it is february 6th, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." the fbi says an alabama kidnapper's bunker was wired to explode. former fbi director john miller shows us how they risked their lives to save a little boy. a leaked memo about drones killing americans. big change coming to the way you get your mail delivered. but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> they were getting increasingly worried as to

whether he booby trapped the entire entrance or blow himself and his hostage up. >> this morning technicians are still looking for even more explosives. >> fbi assault team attacked the bunker and rescued the hostage. >> ethan turns 6 years old today safe and sound. >> the white house coming under fire for the confidential white house's memo on the legal justification for drone strikes against u.s. citizens found to be operatives of al qaeda. >> they're legal, ethical, and wise. >> quake in the south pacific. >> reports at least five people are dead in the solomon islands. >> governor jerry brown taking on rick perry. >> who would want to spend their summers in 110-degree heat. >> the president is proposing another stop gap measure to avert the deep spending cuts due to kick in next month. >> these reforms would reduce

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♪ two tickets to paradise >> you're not going to paradise. >> whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪ captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." there will be a birthday like no other for ethan. he was held under ground as a hostage in a bunker for a week. >> mark strassmann is in midland city, alabama, with new detail os testify raid that ended with the death of the kidnapper. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah and charlie. ethan's birthday. fbi technicians are still in the bunker. they're looking for and removed improvised explosives left behind. jimmy dykes' body is also inside and will stay there until the bomb threat is over. >> we're here to celebrate answered prayer. >> reporter: they called it a praise vigil. people in ethan's community coming together to pray in th k

than thanksgiving for his rereturn to his mother. fbi has discovered two explosives, one inside the bunker and one inside the pvc pipe that jimmy dykes used to talk to negotiators. it ended when he climbed the 8-foot ladder. when he reached up he was off balance and vulnerable. ethan was away from the lad err and relatively protects. they dropped two stun grenades. their loud noises and flashes disoriented him. within seconds 14 members entered the bunker. officials described a fire fight. they believe dykes fired first but missed. they killed dykes, rescuing the boys. fbi agents had repeatedly rehearsed the raid using a mockup of the bunker. ethan's mother release add statement of facts saying i woke up this morning to the most beautiful sight. my sweet little boy.

i can't describe how incredible it is to hold him again. ethan feels like family to everyone. >> i look at him as a grandmother. >> there's a lot of people in this town that feel that way. >> yes. >> reporter: people in this small community know that ethan and his mother could use a break, so charlie, and norah, they're trying to skrab enough money to send the two of them to disney world. >> mark strassmann, thank you. john miller is a former cia and fbi director. what have you learned about this case? >> a couple of things. one thing is they look for what the negotiators call for is a tpi, third-party negotiator. if they can bring in a co-worker, a friend, somebody that the hostage taker likes and respects. sometimes that can help move things along and with jimmy lee

dykes they found out there was no tpi. they worked with the dale county sheriff and said find us that person and they said he has no friends. the closest thing he had to a friend was charlie poland and that was the bus driver that he killed. >> john, you've talked to some officials that have reviewed the video taken by the security cram on the bus. what does that video show? >> you know, we always thought something like in a fast-moving thing he would have gotten on the bus, the bus driver would have resisted him, he would have shot him and taken the kid. this videotape doesn't unfold in seconds. it takes minutes. he knows the bus driver. the bus driver dropped a pie off that day and he said i want two children and charlie poland opens the emergency door, lets all the children escape, but ethan is sitting in the front row seat and he just freezes and then for the next few minutes

dykes is saying i'm taking this boy with me and poland is saying no, you're not, and dykes is saying if you refuse, i giej shoot you. you can tell the bus driver is frightened but stands his ground but dykes does what he says he's going to do. he shoots him and kills him and then takes ethan. as we learn more details, the picture of this very strange man and the heroic efforts of the bus driver starting to come more into focus. >> john miller, thanks. john will be back later with a closer look at the fbi hostage rescue team. a powerful quick triggered a tsunami that killed at least five people in the south pacific this morning. the 8.0 magnitude quake struck off the solomon islands. a tsunami measured 5 feet high swarmed several villages and about 80 homes were destroyed. it sings on the so-called ring

offire, an active earthquake zone. >> david bernard is watching it from us. david, good morning. what can we expect from this storm? >> charlie, we're just beginning to see this storm take shape as far as what its potential could be. if we look at it, there's been light showers in boston overnight but this has nothing do with the big coastal storm that's likely going to develop on friday. and again by friday night located somewhere off the new england coastline and exactly where that location is and exactly how strong it is, we will have toefrg do with how strong it could be. this is a general outline of where we think the worst weather could be beginning friday morning going into early saturday morning. within this area there could be excessive snow. blizzard conditions. eastern connecticut and going

into southeastern new england and also coastal flooding. that may also be a concern. already this morning we do have some watches. boston is under a winter storm watch as well as southern new hampshire including manchester and also maine, portland. we're going to see these watches and warnings expand as we have a better understanding of the details. everybody needs to be ready across the i-95 corridor for major disruptions as we go into the end of the week. >> we'll be watching closely. david, thank you. get ready tr big changes in the mail service. after losing $16 billion the postal general will make a big announcement later this morning. nancy cordes is breaking the news from capitol hill. nancy, good morning. >> good morning to you, norah. that's right. the postal service has announced its intention to halt saturday

delivery by august 1st. that means most mailers, letters, and catalogs would not arrive on saturdays. this is breaking a 150-year tradition. the plan to shrink delivery from six days a week to five would onto affect first class mail while packages, mail order medicines, priority, and express mail would still get delivered on saturdays. oklahoma republican senator tom coburn says the move will save the struggling postal service $2 billion a year. >> it's a proper business decision and long-run good decision for the postal service and americans. >> reporter: the postal service has lost $41 billion in the past six years as more and more americans turn to private shippers, e-mails, and private shipping. they slashed service at half of its 26,000 officers and trimmed the work force by 40%.

it wasn't enough. they're looking at possible postal reforms. >> it won't come close to solving the postal services problems. it's got to look at more changes in its fundamental structure and operational costs and what does and who does its business. >> reporter: there's just so much the postal service can do without congressional approval. despite years of begging by postmasters general congress never passed the bill that would give them more flexibility to modernize and streamline its service. sometimes the postal service makes these announcements because they're trying to force congress to act. is that what's happening here? >> no, i don't think so. look, they're in survival mode. they're not going have any postal office. here's the alternative. they're lose 2ing $25 million a day. day. they have do something. >> reporter: technically the postal service is not allowed to

reduce its service unless congress changes the law, but lawyers for the postal service think that they have figured out a way around this. and, norah, even the president has endorsed this move in the past. it was part of his deficit reduction package last year. >> nancy cordes, thanks. john brennan is said to make his case on capitol hill but a leaked memo will complicate tomorrow's hearing. it spells out the case for killing americans linked to terrorism. bill plante is at the white house. bill, good morning. >> reporter: charlie, good morning. the unclassified memo was written by the justice department and sent to some members of congress last summer. it was never intended to be sent to the public, but it was leaked. brennan is the architect of the drone program and now the leak has the white house on the defensive. administration officials argued forcefully tuesday that the

targeted killing of terrorists who are american citizens often by drone strikes is acceptable policy in the battle to keep america safe. >> these strikes are legal, ethical, and wise. >> we only take these kinds of actions when there is an imminent threat and when we're confident it's doing so that's consistent with international law. >> they give wild latitude. the memo reads it does not require clear evidence that a specific attack will take place in the medial future and the u.s. citizen can be targeted if they're believed to be a senior operational leader of al qaeda engaged in planning operations to kill americans. anwar al awlaki was an american bore jihadi killed by a drone strike. another was killed in an attack

in 2011. >> what about some kind of review. you're taking way an american's due process. doesn't it deserve a broader debate? >> we understand these are weighty matters and serious issues and they deserve the kind of considered approach that the president is taking. >> reporter: white house officials including john brennan when he was the president's counterterrorism adviser has made the case that they're in the u.s. national security's interest. >> the purpose of a strike against a particular individual is to stop him before he can carry out his attack and kill innocents. >> reporter: civil liberties advocates have been very upset with the targeted strike since it became public. they call the leaked memo irresponsible and chilling. you'll hear more about it when brennan goes before the senate tomorrow. charlie, norah? >> bill plante, thanks. >> the congressional bucket office is predicting they'll

drop the deficit. but that will only happen if there's no deal to head off the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester. they project the economy would only grow 1.4% and economy 1.8%. republicans say the latest offer is nothing new and means higher taxes. the president believes the cuts would hurt the economy and he's willing to settle for a short-term fix. >> if congress can't act immediately on a bigger package, if they can't get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect, then i believe they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economic damaging effects of the sequester for faw more months until congress finds a way. cbs political news director john dickerson.

john, good morning. another deadline in washington, another proposal for a short-term fix without any specifics about how to do it and thousands of people facing job loss. is this about the president trying to gain the political upper hand? >> you sound tired of these skirmishes, norah. they've been going on for about two years. this is chapter 87 in a very dreary book. this is about both sides trying to gain leverage in this latest fight. what the president is trying to do what the republicans are try dochlgt put your foot on sensible footing. stop going from crisis to crisis to crisis. the problem is they can't come to an agreement. what the republicans see from the president is a little bit of nervousness on his part, which is to say the economic damage of these constant battles is actually something he's more worried about than say he was in the last fight we had over the debt limit and the fiscal cliff. >> john, can the gop win this fight? they lost the last two budget

battles. >> they did. and that's the way a lot of republicans see it. what they believe is two things. one, think thank they can blame the president of coming up with a see question station in the first place. then republicans voted for it. the other bigger thing is they see the president worry about his legacy, which is to say if the -- the economy, the white house believes, is poised for recovery. but these constant fights keep a lid on economic recovery. the president wants to finish the second term with a strong economy. so if he can get this budget process regularized, that can happen. if he puts pressure on them, maybe the republicans can use that in some way. >> as you know eric cantor outlined an agenda for the gop. what do you think of the agenda? >> it's an attempt to outline the budget battles. it's to say, hey, we believe these affect you in your daily life. the problem is you have to clear this out of the budget mess before you make that pitch because at the heart of the

budget fights are a real big problem that have a bill effect on the economy that's still an important issue and getting economy growing is still the most important thing lawmakers can do. until you have a solution to that, these other problems are just not going to get an airing. >> john dickerson, thanks. time now to show you some of this morning's headlines. a new study shows widespread flaws in the election system. the pure report rank and 50 states. times and problems with absentee bat locals. >> "the washington post" reports they're extending benefits to same-sex spouses. they are not expected to include health benefits. "the miami herald" says bruins' outfielderer ryan braun claims he's not nothing to hide. he's been allegedly linked to a clinic. he said he used the clinic for consultations and there was a dispute over monju "the san

francisco chronicle" says that facebook fatigue is setting. in. a new study shows about 27% of users plan to spend less time on facebook. 38% of those between 18 to 29 years old are cutting back and 61% have taken a facebook vacation leaving the site for weeks or longer. a new rule this year broke up a longstanding monopoly. many have also added to their duties inspecting heating systems and checking for carbon

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talk and then there's his weight. the straight talk, that o's a plus, but the constant talk about his weight could be a potential drag on his campaign. >> i made a few jokes about you, not one or two here and there, but intermittent. >> reporter: david letterman's jokes about chris christie's ee weight may not hurt his feelings but they could hurt his chances for the future. >> i didn't know it was going to be this long. >> when somebody has morbid obesity running around, he's probably got heart disease and continued stress and eventually will have a heart attack, so that's the time bach theory that's bound to happen if he continues that lifestyle. >> reporter: she was white house clinician for president clinton. in 2004 clinton underwent

quadruple by pass surgery and he's cently become a vegan, if you can believe that, to try to avert heart disease. no one expects christie to follow clinton's diet. he said tuesday he's not unlike a lot of americans working on their health. >> i'm making best effort i can, sometimes i'm successful and other times i'm not. sometimes periods of great success are followed by periods of great failure. >> reporter: but christi may not be as unhealthy as he looks. research found that wheel people who are obese have a higher risk of death, body mass index is an imperfect mortality. blood sugar, cholesterol and others should be considered. >> my blood cholesterol is normal, believe it or not. >> what about your blood sugar? >> blood sugar also normal. i'm like basically the healthiest fat guy you've ever

seen in your life. >> reporter: despite the jokes, christie says anyone who struggles with weight is also working on a weight loss plan. >> be assured there is a plan. whether it will be successful or not, you'll all be able to notice. >> reporter: now, during the primaries a lot of the republicans were clam mooring for him to get in the race and his leadership since hurricane sandy has increased his popularity especially in his home state. there's a kre rent poll that found 74% of new jersey residents approve of christie. so no matter how much he weighs and whether that plan works or not, he's going to be a front-runner for 2016. charlie and norah? >> thanks. he said it's the first time he said he's looking to address it. >> he said you have to take it day by day but there is a plan. >> yeah. >> a former security adviser said he's lost 50 pounds in the last year. >> which is hard to do when they

have an executive job like they do. speaking of such, jerry brown and rick perry are in a war of candidates. bill wit ter shows us the battle putting millions of dollars at stake. >> reporter: it's the battle of the titans. the second most popular state, texas, taking aim at california, number one, trying to poach golden state businesses. the first was fired by the governor of texas in this $24,000 radio campaign. >> this is texas governor rick perry and i have a message for california businesses. come check out texas and see why our low taxes, sensible regulations, and fair legal system are just the thing to get your business moving to texas. >> reporter: california governor jerry brown fired back at texas. >> who would want to spend 110-degree heat inside a

fossil-fueled air conditioner. not a smart way to go. >> it's not going have mump impact at all. >> reporter: ucla economist jerry nickelsburg says despite the climates they're number one and two in the job creation. >> it's so much my state's bigger than yours? >> california and texas have always had a friendly rivalry and all the studies done have shown that at most 0.5% of all jobs that are lost are lost because of firms moving out of state. >> reporter: at that rate it would take 20 years for california to lose 1% of its businesses. >> get the monkey off your back. >> reporter: this isn't the first time a state has tried to whoo california businesses. it didn't work when nevada tried it. few thing it will work any better this time. as for california's governor, he dismisses the whole thing as so much hot air.

for "cbs this morning," i'm bill whitaker in los angeles. >> jerry brown has lost none of his style and fun at politics. >> exactly. and perry's aggressiveness as well. >> the two big ittegest states off. >> exactly. we're keeping an eye on the quake in the south pacific. doctor is here to talk earthquakes. hi, doctor. that's next. tomorrow we'll ask a casino magnet why he wants sweeping changes in social security and medicare. you're watching "cbs this morning." nature's true celebrities aren't always the most obvious. it's more than being glamorous, or tall. it's not all about who sparkles the most. or who is the best dressed.

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magnitude 8.0 quake that struck the south pacific last night. experts were surprised by the massive earthquakes in 20004 an japan in 2011. physics professor michio kaku proffers of university of new york is here. welcome. >> welcome. >> how significant is it? >> this affects the 9.0 monster earthquake that has a thousand times more energy than what rocked the solomon islands just yesterday. we're talking about the 800-pound gorilla of earthquake. by rights they shouldn't exist. when they exist, they dissipate the energy. so we shouldn't have 9 pont 0 which devastated fukushima. now we realize a fault line is like a battery, accumulating energy across many cycles and it's game-changer. it means we may have to rewrite all the textbooks on these.

>> so we can predict these? >> no. it means it's even more predictable. even a minor fault can sustain a 9.0 earthquake when by rights we should be. we're back to the dark ages where even off the coast of the united states, even an innocent fault may sustain the monster 9.0. >> based on this new theory, could any of these super quakes occur in the united states? >> one is the cascade ya off the coast of seattle, portland, and the pacific northwest. it's sustained earthquakes before and it means they could be unpredictable. building up energy, even though we don't know there's battery there storing the energy about to be released on the pacific northwest. also the sites of nuclear power plants. if it's near a fault line and the fault line is innocent it could be storing up energy for many cycles.

>> i thought you were going to come here to make us feel better. >> it's hum bling that mother nature has this up her sleeve. it's still hocus pocus. >> it set off a tsunami. we have an animation of the sun following. how do you know when a tsunami is going to form? >> well, we're not positive but we believe when you have a subduction fault it means part of the sea floor falls, the other part rises and the mismatch causes sea levels to rise a few feet. that doesn't sound like much, a few feet, however, it's spread out over hundreds of miles. the energy is so great it affects the orbit of the earth around the sun, it affecting the seconds of the day and affects the geometry of the planet earth itself. >> if you had to look anywhere

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this is the super bowl you didn't see as dress rehearsal was held on and off the field. for the first time armen keteyian takes us for a behind-the-scenes look at the game before the game. >> reporter: they were escorted by police detail which followed the team bus all the way to the super bowl bus. but there were no ravens or 49ers on board. there were raiders. cbs invited these louisiana

state school champions to be stand-ins. their bus driver and coach, jay rocket. >> you're representatives of the high school. behave like any normal school function and we'll have fun doing it. >> thank you all. i'm producing the game, lance sparrow, and thank you guys for being here. it's going feel cool, isn't it? >> what's it like for your boys to run on the field and pretend to be super bowl contenders? >> it's unbelievable to see how you guys work behind the scenes. >> and they played it just like the pros, beginning with team introductions. >> the ravens. >> reporter: for these young players -- >> san francisco 49ers. >> reporter: -- this was the ultimate fantasy football. and they practiced. >> all right. let's start over. >> reporter: again and again. >> san francisco 49ers, rairc /

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it's 8:00 a.m., welcome back to "cbs this morning." after weeks of bitter cold, the northeast is now bracing for its first major blizzard of the season. some areas could see 36 inches of snow, plus there's some of the most amazing pictures we've ever shown you. we'll check back with a team that put cbs tracking devices on great white sharks. but first here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. fbi bomb technicians are still inside the bunker. they're looking for and removing improvised explosives left behind. >> there will be a birthday like no other for little boy ethan.

he was held hostage under ground for nearly a week. >> as we learn more details of this very strange man and the heroics f of the bus driver are starting to come more into focus. cbs news learns today of the postal service's intentions to halt service this summer, breaking a 150-year tradition. >> americans linked to terrorism. >> you're taking away a u.s. citizen's due process, doesn't it deserve a broader debate? >> another deadline in washington and another term for a short-term fix. is this a way for the president gaining an upper hand? >> you sound tired of these skirmishes, norah. >> no matter how much he weighs, christie is going to be a front-runner for 2016. >> it's like a battery in your car. this is game-changer. >> i thought you were going to come here and make us feel

better about earthquakes. >> pakistan is owning an amusement park and zoo in the same place where the raid took place. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. the northeast could be in the cross hairs of a major blizzard. this week it could bring up to 3 inches of snow. >> meteorologist david bernard is tracking the winter blast. >> there's certainly the potential for a major storm and the impact looks like lake thursday night, but friday's the big day going into saturday morning. right now we're talking snow showers moving across new england this morning, but, again, this has nothing do with the big coastal storm thats likely to develop as we go into tomorrow night and friday. now, anywhere in this pink area, we're talking heavy snow, maybe blizzard conditions and in the coastal areas, some minor

coastal flooding is going to be a possibility. we have warnings in boston, manchester, and portland, where at least 6 inches of snow seem likely in these areas. again, be ready for major travel disruptions this week. for "cbs this morning" i'm david bernard in miami. neither snow nor rain nor the dark of night keeps the post office from delivering mail, but deep budget cuts? well, the u.s. postal service wants to end saturday delivery starting this summer. packages, medicine and priority express mail would still get delivered on saturday. over the past six years the postal office has lost $41 billion as more use private shipping, e-mailing and other services. they're known as the hostage rescue team. cbs correspondent john mitt

romneyer is back with an inside look at this elite unit. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. they are the law enforcement equivalent of u.s. special forces. the unit is simply known as hrt. the special agents who make up this team are called operators, and many of their missions are classified. but with the hrt in the headline this week i asked sean joyce, the number two man at the fbi for some insight into this special unit. >> the impetus for this hostage rescue unit evolved after the 1972 olympics in munich. >> before the olympic games came to the united states, there was a need for a highly specialized tactical team. sean joyce was a director and now he's director of the fbi. >> it's an elite unit. they really have special skills. not only do they have their

obviously physical skills, the mental skills, but they also have the intrinsic values that i think it necessary to be an hrt operator. while everyone on the team is a certified diver, so many times we're going to use our maritime capabilities. our breaching capability is extensive. i think it marches any counter terrorist team throughout the world. >> months of training are required to become a mek of the hoss tackle rescue team. since 1983 only 300 agents have made it through. the test to become an hrt operator is meant to make or break you. >> it is a very strenuous two-week period that challenges you both mentally and physically. when you're completely tired, haven't slept for many, many hours, where your body has physically been broken down and then how do you react. >> the hostage rescue team has learned, reacted, and evolved

over 30 years. from the 1993 siege in waco texas where an assault on the flaming compound failed and 74 men, women, and children died to arrests of countless terrorist suspects to challenging deployments in iraq and afghanistan or more recently the week-long hostage standoff in alabama. >> we want the best tactical efforts to be present in that situation. >> after watching the kidnapper jimmy lee dykes through a tiny camera placed in the bunker law enforcement officials say he was becoming more and more erratic. dykes had bombs and guns and a 5-year-old boy hostage. the plan to enter the bunker had been rehearsed over and over in a full-sized mockup nearby. it was time to move. >> i think it's just heroic men doing their job. you know, they went down there, they neutralized the subject, and they were able to rescue ethan and brought him up the stairs and was able to reunite him with his mother. that's what the mission is all

about and they did it. >> so, john, these rescue teams play a huge role. what do they do between hostage situationsome. >> you know, the old answer to that, charlie, was they were constantly training, but that has not been the case. for the last ten years they have been deployed over and over again to do sfes or sensitive sig sight. after special forces secure the area, remember, these guys are a super s.w.a.t. team but they're also fbi agents. they conduct the search, gather the evidence and do it very quickly because they know time on target is very limited before the bad guys are coming the hill, so they have perfected that as an art. >> ethan's mom says how grateful she is. >> we were thinking about her. >> yeah, john, miller, thank you. super skiing starlin city

von was hurt yesterday in australia. she's now expected to miss the rest of the season. michelle miller reports on the accident just a year before the next olympics. >> reporter: lindsey vonn was 12 secondses out of place in the super-g when tragedy struck. she appears to lose control why landing a jump, somersaulted through gate and went several feet. it left her competitors in shock. >> she's in good shape and did ability was also very good. >> reporter: vonn was airlifted to a nearby hospital. she tore ligaments in her right knee and broke a bone in her left leg. >> virtually every world cup race has an injury and they're not pretty. when you're going 60, 70 miles an hour on a one hair edge the chances of getting hurt are

high. >> reporter: vonn is known for pushing boundaries and taking risks. >> i'm not afraid of anything really. never been afraid on skis remember. that's why i have so many speeding tickets with my car. >> reporter: last fall she tried to convince ski officials to let her race against men. >> i feel like barry bonds, that i can't race with the men simply because i'm a woman was definitely gender-biased. >> reporter: but for all of her life on skis, vonn's in the news too. she was romantically linked to tiger word and was in "sports illustrated" as a swimsuit model. >> obviously she's beautiful, articulate. she is the package. so, yeah, she's the biggest star in the sport. >> reporter: despite the severity of her injuries they're hopeful she'll be able to get

her medal downtill. for "cbs this morning" lindsey vonn. >> she's won more world cup victories than any other american. >> i wouldn't bet against her when she says i've never been afraid of skis ever, i believe her. >> she says she likes speed. >> we know about that, feel the need for speed. >> what cha talking about, willis? >> she's vowing to work as hard as possible to make sure she doesn't miss next year's

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i love these people. ♪ and it's beautiful this crash was captured on dash video in south korea. a car was launched out of nowhere before landing on another vehicle. it's not known what happened to the people inside the cars but they're believed to have survived. welcome back to "cbs this morning." incredible that someone had a video camera rolling. >> it doesn't matter how good a driver you are, there's no reaction to do to get out of that. they're both oklahoma. high blood pressure or hypertension is among the deadliest conditions for black men. a new study finds that many who are at risk don't know they have it. researchers may have found a solution in a most unlikely

place. >> here comes another fake clipper fan. >> reporter: at wally's bashr shop outside los angeles they talk sports, women, and now health. >> i tell people, go take a walk before you take a drive, you'll live a whole lot longer. >> reporter: for the past two years barber wallie riddle has offered a shave and haircut and a blood pressure test. and for most of the customers who have agreed to the test, this arm cuff has been a change agent. >> i've been on top of my vegetables. >> blood pressures have come down tremendously on average where he had about almost 90% follow-up. that's really remarkable. >> dr. robert victor of cedars-sinai hospital taught him how to take readings, evaluate them, and make referrals to doctors. he says the program's secret is that it reach as population that

rarely goes in for checkups. >> the average man with high blood pressure in this barber shop comes every two, four, six weeks to get their hay cut and i think i'm a pretty nice dock, to but i've never had that much patronage in my practice. >> reporter: what was the reaction when people came in here and they were offered to take your blood pressure? >> well, they kind of clowned me. they said, what are you turning this into a doctor's office, but i say, hey, this is for you. >> reporter: an estimated 40% of african-americans have high blood pressure. black men are three times as likely as men to die from it with a heart attack or stroke. 42-year-old derek cobb's first blood pressure reading was a shock to his system. >> i had blood pressure so high that the girl that took it, she thought the machine was broke. >> reporter: so what did you do? >> changed my life. you change your eating habits, you change the stress levels.

no offense, ladies, but you've got to calm that down too. >> reporter: so you say it saved your life. >> i would say yes. yes. it made me aware of life. >> reporter: why is high blood prash such a scourge for african-american men? >> family history, genetics seems to play some role. the environmental factors seem to play a huge role. it's called the silent killer. yeah, it's called a silent killer for a long time because high blood pressure by itself doesn't hurt and it silently damages the internal organs for years, sometimes decades until someone shows up in the emergency room with a heart attack. so sit's complicated and i wish we had a magic bullet. in the meantime we've got the barber shop. >> reporter: this isn't the first time barbers have practiced medicine. in the middle ainges barbers cared for soldiers in battle,

but while that role would fade, dr. victor say this one will grow. he already estimates there's some form of barber shop checkup going on in every state. >> the idea is to have this adopted by the health care system so that it can be sustained and scaled across the country. that's the real goal is to have an army of barbers. >> reporter: your friendly barber could be the key not just to looking good but living longer too. for "cbs this morning," i'm bill whitaker in california. >> such a great idea. i know the black barbershop is sump a gathering area for men. my father may surprise you. he was black man and ultimately hypertension took his life and that's why i think you've got to get this out to let people know you've got to get help. >> this is a simple change in public health that can change lives. >> go to where the people are. great idea. coming up, if something

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even i am guilty of some ugly highway stereotyping. i speak, of course, about my prejudice against axe-wielding hitchhikers. >> i was driving down this way. he goes, you know what? i've come to realize i'm jesus christ and i can do anything i want to. he goes, bam. they're trying to help him. he grans one of the women and stabs her with a pencil stick. comes up behind, smash, smash, smash. >> for the first time in human history people are saying, boy, we're sure lucky that homeless hitchhiker was carrying a hatchet.

>> how long before he has a reality show. >> exactly. >> he's a show waiting to happen. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour, the story of a courageous wounded warrior. he could easily be a bitter man but this triple amputee embraces life err way possible. we'll she you who todd love is doing now. and journalist lisa ling has faced many challenges on and off camera. she'll talk about a baby on the way and the show "the job" the same man who brought you "survivor." facebook fatigue is growing. a study by the pew research center shows 20% of all users plan less time on the site, and that number jumps to 38% on one of facebook's most important groups, the 18 to 29-year-old crowd. >> "the daily news" says hillary clinton's website is bringing new attention.

bill and chelsea clinton urged supporters to thank the former secretary of state for her work. >> stay tuned. the "los angeles times" says disney plan toews lease spin-offs to the star wars movies. in addition to the star wars episode 7 the city will produce a few stand alone films that are not part of the saga. amazon coins can be used to buy games and apps from its apps stores. starting in may they'll offer ten is of millions of dollars of free coins. and "usa today" says women look their worst on wednesday afternoons. that geesd to know. research shows that hump day is the most stressful day of the week. the study also found that thursday is the day women are most likely to have sex. what day is today? >> today's wednesday. tomorrow's thursday. i'm heading to grammy duty. what are you doing, mrs. tracy. >> apparently at 3:30 today i'll

look horrible. >> what are you doing thursday? moving right along -- chicken. a young woman learned the hard way you need to respect a judge at a bond hearing on monday. 18-year-old penelope soto accused of drug possession had a very smart-lipped comment for the judge. later she made an obscene gesture. the judge quickly handed down some hash punishment. >> bye-bye. >> adios. >> come back, ma'am. come back. come back. give me paper again. bond will be $10,000. >> are you serious? >> i am serious. adios. [ bleep ]. >> come back again. come back again. >> what's up? >> i believe i heard you saying to -- >> yes, i did. i'm not going to deny it.

>> did you say [ bleep ]. >> actually -- >> did you say that? >> yes, sir, i did. >> oh, you did say that? i find you in direct criminal contempt. 30 days in the county jail. >> okay. that's fine. >> don't get into it with the judge. >> like that judge. >> absolutely. >> i like that judge. >> good for him. pe first took you on the great adventure. jeff glor went along to find great white shark and tag them with taggers. it was the first in the atlantic. >> a second great white was released. here's the latest on the update and what's next. our o-certain. founder chris fisher and greg skomo. jeff glor is back too. good to see all of you at the table. i know you want to crack the code of these creatures. what have you learned so far? >> we learned what we previously thought about these species isn't exactly true and they're

doing things we never thought they were capable of. the movements back north is amazing and completely changed the way. >> mary lee and jeanie. >> named after my mom and jeanie, the famous. they're traveling for a briefer time. we even kind of writing the book on what white sharks do. we're creating what's normal. >> mary lee went south. >> right. >> and in the middle of january came back up north and was off the coast of montauk, long island. >> yeah. shocked us all. >> kept going. she's well off the coast of massachusetts now. i never expected them to be off the coastline in february. >> that they could survive. >> it's tells us about their physiology and that they can stand cold water. we never anticipated that. >> why is she doing that?

>> wouldn't we all like to know? hopefully in a couple of years we'll have a better handle on that. >> you told us her ler she wasn't behaving. >> breaking all the rules. >> that remind med of the famous quote that charlie reminded me of, women who behave seldom make history. >> and mary lee is making history. break some more rules on thursday afternoon. >> yeah. >> what about thursday? >> i've got be going. >> you're saying, i've got to get home. >> there was also an incident where one was close to the shoreline. >> that was mary lee. occasionally i get a ping and i get them when they come in through the e-mail and gives us its location. most of the time we're trying to figure out is it moving or breeding. every once in a while they say i giev tot call. >> it's always funny to call when you call the police station in jacksonville beach and say my name is chris fisher and i'm calling because there's a great white shark 235 pounds after

your beaches and we thought you might want to know. we give them the data and they can decide how to handle it. >> when we were in the green room jeff goes this is just fun. i'm thinking it's a depends moment but you're saying it's fun. >> it is. >> why? >> the science really drives me. i love it. let's be truthful. being this close to a huge animal like this and being able to do this science is really riveting. >> jeff finlt brought us this story and i think just to remind everybody about why sharks are so important to the study and learning about our oceans. >> the lining of the ocean as chris says. >> there's no robust path forward for the ocean without a robust path for sharks. they're certainly the great balance keeper and we can't remove them from the keeper. >> quickly, chris, this is more about sharks. >> this is about the future of the ocean and the future of the plan echlt they keep everything together. the ocean is two-thirds of the planet. we must look after our sharks. >> good to see all of you. thank you very much.

charlie? a u.s. marine lost three of his limbs serving his country. that story by itself is worth sharing but what he did with his life after that is almost unbelievable. chip reid shows us how a hero became a conquerer. >> one, two, three. >> for todd love life is a constant quest for adventure. he recently became a fully certified scuba diver. >> i feel like i can do anything i put my mind to. for me, that's way more than having two legs. it's priceless. >> he put his mind to surfing and was soon doing hand stands. >> i kept telling-i think i can do it. >> two years ago as a u.s. recon marine in afghanistan love lost both legs and a left forearm to land mine. what when we met him last year he was learning,000 kayak. love told us then that kayaking didn't completely satisfy his need for adventure.

>> i want to go skydiving soon. it shouldn't be a problem to do that. >> since then he's done four tandem jumps and hopes eventually to dive solo, and that's not all. >> i've always wanted to wrestle an ail gator. animal plan it heard about that and invited love to appear on "gator boys." >> you got him. >> the whole time i'm thinking i hope this gator doesn't get tired of me being on top of him because i'm bite size. >> reporter: you don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for yours. >> no, no. i don't have a reason to feel sorry for myself. i kind of had this journey of going from a hospital bed on day one after my injuries thinking, man, what has my life got in store for me, and then just a little over two years later, i have this lift of crazy things that any human being would love to have the opportunity to do. >> reporter: love says he wants

anyone who's inclined to feel sorry for him to understand one thing, how much he loves his life. for "cbs this morning," chip reid, hiram, georgia. >> one more good reason not to feel that you're a victim. >> i know, charlie, about anything, about anything. you all right know how important it is to have a plan for your family if something bad happens but there really are some simple thing use may not have shared with your spouse like the passwords for your bank accounts. we'll meet a woman who we want

michelle reynolds is not a financial adviser but she has a powerful message. sort out your finances before it's too late and she learned that the hard way after her husband died suddenly, it took her years to sort out the paper wachovia and now she has a new website we're going to call it

for this show get your stuff together but she uses the other world. she joins us at the table. unfortunately as often happens in these kinds of stories good things come out of very tragic circumstances so you'd cow just briefly give us your background, what happened to you? >> yeah, so in july of 2009 i was at a barbecue at a friend's house with my son and my husband was riding his bike and was hit by a van. and that starts a week-long voyage in the icu where day after day after day the best-case scenarios just got less best and after a week of tests, there just weren't any more options and i decided to end medical support. >> a very difficult decision. while you're dealing with the eminent death of your husband you're dealing with the unknowing of your finances. >> that was a bewildering

experience. i remember being in the hospital and trying to focus on what the doctors were saying and at the same time this constant flood of, oh, my god, how much money do i have in my checking account, am going to be able to pay the mortgage, how much life insurance do we have. there was this amazing confusing toss around of breathing and trying to figure out what actually was happening and this flood of financial stress and worry that came over me. >> you realized you didn't even have passwords for many of the accounts and stuff like that. how did you finally get it together. >> yeah, exactly. for example, i was at the hospital and the nurse handed me my husband's phone and i didn't know the password to it so i couldn't even get in it to call his father. so there was -- i didn't know where to start actually. >> so now you have decided to help people and your website, i was looking at it, is incredible. there's a lot of websites out there but yours is simple. it directs people to your check lists, everything. how did you create it.

>> so after months and years of sorting through the financial mess, i kind of dusted off my project management skills and made my own list and figured putting it online and pushing it in the world was a way of thinking people. >> i bet you found out you had personal management skills you didn't know you had. so now you started get your stuff together. it's not appropriate for tv but you name it that because it really is provocative and it got me thinking, i've've got to update my will and i never thought about it for years, chanel, until i saw you today. what do you want people to do? >> i want people to realize getting your financial theme together and legal documents together is a lot more than paperwork you sign and put in a fireproof safe. it's really about planning for your life and making sure that not only your future and the future of your children is important to plan for now, but it's really, really easy to do if you do it now and it saves a ton of unnecessary suffering and

frustration later down the line. >> it's tough to talk about but very important. thank you, chanel reynolds, very nice to see you. >> thank you. >> for more of chanel's vice, visit us at "cbs this morning" where we have a link to her website for you. finding a job can certainly be a challenge but a new reality show is making it a competition. lisa ling shows us what it takes to land the job next on "cbs this morning." [ male announcer ] when your business is powered by verizon,

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up this in this country but 12 million still remain out of work. the new show "the job" ben tracy spoke with the executive producer mark burnett and the host lisa ling. >> hi. welcome to the palm. we've got a very busy night ahead of us so let's rock it out. >> reporter: on the premiere episode of "the job," five people compete for the same job in restaurant management. >> it's hard to learn everything in a short period of time. >> reporter: it's trial by fire and stakes are high. >> only four of you will advance to the next phase. >> reporter: if it feels a little like workplace "survivor," the executive producer is mark burnett who made his name with the granddaddy of all reality shows. >> there are three other companies who may want you, the

dynamic changes and that's what the job is. welcome back to "the job" in new york city. i'm lisa ling. >> reporter: she hosts the show. she admits she's not a fan of most reality tv but says this was a job she could not refuse. >> this seem as little different than what you've done in the past. why did you want the job with "the job?" >> the fact that jobs in the economy is a number one issue is undeniable. i find the show to be completely entertaining, completely emotional, and i guarantee you will learn something from every single episode. >> and remember composure. never look stressed. >> reporter: the employers on the show give tips on everything from resumes to what you should never say during a job interview. that was important to ling who has spent most of her career helping viewers learn about the world's harsh realities. >> america, it can be inspiring and beautiful. it can also be dark and ugly. >> reporter: her show "our

america" with lisa ling on oprah's own network tackles topics from catholic nuns to the elderly in america. >> reporter: you have a show coming up about seniors, which i know is a very personal one for you. >> my sister and i have in many ways become the parents to our father because he is showing some signs of degradation and forgetfulness. >> what are you guys doing? >> cutting your pills. >> reporter: and because we love him so much, we constantly feel the need to try and tell him what to do. >> i take one pill in the mo morning, that's it? >> reporter: it's only half a day. >> reporter: lisa is no stranger to family struggles. in 2009 she almost lost her sister laura, a fellow journalist captured in north korea and sentenced to a labor camp. now lisa at 39 has had difficulties with pregnancy, but

now she and her husband will welcome a child in the next few weeks. >> i've gone through miscarriages. even though i have a scheduled date i'm constantly worrying that she's still moving. it's scary being responsible for this life. >> reporter: you've spent most of you life being very independent, traveling all over the world doing these stories. what clanchs? >> i'm not sure what changes after i have the baby because i've never had one before. i'm sure once i meet her and see her, you know, things will start to fall in place, but it really is quite a terrifying process. >> reporter: like the contestants on her new show, she's just hoping she's good at her new job. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. >> "the job" premieres this friday at 7:00 p.m. central on cbs. news alert. i'll be leave as we get ready for this year's grammy awards.

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