice cream. >> come on. >> absolutely. the heat of a dish is measured on the skoeville scale. at the top, 16 million units is pure capsaicin. pepper spray used by police measures 2 million. while original at that back owe is 5,000 units.

lazar's ultradeath sauce reaches about a million. he gave us a taste test. >> all right. >> this is the hottest hot sauce you have? >> yes. >> cheers. >> cheers. >> it doesn't take long for the face to feel like it's on fire. whether we try to hide it or not. it takes a bit of -- >> yeah. >> hot. >> this is our middle of the road hot sauce. really probably a much more appropriate place to start. because, again, what i said to you before about -- >> i need to blow my nose. >> despite the initial shock, lazar still believes there are plenty of palates left for his view of dining. >> where does hot sauce go in the next ten or 20 years? >> i believe it's coca-cola. it would be more inappropriate to not have it in your dish than

to have it. >> we had a whole bunch of people inside the building try ultradeath after we did that piece, including rebecca jarvis. >> i was one of them. >> who was on the floor. >> i was in major pain. >> i was worried about you. >> thought i was going to be a tough guy. it was not a good feeling. >> you were hunched over the desk. >> i like hot sauce. in general i like spicy. you mow what i loved about your piece, you should really start with the medium stuff after he's given you the crazy intense stuff. >> happy labor day. >> happy labor day. >> glad we were here together. up next your local news. see you tomorrow morning up next your local news. see you tomorrow morning everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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