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championship at 5-4. >> fault. john: toughest service game of her life, trying to get this her life, trying to get this done. bill: and serena with an bill: and serena with an opening.

john: somehow i'm not surprised. how often have we seen it with serena williams? come back from the brink of defeat? bill: such a great competitor. triple break point to level triple break point to level this set at 5-5. john: some save there. best serve she's hit. hardest of the match, of the tournament at 107. gets one point back. >> fault.

bill: 5-5. mary: three errors serving for the match. the match. wow. >> out.

bill: one of the best points of bill: one of the best points of the match. john: look at this reaction, after hitting this huge forehand to win this first point in the 11th game. she's trying to contain her

excitement. back in this match. 5-3 down. vintage serena williams once again. get out of trouble. mary: seven of the last eight mary: seven of the last eight points. bill: doesn't work again. john: she's actually one of the few players that's actually better moving forward than she is side to side. she sprinted up to that got it easily. most players prefer to move side to side so they don't come side to side so they don't come to net that much.

bill: it's in what an angle. again serena applauds the shot. john: it was a fantastic shot, it really was. the first point that serena has lot -- lost at net the entire set. she's had an opportunity to come to net many times. hasn't really come that often, maybe because she expects to see shots like this. see shots like this. incredible angle. >> fault.

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bill: it has been a tremendous women's championship here in new york and when we're cone we'll start with "60 minutes." john: there's going to be a result. remember, if azarenka can somehow win this game, we'll go to a third set tiebreaker. what a way to end it. bill: it does not get much better than this. azarenka a short time ago serving for the match. now serving to send it to a now serving to send it to a third set tie-break. >> out. bill: first point to serena.

bill: serena, you saw the graphic, 11 of the last 13 graphic, 11 of the last 13 points. john: that was a good second serve there. not an easy time to be having to come up with something to come up with something extra. has yet to hit an ace and here she is, a chance to win her first u.s. open title. she's competed so hard. she's competed so hard. both these ladies. john: that's an excellent serve. one of the best she's hit in the match. skims off the line. and it would be fitting, bill,

i think, at this stage, to take to it a third set tiebreaker. how amazing would that be? bill: it has not happened very often. bill: last time was 1985. that's how long it's been. bill: what a shot from serena for 30-30. john: very few people able to hit winners from the position she was just in. way, way back behind the baseline. bill: it was not a bad shot from azarenka but serena up to from azarenka but serena up to the task. 30-30. john: that was on the line!

it looked like it was going to float a little deep. it caught the line and we are one point from a third set breaker. this point right here. and that was a two-handed volley she executed that clips volley she executed that clips the tape. john: it makes life more difficult when she's got to hit those second serves. serena williams puts her behind right away, scrambling.

just two good. one-two punch. one-two punch. back to deuce. >> fault. john: that's the second serve to try to hit it into the body. she couldn't quite extend her arms the way she wanted. some good serving, second serves under some severe serves under some severe pressure. bill: one away from a bill: one away from a tie-break.

bill: azarenka had that lined up but couldn't convert. bill: that was long. john: that will definitely be challenged. there's no question. whether or not it's in is the issue. it's going to be match point for serena williams if that ball was long. and it is out. match point serena williams. bill: azarenka not waiting. championship point.

bill: azarenka not waiting. john: you have to hit a second john: you have to hit a second serve right now. bill: serena has done it! >> whoo! whoo! bill: once again, the queen of

new york. john: azarenka. came from 5-3 up. and serena ends up winning four straight games. and serena ends up winning four straight games. unbelievable. bill: a kiss from mom. her agent. isha, one of her strs. once again serena williams is the u.s. open champion and we will be back with the trophy presentation from new york after this. [ ma are here to show us their proudest achievements. here's germany. ♪ konnichiha japan! ♪ complex science from the soviets. but wait!

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bill: tonight on cbs starts with "60 minutes" and then "big brother," "the good wife," and

"the mentalist." as we welcome you back to new york. serena williams now a four-time u.s. open champion. she first won here as a 17-year-old in 1999 when she beat martina hingis in the final. for the trophy presentation, let's go down to mary carillo. mary: ladies and gentlemen, you have just seen one of the most spectacular matches a lot of us can ever remember. how about another hand for these two. how about another hand for these two. [applause] to begin the trophy ceremony it's my pleasure to introduce the chairman of the board, president of the usta jon vegosen. >> thank you very much, mary. and i want to thank all our great fans. they're the best in the world and we love having you here. what a phenomenal match. vika and serena, you two are both great champions. our congratulations to you

both. and serena, you've added another notch to your belt. we're very proud of you. mary: it has been a breakout year for victoria azarenka, the australian open champion, u.s. open finalist. she very nearly pulled off a second major of the year. you must be feeling pretty proud of yourself. >> well, at the moment it's tough but, you know, serena deserves to win. she showed how true a champion she is and i'm just honored to be standing with such a champion here, but -- [applause] i definitely gave it all today and, you know, stepping out of this court today, i will have no regrets. mary: good girl. on behalf of the usta, jon vegosen will present the

finalist's trophy. [applause] mary: and now, ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for our champion, serena williams. [applause] ok, let's just review the last couple of months. wimbledon, winner singles and doubles. olympic gold, singles and doubles. fourth u.s. open, 15th major -- you've had a snappy little summer. >> oh, my god. i honestly can't believe i won. i really was preparing my runner-up speech because i thought man, she's playing so great. so i'm really shocked today. i'm so happy to have gotten so far. mary: it was a remarkable final. first to hand you a prize money

check for $1.9 million is mary callahan erdoes, c.e.o. of j.p. morgan asset management. and now, on behalf of the usta, jon will present the champion's trophy to serena williams. [applause] mary: ladies and gentlemen, your 2012 u.s. open women's singles champion! the great serena williams. bill: serena adds to that remarkable resume, 15 majors now, the longest women's championship since 19 1 when tracy austin beat martina massive -- navratilova. tracy austin beat martina massive -- navratilova. we'll be right back.

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laden's bedroom. and he took the pictures of the body that the world has never seen. owen received a silver star for valor and a purple heart for a wound suffered in the raid. but despite all that, owen told us, in his only interview, that "no easy day" is not about him. he says it's a tribute to the hundreds of americans who gathered intelligence, planned and trained in the ten-year pursuit of the world's most wanted man. seal team six, he told us, just took care of the last 40 minutes. was this a mission... was the plan to kill osama bin laden or capture him, before you went in? >> mark owen: this was absolutely not a kill-only mission. it was made very clear to us throughout our... our training for this that, "hey, if given the opportunity, this is... this is not an assassination. you will capture him alive,

if... if feasible." >> pelley: that was the preferred thing? >> owen: yes. >> pelley: to take him alive, if you could? >> owen: yeah, yeah. i mean, we're not... we're not there to assassinate somebody. we weren't sent in to... to murder him. this was, "hey, kill or capture." >> pelley: we've never heard the story from someone who was there. the raid, may 1, 2011, had been years in the making. but in the moment, the best-laid plans failed, leaving a small team of americans to improvise victory from near disaster. >> owen: this operation was one of the most significant operations in u.s. history. and it's something that i believe deserves to be told right and deserves to... to go in a book and stand for itself. >> pelley: you're in disguise as we do this interview today, and i wonder why. >> owen: the focus shouldn't be on me; the focus should be on the book. i'm not trying to be special or... or a hero or anything. i'm just trying to tell the bigger story >> pelley: but you're in disguise also for your own security? >> owen: yeah, absolutely. >> pelley: tell me about that. what concerns you?

>> owen: you know, the enemy has a long memory. >> pelley: and so we spent a long time perfecting a new look for owen. before each interview, the best artists spent four hours thoroughly changing his appearance. we've used shadows to enhance the effect and we've altered his voice. chief petty officer owen was in the navy 14 years. he had read about the seals in junior high school and set his sights. how many times have you been to war since 9/11? >> owen: i've done 13 combat deployments. >> pelley: afghanistan? >> owen: afghanistan, iraq, all over. >> pelley: there are several seal teams, but owen rose to the very top, a unit called the naval special warfare development group-- seal team six. seal team six is made up of a number of squadrons, and i wonder, why was your squadron chosen for this particular mission? was there something special about you? >> owen: nope, nope. certainly, nothing special about

me, nothing special about the 24 guys that were chosen, nothing special about the... our squadron. it really could have been any number of guys >> pelley: you just happened to be available for training. >> owen: yes. >> pelley: in april, 2011, they'd just returned from afghanistan when they were told to report to north carolina for an exercise. owen walked into a top secret briefing room, saw a model of a compound, and heard this from his buddies. what'd they say? >> owen: said, "hey, we found bin laden," or, "we think we found bin laden." and they want us to... to come up, you know, rehearse and come up with a plan. if there's gonna be a ground option approved, they want us to rehearse for one. >> pelley: what did you think? >> owen: "awesome." >> pelley: the mission was "operation neptune spear" under the authority of the c.i.a. the agency had tracked a bin laden courier to a curious compound in abbottabad, pakistan.

they'd been watching the compound with satellites. the house seemed too big for the neighborhood. there was no phone connection. the people there burned their trash. there was a wall 12 feet high, and a walled-in balcony. who lived up there? >> owen: they briefed us on the individual they were calling "the pacer." >> pelley: "the pacer"? >> owen: the pacer. so he'd come out of the house and walk around the yard, what was assessed as just kind of getting exercise. >> pelley: where did the pacer pace? >> owen: over here. >> pelley: in this courtyard back here? >> owen: right. so, he'd just kind of walk out in here. and a lot of the... the vegetation out here was probably purposely planted so surveillance couldn't... couldn't see down on them. >> pelley: and he'd just go 'round and 'round and 'round. >> owen: yup. he'd walk around the yard. sometimes he'd walk with... with what they assessed to be a female, but, yeah, the... they just walked around the yard. they never stopped to help anybody do any work. if there was other people in the yard working, he never seemed to do any of that. it's above... almost above it. >> pelley: above doing the manual labor.

he was the boss, whoever he was? >> owen: right. >> pelley: the pacer had been in abbottabad about five years. it's a well-to-do city of one million people. the compound was about a mile from the pakistani military academy. in terms of the inside of the house, how much did you know? >> owen: zero. zero. >> pelley: so once you went through the door, you didn't know what you were going to be facing? >> owen: right. but, again, it goes back to that years of experience. i mean, we've done this a million times. >> pelley: raids like this were common many nights in afghanistan and iraq. and looking at the model, the seals didn't think of this as challenging. the tricky part was getting there. the u.s. wasn't telling pakistan, so the helicopters could be shot down by pakistan's modern air defenses. the pilots were from the army's 160th special operations aviation regiment.

two modified blackhawks-- call signs "chalk one" and "chalk two"-- would drop 24 seals and a belgian malinois combat dog named cairo. >> owen: chalk one, which is the one i was on, was going to hover over the compound here. we would drop the two fast ropes, slide down the ropes into the courtyard here, and then go about our business while chalk two would land out here, just over here by the road. drop the external containment team off. they would provide security external. we'd have a... two men and our... our combat assault dog would do a quick patrol of the perimeter down to the south and around to make sure that there was no tunnels underneath the wall, if somebody did hear us come in and had time to escape. after dropping those guys off, the second helo was going to come up, hover over the third floor, drop off the remaining guys. they would then hop right down into the balcony, assaulting from the top down, and our guys would assault from the bottom up. >> pelley: a few days after

getting the mission, they had their plan, and so began weeks of rehearsals on a full-size version of the compound built in north carolina. how many times did you assault it? how many times did you train on it? >> owen: a lot. between when we got the mission and when we left for afghanistan, we probably, you know, get... probably get 100 times. >> pelley: so how unusual was this kind of training? >> owen: it's... yeah, very unusual. i've never... i've never had all the mock-ups. i've never rehearsed for something for three weeks. >> pelley: one rehearsal had an audience-- the nation's highest ranking officer, admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs; the head of special operations, admiral eric olson; and observers from the white house. >> owen: one of the things i like after the fact was, i remember admiral mullen coming by and talking to each one of us, and then admiral olsen as well. and i thought that was cool that, you know, they walked by, shook each of our hands and said, "hey, are you guys ready? can you guys pull this off?" and i'm pretty sure, to a man,

we all said, "yes, absolutely." >> pelley: the team got several days off at home around easter. then, in late april, about a month after they got the mission, they loaded on a plane bound for a u.s. base in afghanistan. the president wasn't convinced yet. no one confirmed that bin laden was "the pacer," so seal team six was on stand-by. one of the passengers on their plane was a c.i.a. analyst who had spent five years on bin laden's trail. >> owen: i can't give her enough credit. i mean, she... in my opinion, she kind of teed up this whole thing, and is just, you know, wicked smart, kind of feisty. and she was... you know, we'd always talk back and forth, "hey, what.. you know, what do you think the odds of this are? what do you think the odds of that are," you know? and, "hey, you know, what you do think? think he's there?" she's like, "100%. 100% he's there." >> pelley: and you thought what? >> owen: well, we'll see.

>> pelley: three days later, on april 30, the president was telling jokes at the annual white house correspondents' dinner. c.i.a. director leon panetta's belly laugh was heard all across the room. reporters in ball gowns and tuxedos had no idea that, just a few hours before, president obama had ordered panetta to launch the raid. mr. obama kept to his schedule, thinking that, on this night, it was better to have reporters drinking and laughing than asking questions. when did you first hear that the president had approved your mission? >> owen: the commanding officer of our... our command walked in and said, "hey, just got off the phone. the mission's approved." >> pelley: what did you think? >> owen: "this is big. this is cool. i'm glad i'm a part of it." >> pelley: the raid was supposed to be april 30, but the weather was bad. the next night, vice admiral william mcraven saw the men off. he was a seal, and he had planned the mission as head of the joint special operations command.

just before midnight, the blackhawks started the sprint from the u.s. base in jalalabad, afghanistan, to abbottabad, about 150 miles away. the helicopters were blacked out against a clear, moonless night. the army pilots, guided by night vision goggles, flew high speed, treetop level, under pakistani radar. >> owen: it was roughly an hour and a half. i remember... you know, we took off, shut the doors, and... and the radio call i heard was... you know, "hey, we're... we're over the border. we're crossing the border into pakistan." and i remember thinking, "wow, this is... okay, this is happening." and... and i swear, i glance around the helicopter and... and half the guys are sitting there asleep on the ride in. it was an hour and a half ride, so guys got to catch... catch a few zs on the way in. >> pelley: wait a minute. your team is flying in to osama bin laden's compound, and they're asleep? >> owen: yeah, no, it's your... it's your time to just kind of shut your eyes, relax, you know?

mentally walk through whatever you need to walk through. >> pelley: it was about 1:00 in the morning, 66 degrees, 65% humidity, with calm winds. >> owen: at one minute, we open the door, and i just kind of swung my legs out and i'm sitting there looking down. i'm thinking, "wow, you know, this is a beautiful... this is a beautiful spot-- houses with pools in the backyard, well lit... manicured yards." like, wow, this is definitely not, you know, the mud huts of afghanistan. >> pelley: somehow, there was a blackout in the neighborhood. no one will say whether that was luck or design, but it meant ideal darkness for the seals with their night vision goggles. >> pelley: you could see the compound coming? >> owen: uh-huh. >> pelley: you had the door to the blackhawk open? >> owen: uh-huh. >> pelley: and your legs were swung outside? >> owen: right. just make a little more room, be faster to... you know, quicker for everybody to get out and fast-rope out of the helicopter. so everybody's getting ready to fast-rope. and then, all of a sudden, we

banked hard 90 degrees, and then we... once we went hard 90, it was very apparent that some... something was wrong. >> pelley: owen doesn't know what went wrong, but pilots say that a chopper can lose lift when it drops into the turbulence of its own downdraft. and the turbulence would have been much worse because the downdraft was being magnified and reflected by the compound's walls. >> owen: these pilots are the best in the world. you don't... you don't get better than these guys. and... and typically, they just, boom, they move right in and they stick it. it... it was like parking a car for these guys. and it was... it was a rough... it was a rough ride we were pretty low, tail rotor and everything happened to miss this wall here, and then we were just kind of sliding and falling out of the sky this way. i was now in the front of the helicopter-- although i was sitting on the left side, i was now the front. my buddy right behind me, he pretty much should have fallen out. if it weren't for him hanging on to me, there is a good chance i would have been thrown from the helicopter. >> pelley: as the helicopter is going down, what were you

thinking? >> owen: "this is going to suck," you know. "hey, wow." >> pelley: the carefully rehearsed plan was out the window before the first boot hit the ground. with one helicopter and half the seals crashing, the second helicopter abandoned the roof assault as too risky and the seals began to improvise. one thing was sure now: the people in the house knew they were coming. >> cbs money watch update sponsored by:. >> glor: good evening. wall street is eyeing the fed, watching for a potential third round of quantitative easing this week. china's leaders promise to boost growth after new numbers show factories running at their slowest rate in three years, and gas prices stabilize, dipping less than a cent in a week. i'm jeff glor, cbs news. [ female announcer ] you can learn a lot about a minivan

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>> pelley: the raid on bin laden's house was supposed to be straightforward. two helicopters, call signs "chalk one" and "chalk two," carried 24 members of seal team six, each man hauling 60 pounds of gear. one group planned to slide down ropes onto the roof of the house. mark owen's group planned to rope down into the courtyard. but owen's helicopter crashed, and now everything was changing for the most important counter- terrorism assault in u.s. history. tell me about the crash. >> owen: the pilot mentioned... you know, i remember him mentioning in the rehearsals, like, "you know, if i have to ditch this thing, i'm going to try and put it down in this courtyard." so that... that's exactly what he did, you know? you can tell what he did, you could hear the helicopter winding up. >> pelley: he was putting all the power he could on it, but it wasn't helping. >> owen: no, nothing. came in and impacted-- boom. had the angle been more, the rotors would've hit the ground, snapped off, and caused us to roll. had the tail rotor hit, obviously, it would've broke and

caused us to break and roll. the load-bearing section of the tail landed precisely on the wall. >> pelley: the strongest part of the tail just happened to land on the wall? >> owen: yep. and the angle happened to be perfect. it all came down to inches-- really, inches either way. we stopped. the main rotor blades are still turning. i don't think you could recreate that if you tried. >> pelley: lucky. >> owen: lucky, but again, huge props to these pilots. i mean, everybody wants to meet the guy who shot bin laden. i want to meet the pilot. i mean, i wouldn't be here if it weren't for him. >> pelley: if the pilot had not brought your helicopter down intact, would the mission have failed? >> owen: no, i don't think so, because chalk... chalk two was on the ground. and as soon as they saw us crash land, that chalk two helicopter pilot saw that happen, decided not to push the position to go to the roof. and that's one thing that admiral mcraven said in one of our very last rehearsals, briefs, dry runs, right there in afghanistan before we launched.

he stood up and he said, "hey listen, don't try any fancy stuff. just get the guys on the ground and they'll figure it out. >> pelley: you mention in the book that one of the army pilots that was flying your team looked to you to be about 50 years old? >> owen: he was definitely a little older. >> pelley: but i guess, in this line of work, it's experience that matters. >> owen: yeah. yeah. he's probably been flying longer than i've been alive. so there's nothing wrong with that. >> pelley: they had planned to be on the ground 30 minutes, but now, they were running late. owen's team landed in this courtyard walled off from the house. so, your team does what? >> owen: i ran out here. i turn around and look, and i see the guys on the left side of the helicopter. they're sitting right at... staring at the front door. so, they simply hop out and go right to the front door like nothing happened. >> pelley: go right to this door here? >> owen: yep. >> pelley: the other helicopter landed outside the perimeter wall, dropped all of its seals, and took off. now, what's your objective? what's your team supposed to do right now? >> owen: we were securing and clearing the southern compound

>> pelley: you expect to find people in this building? and you want to clear that building so the rest of the team can do what they need to do in here? >> owen: exactly. >> owen: i think what... what seals are good at is... is what i consider pickup basketball. we all know how to play the game. you know, our... you hear the saying in the team says, "can you shoot, move, and communicate?" so, we all know how to shoot. we all know how to move efficiently and... and tactically. and we can communicate clearly. so, when something goes sideways, we're able to play the pickup basketball and just kind of read off each other. >> pelley: now, the seals were in several groups. one group was outside the perimeter wall to make sure no one escaped. the group that was supposed to rope to the roof was outside the wall looking for a way in. owen led his team to the outer building where they expected to find one of bin laden's couriers. >> owen: we got to the door. obviously, we made tons of noise at this point. it had taken a little longer to get there. so, you know, the element of surprise is... is slipping away quickly. and we got to the... the double doors. i tried it once real quick