bob orr has a look back. and fighting back, tony guida shows us a boxer's return to the ring doctors said he would never fight again. >> they told me i could never box. they tolted me i wouldn't walk proper. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor, for the second time in less than three months there's been a deadly mass shooting in southern wisconsin. it happened at a spa in the milwaukee suburb of brookfield. at least four people are dead, including the shooter. an improvised bomb has been discovered on the site. this follows the sikh temple shooting less than 20 miles away in august that took seven lives. here's anna werner. >> reporter: all afternoon police searched for the man who entered the azana spa in brookfield around 11 a.m. and shot 7 women inside then turned the gun on himself. >> i saw a girl coming out from the salon and she was bleeding in the neck. >> reporter: police identified the suspect as 45-year-old radcliffe haughton from the

bob orr takes us back in time. >> reporter: on october 16, 1962, the c.i.a. president john f. kennedy the soviet union was staging nuclear capable missiles on the island of cuba. the president took this map, marked suspected missile sites with xs and asked intelligence analysts some frightening questions. >> reporter: it was the most perilous moment of the cold war. over 13 days, the u.s. and the soviet union traded threats and inched ever closer to nuclear annihilation. kennedy imposed a naval blockade around cuba and delivered a dire warning to the soviets. >> it shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from cuba against any nation in the western hemisphere as an attack by the soviet union on the united states requiring a full retaliatory response upon the soviet union. >> reporter: the c.i.a. scrambled for fresh intelligence. analysts prepared psychiatric profiles of nikita kruschev and cuban dictator fidel castro if i had. "castro is not crazy" one analysis concluded. "but he is highly neurotic and unstable." kennedy and h

bob orr shows us where they track terror suspects worldwide. and jim axelrod with a young soccer player who's replaced a missing leg with gallantry on the field. >> i just want to be seen as an equal. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, and we could add happy new year, because this is the first day of the federal government's new fiscal year. but there's not much to celebrate because the nation is headed toward what's being called the fiscal cliff and there are dire new warnings today about what will happen to american families unless congress and the president reach a budget deal by december 31. that is the day that a series of tax cuts will expire and big cuts in federal spend will take hold. tax experts said today 90% of american families are facing what they call unprecedented tax increases. how much? wyatt andrews is in washington tonight. wyat >> reporter: scott, according to the non-partisan tax policy center, the united states is now on the threshold of one of the larges

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bob orr with that story. >> it's awesome. it's so big, too. i can't believe it's going down the street. >> axelrod: and mission improbable-- a space shuttle inching along the streets of los angeles on its final mission. ben tracy takes us along for the ride. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. in 24 days, americans will elect a president. according to the latest national gallup poll, mitt romney now leads barack obama by two points, 49 to 47, a statistical dead heat. the state of the race has been shaken up in the last 10 days since the first presidential debate. look at florida, ape crucial state for both men. a poll by two of the state's largest newspapers has governor romney up by seven points, 51 to 44. that's an eight-point swing since september when the president led by one. this creates more pressure for both candidates heading into their second debate on tuesday in new york. let's bring in correspondent nancy cordes with the president in williamsburg, virginia, where he

bob orr was given top secret clearance and has this story. >> reporter: the terrorist screening centerret information on suspected terrorists. it's so sensitive, we were asked not to record any of the sounds inside this room. and we agreed to identify only director tim healy, a veteran fbi agent who oversees the terrorist watch list of 520,000 names. >> that could be a facilitator, it could be a bomber, could be a bomb maker, anybody. anybody connected to terrorism. >> reporter: this clearinghouse of terrorist information is used every day by tsa officers, border agents, and state, local, and federal law enforcement. >> if you're speeding, you get pulled over. they'll curry that name, and if they're encountering a known or suspected terrorist, it will pop up and say call the terrorist screening center. >> reporter: how often do these encounters say? >> we're averaging about 55 encounters with known or suspected terrorists every day. >> reporter: in most cases, the encounters do not lead to arrest but provide additional intelligence. >> location of where the guy is going, what he's doin

and bob orr with the notes noesident kennedy wrote when the world faced nuclear war 50 years ago. captioning sponsored by cbs ng n this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. gor us today the most compelling story in the world involves a 14-year-old girl fighting for igr life. she held up a light against the darkness of ignorance and now millions around the world are watching to see if she will die her her cause. malala yousafzai was taken today to a british hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the head. a week ago in pakistan, a taliban gunman climbed aboard her school bus to assassinate her because of her long campaign to open schools to more girls in mat country. we have two reports tonight. elizabeth palmer went to malala's hometown in pakistan. but we're going to begin with charlie d'agata in birmingham, england. charlie? >> reporter: doctors here are ast beginning to examine malala, scott, but they said ehis afternoon there's every reason to hope she will make what they called a decent recovery. but her treatment and rehabilitation coul

bob orr, cbs news, washington. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," a preview ofight's presidential debate. we'll hear from dede myers. and rich lowrie, editor of the national review. plus, that interview with secretary of state hillary clinton on the investigation into the deadly u.s. consulate attack in libya. that is the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. have a great day. ,,,, and i'm michelle gri you're watching -- >>> you're watching cbs5 this morning. >>> i'm frank mallicoat. >> and i'm michelle griego. time is 4:30. >> and you know what, jackets are optional today. >> they're optional. do we need them lawrence? >> the temperatures are

bob orr is at washington's reagan national airport. bob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. good morning norah. limited service is picking up here today at reagan national airport and at other airports around the northeast. we're also told that newark are airport and newark's jfk will reopen today. since sunday the storm has caused nearly 20,000 flight cancelations many of them in new york's major airports. laguardia airport with a runway less than seven feet above sea level was no match for sandy's record storm surge. laguardia is still under water but not the planes. >> we repo signaturesed over 100 airplanes from the east coast to our west coast cities to denver to houston in order to get them out of harm's way. >> reporter: now getting those planes and even flight crews back where they belong is an urgent challenge for the 300 people at the united airlines operation next in chicago. >> we'll have two triple 7s out of houston. >> reporter: it's like a giant jigsaw puzzle. >> we need to find crews, redo flight plans, re

bob orr is in washington. bob, good morning to you. i want to understand who is abu hamza al masri. >> reporter: good morning. well, abu hamza al masri is a leading radical islam cleric. best known perhaps for his fiery preaching in north london mosque which was favored in the past by al qaeda operatives like richard reid and the 9/11 conspirators. he's been in a british jail since 2004. he's been charged by the u.s. government in a series of plots, one thing he's accused of conspiring to kidnap american tourists in 1998 and setting up an al qaeda training camp in oregon in 1999. he started with aiding taliban and al qaeda efforts in afghanistan. >> how come it has taken so long to bring masri to the united states? >> reporter: this has been a long fight. he's been fighting extradition since his m dictment because he knows frankly he faces a life sentence here in the u.s. one of his alleged co-conspirators has already been convicted and he's sentenced to life in prison. masri is an interesting character. he lost both hands and one eye

this morning, bob orr is at washington reagan national airport. bob, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. some good news finally. operations are getting back to normal at reagan national and at other airports along the northeastern corridor. and a couple of big airports have reopened now. new york's jfk and newark international. but since sunday, some 20,000 flights were canceled by sandy. many of them at new york's major airports. laguardia airport with a runway less than seven feet above sea level was no match for sandy's record storm surge. laguardia is still under water, but not the planes. >> we repositioned over 100 airplanes from the east coast to our west coast cities, to denver, to houston, in order to get them out of harm's way. >> now getting those planes and flight crews back where they belong is an urgent challenge for the 300 people at the united airlines operations center in chicago. >> and we're going to have two 0007s out of houston. >> you need to now find crews. we need to redo the flight plans. we need to refuel the aircraft.