anthony. >> mason: seth doane, thanks, seth. the news of the bin laden videos broke late in the day, and pakistan, which was already in turmoil over the circumstances of his death. elizabeth palmer is in islamabad tonight with reaction there. liz, how did the pakistanis respond to this? >> reporter: we're going to see widespread reaction tomorrow because the video only began to surface around midnight, but on the newscasts at midnight, we got a flavor of how things will be presented. basically, pakistanis are going to be told, look, these vooz don't prove anything. they don't show that osama bin laden was in that compound in abbottabad. pakistan is still in denial. they're inching up to-- to coming to grips with the fact that this colossal security failure has happened inside the country. but it's going to take some time for them to come to grips with it. the implications are huge. people have lost respect for the army-- which used to be very respected-- and, also, they have to realize that there may, indeed, be rogue elements i

anthony mason, cbs new, midland, michigan. also tonight, the dean of sports cartoonists has died. bill gallo of the "new york daily news." for more than half a century gallo's humor included characters like the diehard sports fan, basement bertha. gallo depicted yankees owner george steinbrenner as general von stein-grabber. and mohammed ali hung this drawing in his training camp as an incentive to get back in shape. bill gallo was 88. and coming up next, restoring joy to children traumatized by tornadoes. tornadoes. allegations against bay area cops. what we uncovered in an exclusive investigation next on cbs 5 i'm frank mallicoat. and i m sydnie kohara. >> couric: natural disasters have been a big part of the news lately. we end tonight with what happens after the disaster. elaine quijano has the story of a woman who drives into damaged communities to help the children there heal. >> reporter: when dozens of tornadoes slammed into the south, children were among those directly in the storm's path. >> everything was shaking and stuff, and we heard trees falling, and nobody know wh

anthony mason, cbs news. new york. >>> take a quick break. up next on "the morning news," new evidence against the former head of the international monetary fund. >>> plus, jury selection complete, the trial of casey anthony begins today. this is the "cbs morning news." casey anthony begins today. this is the "cbs morning news." well, hotels know they can't fill every room every day. like this one. and this one. and oops, my bad. so, they give expedia ginormous discounts with these: unpublished rates. which means i get an even more rockin' hotel, for less. my brain didn't even break a sweat. where you book matters. expedia. this is where the rubber hits the road, the nose breaks the grindstone, and the angels start second guessing where they tread. ♪ call 1-800-steemer >>> nato warplanes pounded libya's capital tripoli before dawn this morning. explosions could be heard miles away. it's the heaviest bombing yet against muammar gadhafi's military. the american diplomat jeffrey feltman is in the libyan rebel defective capital of benghazi today

anthony mason reports. >> reporter: when her tuscaloosa home was about to explode around her this past elaine davis and her husband took shelter. >> he said he could feel the wind and the pressure on the door. and there was just a big gust of dust and dirt. >> reporter: this is what saved them. a cold war-era atomic bomb shelter with concrete walls, several feet thick. the neighborhood above them was leveled. just as joplin was on sunday. and engineers say it's almost impossible to build a house able to withstand a tornado's furry. >> tornadoes can come in speeds up to 200 miles an hour and above. at some point, mother nature's physical force will overwhelm even the best engineering. >> reporter: watch these two houses bombarded with hurricane-force winds at a test facility. only the structurally reinforced home survives. tornado winds can be twice as powerful, and attack both vertically and horizontally. like a swirling sledge hammer. but installing impact resistant windows or latching the house together at the foundation and joints, with so-called hurricane ties, can help keep out th

>> smith: anthony mason, thanks. bob schieffer is our chief washington correspondent now marking 20 years as anchor of "face the nation." bob, congratulations on that and let's talk about the president's week. it's about as good a week a president can have, i guess. >> yes, i would say so. i mean, this was a great week for the president. presidents have weeks like this-- both good and bad. certainly george bush had one like this after 9/11 when the country came together. bill clinton had a week like this in reverse when the monica lewinsky scandal happened. but i must say, harry, i think this is bigger than whether it was good or bad for the president. i think what happened was an important moment in american history. i think it was good for the country. i think we needed this and i think it sent a message to the terrorists around the world that we don't give up. you know, we live in this fast food society where everyone wants to get everything immediately, twitter and all of that business. but the core value of this

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anthony mason reports. >> reporter: when the big east colleges held a job fair recently, jason zima was the line. >> i was up at 5:00 this morning. >> reporter: a business major, zima graduated from the university of connecticut last summer. >> quite a big turnout, and you know, you only got about 30 seconds where you can talk to an employer. >> reporter: employers do plan to hire more new graduates this year, surveys say. still, only one in four seniors will graduate with a job. you've been looking for work for over a year? >> oh, yes. internships, full-time positions, anything. >> reporter: you getting discouraged? >> yeah. >> reporter: the job market may be improving slightly, but with the sea of competition still so deep, some students have decided they're not going to wait online at job fairs anymore. >> those job fairs, 400 people competing for ten jobs. >> reporter: john campbell is a senior at babson college outside boston. >> it's all about creating your own destiny. >> reporter: campbell was just a sophomore when he found a storefront here in saugus, massachusetts, and set up

anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up later on "the early show," immigration reform.nt obama wants action now, before the 2012 campaign gets cooking, but it's easier said than done. >>> also, tablet wars. we get a look at the latest challengers to apple's ipad. >>> and arnold and maria. can the ex-governator and the kennedy wife get back together? that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching, everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

>> smith: anthony mason, thanks for the explanation. dominique strauss-kahn is out of jail, but not out of trouble. the former head of the international monetary fund accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid here in new york was released on bail today, but he will remain under house arrest. michelle miller has the story. >> reporter: dominique strauss- kahn's get out of jail card was anything but free. >> the money alone is not going to be sufficient. >> reporter: in addition to the $6 million bond, strauss-kahn also had to hire private security, at a cost of $200,000 a month, to watch him around the clock, conditions similar to those imposed on bernie madoff. >> i think it's overkill. i think it's unnecessary. >> reporter: attorney gerald lefcourt has defended high profile white-collar suspects for years. >> this is a violent crime, no question about it. but there are tons of people out on far worse, far worse, actual completed rapes, murders. >> reporter: but this former prosecutor says it seems unfair to grant defendants bail only

but anthony mason reports relief may be just down the road.ed more than $9 barrel today to close below $100. >> reporter: oil prices tumbled nearly 9%, today but the damage has been done. >> we're spending about $1.5 billion a day just to fuel up our cars these days and in typical years it's been well under a billion. >> reporter: since january, gas on average is up more than 90 cents a gallon. that's 30%. >> every time the price does go up, i just cringe a little bit. >> reporter: ron kish, who captains this new jersey party boat, will hire fewer crew this season because gas prices are driving away the weekend fishermen. but he needs more customers to pay for his boat's 400-gallon fill-ups. >> instead of carrying 12 people just to pay for the fuel we might have to carry 15 people to pay for the fuel-- or 16 people. >> reporter: on average, americans are now spending nearly 9% of their income on gas-- double what they paid two years ago. how much impact do you see gas prices and food prices having on the momentum of this economy right now? >>

anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> here's what else is happening tonight. there is another natural disaster unfolding this evening, this one threatens air travel. iceland's largest volcano is sending a giant cloud of ash into the sky. it is not the same volcano that caused chaos last year, but dozens of flights into and out of great britain have been canceled. the cloud is expected to affect hundreds of miles of air space. with that ash bearing down on europe, president obama left ireland a few hours early and flew to london this evening, but not before visiting the tiny village that was home to his great-great-great-grandfather on his mother's side. the president's visit included a trip to a local pub. his motorcade run into some trouble leaving the u.s. embassy. one of the presidential limos, which the president was not in, bottomed out and got stuck, causing a slight delay. up next on tonight's cbs evening news, a bombshell in chicago terrorism trial. was an american ally behind india's 9/11? and later the supreme court says thousands of convicted crimin

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anthony mason concludes our series, "help wanted: getting america back to work." >> hi. >> reporter:3-year-old single mother in lowell, massachusetts, tameira lanier spent three years without a full-time job. >> it was terrible for me. i had to go into a shelter and everything. >> reporter: then she got hired at mojo. how does it feel to get back in the work force? >> it feels good. >> reporter: tameira, who majored in fashion at a vocational school, is a stitcher now. >> i was kind of nervous because it's been six years since i've been on a sewing machine, but i actually did pretty good. >> reporter: mojo is short for moms and jobs. you specifically built this company to help single mothers? >> yes. >> reporter: twin brothers invested money from the sale of their software company to start mojo with their sister cara. >> this is not a charity, it's a business. >> it's a business. >> we're trying to solve a social problem with a for-profit answer. >> reporter: mojo pays its workers more than $10 an hour, provides career training, and health care, and most important for single mothers

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anthony mason continues our series "help wanted: getting america back to work." >> reporter: when theg east colleges held a job fair recently, jason zema was at the front of the line. >> i was up at 5:00 this morning. are you waiting in line for this table? >> reporter: a business major, zema graduated from the university of connecticut last summer. >> quite a big turnout and, you know, i only got about 30 seconds where i can talk to an employer. >> reporter: employers do plan to hire more new graduates this year, surveys say, still, only one in four seniors will graduate with a job. you've been looking for work for over a year? >> oh, yeah. internships, full-time positions, anything. >> reporter: are you getting discouraged? >> yeah. >> reporter: the job market may be improving slightly, but with the sea of competition still so deep, some students have decided they're not going to wait in line at job fairs anymore. >> those job fairs, 400 people competing for ten jobs. >> reporter: john campbell is a senior at babson college outside boston. >> it's about creating your own destiny. >>

a case in point from our anthony mason. >> reporter: she showed a generation of women how to dress. now diane von furstenberg wants them to eat and sleep with her too. >> everything that happens in your life happens in your bed. >> reporter: will you join us on the show this morning. >> i will be there, i hope everybody will be there. >> reporter: designer diane von furstenberg later this sunday morning. >> hi. >> osgood: when we speak of design we don't just mean office buildings or homes. we mean the objects we keep inside our homes as well. that includes the eye-catching items our david turecamo has been studying. >> reporter: well, if we're talking about design we can't leave out the french. french lingerie, that is. >> they always make things that can make like a game between the woman and the man. >> reporter: you mean? >> in intimacy. >> reporter: somehow i had always thought that. the french fashion most of us will never get to see. well, that is until later on sunday morning. >> osgood: professional designers aren't the only ones trying to improve the devices we use in our

play book-- they're reinventing themselves, as anthony mason reports in our series "help wanted: gettingerica back to work." >> reporter: wonder lake. even the name sounds idyllic. but in this pretty illinois town, 59-year-old bill mielke is wondering when he'll find another job. >> i've been unemployed for over a year. >> reporter: just down the road in crystal lake, 49-year-old ed tonkin knows how that feels. >> the company that i was working for was closing its doors. >> reporter: both men were construction supervisors when they became statistics of the great recession. now they're taking different paths to get back to work. so it sounds like you were faced with a pretty scary situation. >> it was pretty obvious right away that i wasn't going to be able to keep doing what i had been doing. >> reporter: you have 40 years of practical experience. >> exactly. >> reporter: and you think there should be a market for that? >> there should be but i haven't found it yet. >> reporter: in fact, four out of ten unemployed americans-- that's nearly six million people-- have been out of work for m

this morning she'll be talking with anthony mason for the record. ♪ >> reporter: after a six month lay-offor surgery, a slimmer aretha franklin is singing again. ♪ people were worried about you. >> i was worried. what's going on? i was worried. >> reporter: later on sunday morning, we go to detroit and go to church with the queen of soul. >> osgood: betty white is a veteran of tv's earlier days who has never lost her zest for life and who doesn't look or act her age. this morning betty white will discuss all that and more with katie couric. >> you think i'm just another one of these silly women who can't resist your dime store charm? >> my apologies. >> i didn't say stop. >> reporter: at 89 this golden girl spotlight is shining brighter than ever. you are on fire. >> oh, it's so ridiculous. generations have grown up and they keep saying, oh, yeah, my grandmother. oh, my great grandmother used to watch me. >> couric: betty white at the central park zoo later on sunday morning. >> osgood: also this morning john blackstone talks to military families changed forever by the war on terror. miche

anthony mason remembers the woman.altschul takes us to the source of the marble and honors america's war dead. first the headlines for this sunday morning the 29th of may, 2011. officials in joplin, missouri, have lowered the official count of people killed in last weekend's huge tornado to 139. 100 others are still considered missing. president obama just back from his six-day trip to europe travels to joplin this afternoon. our ben tracy has spent the weekend in that devastated town. >> looking back there, the altar and sanctuary would have been where they're standing. >> reporter: this is not what sunday morning was supposed to look like. >> we try to hold up. then we break. we hug one another. >> reporter: father justin moynihan is now leading a deacon instruction effort. finishing off what the tornado began at his beloved st. mary's church. >> a lot of that will have to be replaced. it won't be able to be used. >> reporter: meanwhile officials are identifying more of the dead. 18-year-old will norton is now one of

this week on the "cbs evening news" anthony mason is looking at the unemployment situation in a serieso work." good to see you. >> good to he to see you. the average length of unemployment is 38 weeks, some of the long-term unemployed are looking for drastic solutions and in effect reinventing themselves. in wonder lake, illinois, bill melke is wondering when he'll find another job. >> i've been unemployed for over a year. >> bill tonkin show knows the feeling. >> reporter: they're not alone. 4 out of 10 people are unemployed. >> we really could see people who maybe never get pulled back in or it takes a very, very long time before they can get a job that comes close to matching what they lost in the great recession. >> reporter: melke started an internet business. >> but it's still not generating a significant income at this point in time. >> reporter: tonkin has taken a different approach. >> i wasn't a very good student when i was a kid. >> reporter: tonkin enrolled at mchenry county college, among some 400,000 americans studying under the government's workforce investment act. has

chairman, anthony mason shes cbs. this is that rare news conference that actually makes news before it happens. can you talk a little bit about your decision to take this historic step of holding a news conference after a fed meeting? what choices did you make? and facing the media comparing facing congress? >> thanks, mom. well, the federal reserve has been looking for ways to increase its transparency now for many years and we made a lot of progress. it used to be that the mystique of central banking was all about not letting anybody know what you were doing. as recently as 1994, the federal reserve didn't even tell the public when it changed the target for the federal funds rate. since then we have taken a number of steps, a statement with -- includes a vote. we have -- we produce very detailed minutes which are released only three weeks after the meeting which is essentially a production lag. we now provide quarterly projections including long-run objectives as well as near-term outlook. we have substantial means

anthony sat at the defense table without her attorney jose baez. the judge cryptically then asked another lawyer on the team a question. >> mr. mason you had an opportunity to discuss the matter with ms. anthony? >> i have, your honor. >> okay. anything you need to add? >> no. >> okay. this court will be in recess until 8:30 tomorrow morning. >> reporter: defense attorney would not reveal what that secret matter is. >> any comment at all, cheney, what it is? >> reporter: tone jose baez released a statement. today's adjustment was due to a private matter. please stop the speculation. former attorney kaufman. >> the door remains open. >> reporter: it's taken some unusual modern-day twists. >> do not, and i repeat, do not use any type of electronic devices, houston astros. including tweeting, texting, blogging, or any other means at all. >> reporter: while no jurors' faces are shown on camera and their names are protected in open court -- >> who are you? >> ms. 1312. >> reporter: they know the names of the potential jurors and their online lives that most thought would remain quiet are not. >> did you ever tweet cops in florida are id