and the enormous one, 30 x 42 feet. those flags are brought here. armistead wanted to show the british that the fort would not easily surrender. now, here's what happened. when the british attacked, they attacked during the rainstorm, so it was the actual smaller flag that was on the pole. bombardment continues during the day and into the night. could keys see the flag during the bombardment, probably not. he's too far away. it's nighttime. it's a smaller flag. dawn's early light, they changed the flags. the morning gunfires from this bastion upon which i stand, and as the smoke drifts back, the fifes and drums play "yankee doodle," our national anthem in a way at that time as the flag it hoisted, the big flag unfurls itself and that's when francis scott key does see the flag and is inspired to write "the star spangled banner." >> and vince vaise said, that flag, the original star spangled banner is on display. just showed you a photo of it a moment ago at the smithsonian's national museum of american history. a call from dearborn,

the flag off the staff, take it down into the den. >> reporter: anything up a flag with fishing linehis has been here three days and... >> reporter: nothing? >> nothing. >> reporter: e decided to try to get to the bottom of this. with a camera on a stick i probed for answers and sure enough caught the critters. red, white and blue handed. >> that's a flag! i see it from my eyes right here! >> reporter: for their part, the veterans who put up the flags are now doing something they never did in battle... surrendering. taking down all the flags. temporarily. >> right now we're engaged if developing a federal holder that would hold the flag a couple feet off the ground. >> reporter: taller than a woodchuck would be. >> a lot taller, yeah. we think that's going to solve it. >> reporter: i would suggest he offer an olive branch, but they'd probably just eat that, too. steve hartman, "on the road", in hudson, new york. >> mason: they finally caught the dirt bag. and that's the "cbs evening news." scott will be back on monday. for scott and all of us here at cbs news, i'm anthony mason in ne

special pride in their work. >> reporter: in the flag room at the defense logistics agency in philadelphia, 13 so-called flag ladies work stitch-by- stitch to make the presidential standard. >> presidential and presidential flags are unique. takes many ladies. >> with the hand embroidery work, we put more love in our work. >> reporter: more love and hand sewing allows for the flag's double-sided mirror effect. there are no knots or stray threats on either side and their appearance signals the presence of america's leader. >> and this makes you feel good when you see, you know,. >> many of the embroiderers are doing the job for decades. >> and they a unique group of people, many in the room are from outside the united states who have come here and enjoy serving the president and the military in this unique way. >> reporter: and the wave wind sketches the pattern on to the fabric before beginning and came to this country from vietnam in 1988 and has been a flag lady for 20 years. >> i'm proud and i am supporting the world fighter. i proud because i do something for the world company. >> repo

service members cutting into a giant cake in the shape of the american flag. d these troops that you see here in australia, holding an old fashioned barbecue on the menu burgers, ribs and dogs and then of course a softball game to work t all off. president obama kicked off this independence day with 25 u.s. service members as they became america's newest citizens. all are active duty troops in the country legally and chose to serve. today they took the oath of allegiance and became americans. >> you put on the uniform of a country that was not yet fully your own. in the time of war. some of you deployed into harm's way. you displayed the values that we celebrate every fourth of july. duty, responsibility. and patriotism. >> and the president using the ceremony to, again, call for immigration reform. he also mentioned his recent order to halt deportations of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to came to the u.s. as children. the president hits the road tomorrow for his first bus tour of the 2012 campaign. is he scheduled to stop in ohio and pennsylvania

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i had the flag translated and it has the name of what they figured out. because it has two different kinds of writing. old writing. i think they call it kanji and more modern writing. it is like a personal flag where a guy's buddy signed it. these guys are from the prefecture of kyoto, the old japanese capitol. and they -- there is a death poem on there and that is blood right there. so i'm trying to return it back to the families as a gesture of peace and friendship between our peoples. >> and the mercury news so eloquently put it in an article about you, that why you are doing it. because these men, if you didn't kill them, they would kill you. >> yes. that's what soldiers do to one another. actually, it is nothing personal. but it is personal. but the thing is, that families suffer the same. their loved ones, they die. it is all the same. we are all human beings. i remember one annecdote during world war i, they had troops on christmas day. they got together and drank together and they were friends. and after the truce -- so we are all the same, basical

aaa flag and banner in los angeles is one of the premier flag makers in the country, putting out morehan 100,000 american flags a year. in these days of outsourcing the folks at aaa take great pride in the fact they make all of their flags on american soil. in fact, of the $8 million in total flag sales china waved in with only $3 million. >> if i told you that you were like the modern day betsy ross, would you know what that means? >> not really. >> betsy ross was supposedly the one in american history who sewed together the very first american flag. so you're basically betsy ross of 2012. >> oh, thank you. >> these flags here seem like they're well-made they're sewn, they're like tough flags. is that like the better end of flagdom? >> these are the u.s. made, nice branded flags that are of course are made long-term. they won't be for a couple of days. these are more for year around type of flying. >> this is a chinese flag right here. >> right. >> this is what you were telling me. >> you're looking at a print on to a rayon type of material. it is very thin. >> do they ever come over

so when the south korean flag was used to represent the north korean soccer team before an olympic gameu know i just had to talk about this with comedian bill santiago. good morning, bill. >> good morning. >> let's take a look at this picture, okay b with of all places, of all two countries to mix it up, it it up, it had to be these two. what do you think. >> i want to congratulate whoever pulled this off and got away with it. if you're willing to risk nuclear retaliation, applaud you all the way. it could have been an honest mistake. north korea, the korea being run by the regime suppressing freedom called itself the democratic republic of korea and south korea refers to it as just the republic of korea. it is very confusing. i think if north korea wants to continue in the olympic games it should have to identify itself as the toe tamilitary regime of korea and i think it will solve a lot of problems. >> you think an honest mistake? should they have known better? . >> this has happened before. a lot of times the organizers -- >> yeah, but all of places. >> well, look, every time that i

he is kind of short but if you look at the third flag down, you will see the culprit. >> we're prettyt is wood shop related. >> he says he does not know how many are involved or what they want with the flags. >> that is another big mystery, >> to answer that question he has turned to his inner caddy shack. >> but woulwould shock would take the flight down to the hole. >> i decided to try and get to the bottom of this ... with a camera on a stink eye probe for answers and sure enough, i caught the critters. red white and blue handed. for their part, the veterans that put up the flags are now doing something they never did in battle, surrendering, taking down all the flags, temporarily. >> right now we are engaged in developing a flag holder that will hold a flag a couple feet off the ground. >> taller than it would shock? >> much taller. we think that will solve it. >> i would suggest they offer an olive branch but they might just read that also. >> they finally caught the dirt bag. and that is the cbs evening news. scott will be back on monday. for all of us here at cbs news, thanks f

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flags. i will go with true because i know it's false. what's the answer? oh, hoda, you're hot today. >> 13 star flags have been in use since 1777. >> why? >> i don't know. now for the tiebreaker. true or false, there was no official way to place the stars on the american flag until the 1900s. i don't know. >> what are you saying, i will say the opposite. >> i say false. >> then i'll say true. >> what's the answer? true. there was no official star placement until 1812. shall we do one last one? >> you're already beating me. >> this is a tie breaker. flag day is celebrated on june 14th. >> that's true. we just did it the other day. >> i will say false. >> true. >> what happened to your competitive spirit, one teeny-weeny hot dog, you turn into a wimp. >> jeff bridgman, one of the leading authorities on the american flag gave us all of that information. >> thank you, jeff. happy fourth to you. >> this is one of those things, when you grew up, your parents told you all sorts of facts and myths about the beach and some things. we will try to debunk some popular

are all the american flags that our astronauts left behind on the surface of the moon still standing? well, thanks to new photography looking down on the moon from a lunar orbiter and some of the photos are sharp enough to show boot prints from our astronauts, the answer appears to be all the flags are still standing except for the first one at the "apollo 11" landing site. astronaut buzz aldrin wrote years ago he thought the flag blew over from the rocket thrust as they were leaving the moon's surface, and since there's no wind or atmosphere there, it would appear he was right, but all the other flags still remain along with everything else we left up there. >>> when we come back here tonight, the few, the proud, the brave, the men who serve here from where we serve and the americans who come here to try to stump them. >>> finally here tonight, a word about our beautiful location here in london. that's tower bridge behind us while we are over here broadcasting from the tower of london. while not a tower in today's terms, it was in william the conquerer's time, and this is where it al

he says the american flag flying out in front send therg message to the of the country. >> nowhere isgovernment on display than the city of san francisco. >> john daly says what is going on display is an easy target, a beat up flag that seen better days. >> it the last thing you can do is to give them another mission. >> after he posted a picture, he started hearing from friends who fell the same way. >> it just looks bad. this is heavily traffic area. >> he thought it was an image problem with an easy fix. he e-mailed us to help fix it. >> you shouldn't have a flag that looks like it came off a pirate ship. >> we saw several flags, we took the concerns to the mayor's office and they sent to us the building manager. >> we treat flags with great respect. we fly them 24/7 to show that we care about our flags and care about our country. >> rob says it comes down to a maintenance schedule. six months for a flag unless you can see the damage from the street. they will replace it sooner at a cost of about $50. there is no patriotic debates, just a routine that he says workers. >> the wind a

finally in 1912, louisiana adopted the flag we see today. >> the louisiana flag, i love, because it'sitional love. what the settlers saw, according to louisiana legend, when they first arrived there were these brown pelicans. and if food was scarce, what the mother pelicans would do was peck at their breasts until they bled, and they would feed that to their young. so, on the state flag, you see a mother feeding three baby brown pelicans. >> eventually, louisiana adopted the brown pelican as its official state bird. by the way, louisiana also has an official state doughnut called a beignet. it's fried dough with powdered sugar on top. fortunately, the official state drink is milk. with flag facts, i'm kristen. >> adopting a dog is pretty easy. animal shelters are almost always on the lookout for good owners. but as hannah reports, there's a lot more to becoming a friend to man's best friend. >> so, you want to adopt a dog, but you don't exactly know how to properly care for one. here's a way to learn how. >> volunteering at an animal shelter is a wonderful thing to do. there's a lot o

our primary function is the presidential and vice-presidential flag which we make by hand for the white. >> reporter: it takes two people 45 days to complete a presidential flag. they're referred to as flag ladies and many have been add at it for decades. >> many of the ladies in the room are from outside the united states who have come here and they just enjoy serving the president, serving the military in this very unique way. >> reporter: she sketches the pattern onto the fabric before the embroidery begins. she came to this country from vietnam in 1983 and has been a flag lady for 20 years. >> i'm proud because i am supporting the war fighter and i'm proud because i do something, you know, for the country. >> reporter: christine brian has been stitching for presidents for 35 years. >> it is a great honor to actually see him get up and speak and you see the work that you actually do standing behind him on the podium. it really makes us feel good to see that. >> reporter: the ladies behind the flag have a message for the commander-in-chief. >> president obama, come and see us. >> yes.

remise the family to bring a flag. >> cemetery administrator explained that usually the funeral home from the department of veterans affairs but because she donated her husband's body to science there was no funeral home. so she would have to or range to get her own free flag and pick it up from the local post office. >> we do our best to make sure the flag is presented to every family. >> after our interview, officials offered to help her obtain a burial flag. but she said it had lost all meaning for her family, that it no longer symbolized the thanks of a grateful nation. >> i feel betrayed. >> because of the flag flap,

olympic organizers apologize to north korea's women's soccer team for using the south korean flag by mistake. the british prime minister describes the legacy the games will leave behind. over the millennium bridge. the torch relay ahead of friday's opening ceremony. assyrian rebel forces prepare for battle for control of the country's second city, we will townive on the syrian c to hear about refugees. hi, everyone. welcome to our studios just outside the olympic parks. just one day to go until be a opening ceremony for the olympic games. i can promise you you were in for a treat. absolutely unique extravaganza. it is very special. you must watch it when it is on tomorrow night. you can expect some advocate sites. it is an event not to be missed. among the events happening today, the british prime minister will host a global business conference in the hopes of generating billions of dollars worth of business. the olympic torch running its final lap among those in london. another beautiful day. a lot of crowds turning out to see the olympic torch as well. first, let's bring you a story

dirk nowitski had the honor in 2008 and assured keller the flag is not that heavy. at the keller came across as rather shy at the press conference, but she has seen a lot of action in her career -- >> keller came across as rather shy at the press conference, but she has seen a lot of action in her career. in 2004, she even took gold. >> it is a great honor to walk in front carrying the flag. i am really happy, especially because everyone else is so happy. >> that keller has been selected as flag bearer reflects a growing interest in hockey in germany. she comes from a long line of hockey players. both her father and brother had taken olympic gold. >> the team will be proud to line up behind her. she is never full of herself. she is modest and performance- oriented at the same time. >> friday's opening ceremony will be a big occasion for keller, and there are high hopes her team may win a medal at the london games. >> former heavyweight boxing champion muhammed ali join soccer star david beckham to present the first ever generation ali beyond sports award. it celebrat

the flag is only 10 feet from the back edge.k: plus, you have to be absolutely precise on your landing point over that ridge. anything short of it -- you play the lob and it touches the ridge it kills it there. ian: peter, the lie reasonable? peter: the lie is fine. he's got all kinds of options. he can go low and release it up there or fly it on top. i think flying it on top is more dangerous. ian: he looks to me like he's going to two-bounce it. yep. into the upslope and bounce it up. peter: that was the perfect shot. well executed. ian: beautiful play. four feet left for birdie for ted potter jer and -- jr. beautifully play. wonderful touch. that was not an easy shot. very quiet with the lower half. got the ball absolutely precisely. nick: of course, he's thrown some serious pressure now to match that. ian: that is never an easy shot to be able to pitch that cleanly and land it short of the upslope and let it trickle up over the top. this is what you were talking about, david. it's not an easy lie with the left knee in the wa

just before the 4th of july. >> the american flags ripped right off the flagpoles. >> and it reallyity. >> i am very, very angry. >> disgusted. >> i feel disrespectful what they have done to our veterans. >> i want to thank everyone for coming. >> cemetery caretaker and army veteran vince wallace called a news conference and announce add reward. >> 500 bucks for the arrest and conviction of the dirt bag that did this. >> meanwhile, other veterans volunteered to replace the flags. >> but just a few hours later -- >> guess what? it happened again. >> this time it happened in broad daylight. >> again and again. >> again. >> three times there just in week. >> and the respect for the living veterans or the deceased veterans. >> it really did seem like the vandals were taunting both the veterans and police who at this point decided enough was enough and set up an undercover sting. >> they hid motion activated cameras and it didn't take long for them to get their man so to speak. >> he is kind of short but if you look at the third flag down, you will see the culprit. >> we are pretty sure

tonight san francisco man is calling out city hall for not being patriotic and says the at that timered flagends the wrong mess wrath to the rest of the country. he believes that this gives pundits another opportunity to bash san francisco. and here is mark matthew autos john daily says what is going on display at city hall is an easy target. a beat up flag, it's seen better day autos right wing media is taking jabs at san francisco. last thing we need to do is give them more ammunition. >> he started hearing from friends who felt the same way. >> this just looks bad, this is a heavily trafficked area, a lot of tourists. >> he thought this is one image problem with an easy fix and e mailed us. >> you shouldn't have a flag that looks like it came off a pirate ship. >> we found several flags in the wind. the mayor's office sent us to the building manager. >> we treat our flags with great respect, we fly those flags 24-7 to show we care about our flags and our country. >> and he tells us it comes down to a maintenance schedule. six months for a flag unless it gets so worn you can see the damage

the flag burning is one example. de cases based on a governing text that go against what the judge may think is wise policy. isn't that true? >> i have ruled against the government when republicans were in the administration and i ruled for the government when democrats were in the administration. i couldn't care less who the president is and what the administration is. >> are they from a politically motivated man. >> i know you can't discuss anything in the last session, but a classic example would be the health care thing. >> i don't think any of my colleagues on any cases vote the way they do for political reasons. they vote the way they do because they have their own judicial philosophy. they may have been selected by the democrats because they have that particular philosophy. or they may have been selected by the republicans because they have that particular judicial philosophy, but that is only to say that they are who they are. they vote on the basis of what their own view of the law brings them to believe. not

the flag is only 10 feet from the back edge.k: plus, you have to be absolutely precise on your landing point over that ridge. anything short of it -- you play the lob and it touches the ridge it kills it there. ian: peter, the lie reasonable? peter: the lie is fine. he's got all kinds of options. he can go low and release it up there or fly it on top. i think flying it on top is more dangerous. ian: he looks to me like he's going to two-bounce it. yep. into the upslope and bounce it up. peter: that was the perfect shot. well executed. ian: beautiful play. four feet left for birdie for ted potter jer and -- jr. beautifully play. wonderful touch. that was not an easy shot. very quiet with the lower half. got the ball absolutely precisely. nick: of course, he's thrown some serious pressure now to match that. ian: that is never an easy shot to be able to pitch that cleanly and land it short of the upslope and let it trickle up over the top. this is what you were talking about, david. it's not an easy lie with the left knee in the wa

and the flag is there and of course the american flag, the p.o.w. flag, the city and state flag. we couldn't be honored more than that. and of course, the hats, we wear many hats, many colored hats. i'm committed to the american gi form, have been for a long time. my father was an american gi form member back in the '60s when it was first coming to town here. the history behind it, the civil rights issue behind it, many, many years ago, is just one of those organizations that you, you, it's great. it's a great organization, nationally and locally. i can't say enough about the members, as well as what it represents. >> all right. thank you so much. if you want to know more about the memorial that mike is working on, there's the website, sjwarmemorial.com. find out about their efforts and how close it is to being erected in san jose. any final thoughts? any message to the viewers out there? >> memorial day is this weekend. please go out, support your veterans. go to the memorials, there will be many celebrations over the weekend. just remember, when you're at those parties and those

he was still laying the flags parade >>> we do deploy a eight pool cameras and barrack eminences of theyed. with >>> around the bay area today, it's going to be a scorcher in spots. what a huge difference we you're going to see and temperatures today prayed out toward the coastline, the coast is thick. it's already been warm and spots. 63 degrees in livermore. a cool 50 degrees in san francisco. eighties and some nineties are around the bay. and some cool '60s out toward the coast line with some pettifog. a hundred and nine in redding. a hundred five in the sacramento valley parade its core to take a couple of days for it to cool down and parts of the valley here. these numbers this afternoon will be on the hot side. 97 degrees in morgan hill. east bay numbers, the hottest one of four in brentwood. about 75 degrees and oakland prayed 80 degrees and oakland. by the weekend the numbers will return to normal all around the bay area. now to traffic. >>> just for overnight road work slow you down right now. if your heading toward the bay bridge, no delays heading toward the pay gates. this c

the next night, 17 more american flags were stolen from the same graveyard. they ramped up their security in hudson, new york and installed little mounted cameras in the cemetery to see what was going down, who was behind this. eventually, they caught the crooks. >> if it was a raccoon, i will tell you i told you so. >> not a raccoon, a wood chuck. they looked back at their cameras and find this wood chuck, believed to be the thief. you see in that picture, he's like chewing up the american flag. >> believe the police chief owes every teenager an apology. >> right. >> there might be a female who's having babies and needs bedding. >> either that or a patriotic groundhog. we reached out to the hudson police department to see if we could get the video. they said they're not releasing it at this time because the wood chuck requested an attorney. i'm ser they saious they said t us. i did not make that up. there has been talk about longer sticks to keep the wood chucks away. >>> how far will you go for your favorite treat. this is in australia and this is a challen

there was in sign of the first flag at the apollo 11 landing.ing to nasa, astronaut aldrin thought the flag blew over upon relaunch. that it is today. we are back tonight for the fox report at 7:00 eastern, 6:00 central. "your world," is coming up next. the dow was pretty flat on the day. we will see you tonight. >> forget wimpy economy, newsweek is putting romney on the cover, reading "the wimp factor," but is it the mainstream media wimping out? if you are reading the cover of newsweek you would not know the economy is growing at only 1.5 percent or that unemployment is over 8 percent for the last 41 months in a row. or that corporate profits are about to fall for the first time since the great recession began. instead, you are seeing this, "romney the wimp factor, is he too insecure to be president." and now, who is really wimping out, president of the research center. a lost economic bad news, but, the mainstream media does not want to talk about the economy. the left wants to talk about mitt romney in terms of being a wimp. anything but the

. >> from augusta, georgia, on the olympic flag, why are the olympic rings black, blue, green, black colors look nice together or there is no symbolism or one of the colors is on every flag in the world or the greeks picked these colors at the first games? >> i will say c. >> you are going to be right! >> go, girl! >> i like the dance. more dancing. more dancing. >> one for every color on the flag. >> and five rings because the five continents are together joined for the games. >> you know everything. back across the street to kath. >> who has won the most medals at the olympics. michael phelps, carl lewis, larissa or jenny thompson? >> michael phelps. . >> nope. no, no. that's okay. it's a lovely cd. the correct answer. i don't know if i'm ignorant for not having heard of her. larissa latinya. who is she? >> a longtime gymnast for the soviet union. that contestant should come back in a three weeks. if michael phelps wins three medals of any color, he will be there. where are the drinks? >> i'm sorry. >>> coming up, how to make household items into functional furnishings, right after

there was in sign of the first flag at the apollo 11 landing.ing to nasa, astronaut aldrin thought the flag blew over upon relaunch. that it is today. we are back tonight for the fox report at 7:00 eastern,

burning the flag is a form of expression. mean writen words or oral words. >> if you're not sure, in the end, no one knows the constitution better than you do. doesn't it come down to your personal interpretation. if it isn't clear cut, you would have the make an opinion, don't you? >> don't forget, this person has to be convicted by a jury of 12 people who unanimously have to find that he was inciting to riot. so it's not all up to me. ultimately, the right of jury trial is the protection. >> don't you think this example of speech and a fair reading is including symbolic speech. there's a lot of case law, but it's a good example of why we think strict construction is a bad y. a lot of people think justice scalia is a strict constructionist. >> what does that mean? >> well, it really means a narrow reading. a crabbed reading of statutory words. it's a kind of literalism. we like a fair reading of the sta chut, a fair reading of the words and, in this case, speech. >> let's turn to political fund raising, which, at the moment,

stand up straight. >> students will appear to raise the flag. >> translator: when i raise the flag, i feel chinese. >> the children also learn about mainland china's customs. >> translator: we want students to be aware that they're chinese, feel proud of it, and do something for the country. >> leaders in beijing plan to make this compulsory in september. strans trance we must put emphasis on patriotic education for the young. our com patriots in hong kong must inherit the tradition of loving china. some people in hong kong are speaking out against this policy. they say its government pressure. these students say they have a poor look on democracy and human lights. they worry the leaders will use patriotic education to censor what they learn. some teachers are also speaking out. they need to listen and discuss what they can do. high school teacher said education influence hong kong's democracy. >> hong kong cherishes freedom of speech and other democratic values more than the mainland does. the chinese are trying to put a lid on these values with patriotic education. >> teaching his s