james brown in new york. james: the jets have expanded their lead by 14. jones capped the drive with a one-yard touchdown run. the two-point conversion is run. 58 rushing yards on that series by jones. jets on top of indy. jim: all right, so the jets taking full advantage after payton went out with a 15-10 lead. second down and 8. and that's incomplete. now, these wild card contenders these last 12 minutes so crucial here for the broncos. boy, if they could pull this one off look where they would be. but all those teams at u, baltimore, houston, and pittsburgh. and the jets very likely to be at u 7. let me ask you this. peyton manning has been in the league 12 years, never injured. you have a 15-10 lead in the third quarter and you have a football. one more peyton manning drive down the field might be enough to lock the game down and then you can keep the perfect soon -- season going. phil: apparently you care more about the perfect season than they do. that's what they were saying by taking him out. it's not a factoror in what they do. jim: what a nice sa

james brown plays father john wasn't corvine in the battle of iwo jima and one of the six men raising the flag when the famous photo was taken to if you're a 23rd, 1945. corpsmen bradley won a navy cross for his heroism on iwo jima and his son james who will be with us hear tonight learned about his father's heroism and wrote the best-selling book flag of our fathers that was made into a movie by clint eastwood. he also wrote a book titled flyways about marine pilots shot down during world war ii and he is here tonight to talk but his newest book, the imperial cruise about president teddy roosevelt's diplomatic mission to send his secretary of four common william taft to the pacific to negotiate agreements for the united states and the diplomatic missions failed from san francisco july 5, 1905 and the book describes in some detail that it was so revealing and i would say disturbing. the book has been labeled by "the new york times" as one of the 10 best of 2009. roi no he will enjoy a his talk tonight and reading his book can he will be available after the program. please join me in w

james brown had to say black was beautiful. nobody would do a song like that. obvious of course we have pride in the way we look. >> i think it's changing. i think it's -- you know, i don't think that we really have a lot of pride in being black. and i mean we even understand our history and the richness of it. and i think this is really the importance of this book and the importance of history. so that we can be proud of who we are. but we're not continuously brainwashed. dr. roscoe brown and i were just talking about. in our household, we were either a victim or you were an activist. there were no victims in my. my mother always said just as one must drink water, one must give back. the struggle is not over. as much as we'd like to think it is. it's not really over. it's really important that we teach our children the importance of this. my parents, thank god, made sure that we knew who we were and, you know, there was no question about it. we went to the same boring school. i think i'm over it. when i went to school, there was maybe two, there weren't many b

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i'm james brown in new york with scores from the nfl.s clinched the nfc south and remain unbeaten. the patriots lead over the dolphins and jets is just one game while cinci have afully game lead over the steelers. san diego wrapped up its 7th straight victory while the bough -- cowboyed drops into a tie with the eagles in the east. log on to cbssports.com. >> pelley: now a few minutes with andy rooney. >> rooney: the letters i get come in four general categories. it may be more or less, but say four. one-- i get a lot of good letters. they're the best kind; they're from people who liked something i said. i can always take that. two-- i get letters from someone trying to get me to promote something on "60 minutes." i never do that. never have. three-- i get letters from people who are mad about something i said. they usually think i was wrong. four-- i get a lot of letters about what i look like, letters pointing out something about my appearance. recently, i made some remarks about our mail and the u.s. postal service. a lot of people th

but in the '60s james brown had to do a psa saying black is beautiful. nobody would do a song like that now because the idea is obvious. of course we have pride in ourselves and the way we look -- >> but do we really? you know, i think it's changing. i think it's, you know, i don't think that we really have a lot of pride in being black. i don't know that we even understand our history, the richness of it. and i think this is really the importance of this book and the importance of history is so that we can be proud of who we are, that we're not continuously brainwashed. dr. rosco brown and i were just talking about it. in our household you were either a victim, or you were an activist, and there were no victims in my home the way we grew up, so we just knew. my mother always said just like one must drink water, one must give back. the struggle is not over as much as we'd like to think it is. it's really not over. it's ongoing, and it's really important that we teach our children, you know, the importance of history because my parents, thank god, made su

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. >> brown: james bain is a free man tonight.yesterday, he was released from a florida prison where he'd spent 35 years for a crime he didn't commit. a court-mandated dna test proved bain was wrongly convicted of sexual assault in 1974. >> i am going to see my mom, the one i just got off the phone to. that's the most important thing in my life at this moment besides god. one thing i have to say about this dna, ladies and gentleman, it's gonna do one of the two... free you or lock you. >> brown: bain's release was in fact the third of its kind just this week, all the result of work by the "innocence project" based at the benjamin cardozo school of law at yeshiva university. according to the project, since 1989, there have been 248 post-conviction exonerations based on dna evidence. seventeen of those exonerated served time on death row. 27 states, the federal government and the district of columbia compensate individuals who were wrongfully incarcerated. joining me for an update is barry sheck, co-founder and co-director of the "i

if you'ra consumer you're probably safe but as nation we're at risk. >> brown: all right. james lewi thanks so much. >> thanks. >> woodruff: finally tonht some very spial holiday greengs complete with family photos and senerseas. newshour correspdent tom bearden s the story. >> it wasn't this windy our house. >> reporter: shortly after dn on a tuesdayorning, temperature inhe low 30s. >>eep logan covered up, though >> reporter: a you family meets wi a photographer for a familyortrait. not in nice warm studio, but in the garden of the godpark in colorado springs, coloro. and as cold as iwas, they took off their ats, because they wanted the best picture possible. >> ok, we're gna get this done quick >> rorter: the photographer is jay ckman, one of hundreds of pressional photographers who vonteered for a project called "portraits of love." >> i've covered rs before, but is could do it. >> reporter: a veterans suppt group, solers angels, joined forcesith pdma, a professional photograers organization, to take pictures of military families and send em to loved onesverseas in time for t

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