good morning, it is tuesday, october 16th, 2012. welcome to "cbs this morning." secretary of state hillary clinton takes responsibility for the security lapses that led to the death of the u.s. ambassador in libya. a surprise in the polls. mitt romney gets a big bump among women voters as he meets president obama in tonight's debate. and a new scare in the meningitis outbreak. officials are now looking at two new drugs that could be linked to the spread. but we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> i take responsibility. i'm in charge of the state department. >> secretary of state clinton takes the blame for attack on the libyan consulate.

>> the one that killed the u.s. ambassador and others. >> hillary clinton said the buck stops with her. >> it wasn't an intelligence failure. minor wants to get answers more than i do. these were people who i care deeply about. >> the white house is promising president obama will not hold back during tonight's town hall style debate in new york. >> at the first presidential showdown, the democrats' candidate, if you remember, slept late and missed it. >> the hot topic that has been all over social media, whether or not moderator candy crowley can ask follow-up questions. >> two hikers lost in the mountains have been found awe live after a three-day search. >> it's high fives and goose bumps down the arms. >> a youth football coach faces an assault charge after smacking an a referee on the field. >> actively shopping for retail space on rodeo drove. >> i think a lot of people love

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christopher stevens. >> clinton said she was responsible for the ambassador's security, not the white house, and margaret brennan spoke with the secretary overnight in lima, peru. >> reporter: good morning. on her first overseas trip since the fatal attack on the u.s. consulate in libya, secretary clinton is tryingo set the record straight, pushing back against what some are calling mixed messages out of washington. on september 16th, ambassador susan rice made a number of tv appearances. did you approve her speaking points that she delivered on the tv shows that day? >> i think she very clearly said here's what we know now, but this is going to change. this is what we have at present, but it will evolve, and the intelligence community has said the same thing. >> reporter: just five days after the attack, rice appeared on cbs's "face the nation." she blamed the violence on spontaneous protest over an anti-muslim film. >> you did not have information

at present that lead us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned. >> reporter: who briefed on ambassador rice? did you sign off on those brief ings? >> you would have to ask her. >> reporter: you didn't speak to her before that appearance? >> no, but everybody had the same information. i have to say there's been a lot of attention paid to who said what when, but i think what happened is many important. we were attacked, and four brave americans were killed. everybody in the administration has tried to say what we knew at the time with the caveat that we would learn more, and that's what's happened. so i think i've seen it before, not just in respect to this. i think it's part of what the fog of war causes. >> reporter: over time, the obama administration changed the reason behind the attacks, calling it a planned terrorist assault, citing evolving intelligence, fueling republican charges of a political cover-up.

>> either they are misleading the american people or incredibly incomp tonigetent. >> reporter: it came up again at the vice presidential debasmt. >> at the time, we said exactly what the intelligence community told us that they knew. that was the assessment. as the intelligence community changed their view, we made it clear they changed their view. >> reporter: clinton has said the responsibility ends with the state department. >> i'm not going to get into the blame game. i think intelligence is very hard to do. what we're going to find out as we do this accountability review and we get what will be the best possible chronology that will be attached to what we knew when, which takes time, i understand the anxiety and the desire to try to get answers. nobody wants to get answers more than i do. >> reporter: ambassador rice's spokesperson tells cbs that she was given those speak points by the intelligence community, not

clinton's state department. last night, three republican senators released a statement praising clinton for taking responsibility, but saying the security of americans is ultimately the responsibility of the president. for "cbs this morning," margaret brennan, lima, peru. >> now to the presidential race. they hold their second debate tonight at hofstra university on new york's long island, just in time for the showdown, a poll shows romney has opened up a four-point lead in 12 battleground states. >> with the race so close this morning, we wondered what would happen if the popular vote ended in a virtual tie. so a cbs news computer simulation projects the president would win, beating romney in the electoral vote 290 to 248. jan crawford is with the romney campaign in boston where the former massachusetts governor has been preparing for tonight's debate. jan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it was that first debate that's really given romney this huge jump in the polls and really turned this race around.

so expectations are much lower for the president going into tonight's debate, although most people still think the president will win this one. a new poll has it 41% thinking the president will win compared to 38% for romney. town halls are not mitt romney's natural setting. so he has spent days working with his advisers in debate partisanship, almost simulating what that kind of format will be like with his advisers playing the audience members and asking questions on every conceivable topic. his advisers tell me they do believe the president will be aggressive, almost in how he's trying to connect with the questioner to make it almost two against one. the president and the questioner against romney. and they see romney's challenge as being a part of that conversation and not letting the president define him or his policies. another goal for romney tonight is to connect with women voters. we have talked on this show many times about that big lead the president had with women, double digits for a while in system of those polls. there's a new surprising poll out that now has romney jumping

up to within one point with women voters in those key swing states, 49% now for the president, 48% for romney. so he sees tonight as an opportunity to continue making that case to women voters by talking about his economic plans. the women's issues, but the pocketbook issues, to argue the real war on women is the president's economic proposals. >> jan crawford, thank you. nancy is with the obama campaign. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the obama camp says the president will be more aggressive, and he's striving for firm, but respectful tone. outside democrats have been urging the president to be much more specific than he was in the first debate about what he would do differently for the middle class in a second term. the campaign says he's taking debate prep much more seriously this time. he only surfaced once yesterday

in a photo released by the white house of the president and his chief of staff jack lou, strolling the ground of their luxurious williamsburg resort. tonight's moderator has said she plans to press both of these candidates, ask follow-up questions to the audience members. well, that didn't sit very well with both campaigns. they said hey wait a minute, we signed a memorandum of understanding that said that we would only be getting questions from the audience members themselves. well, that made them look kind of wimpy, like they couldn't handle questions no matter where they came from, and so yesterday afternoon, the president's senior adviser, david axelrod, tweeted. this enough already about moderators. potus is ready for a vigorous debate and questions from all comers. dede myers and rich lowery,

welcome. what does the president have to do and how does he find the right balance between being aggressive, showing some vision, and being polite? >> i think you need to be energetic. we didn't see as much energy as a lot of us would have liked. i think he needs to come out, and he's going to be taking questions from the audience. those individuals will be stand-ins for a lot of people in the country who want to know what's the future going to look like? he need to talk about what's his plan for the future. how are we going to move forward building on what's happened in the last four years. then i think he needs to make sure that he reminds viewers that governor romney's positions in debates aren't necessarily the same as the positions he's had for the last several years on the come pain trail. >> rich, will this debate format be more difficult for governor romney as some are suggesting or is he up to this kind of debate with a live audience? >> well, he's not obviously a natural bill clinton style politician who relates to and emotes to strangers right off

the bat. so i'm sure they've talked to him about focusing on the questioner and not seeming distant and totally like he's downloading data. but look, he's very adept at these debates, as we saw the first time around. there's more pressure the first time around than there was on romney the last time around. he suffered one of the most epic defeats in a presidential debate ever. i think a lot of democrats want to see him come out all guns blazing. what he wants to avoid is doing what we saw al gore do in 2000, which was have three different personas in three different debates, none of which worked. >> it's incredible, the american people so interested in these debates. we saw huge numbers in the last debate, almost 70 million people watching there. and we see it actually may have moved the polls. in fact, this new "usa today" gallup poll today suggests that now mitt romney has pulled even with president obama among women voters. why are women pulling away from president obama?

>> well, first of all, i think there are a dozen other polls that show president obama maintains a double digit lead. i think governor romney helped himself, there's no question that he helped himself across the board, women as well as men. but i think there's still a large gender gap. issues of women's health and giving women control of their futures and families. i hope we'll see the president do that and i expect we'll get a question that will give him that opportunity. >> we heard ann romney saying mitt loves women. has he picked up some ground among women voters? >> what i think is most interesting about that is that convention was so focused on women, was so clearly focus grouped and hand firsted. i thought ann romney's speech hand firsted to women. and it got them nothing. he went into that debate and gave a very substantive vision of his future, which is what

every single voter in this country wants to hear. dede is right that the president needs to focus on the future as well. the big hole in his re-election campaign is there's basically no second-term agenda except for a big tax cut. both of these guys failed when they tried to make it about the other guy. people want to hear the vision for the next four years. >> can either of them look to this question from the audience, how are you going to do something that's different from what's happened with respect to the fiscal condition of the country and the fiscal cliff that the country faces? >> i'm sure that's going to come up in some form or another. >> so far no one has a question to that. >> sorry, i almost said president romney. one thing i think mitt romney should say at some point is look, you're probably going to get a republican house again. if you send president obama back again, if you liked the first debt showdown, you're really going to love the second because you're sending all the same people around the table. send me there and give us a

chance to get shotgun done over the next two years and if you don't like it, you can wipe out the republicans in congress. >> what's the counterargument to that? >> we've seen what the republican house wants to do and the american public doesn't like it. they would slash funding, change medicare as we know it. they would roll back taxes that would hit the middle class incredibly hard while giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. they would cut all kinds of programs that affect not just middle class people. i think the president has to remind the american people that with romney in charge, the republican house will be in control. with romney in the white house, they'll be setting the agenda, not the white house. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> cbs news will have live coverage of tonight's debate. it begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern time, 6:00 p.m. pacific, and we'll have reaction from vice president joe biden in an interview tomorrow here on "cbs this morning." and we have new information this morning on the pharmacy connected to a meningitis outbreak. two other drugs now produced by that same pharmacy are now being

investigated. officials say they may have caused at least three new infection cases. >> the fungal meningitis outbreak has now killed 15 people, at least 214 cases are reported in 15 states. with us now is the chairman of preventative medicine at vanderbilt medical center. good morning. >> good morning. >> so where are we here? >> well, this has been an ominous finding, right? we were concerned that there might be other medications that might be contaminated coming from that pharmacy. the fda has given us a heads up that that looks to be the case. we'll have to notify many more patients across the country that they may have been exposed to a fun dbegan infection. >> what do we know about the drugs? >> one is another steroid inoculation. it's a different kind of steroid but used in a very similar way. the other is a sterile solution supposedly that is used in heart surgery. so some patients might have had

heart surgery and now have a complicated fungal infection. >> do you think the scope of this infection now is beginning to grow given that these other drugs may be involved? >> i think we're still in the middle. we're nowhere near the end of this problem. we'll see more patients reporting in ill and we'll have to treat many more going forward. >> how much bigger could it get? >> oh, you know, we don't have the numbers, but i expect a steady increase in patients over the next several weeks still, i'm afraid. >> so doctor, given this, what should patients do? remind us again which drugs for what particular problems and how should they contact their doctors? >> these are contaminated steroids that were used for injections usually in the lower back to relieve pain, but occasionally also into joints to reduce inflammation, and these patients should now have been contacted and know that if they

develop symptoms, fever, head ache, stiff fek, difficulty walking, difficulty speaking, they should immediately seek medical care and a diagnostic procedure will be done. >> are there more drugs in the pipeline? >> oh, this compounding pharmacy made any number of drugs. my fingers are crossed. we're still worried, charlie. we're still in the middle of the problem. >> thank you very much. >> my pleasure. time to show you headlines from around the globe. "the new york times" reports a high turnover rate in afghanistan's army threatens the american exit strat jump 1/3 of the afghan army is replaced every year. the army is so desperate for manpower, even ties to the taliban do not disqualify recruits. "the wall street journal" says americans are confident enough to step up their spending, another sign the economy is getting stronger. retail and restaurant sales rose

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police in maine reveal the names of 21 alleged clients of an accused small town madam. and there may be at least 130 others. how this prostitution scandal is putting an entire town on edge. and a man is charged with fraud after promising to rescue a broadway musical. prosecutors say his investors were fake. >> this is one of the oddest stories ever to hit broadway and it didn't even go on broadway. >> we'll talk with the producer of "rebecca." now millions of dollars in debt on "cbs this morning." ♪ use freedom and get cash back. ♪ack.

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for such a lightweight. a new abc news and "washington post" poll asked voters some very strange questions about the candidates. m among oh things, they asked which candidate they would trust more to babysit their children. 49% of voters say they would rather leave their kids with obama. 36% said romney. and the rest were like why are you asking me this? i would probably pick obama. i mean, if you can change joe biden's diaper, you can handle anything. >> what kind of poll question it eally? there are probably some very nervous men in southern maine this morning. a list of clients from alleged prostitution ring has just come out. >> residents are checking it to see if anyone prominent is on the list. there's also video, according to police documents this morning,

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town are waking up to. 21 people named. you can imagine in a town of 10,000, the scandal has rocked this community. it all began in the most unlikely place. what once was a fitness studio behind me. 29-year-old alexis wright was once best known in town for teaching zumba. a colombian-inspired form of dance fitness that she's shown demonstrating this inn this youtube video. what do we know about alexis wright? >> when she arrived here in 2009, she was this wonderful young single mom that was introducing this zumba craze to the town, and pretty soon, though, people started talking that there was a lot more going on there. >> reporter: local newspaper editor laura dulcy started digging into this story. what did you hear was happening? >> we had gotten tips that there were videos online, pornographic videos kind of centered around the studio. >> i have no comment. >> reporter: today wright is

charged with running a prostitution operation out of her kennebunk, maine, exercise studio. late yesterday, kennebunk police released a list of 21 people who were issued summons to appear in court, each charged with paying alexis wright for sex. police are believed to be combing through a list of more than 150 possible sex clients. what types of people are allegedly on this list? >> the lawyers have said all along that they believe other lawyers are on the list, that they believe government officials are on that list, that there's business owners on that list. >> reporter: all a cross section of society. >> absolutely. >> reporter: exactly who is in wright's little black book is the question on everyone's mind in this quiet new england community. in july, police arrested wright's alleged business partner, 57-year-old mark strong senior. he was charged with promotion of prostitution. the two appeared in court together late last week.

strong faces 59 misdemeanor charges, while wright was charged with 106 counts, including prostitution and invasion of privacy. both pled not guilty. the scandal has focused attention on a town that normally sits in the shadow of its better known neighbor kennebunkport, home to the bush family vacation compound. what's the reaction been in town? >> i think people are shocked to a degree. >> reporter: according to a police affidavit, searches of wright's studio and office uncovered hours of video of wright's sexual encounters. meticulous client records, and a price list for various sexual acts. how long will it take for this entire list to be released? >> police say it could be months yet. they're only releasing 21 names or even fewer at a time, we could be heading into the new year. >> reporter: the rumor mill will

continue on this story. >> unfortunately, yes. >> reporter: now police say that those meticulous records revealed that wright may have made around $150,000 for those sexual acts over 18 months. we went through the 21 names and matched as many as we could with phone numbers and called all of them, as you might imagine, most people just hung up on us. one gentleman did answer and said that that was his name but that he had never had sex with alexis wright so. there is a lot of confusion right now as to who exactly is on that list. >> you mentioned that's very small town. i imagine this may have rocked the community because people will likely know some of those men on the list. >> reporter: absolutely. over the past couple of weeks, it has gotten quite ugly here, with people saying that someone's on the list, heard that someone's on the list, and there's really been a lot of back biting in this community. some saying this list could get

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you like that. >> i do. >> we all know about "the producers." prosecutors now in new york now say a real broadway musical has been victimized by a very real scam. >> a suspect is being held without bail this morning. he's accused of inventing a group of millionaire investors. the show may not go on because of his alleged fraud. >> reporter: this fall, the broadhurst theatre in new york was supposed to debut a show about a woman named rebecca. >> this entire thing, interrupting the process, the organic process of putting on a broadway musical, which is all i care about, is completely surreal. >> reporter: his surreal tale began in the spring when they needed $7 million to begin production on "rebecca" the musical, a haunting story of an

englishman's dead wife made famous by alfred hitchcock in 1940. they enlisted the help of a man named mark hoton, who brought four investors and nearly $4.5 million, but as planning resumed, spreker discovered the money and the investors were not real. >> we've waited a long time to do this show and it's worth it. and to get to the first day of rehearsal and not go forward, oh, my god, that's not okay. >> reporter: after a week-long federal investigation, hoton was arrested at his home on monday and charged with two counts of wire fraud in. the 19-page complaint, investigators say he engaged in a series of elaborate deceits, preyed on the producers' need for financing and defrauded them into paying him in excess of

$60,000. >> this is one of the oddest stories ever to hit broadway, and it didn't even go on broadway. >> reporter: according to a prosecutor, hotton fake lives, faked companies and even staged a fake death, pretending that one imaginary investor had suddenly died from malaria. >> i was sitting on my couch in my den with my children and i go he died? how is that possible? >> reporter: by the time "rebecca"'s producers realized the investors weren't real, they had already spent $6 million and were millions more in debt. >> all of that work is pretty much on hold now and a lot of the investment has already been sunk into what they've already done for the show. >> the misrepresentation of facts was unbelievable. that was hurtful. and it hurt me, my family, the people involved in the show, the actors. it's a terrible thing.

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the white house briefing that obama is going to come out fighting, a more passionate obama, coming after your old man head-to-head, how will he deal with that? >> we've seen him in those situations. i think each one of us here has

come to him head-to-head. very aggressive as teenagers. we usually get beat down. a verbal beatdown. my dad is very good. he's got an incredible intellect. he has great principles. he knows his ideas. and so he's been prepared. we were tough as teenagers, but really, he'll do a good job. i think he's going to be a good debate. i think my dad is someone who is very witty and intelligent. >> we are pleased to anoups a new venture this morning that involves you, our viewers. it's called "cbs this morning" reads. it lets you get involved online before authors. visit us here at studio 57. and we're kicking things off with doris kearns goodwin and her book "team of rivals." "the new york times" bestseller is published by simon & shuster and it is being rereleased today in advance of the steven

spielberg's film "lincoln." >> on november 15th, doris kearns goodwin will be here with us. before then, though, you have a chance to read excerpts from the book and submit questions and you can take a look at other featured material at cbsthismorning.com. please check in often, because "cbs this morning" reads. your local news is coming up next. i'm excited about this. i think this is a great idea. >> since we read all those books, we can share more information about them online. >> what really makes it fun is to get people involved and have some kind of activity with them. >> and doris kearns goodwin is always a good, good guest. >> the interesting thing about the film, it's about the last 60 days of lincoln's life. >> excited for that as well. that's coming up. your local news is next.

good morning. it is 8:00 a.m., and welcome back to "cbs this morning." the presidential candidates are headed to long island for their second debate, and a new poll shows mitt romney is gaining ground in the swing states, and regis philbin, back on morning tv. he's here in studio 57, live. but first, here's a look at what's happening in the world and what we've been covering on "cbs this morning." nobody wants to get answers more than i do. these were people who i care deeply about. >> for the first time, secretary of state hillary clinton is speaking in depth about the killing of american ambassador to libya christopher stevens. >> clinton said she was responsible for the ambassador's

security, not the white house. president obama and governor mitt romney hold their second debate tonight. >> the obama campaign says the president will be more aggressive this time and he's striving for a tone tonight that is firm but respectful. >> town halls are not mitt romney's natural setting, so he has spent days working with his advisers in debate prep. >> there's more pressure on the president this time than there was on romney last time around. he suffered one of the most epic defeats in a presidential debate ever. >> there are probably some very nervous men in southern maine this morning. a list of clients from an alleged prostitution ring has just come out. >> what's the reaction then in town? >> i think people are shocked to a degree. >> reporter: they tell you never to do this on a train. and here's why. >> many new starbucks locations will no longer have tables or chairs. it's a new thing. the ceo of starbucks said from now on you'll have to write your crappy screen plays at chipotle.

i'm hcharlie rose with gayl king and norah o'donnell. hillary clinton is taking the blame for the security lapse at the american consulate in benghazi, libya. that's where chris stevens and three other americans were killed this month. margaret brennan asked clinton about the decision not to send extra security to benghazi. >> i don't want us to reach any conclusions about what we did or didn't do without the full context. i understand why people want to ask questions, but i just caution that we need to look at everything, and everything needs to be explained at the same time. we have 275 posts around the world. we have more than 60,000 people. we live in a dangerous, risky environment today in many places around the world, and we are constantly calculating, particularly led by our security professionals, about what needs to be done, where assets need to be. >> on monday, three republican senators including john mccain,

issued a statement praising clinton for taking the blame, but they accused the white house of trying to "avoid any responsibility whatsoever." president obama and mitt romney have their second debate tonight. they'll take questions from voters in a town hall format. for the president, it's a chance to rebound from a disappointing effort at their first debate. a new "usa today" gallup poll of likely voters in 12 battleground states out this morning shows romney has a four-point edge over the president. john dickerson is with us. john, "usa today" gallup also says romney is leading in part because he's gained support among women voters. what does the obama team say about that? >> well, if that's true, that would be catastrophic, because the obama campaign needs the lead they have with women to make up for the deficit they have with men. obama beat mccain by 13 points in 2008. what the obama campaign says is that this poll is skewed, that the screen they use to determine what a likely voter is helps

governor romney. so they just basically disagree with the poll and will have to see kind of a few more polls to see if this women are moving in romney's direction. one of the things the romney people say is their focus groups after that first debate show that he did pick up with women, particularly on the question of bipartisanship. they liked hearing him talk about his ability with work with democrats in massachusetts. >> john, if the first debate led to this growing strength among centrist voters and independent voters and women on the part of governor romney, could this debate change that dynamic, and if so how? or is this something that has a broader, of the way this politi season is working? >> well, the key for this debate with those voters, the ones who are likely to move around, is whether a, mitt romney, can show himself to be kind of a reasonable moderate sounding fellow in front of these voters who are maybe just tuning in at this point in the process, not

the caricature that the obama people have tried to paint over the spring and summer. it's the president's job to put the highlights back on that caricature, not be overly aggressive about doing it, but to call out mitt romney so that these voters who move to romney after the first debate don't sort of do it again or don't stick with him. >> john, what should viewers be looking for tonight? what will determine success for each candidate? >> i think for president obama, they both sort of shh hahave th role. you'll have a voter there waiting for an answer to a question, a voter who can sort of be a stand-in for the entire electorate. i think success is navigating that, not having a bad exchange with an individual voter. president obama really has to kind of show that he's passionate about the future and has a plan for it. mitt romney basically has to just repeat what he did in the first debate. defining president obama, saying no more four years of this guy,

and here, i have a plan for the future. >> and have they cleared up this idea that either two candidates don't answer what the question ask that the moderator can ask the question again? >> i think we'll have to wait until game time to see what happens with that. there's been all of this back and forth with both sides working the referee in. this case, candy crowley of cnn, who will be moderating the debate. she says she's not a potted plant. so i think she'll step in. but they want to make sure that she's fair to both sides and they have a context this they want to complain after the deba debate. >> i keep hearing that candy crowley says i didn't agree to any of these rules. does this format benefit either candidate, do you think? >> i think you can argue it either way. both have done well in town hall settings and both have done poorly. it's just going to depend on how they operate in the time, in the

moment. we've had -- interesting in these debates has been the split screen. what's happening in one place and also why the other candidate is reacting. what's going to be interesting here is what the voter's response will be. >> i heard that governor romney won the toss and he gets the first question. is that right? >> that's my understanding. i know he won the toss. so the question will be, you know, in that first answer, again -- his first answer in that first debate was very good. he kind of hit all of his points. the challenge here for both of these guys is you have to be able to answer the actual person's questions, not just use them as a vehicle to get your talking points out. >> well, the debate starts tonight at 9:00. you can see it right here on cbs. thank you, john dickerson. according to a new university of chicago study, not getting enough sleep can make you fat. because it affects your fat cells. researchers found people who get only four and a half hours of sleep a night for four straight nights had a lower response to

insulin. that's the first step toward gaining weight and developing type 2 diabetes, so how much sleep is enough? you've heard this answer before. the authors of the study recommend eight hours of sleep a night. good luck with that. >> tom just said in my ear "welcome to the mornings, norah." welcome to your future life, exactly. yahoo!'s ceo marisa meyer is back at work after a two-week maternity leave. she's wasting no time making some big changes. as meyer returned to work on monday, she announced that a former google colleague will be yahoo!'s new chief operating officer. >> he's getting paid big bucks. i'm thinking she likes him very much. and tina fey and amy poehler are teaming up once again. the former "saturday night live" stars will co-host next year's golden globe awards, replacing ricky gervais. the golden globes often predicts the academy award nominations, but next year, the oscar nominees will be announced three days before the golden globes.

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this morning in our series "note to self", we hear from chef grant achatz. he is one of the world's top experts in a form of high-tech cooking. his chicago restaurant is rated one of america's best. and this morning, he speaks to his younger self about his career and his successful battle with cancer, and above all, food. >> grant, guess what. you're a cook. you thought you were going to be an architect. you thought you were going to be an engineer. but you ended up cooking. you remember those distant dreams of expressing yourself

with food? not like tossing a sprig of parsley on a western omelet. but really telling people who you are through your cooking. that can happen. people will tell you along the way that you don't have what it takes. and right now, you don't. you're working at a tiny restaurant in a tiny little farming town in michigan washing dishes, flipping burgers. you don't have what it takes right now. but you will. imagine this. filling an entire channel devoted to cooking and chefs. chefs will become significant figures in the community. work harder and better than ever around you, and then eventually, you'll rise to the top. don't forget what it's like to have a sense of wonder.

remember when you're a child, and the world was brand-new. every time you smelled, every time you touched, every time you saw something, that newness, that sense of wonder, those memories, incorporate them. use them like seasoning. food is sustenance, but food can be so much more. in order to achieve what you want to accomplish, you can't do it alone. it's impossible. you're going to need to surround yourself with people that believe in you, talented people. nurture them. guide them. trust them. and then everybody moves forward together.

right now, you think you're a superhero. but i have to warn you that along the way, things will sink very low. at some point, people might even tell you that you're going to die. in three days, a few weeks, or four months. but like your cooking, you need to focus on that, harness it, and say no. you need to say it. no. if you continue to push hard, you will not only save your life, but you'll excel in everything that you wanted to accomplish and what you want to

do. so do all of that work incredibly hard, and you'll arrive here. and here is a good place. people fly in from all over the world to eat at your restaurants. people choose to spend their significant moments in their lives with you. birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, milestones. but stay humble, and remember, you're just a cook. and that's a good thing. >> very nice. >> beautifully done.

i can't imagine anything worse for a chef, to not be able to taste your food. but i love what he said, guys. don't forget to have a sense of wonder and surround yourself with talented people who believe in you. really beautifully said. grant achatz. it has been nearly a year since he left morning tv, but guess what, regis philbin is in our green room today. don't think he's awful playing shuffleboard or croquet. >> what do you people want? >> we want you, reege. >> i'm coming out in a minute. >> the man has been on television more than anyone else. still got a sense of humor. joins us right after the break. i don't have time for the flu. that's why i'm knocking things off my to-do list. vitamin d, done! hand sanitizer, done! hey, eric! i'm here for my flu shot.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." the "guinness book of world records" says regis philbin has spent more time on tv than anybody on the planet. more 17,000 hours. you remember he left "live with regis and kelly" 11 months ago but he's still getting a lot of air time. >> his memoir about his long career is called "how i got this way." it has just been released in paper back. so how did you get this way? >> regis, if you notice, whenever you come, everybody goes, we have to speak like this! >> i talk like regis! that's funny. >> so how did you get this way? >> you know, certain people you meet in a lifetime -- i'd love

to read your book. certain people that you meet influence you, inspire you, make you want to be better, make you want to do a certain thing. and that's the way it was with me. i saw jack parr one night. he used to do the morning show here on cbs years ago. anyway, i said you know, that guy -- i'm not a comedian, i'm not a singer, i'm not an entertainer, but i think i can do what he's doing, talking about himself at the opening of the show. i used to do it up at the bronx. go up there sometime, they'll tell you. regis was a hit. >> talk about himself. >> no, talking about them making up little stories. so anyway, those are the kinds of people i talk about in the book. >> including -- so many people including joey bishop. >> look at that shot of you, regis. look at you. what are you thinking?

young and fun. what is it? >> even joey looks good. >> he does. >> what am i thinking? >> how old were you? do you remember how old you were there? >> in the 30s somewhere. early 30s. yeah. >> the most interesting relationship has been, for me, your fascination with dean martin. >> oh, my gosh. that began at the copa cabana, 1939, and my cardinal hayes high school prom, where you actually had a girl, you had to take a girlfriend to the copa. five guys got a limo. we all jumped in the car with our dates and we went to see dean and jerry. well, i had heard so much about jerry and not that much about dean because jerry was getting all the laughs. but the guy just knocked me out. he could sing, he was funny, he was handsome, he was everything that i wanted to be.

and i walked across the street to where that fence is -- is that the metropolitan club there, charlie? >> yeah. >> stood there 2:00 in the morning and said boy, i'd love to be like that dean. that dean martin guy. >> and the last time you saw him? >> was in a restaurant, went to a little italian restaurant near the end of his life in beverly hills. and there was a fellow named bill zemme, a writer from chicago who was a tremendous fan. so we made a date to go see dean martin in this restaurant because we knew he was there every night so. the day that we go, there's nobody in the streets. o.j. has made a run for it down the freeway, and there are 18,000 cop cars chasing him and everybody's home watching this on tv. it was the best show. i said my god, we waited years to go see dean. he better be in there. and so we opened the door, and zemme said he'll be on your left if we go in. i opened the door, and there was

somebody there, and i thought it was him. and the tv was on watching o.j. in that white bronco. he had been on the bishop show a couple times. and once i was actually stuck -- not stuck in a trailer, but i went to see him in his trailer. they were making a cannon ball movie with burt reynolds. i sat there and i told him the whole story, the copa cabana. and years later, i had a job in a plastic factory in long island. >> i can hear you saying that. >> it was the midnight to 8:00 in the morning run and i hated to go. so i played dean singing "one foot in heaven." he said i don't remember that song, regis. i said "one foot in heaven," dean. he said sing it to me. i sing this whole bloody song to dean martin. he says no, i don't remember. >> it's still not ringing a bell. >> it's been 11 months since you left the show. did you leave when you were ready to leave? and do you not miss the

day-to-day? >> you know, once if a while i do miss it. >> because you're so good at it. >> if i'm out the night before and i went to the friar's club last night, they had a party for the book, so i enjoyed it. there was a lot of colorful people there. i could talk about it today, you know. those are the days, the mornings that i miss. but other than that, you know, 28 years in a row. same building, same gelman, same everything. >> and what about kelly? do you miss kelly? >> kelly's terrific. i do miss -- >> do you watch the show now? >> once in a while. you know, i'm sleeping late now. >> i was wondering that, too, if you still got up and you watched it. >> so what about your friend david letterman getting this big honor in washington? >> i brought that up to him. he doesn't like to be observed anywhere except behind his desk.

i said you got to be good, you got to be nice. you got to have a smile on your face. you're getting a big award. you're somebody! >> people like you. >> he did the forward to your book. he substitutes the name regis for abraham lincoln. it's abraham lincoln's bio. how dare he? >> how does he think lincoln feels about this? >> regis was the 16th president of the united states. regis was just 8 years old when his family moved. >> but it's a great friendship. >> it is. it is a good friendship. i admire him very much. i think he's the best we have. >> what is it, though, the two of you just laugh at each other? the two of you get each other? >> charlie, i've only seen him a couple of times outside of the show. that's the way it is. a couple of dinners we have with don rickles. but i understand him. and i think he understands me. and i've done that show more than anyone else.

so we kind of have a mutual affection. >> he loves broadcasters. he loves people who he thinks understand the game. >> you're absolutely right. that was his whole life from the get-go, being a weatherman to his job now. >> you're doing rachael ray once a month. >> once a month. has anybody else asked me once a month? no. come on in, regis. >> i'm going to be in florida. >> oh, again with florida. >> you could come in. >> she's a great gal. she really is. you know what i thought of, gayle? because joy is a little tired of cooking for me after all these years. so i said to her, rachael ray, i said rachel, every time i come on this show, i want to learn another meal that i will cook for joy. she said you got it. what's the first one? i went bacon and eggs. love bacon and eggs.

i don't know how to do it, but i'm going to learn. maybe i'll invite you all for breakfast. >> why not? >> aim high. >> it's going to get that way. >> we can't leave this without fighting irish. 6-0. >> i can't believe it myself. i am so beautifully surprised. i thought it would be like they'd have 6-6. they still have oklahoma, southern cal, some good teams on the menu there. but so far, wow. >> that game last week with stanford. >> did that guy cross the goal line or not? >> i was pulling for stanford. >> of course you were. >> i was pulling for stanford, but what a heart stopper, regis. >> stanford is always tough. they have beaten notre dame so many times. and i thought well, this guy's going to do it. but did he get across, the last guy that pulled his way in there? >> i didn't see the game. >> it was close. the refs gave us to us. >> great to see you. >> nice to see you. am i leaving you now? >> yes.

>> did anyone at least hold up the book? nothing! as usual, nothing! >> you don't have to get up right now. >> the camera is coming, everybody. >> where are you going? >> that's a book. i'm not done. >> regis philbin, "how i got this way" is the name. it's available in paper back. when we come back, justin cronin knows that change could be good for your career. we'll meet the

two years ago, justin cronin published a super scary novel called "the passage." it spent three months on "the new york times" bestseller list. thank you very much. and now he's written a sequel to that book, it's called "the

twelve." >> thank you for having me. >> i'm really glad you're here because we've been talking a lot about you this morning. let's bring people up to speed that might not be as knowledgeable about your work. i guess we can start with thanking favorite daughter iris for the idea. at the time she was 8, 9 years old. she said to you -- >> one, she expressed concern that my other books might be boring. >> ouch. >> ouch. but i think it's something every writer maybe could stand to hear from time to time. in my own defense, she had not read them and they are not boring. but i said okay, fine, what would you prefer that i write about? and she said the girl who saves the world. >> uh-huh. >> and that seemed like kind of a tall order, but most of the interesting things a man does in his life, he does to impress a woman, does he not? >> that is true. >> it wasn't completely serious, but i said okay, that's fine, we'll do this. but you have to help me. so for three months, i would

take my afternoon run and she would come on her bicycle, and we would play what was essentially a kind of game, let's plan a novel. and we had two standards, only two. one, everything had to be interesting, which i think is -- >> iris has very high standards. >> and had to have one character with red hair. >> she's a lovely brunette. here's a lovely little redheaded iris. then you go from a girl saving the world to -- we don't want to say vampires because they're virals. so the virals are in prison. they're on death row. >> 12 death row inmates who are infected with an experimental virus that is -- it's actually an ancient virus that's been discovered, that scientists believe is the origin of the vampire legend. it's the real vampire. >> help me understand why this genre is so fascinating to people. because there are some people that eat it up and there are others that go check, please. >> there's two aspects to this. one is the attraction for not

just monster stories in general, but the vampire story in particular. and then there's stories of the apocalypse, of a radically changed or destroyed world and what will grow out of that. i grew up during the cold war, and i grew up thinking i was going to be incinerated with about 20 minutes notice. and that stuff got in my head and i read all those books. "fail safe" and "on the beach" and novels like this and they were an important experience for me. but i think we have been imagining that story since we dropped from the trees. i think it's very basic to us. you could look at the story of noah as our first -- at least in our cultural tradition, the gods' original dueover. >> you take it as job. >> that's the first rule of writing. >> how does it work for you? >> the first rule of writing is the same as the first rule of any job which is you must show up. so i show up every day. my office is above the garage.

i used the work in the garage. so i've been able to up grate a little bit. >> are your kids allowed to come up? >> i have two. they're allowed the bother me under two conditions, and they are blood or fire. >> so you're in there from what to what? >> pretty much 9:00 to 5:00. the way most people work. except for people in morning television, who i'm amazed by and admire intensely for their ability to get up at 4:00 in the morning. but i treat it like a 9:00 to 5:00. 5:00, i pick up my son, just like everybody else. >> you must feel good at the success of this. you had a little doubt in the beginning, because when you first put in the manuscript for "the passage," you didn't do it under your real name. >> i didn't. i really didn't know what would happen to this. it was so different from what i had done and what i was to some extent known for. and publishing, you build an audience by kind of driving down one road, and i took a really hard left, and what i wanted was for publishers -- potential

publishers, when they saw this material, to have no preconceptions at all. so we submitted it under a pseudonym. the pseudonym was jordan amesley, which is a job. amesley is my daughter's middle name. a little tribute to her role. and jordan was the name of one of the characters of my other stories. >> thank you very much, justin. continued success. the name of book is "twelve" it's on stores now. you can get it right now. if you had to invest in one piece of clothing, what should it be? we'll ask one hollywood favorite why certain clothes are timeless, and find out which decade he really loves the most.

cameron silver works in vintage clothing, but he has a

major influence on today's styles. "time" magazine has called him one of the most influential names in fashion. >> the man who dresses system of hollywood's top stars has new book celebrating the iconic looks from each decade of the 20th century. the book is called "decades," the same name as his legendary l.a. boutique. hello to you, cameron silver. >> good morning. wonderful to be here. >> this is what i like what you said, that the closest thing to a woman is her dress, and that when we go to the grocery store, we should pretend we're on a red carpet, it's so much more fun. i'm thinking that's so tedious. >> put on a little black dress, a pair of sexy heels and spanx and you can do anything. it's much more fun to be in front of a dairy aisle if you feel like there's a step and repeat behind you. >> what grocery store are you going to? >> whole foods in l.a. i live in l.a. there's paparazzi outside. >> explain to people, what is vintage if they don't know what vintage clothing is? >> vintage is about collectible clothing from the past. there's used clothing and then there's vintage.

>> what is the difference? what is the difference between a hand me down and vintage clothing? i grew up and i had to wear hand me downs. my mom didn't call them vintage. but looking back, there was some nice pieces there. >> i would suggest that a vintage piece has a certain value. the pieces at decades are iconic from each decade. something that's worth a little bit more money might be vintage. a hand me down, there's a possibility it would be worth more money. depends how nice your mom's clothes were. >> what's the best decade for fashion? >> personally, i liked the '70s. i think it's a great moment for american fashion. but i kind of like them all. that's the problem. i think the '70s represented a real liberated moment in fashion. i love the american '70s, studio 54 aesthetic. give me a woman in a one-shoulder dress and a t strap, sexy heel and let's go out to the disco and i'm happy. >> i thought norah raised a

really good point about vintage, because how do you know whether it's grandma-like and whether it's something very chic and we should keep? what is the difference about that? >> i have a philosophy with vintage that it has to look modern. even if you're looking at a piece that's edinbowardian, it to look modern. if you're attacked to the piece because there's a collectible, but if it's iconic, probably should hold on to it. >> let's talk about people. who among all the women that are in this book and women that you know represent for you, the sort of perfect look? >> i would say grace kelly is one of the great 20th century icons. diana ross. >> diana ross? >> oh, i'd like to get in her closet. she's got everything and she design sod much of her clothing. >> like to get in her closet. >> she's been in my closet.

there are so many women who inspire me. and i've chosen many women from each decade that are particular iconic. >> and men, it would be cary grant? >> i always say if you're a man, ask yourself would cary grant wear it? sometimes i get it right, sometimes i get it wrong. >> is this your cary grant look? when you came today, i was really excited to see what you were going to wear. then you came in with these killer boots. i'm trying to describe this look. >> you know, i'm wearing -- >> those killer loafers. >> i'm wearing the designer angelo galaso, who is dressing men to be italian cary grants. >> we can switch outfits. you're double breasted. very in for next season. >> that's what i've heard. >> you're on trend. >> i've had it four or five years. >> exactly right about cary grant. a sense of elegance.

thank you for coming. the book is called