senior officers are being sheltered in the kingdom the most high profile refugee was the prime minister riyad hitch up who fled to turkey through jordan earlier this month and then there's the tribes who fearing massive amounts of weapons ammunition and sniper rifles to syria from jordan saudi arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power. problems for jordan where we have our own extremists far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but with food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this is. the atmosphere here is so. mysterious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. jordan narrowly escaped a wave of uprisings that swept the arab world it says it's

after law school, it was the peace corps, then the diplomatic corps, serving in places like riyad and jerusalem. his cultural wisdom was well respected back in washington, both as an idealist and a realist. >> chris stevens was not unaware of the danger that he faced. he was privy to intelligence information and others. but he went forward and did his job with a smile, love of his country and love of the country where he was serving. >> his family knew the risks, too. steven mcdonald with his a close college friend. >> just remember his mom saying, why are you going over there anyway? and he said, well, mother, to help the libyan people and to represent united states interests in this country. >> such a waste. >> diplomats by their very nature are unsung, serving far from home in sometimes remote and hostile outlets. the average american rarely knows their names. we know one now, and a nation mourns. for "cbs this morning," i'm lee cowan in los angeles. >>> now these anti-american protests have triggered a sharp exchange between president obama and governor mitt romney. on tuesday, th