most hispanic voters went for president obama last time, but bill whitaker found some are saying not this time. >> no, he does not have my vote. >> pelley: and john blackstone in los angeles, where folks wait all night for the only medical care they can afford. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from los angeles. >> pelley: good evening. president obama attacked congress today with some of the harshest language yet. then he did an end run around the house and the senate. he offered relief to some homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages, and he did it with an executive order that does not need the approval of congress. the president is beginning a western campaign tour, which includes a stop here in los angeles tonight. but he made the mortgage relief announcement today in nevada and for one very good reason. bill plante is traveling with the president. bill? >> reporter: well, scott, nevada has the highest foreclosure rate in the country, and that's why the president unveiled his new program here in this neighborhood

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john blackstone, bill whitaker and anthony mason count the ways. breaking news on health: dr. jon lapook with a new recommendation that healthy men no longer get a p.s.a. screening test for prostate cancer. nancy cordes on herman cain's surge to the head of the republican pack. and can it be? jim axelrod has found a company that is hiring and offering attractive benefits to boot. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. he was the great inventor and the fruits of his genius magically transformed the world. that is what one newspaper wrote about thomas edison on the day that he died. but the same can be said to want about steve jobs, who died yesterday at the age of 56. edison invented the phonograph, jobs gave us a thousand songs in our pockets with the ipod. edison invented the motion picture camera. jobs revolutionized movie making. edison gave us electric lights. jobs' computers, iphones and ipads lit up our lives. john blackstone begins our coverage of steve jobs and his legacy. >> peporter: scott, here at apple

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> mitchell: and that is the "cbs evening news."0 minutes." thanks for joining us this sunday evening. i'm russ mitchell at the cbs broadcast center in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org explaining the use of deadly force. silicon valley royalty gather at stanford university tonight, to honor apple co-founder, steve jobs. and a moving tribute to raiders owner al davis... how the team and fans paid their respects at today's game. cbs 5 eyewitness news is next. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. ,,,,

bill whitaker, cbs nice, woodland hills, california. >> mitchell: and that is the cbs evening news.n cbs, the untold story of manned knox. i'm russ mitchell at the cbs broadcast center in new york. i'm see you back here captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org (((kim live))) (((kim live))) "...the nfl wouldn't be what it is today if it wasn't for al davis" and his legacy - both on and off the field. cbs five eyewitness news is next. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. al davis was a polarizing,,,,,,

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> mitchell: it might not seem that much to us, but for cubans it's a pretty big deal. beginning this weekend, cubans have the legal right to buy and sell cars. until now only cars that were on the island before the 1959 communist revolution could be freely bought and sold. ahead, how much would you bid for john wayne's eye patch from "true grit"? that story is next. >> john wayne, the duke, died almost one-third of a century ago, but his popularity lives on. this week his fans will have chance to own a piece of the legend. here's john blackstone. >> reporter: the home movies of john wayne are part of a huge family archive. wayne's youngest son ethan, the little boy in these pictures, says his father's possessions were piled in a warehouse for years before the boxes were even opened. >> this plastic cup, some kitchen supply, let's put that box in the trash pile. oh, wait, there's something heavy in it. oh, it's an academy award. >> reporter: some of what the family found will be auctioned this week in los angeles, scripteds, letters, mementos fro

bill whitaker, cbs news, riverside, california. >> pelley: europe's most active volcano is at it again. sicily's mt. etna erupted overnight, spewing lava as high as 300 feet in the air. this is etna's 17th eruption so far this year. no one was hurt, but a number of villages were coated in ash. the latest release from netflix is an earnings report that shows customers are angry. is an earnings report that shows customers are angry. that story's next. surrounding net flicts took a new turn today. word that 800,000 customers left its video subscription service in the third quarter sent the company's stock price down more than 26% today. many customers were outraged when netflix drastically raised prices over the summer. and there is a serious deal in the toy industry tonight. mattel, which makes the barbie doll, is buying the company behind thomas the tank engine toys and videos for a very grown-up price, $680 million in cash. it's mattel's biggest acquisition in a decade. we've lost a member of our cbs news family. long-time white house correspondent robert pierpoint died yesterday. bob

bill whitaker on the questions being raised. >> looking for dan weldon. >> reporter: just 11 laps in with cars packed four deep at speeds approaching 225 miles an hour. >> here we go. many. >> reporter: one car bumped another triggering the 15 car crash. driver dan weldon was killed when his car went airborne and crashed into a fence. >> what they saw countrying through, i thought everybody was going to be okay. >> reporter: ed carpenter was in the race and was a close friend of weldon. >> i think we all felt like there -- there was a chance for there to be crashes in the race because we were running close. it was fast there. were a lot of cars, the way the track was we were -- we knew we were going to be in a big pack. >> reporter: this was the car is he son finale. promoters promised excitement and speed. weldon a charming, popular british born driver two time indianapolis 500 winner called it a thrill, just moments before he was killed. >> there was -- there is a car. >> reporter: many inside racing questioned if there was more concern for spectacle than safety. there were 34 cars

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most-watched entertainment news magazine in the world. is richard simmons sick? the new headlines after his startling appearance on "dancing." now, the colorful fitness guru comes to "e.t." to set the record straight. >> i went from 160 to 138. >> plus -- julianne hough, dancing with her "footloose" co-star. her emotional "dancing" homecoming. >> george clooney, stacy keibler, ryan gosling and

california's hispanic population backed him big-time in 2008 but bill whitaker says that was then and this is now. >> let's talk about obama. >> he is a professor of latino studies and a political activist. an organizer of these demonstrations demanding a path to citizenship from immigrants, so when he heard candidate barack obama call for comprehensive immigration reform. >> president obama: i will make it a top priority in my first year as president. >> reporter: he became one of the first high profile hispanic democrats to back the junior senator from illinois. >> reporter: you thought he was the man. >> interview: i thought he was the man. >> reporter: you might be surprised to hear him today. >> reporter: he does not have your vote today. >> interview: he does not have my roett today. >> yeah? >> interview: the issues of war. under the obama administration, massive deportation, 397,000 deportations as of september of 2011. moving more aggressively against us in terms of race than the bush administration. >> reporter: president obama won 67% of the hispanic vote in 2008. they were

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight.ll of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >> new at 6:00 allegations of money laundering. questioning campaign donations in the mayoral race. >> we want this to be a place not just where we lock people up. >> where inmates are learning how to brew lattes and groom dogs. >> it appears we have a great heist of over half billion dollars. >> but that's not all. why california taxpayers are on the hook for millions more in the solyndra fallout. >>> good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm dana king. >>> jails are often called schools for crime. but one local sheriff want to teach his inmates something else entirely. everything from coffee making to dog grmi

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at >>> this is 9news now. >>> a coalition of women's health care providers in virginia fighting back now against some of the strickest abortion laws in the whole country saying they are so costly it could provide many abortion providers to go out of business. peggy fox says the coalition is pushing back trying to get the governor not to sign the bill. >> we are certified. >> reporter: rose mary is the director of patient services at the falls church health care center. abortions a lot of the procedures they fill here. when she set up the center nine years ago it

bill whitaker on the phenomenon known as dirty air. >> reporter: looking for dan wheldon. >> reporterst 11 laps into the race with cars packed four deep at speeds approaching 225 miles per hour -- >> play-by-play announcer: oh, here we go. >> reporter: one car bumped another triggering the 15-car crash. dan wheldon was killed when his car went airborne and crashed into a fence. >> what i saw driving through, i thought everyone was going to be okay. >> reporter: ed carpenter was in the race and was a close friend of well done's. >> interview: i mean, i think we all felt like, you know, there was a chance for there to be some crashes in the race because we were running close, it was fast, there were a lot of cars, you know, the way the track was, we were -- we knew we were gonna be in a big pack. >> this was the indy car season's finale. promote terse promised excitement and speed. wheldon a charming popular british-born driver and two- time indiannapolis 500 winner had called the race a thrill just moments before he was killed. >> interview: there is a car. >> reporter: but many inside

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> reporter: finally, you could probably say there was a lot ofin new mexico. take a look. the 40th annual albuquerque balloon festival launched this week. it broke a record. 345 hot air balloons got into the sky in one hour. >>> coming up on "the early show" live reports from perugia, italy, in the latest developments in the amanda knox appeals trial. >>> "healthwatch," advice on boosting your immune system during the flu and cold season. all that and more later on "the early show." that will do it for this morning's cbs morning news. i'm terrell brown. take care. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ends in people dead. t >>> there is this noise. >> a

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> he will no doubt be missed. >>> coming up on "the early showw of the jobs numbers due out this morning. we will see if the experts think the economy is headed for a double dip recession. >>> also, advice on keeping a happy and long-lasting marriage. we will hear from the author of the new book "the secret lives of wives." and a conversation with the queen of soul. aretha franklin during her recent trip to new york city. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. thanks for watching, everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com documents.. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald.

bill whitaker has the hard-nosed story. >> reporter: dewey bazilla says when his world was caving in,ave him hope. >> it was my freedom. if you really want to look at it like that, that was my escape from where i was at. >> reporter: where he was at was one of the nation's most notorious prisons, sing sing, and sent there for the murder of a 92-year-old woman. he said he was innocent. there was no physical evidence, but once convicted, there also appeared to be no hope. >> when they sentenced me to 20 years of life, i'm like, you know, i'm a walking zombie. my number was ao172. >> reporter: were there times in prison you thought i'll never get out of here? >> yeah. >> reporter: in fact, new york prosecutors gave him a chance to leave prison in 1990, two decades ago, with one catch -- to go free, all he had to do was confess. he refused again and again. each time he refused, more time was added to his sentence. eventually, lawyers working pro bono got his case reopened and then thrown out. finally, in 2009, dewey bazilla walked out of court an innocent, free man. >> if anybody had a re

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> schieffer: the first pitch at today's american league playoffgton, texas, was very special. six-year-old cooper stone threw a strike to his favorite player, josh hamilton. you may remember in july cooper's dad, shannon, fell to his death trying to catch a ball that hamilton had tossed into the stands. this was cooper's first trip back to the ballpark. doctors sent to prison for doing their jobs treating the injured. that's next. [ female announcer ] for frequent heartburn sufferers, summertime is now a happy time. when we can eat what we want and sleep soundly through the night. prevacid®24hr prevents the acid that causes frequent heartburn, all day, all night. it's pro-cool technology releases armies of snowmen masseuse, who cuddle up with your soreness and give out polar bear hugs. technology. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to bengay.com for a 5-dollar coupon. [ harriat ] you hoo! [ female announcer ] must be the os-cal. only os-cal ultra has the most calcium and d3, plus 7 bone

i spoke with whitaker about his long trip home.ccomplished scholar, journalist, and then you get to this point where you say, you know what, i am not going to write primarily about that. but i'm going to write about something very intimate, very personal. what was that, i guess, evolution of thinking? >> i had thrown myself into my work for 30 years as a journalist, partly to get away from my childhood and my upbringing and a lot of the pain that had been involved. but when i finally decided that i was ready to write the story, it was, i think, my training as a journalist that, first of all, allowed me to report the story, but also gave me a little bit of the emotional detachment that i needed to put it in perspective as i went along. >> the relationship with your father was one that you struggled with for a good part of your life. >> well, it is interesting because when people who over the years had heard about my story said, you know, you should write a book one day, they knew the romantic parts. so my parents were an interracial

meanwhile, 10-year-old aaron whitaker is shaken but in good spirits. >> will you ever fly again?r. a couple years away, yeah, probably. but this year, no. >> sir, what about you? >> you betcha. you bet, yep. i can't wait two years. i'm getting too old to wait. >> thanks to a nationwide fund-raising effort, bill launches a brand new smokey balloon in 2005, less than a year after the accident. and in 2009, bill is back in albuquerque to help celebrate smokey bear's 65th anniversary. but no one involved will forget that fateful day in october when a pilot and his passengers were lucky to escape with their lives. >> you know, with ballooning, the takeoff is optional. landing is a must. and so we just had a landing we didn't expect. >>> all of the people we've met in this hour have been changed by their experiences in ways, large and small, and whether they were saved by others or they found a way to save themselves, they feel lucky to be alive. if you have a video you'd like to send to us, logon to our website, caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this editio

>> denise whitaker reporting live from seattle. you. >>> you can stay with abc news as we cover the amanda knox homecomi homecoming. look for more updates later today on "america this morning" and later on "good morning america" as well. >> a man wrongly convicted of murder in texas is free this morning after spending nearly 25 years in prison. michael morton sentenced to life for the 1986 killing of his wife. dna tests prove another man was responsible for her death and morton's conviction was overturned. morton is 57. his attorneys say prosecutors suppressed evidence that could have helped acquit him. >> the search is on in kansas city for an infant kidnapped from her own crib. 10-month-old lisa irwin has not been seen since her mother put her done to sleep monday night. an intruder may have after climbing through a window. lisa's parents are cooperating in the investigation. >> personal life of michael jackson's doctor was thrown into the spotlight as a parade of women took the stand. >> this case is fascinating on so many level

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in los angeles, bill whitaker is finding protesters from nearly every walk of life. bill?> reporter: scott, it's day 13 of occupy l.a. about 600 people are here most days, more on the weekends and they come for many reasons. some people are unemployed, they're students who can't pay back student loans, people who need health insurance. but what unites them is a frustration, even anger, over an economic system they see as stacked against them. everyday now, 49-year-old patricia sanchez gets up, has her morning coffee, scans the computer, then, with husband tyrone, heads 15 miles downtown to the occupy l.a. campsite outside l.a. city hall. >> i'm putting the brakes on the destruction of this country. >> reporter: she man it is first aid tent each morning before work. , camps out here on the weekends. her husband is disabled with spinal damage. sun joseph joined the marines when cash-strapped community colleges cut courses he needed. sanchez earns just $34,000 a year as an occupation therapy specialist. >> we are below the poverty line. for the first time in my life i have de

bill whitaker is following the case. >> reporter: attorneys for conrad murray have not said whether the but today prosecutors made sure jurors got to hear michael jackson's personal physician in the interview he voluntarily gave police. doctor murray said the day he died michael jackson begged the doctor to help him sleep. >> reporter: throughout the night murray said he gave jackson sedatives: valium, lorazapam, midazolam, but none of them worked. >> i told him,: >> reporter: at around 10:00 a.m., jack son asked for some propofol, the white liquid anesthetic usually used only in hospitals which jackson called milk. >> reporter: murray's attorney, who was there with him during the questioning, asked if the doctor had taken necessary precautions. dr. murray said yes, then added this, which is now the main line of defense, that jackson knew how to administer or push the drug himself at one point telling the doctor: >> reporter: the prosecution is methodically trying to build a case that dr. murray's gross negligence caused michael jackson's death. but, scott, the defense counters that mic

>> denise whitaker reporting live from seattle.d jackson to murray's home and other locations. >> can you provide the total number of propofol vials shipped to conrad murray? >> i can confirm. >> is the number 255? >> yes. >> abc news learned that jackson's fingerprints were not found on a single bottle of propofol in his home, a crushing blow to murray's defense because they had been claiming it was the singer who gave himself the fatal dose. rob, tanya. >> things keep getting worse for dr. conrad murray. >> at the hospital the doctor never told them he was using propofol on jackson. so many things being hidden. another day on the stand today, dea agent on the stand talking about a voice recording jackson left. >> on this voice recording heard slamming his family and accusing them of talking some money. not pretty. >> okay. dirt is coming out. >>> in other news overseas financial markets are unsettled as worries continue over the global economic slump. wall street closed up yesterday despite warnings by the chairman of the federal

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> pelley: he even thought different about life and death. jobs learned that he had pancreatic cancer in 2003 when he was 48 years old. and here's what he said two years later to students at stanford university. >> no one wants to die. even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. (laughter) and yet death is the destination we all share. no one has ever escaped it. and that is as it should be because death is very likely the single-best invention of life. it's life change agent. it clears out the old to make way for the new. your time is lited so don't waste it living someone else's life. don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. they somehow already know what you truly want to become. everything else is secondary. >> pelley: if you were following jobs' heart and intuition when he returned to apple in 1997, you might have bought a th

most hispanic voters went for president obama last time, but bill whitaker found some are saying nots time. >> no, he does not have my vote. >> pelley: and john blackstone in los angeles, where folks wait all night for the only medical care they can afford. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from los angeles. >> pelley: good evening. pren

. >> pelley: we asked bill whitaker to look into the crash and tonight he is at the las vegas motor speedway. bill? >> reporter: scott, in the days before yesterday's race, some drivers had expressed concerns about the track speed here at the las vegas motor speedway and especially the high banks that allow drivers to maintain speeds above 200 miles per hour. >> looking for dan wheldon... >> reporter: just 11 laps into the race with cars packed four deep at speeds approaching 225 miles per hour, one car bumps another triggering the 15-car crash. driver dan wheldon was killed when his car went air born and crashed into a fence. >> what i saw driving through, i thought everyone was going to be okay. >> reporter: ed carpenter was in the race and was a close friend of wheldon's. >> i think we all felt like there was a chance for there to be some crashes in the race because we were running close, it was fast, there were a lot of cars, the way the track was we knew we were going to be in a big pack. >> reporter: this was the indy car season finale. promoters promised excitement and speed. wheldon,

. >> bill whitaker reports one of the hollywood's most celebrated actresses is under fire for sayingof attention to details. >> reporter: but last week, at a lavish party in the russian republic of chechnya, two-time oscar winner hilary swank ignored the human rights record of her host gadero. >> we documented firsthand widespread torture, disappearances, judicial killings of people carried out by forces that are under his direct control. >> i love you, mr. -- kadyrov. >> reporter: jean-claude van damme also showed up despite he was warned of mr. kadyrov aerks reputation. >> often people do things because of money, vast amounts of money. >> reporter: despite chechnya's poverty, she was pay $500,000 for her part. ♪ >> reporter: hollywood a-listers are routinely paid to glitter up a party or perform. ♪ >> reporter: in 2010, beyonce and usher sang at a new year's party thrown by the son of ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi on a caribbean eyelid. mariah carey sang at the son's bash for a reported $1 million. >> when they have celebrities come to their event they boost their reputation

. >> cbs news correspondent bill whitaker says if they can't make the deal they may pull the plug onporter: they are the most recognizable family in america. >> bart, you're cheating! >> lisa, it was probably an accident. >> oh, sure you take his side because he bought you that house on st. james place. >> who else is going to take care of her? dad? >> well, you little! >> reporter: after 23 seasons and nearly 500 episodes, the very future "the simpsons" hangs in the balance over a pay dispute between 20th century fox and the actors who provide the voices of the show's beloved characters. >> no! no! i won't take your blood ponies! go on, sweat yoysweaty. >> they would like the voice actors to take a pretty huge pay cut to for the increasingly skyrocketing expenses for a show on the air for 23 years. >> total rip-off! >> reporter: studio executives are insisting that each of the principal actors take a 45% pay cut from $8 million to $4 million. the actors refused. early the actors accepted a 30% pay cut but fox executives refused. >> what is standing behind the actors in terms of leve

bill whitaker, cbs news, las vegas. >>> joining us is former indy car driver lyn st. james. fans but with his fellow drivers. i know you met him a few times. tell us about him. >> well, he was a unique driver that had so many people that liked him. he drove for many teams and so he had crew members and team owners, you know, that were really almost across the board in the series. so he has been around actually a long time, even though he is a young guy, he is 33 years old. but just somebody that, you know, just really touched a lot of people because he had this infectious personality. passionate about racing. worked really hard to get where he got, and everybody respected that, and so, you know, he was -- he used to give everybody a little bit of a poke every once in a while too so he got everybody's attention and was loved by everybody. >> we heard he did like to tease people a little bit. you called this crash the reaction of a perfect storm. what does that mean? >> no one thing that caused it or created it. it was just this multiple number of things that if it had not all

bill whitaker is at the las vegas motor speedway this morning with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. english driver dan wheldon was called charming full of life. he began sunday's race in the last position, number 34. but he was determined to make a race of it. he never got the chance. >> here we go. >> reporter: it was a fiery wreck in turn number two, just minutes after the las vegas 300 began. dan wheldon, driving car number 77, went airborne and crashed into a fence. in all, 15 cars were involved in a massive pileup that one driver described as looking like a scene from "the terminator." wheldon was air lifted from the track to a local hospital. a short time later the announcement. >> dan wheldon has passed away from unsurvivable injuries. >> reporter: during practice runs, some drivers had expressed concerns about the high speeds approaching 225 miles per hour. and one driver said, we all had a bad feeling about this place in particular just because of the high banking and how easy it was to go flat. we knew it could happen, but it'

bill whitaker reports. >> reporter: on one thing, both the prosecution and defense agree, that michaelnsomnia. on wednesday, prosecutors called their final witness. the doctor who wrote the safety guidelines on propofol. >> virtually none of the safeguards for sedation were in place when propofol was administered to michael jackson. >> reporter: ans the doctor listed 17 ways dr. murray definite yat deviated the standard. >> he was wrote to the witness stand so the jury can be left only with his words ringing in their ears that propofol can never be used in the manner that murray used it. >> reporter: dr. murray told investigators jackson begged him for the propofol that eventually killed him. shafer no competent doctor ever would have given into such pleadings. >> what i saw was a patient who stated what he wanted. i want this. i want this. i want this. and i saw that conrad murray said yes. tell me what you want, i'll do it. >> dr. conrad murray should never have ka pit rated to michael jackson and given him the drug because he begged for it. he needed to know when to say no because h