tommy did not enter a plea. we reached out to his attorney who did not wish to comment. >> the gun laying where it was didn't seem as a self-inflicted wound. >> reporter: one of the points up for debate motive. it was machineoney. the father discussed no longer paying the rent and talked about cutting his weekly allowance from $400 to $300. >> gilbert jr. guns down his 70-year-old father toms gilbert because daddy wanted to cut ha lou ance his allowance. the father is already paying for his nearly $3,000 a month apartment. >> reporter: news of the murder shocked his glamorous social circle. his ex-girlfriend anna rothschild said the act was completely out of carc. >> character. >> nguyenwhen was the last time you spoke? >> about two weeks ago. >> told me things were going really well. >> but it didn't surprise some of her friends who found him peculiar. >> friends of mine were scared for me when i was dating him. >> reporter: anna says tommy was introverted and damaged. >> how did he describe his relationship wi

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thoughts crossed my mind that i should just throw in the towel and support tommy to the top.e's through all the hard parts. >> reporter: tommy, just ahead on the wall, refusing to leave his partner behind. waiting for kevin the entire seven-day stretch. >> i am confident that i'm going to put it down and move on to the dino pitch and go catch up with tommy and talk this thing out. so that's the latest. i really want to do this thing. >> reporter: then on day 15 -- >> yeah, yeah! just got to get this big handle -- right there, yes. >> reporter: kevin jorgeson literally turns the corner. >> when he gets over this little corner he's home. >> yeah! whoo! >> he did it. yeah. beautiful. killed it. >> over the course of seven days, 11 tries, finally did it. and this is a view that i'll always remember but i'm not sad to be moving past. >> reporter: from there, it was a four-day push to the top. the partners pulling each other the last inch. arriving at the top together. >> anything in life that you set a goal for yourself to be able to endure for that long that is worth, this story

tommy first envisioned the line in 2007 and a short film was made i saw in 2008 and i gave tommy a call to ask if he needed a partner. since 2009 he and i have been trying to put it together. over the course of those six years it let us to this day which is still pretty surreal the fact that we completed it. i never in the rock climbing could garner so much attention from the world. it is kind of crazy and a little uncomfortable so i would love to turn all that attention right back around to everyone that is inspired by this project and encourage you to find your own dawn wall because what is interesting about this roth is it has elements that everyone can relate to. it is a big dream. it take as lot of hard work to make it happen. there are elements of teamwork that tommy and i have financialed -- forged the last six areas the elements any big dream needs to come true. i help everyone who has been following along can take the dawn bomb -- dawn wall as an exam of what is possible and find their own dawn wall. thank you. >> i have a little something that tommy has...to share. i am deeply

tommy caldwell and kevin jorgenson faced the most difficult climb.e was watching as they finished their climb. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well it's been an exciting 24 hours here in yosemite as fans and climbing enthusiasts came together to watch the big finale. now, the climbers' feat cored by many to be impossible with the result of nearly three weeks of strenuous climbing and years of planning. >> yeah. nice. >> reporter: for kevin jorgenson and tommy caldwell success employ scaling el capitan's 3,000-foot dawn well is a lifelong dream. after nearly three weeks of climbing the nearly formidable granite. they were embraced by fans and loved ones when they reached the peek yesterday afternoon. down below, a crowd who watched the pair broke out in celebration and jorgenson and caldwell embraced on the ledge. this photographer has been followed the climbers' journey since it started late last month. where does this fall in el capitan history? >> this is a giant leap forward in free-climbing standards. >> reporter: though several ot

yosemite climbers kevin jorgeson and tommy caldwell along with tommy's wife becky, are standing by tot's next here on "cbs this morning." >>> cbs morning rounds sponsored by campbell's oven sauces. we help you kick a real dinner in the middle of real life. uces. we help you cook a real dinner right in the middle of real life. right in the middle of real life. is that your mom? hi sweety here you go thanks my mom freezes my danimals squeezables and puts it in my lunchbox in the morning. just freeze it, thaw it and it's ready by lunch new danimals squeezables lowfat yogurt. squeeze more fun into your kid's lunch. mmm dannon. female announcer: get beautyrest, posturepedic even tempur-pedic mattress sets at low clearance prices. and through monday, get 3 years interest-free financing on selected models. don't miss sleep train's year end clearance sale. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> this morning two climbers are celebrating a historic moment in their sport. tommy caldwell and kevin jorgeson reached the summit of el capitan at yosemite on wednesday. it marked the end of a 19

kevin and tommy join me from yosemite national park. kevin and tommy, congratulations.evin, that no one has ever done before. was there times when you felt like you weren't going to be able to make it? >> absolutely. i think that's the process of a big project. you're bound to have your ups and downs, your highs and lows and the last 19 days was no exception. there were moments when i didn't think i was going to be able to do it and then there were moments of pure joy and relief as things were going well. >> and tommy, i know you lost your voice from yelling for kevin so much on the mountain but what was it like when you finally reached the top? >> it was like a big weight lifting. the whole climb was like a surreal experience but it was quite stressful. a relief getting to the top of the mountain it was pretty awesome. >> kevin, for people who might not understand much about climbing to free climb something like this the strength that's required. it's just extraordinary. and the danger too. have you always gravitated towards free climbing? >> yeah. free climbing only m

you know tommy well.ys he spent years of his life trying to do this up in yosemite, on this el capitan? did you think it was do you believe. >> knowing how they are at climbing and knowing how determined they are, i did think they would get it done. it takes a special kind of person to persevere at something like that and those guys are definitely that type of person. >> how closely have you been monitoring it? i mean 19 days. it's sort of hard to conceive what they've gone through. >> yeah it really is amazing. you know they're going to be so exhausted. but the climbing community has been following them every step of the way. you know you see on facebook or on twitter or something, that one of them had just done a particular pitch or piece of the climb, so i think the climbing community is really excited for them. >> and in a sense, is that the holy grail now, hazel? is there something that tommy and kevin are going to be thinking, okay we cracked that one. there is of course one more to go. or is that t

tommy caldwell and kevin jorgeson finished the first ever "free climb" of the face of el capitan. these incredible pictures of the pair courtesy of corey rich. the two spent nineteen days climbing the three thousand foot sheer face of the mountain which is considered one of the world's most difficult climbs. the men spent years preparing for the challenge. much of their training took place here in the bay area. kron 4's charles clifford visited a north bay gym. where people gathered today to watch the dramatic final moments of the climb. kevin jorgeson.. who's from santa rosa.. spent a lot of time over the past few years training here at the vertex climbing center. sot he always has a smile. steve wheeler says kevin is well liked and that his passion for climbing is obvious. sot always pushes it to the max. every time you see him he's always trying his hardest. nats on wednesday afternoon the staff and friends of kevin and tommy cadlwell huddled around a computer screen watching a live video feed of the two men finishing their historic climb up el capitan. as the pair approached t

tommy caldwell and kevin jorgenson are living on it. >> piece of cake. >> right, tommy? >> no problem. we got this. >> reporter: the two friends, now on day nine of their attempt to be first to finish the hardest free-climb in the world. ropes only there in case they fall, which they do, as they inch up the wall's granite face, as high as two empire state buildings and nearly as smooth. wedging their fingertips into tiny razor-blade crevices, climbing at night so their frozen skin doesn't rip as much. dodging falling ice and numbing wind. >> it's getting pretty rowdy. >> reporter: it's like living in a refrigerator. >> we've got hard boiled eggs. >> reporter: but at least that means fresh food. >> pretty good eating up here. >> reporter: they carry bathroom bags with them on the climb, do yoga in their tents and because this remote part of yosemite happens to have great cell reception, they tweet, facebook, and instagram nearly everything. thousands of people following the journey that is at its most critical point right now. the two tackling the hardest part of the asce

kevin jorgeson and tommy caldwell climbed it. >> on day 19, tommy caldwell and kevin jorgeson were justck face but through a zoom lens they could be seen climbing the last stretch to the top. their families watched those agonizing last few minutes. a mother praying nothing would go wrong. and then they reached the top together. tommy's dad and his young son were delighted. >> we're probably going to really encourage him to get a shower. >> reporter: on the top, their partners were waiting for them having hiked the long way around. reaching the summit of this vast block of granite in 19 days in one climb, is a huge sporting achievement. it took a great deal of physical and mental strength for these two climbers to do something which has never been done before. >> fans and fellow climbers had watched history unfold. >> it's a bunch of unprecedented things. nobody has spent eight years trying to do one climb. nobody's spent 19 days on a continuous push trying to do a free climb. i don't really look at it in terms of a climb. it's really this heroic narrative, in a sense. >> president obama

was first looking at this piece of rock. >> reporter: now tommy's near the top and that's certainlyugh to inspire climbers at gyms around the country. tiffany wilson, abc 7 news. >> i think i would rather do the indoor version. >> it's a lot easier. >>> tomorrow is the ninth, ninth straight spare the air day. >> meteorologist sandhya patel outside. almost a record, right? >> yeah. you know i'm hoping that a storm blows through here or some strong winds to clear things out here in the bay area so we can breathe a little easier. unfortunately, i don't have good news for you. still hazy skies as we look and live doppler 7 hd will show you what's showing up. we do have some high level cloudiness moving through the bay area and we have seen some light returns off the southern california coast. nothing has reached land there. in the sierra light returns as well, snow. a sign that some changes are ahead. kgo roof camera showing you some of those clouds and you will notice the trees aren't really swaying much so that's really an indication of the stagnant air continuing. low 60s san francis

. >> jimmy: which is two very big personalities. >> right. >> jimmy: and tommy doesn't do that. >> tommyand low quarterbacks. so what happens we're doing a cardinal-atlanta game and ken my boyer had died two weeks before. so his kids come out to throw out the first ball. and there is nothing co sell loved more than doing a eulogy. so coastel says all right, let me draw your attention to the pictures, going to the mound. the family of the late kenny boyle. a man who died of lung cancer, absorbed more treatments than anybody thought was humanly possible. you can have your rogers hornsby, you can have your albert richie. stanley and frank of pennsylvania. when it comes to the embodiment of the st. louis cardinals franchise, look no farther than kent lloyd. we'll miss him. so now he's satisfied. [ applause ] we go to commercial, it's me, coastel, lasorda, and all of a sudden i hear in my headset, and lasorda has tears coming down his eyes, and he looks over and tommy, what's the problem. he's got the toupee and yellow jacket, cigar. and he said howard, he was such a -- i loved him. one of my

. >> kevin jorgeson of santa rosa and tommy caldwell of colorado reached the tomorrow of el capitan at yosemite national park. they are the first to ever scale he will cap's slippery dawn wall in a free climb can nothing but hands, feet and a safety rope. >>> tommy envisioned this climb in 2007 and audacious considering the wall. this is the blankest section of the wall with few cracks. it took every bit of those 7 years of work to make this real. >> the president even posted a congratulatory message to the climbers online. >> kpix 5's mark kelly has more on the big accomplishment at yosemite. >> reporter: this kiss sealed 7 years of hard work. that's how long these climbers had been planning and training to scale el capitan. >> whoo! >> reporter: with the long lens photographer tom evans has been capturing the climbers scale the 3,000-foot peak. >> this is a giant leap forward in free climbing standards for climbing in the world and a big daily for yosemite climbing. >> reporter: with each day, people filled the meadow below el capitan for a glimpse of these men and a chance to cheer

>> tommy. >> so tommy had gone into the store and came out, saw what was happening, pulled the car backey did not know as they just docked terrified as the bullets were coming. >> the bullets rang out as soon as tommy got in the car. tommy was dancing to the music and they turned the music down. tommy said, why are you turning the music down? michael dunn started shooting and he pulled the car back. leyland is a young man that it is going to take them ages to get over this. he comes over to my house from time to time and he cannot even go in jordan's bedroom without crying and falling apart. the last time i saw him was christmas eve, he came over and spend christmas eve with us, but he could not go in jordan's room. but so they ducked and after the shooting was done, how did he realize that happened to jordan? >> everyone in the car answered. tommy said, as everybody all right? tevin and leland answered. jordan didn't answer. he had been struck and could not breathe. blood was welling up in his lungs. he could not speak. leland knew jordan was in trouble. >> i want to go back to the fil

ha sido gran parte de nuestras vidas por los Últimos 8 aÑos asegura el padre de tommy que ha practicoado el camino. decenas de testigos como julian se han dado cita para presenciar la hazaÑa. >>> muy valientes, dicen que no lo habÍan podido escalar nadie. >>> por curiosidad sobre este reporte decidÍ armarme un aro necesario y tratar de subir esta pared. >>> esta pared mide 20 pies es un gran reto para mÍ que nunca he practico do este deporte voy a comenzar a subir estas piedritas si logro hacerlo. >>> ay ! dios mÍo, no lleguÉ ni a la mitad. >>> jorge gonzÁlez que lleva 40 aÑos practicando montaÑismo este es un gran reto. >>> esto es como barranca de piedra, es muy empinada. y es difÍcil de colgarse uno por sus propias manos. >>> segÚn los seguidores de kevin y tommy ellos no buscan conquistar el capitÁn. mÁs que eso quieren cumplir con el sueÑo de llegar a la cima. marÍa paula ochoa, telemundo. >>> tremendo lo lograron mary. >>> ellos que celebren y que sigan, el periodismo. >>> exactamente, al regresar en noticiero telemundo un pequeÑo de 3 aÑos pecÓ de astuto y valiente para ayudar

tommy, i hope you feel better.th of you, you just -- it was something to watch you and how you persevered and just -- you kept going and it's something that we really admire you both for. thanks for joining us. get some rest. >> thanks for having us. >> can't wait to see the next chapter from both of you. >>> thankfully ginger the weather for the most part seemed to cooperate for them. >> yeah, absolutely. if they need a third i'm totally available for next time. i'd be in it it. you know we have video of something spectacular. nothing like that but this makes winter look nice. how about paddle boarding on lake michigan through all of the ice chunks. this is st. joseph's. amy, you're familiar your hometown. yes, so off that lighthouse. again, we can make this all look nice. and this morning maybe you want to try to do that in boston. winter weather advisory trace of snow and the rest of us mostly dry, pittsburgh will go to 31. cincinnati, 38. grand rapids 31. bands of snow coming off lake superior. then we have to

tommy and kevin are feel good but all the attention is surreal. remember they normally climb without the world watching, in this case as they popped champagne and hugged their wives and their girlfriends, even the white house was watching as president obama sending out that instagram message. history made after 19 days on the don wall, a project seven years coming. >> and they shared with us on social media, they were posting pictures and sending out progress reports. what's the main question you have for them? >> i have to tell you, just on the social media angle, we were talking a little bit off kament rah and i said it was great, we couldn't get a phone call out and you're up there tweeting. he said we streamed a movie on netflix and listened to pandora. it boggles my mind. >> a little whiskey as well. maybe post that on air b&b. would fetch a high price. thank you, we look forward to the interview later on today. we'll hear from them also on the "today" show this morning. it was thrilling for reporters and spectators, imagine what it was like

after tommy caldwell and kevin jorgenson started the hardest free climb in the world. their shredded fingertips grabbing granite flakes as thin as dimes. inching up a section at a time, one slip means starting over. ropes there only to catch them, not to help them. between climbs life suspended on a wall each night sleeping thousands of feet above the valley floor. >> think about everything you done in the last two and a half weeks, every time you went to the store, every time you had dinner, they were on that cliff. >> reporter: as momentum builds the meadow below fills with onlookers eager to learn more about the two friends, jergensen's childhood climbing competitions, caldwell's escape after being kidnapped and a freak accident that left him with nine fingers in a sport where sometimes even ten aren't enough. >> all of these hardships he's been through all have led up to this moment for him to be able to say this looks impossible but i'm going to try it anyway. >> reporter: from a distance the climbers' families feel each triumph and tension. >> oh, your heart just

. >> reporter: kevin jorgeson and tommy caldwell are a day away from entering the record books. >> they are on the side of three empire state buildings holding onto things as big as a fingernail. >> reporter: from is a crowd watching the two guys who look like brightly colored ants against the granite, among them, tommy's wife rebecca and their son fitz. >> i trust him. >> reporter: a shot for immortality. >> this is really going to happen but we won't feel the whole immensity of it until they are standing on top. >> reporter: the last portion of the climb is technically easier, but after 18 days on el capitan, tommy and kevin will be tired and lost weight making this just as tough as the previous pitches. in the news room, andria borba, kpix5. >> amazing. once the guys meet their goal, don't expect to hear from them for a while. they plan to spend a few days with their family in private. >>> facebook is getting involved in the hunt for some missing children. the social media site has begun sending amber alerts to its 180 million users and the alert will include photos and other details

today kevin will start working his way to tommy at wino tower. if all goes well, the men are reunited. they could reach the summit and the history books by wednesday night. >> we got a photo of the supply team getting ready to bring necessities to the climbers. they include food, water batteries, and whiskey by the way, which the climbers said was at dangerously low levels. jorgeson fell 11 times during his attempt to climb that dangerous 15th pitch. it was very difficult. but of course climbing ropes kept him from plunging all the way to the ground. we'll be monitoring their progress the next couple of days. >> brave souls. i don't know about whiskey and climbing. >> tommy caldwell actually lost part of his finger in a home construction accident so he's climbing basically with nine. crazy. >>> imagine you wait two years to get your tax refund. a bay area couple's nightmare after turning to one of those seasonal tax preparers. why it took so long to find their money. >> a mating season rampage. the terrifying moment an elephant stomps on a car wi

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tommy, i hope you feel better.th of you, you just -- it was something to watch you and how you persevered and just -- you kept going and it's something that we really admire you both for. thanks for joining us. get some rest. >> thanks for having us. >> can't wait to see the next chapter from both of you. >>> thankfully ginger the weather for the most part seemed to cooperate for them. >> yeah, absolutely. if they need a third i'm totally available for next time. i'd be in it it. you know we have video of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of somethin of som

. >> tommy caldwell and kevin jorgeson celebrated with champagne, family and friends when they fleeted-foot free climb of the theory sheer rock face. >> the first ever to do this. look at those hands, cut up. this was not an easy task. many thought it was impossible. jorgeson considered quitting when he couldn't get past one of the most difficult sections. >> it was pretty devastating and the thoughts crossed my mind i should just throw in the towel and support tommy to the top. >> but tommy caldwell waited for him so they could finish together. >> president obama even sent the guys a tweet to congratulate them saying the men remind us mig is possible. you can hear from both on "good morning america." >>> next up we find out the nominees for the academy awards. >> who is going to get the nod? we don't know for sure just yet. we will look at the odds from the experts out in vegas. "boyhood" is the favorite to win best picture. also getting good odds for best picture, "birdman," "the grand budapest hotel" and "the imitation game" and michael keaton for "birdman" also for best act stress

it's just incredible. >> reporter: for years tommy caldwell has been trying, practicing and preparing for this history making run of california's most famous rock. and nick meyer says if the men make it, the accomplishment just further elevates a man who he believes deserves it >> tommy is one of my idols. as he should be and is probably to most climbers and most big wall climbers. he's it. he's the guy so to achieve something like this in my lifetime, that's awesome. >> how crazy is it? there's one part of the climb. those two men actually had to let go of the cliff and then jump about 10 feet to the next hand hold. they made it. the rest of the climb could take a week to six weeks or as caldwell says, not at all. >>> two up and coming athletes with the u.s. ski team were killed today in an avalanche in austria. 19-year-old bryce astal and ronnie berlack were free skiing when the avalanche struck. last year astal was at the u.s. championships in squaw valley. >>> the indonesian navy thinks it may have found the tale of the air asia flight that crashed in to the java sea eight days ag

kevin jorgeson of santa rosa and tommy caldwell out of colorado became the first rock climbers to scale el capitan's dawn wall with nothing but their hands, feet and safety ropes. they spoke with cbs news' john blackstone. >>> reporter: after 19 days clinging to the 3,000-foot granite wall, tommy caldwell and kevin jorgeson were able to just walk the last few feet to the cheers of friends and family. >> although we were very dirty, quite smelly, um, all i wanted to do was just wrap myself around my wife and hold my little kid. >> reporter: their calloused fingers were still sore and caldwell's voice was gone. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: as they challenged the wall, photographers hung on ropes nearby and crowds watched through long lenses from the meadow below. but the struggle was theirs alone. you seemed to be defying gravity. >> that's what we do up there i guess. [ laughter ] >> you know? it's dead vertical in a lot of places. you can get away withstanding on and hanging on to very small holds. >> reporter: we've seen those falls. what is that like? is tha frightening? >> i feel like

>> that's tommy.so it's kind of become our norm, as abnormal as that sounds. >> reporter: caldwell and jorgenson spent seven years working out a way to conquer the w dawn wall with only safety equipment. becca caldwell is a climber herself. >> i know how safe things are and i know how tommy functions on the wall, and so i trust him.r: >> reporter: but if nothing bad happens in the next 24 hours or so, the two climbers are likely to make it to the top, an 18-day journey to become legends in the climbing lore of el capitan. john blackstone, cbs news, yosemite national park. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good n >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> now at 6:00, mourner getting messages of hate. racially charged notes left on cars as people remembered four men who were gunned down. good evening, i'm veronica de la cruz. >> i'm ken bastida. tonight, people are asking some questions about the ugly notes circulated

tommy, did you want to say something? >> i did, frank.i think what i'd like to do for the audience is just ask everybody to bring it back to the basics. and in this environment where we have so many things to have to decide upon for the future of our nation, we need to remember that our constitution was not founded on accident. we need to remember when christopher columbus was commissioned to sail west it was after 781 years of struggle by the spaniards to rid that peninsula of jihadists. when the marines land the at tripoli, it was against not pirates. it was against jihadists. so we have to remember that the very establishment of this nation the discovery of this nation was in a way, caused by that same movement. we think about that and our constitution how it was founded. if we root ourselves with the love of that document and the flag that stands for it, we'll figure out how to defeat the enemy. the last thing i'd ask, for everybody in the room that we take a moment to think about that flag, the one that's behind me in this room was d

. >> reporter: an emotional end to a grueling climb for kevin jorgeson and tommy caldwell. the first to free climb to the top of el capitan using only their hands and feet grabbing on to razor sharp rock climbing at night, sleeping in hanging tents. >> there's this crazy arctic wind storm. >> tossed around like a rag doll. >> kevin struggled unable to get through one of the toughest sections of the climb. >> pretty devastated and thoughts crossed my mind that i should just throw in the towel and support tommy to the top. >> reporter: after 11 attempts he made it.. he made it. >> when i heard he made it i cried. >> family and friends watching below they make it to the top of the climbing world. abc news los angeles. >> i can't wait to talk to these guys. love this story. fascination that anybody could watch it because anybody below, a pair of binoculars you could see every move they have made on the side of the wall and they have been there since december 27th. >> that's incredible. it took three weeks to get to the top of dawn wall but two or three hours to hike down. >> pe

. >> reporter: tommy wauld -- caldwell and kevin jergeson are more than halfway up the wall.and feet only, no ropes except to hold dear and to catch them if they fall. >> we also do mt. st. helena. >> reporter: we asked a climber to give us an idea of what they're going through. nine days so far of climbing, sleeping, and everything else on the dawn wall and a bit more than halfway up. >> that's nine, ten days of pulling on your fingers. people haven't been climbing on this wall so the holds are sharp. everything is sharp. their fingers are probably raw. they're probably taped up. every finger is taped up. it's cold. it's just incredible. >> reporter: for years tommy caldwell has been trying, practicing, and preparing for this history making run of california's most famous rock and nick meyers says if the men make it, the accomplishment just further elevates a man who he believes deserves it. >> tommy is one of my idols. as he should be and is probably to most climbers. he's it. he's the guy so to have him achieve something like this in my lifetime, that's awesome. >> allen m

>> that's tommy. that's what he does. that's become our normal.ldwell is a climber herself. >> i know how safe things are and i know how tommy functions on the wall and so i trust him. >> reporter: the two climbers are likely to make it to the top, an 18-day journey to become legends in the climbing lore of el capitan. john blackstone cbs news yosemite national park. >> meanwhile in seattle, a dog's life means solo trips on the city bus. eclipse is a 2-year-old black lab. the owner says she knows her way around the neighborhood including mass transit. >> reporter: she's been urbanized totally. she's a bus-riding sidewalk walking dog. when we get separated she catches the bus without me. >> reporter: she's sometimes in a hurry to go to the park. she hops on the bus when she's ready to go. commuters say they enjoy the passenger roaming the aisle. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," best selling author dean kut skz. i'm lauren lyster. this is the "cbs morning new what's in a can of del monte green beans? ( ♪ ) grown in america.

tommy caldwell of colorado is wearing blue. they expect to finish what considered the world's hardest free climb on the dawn wall with climbing conditions ideal and they should make it. they will not do interviews when they reach the top they just want to see their families. we will hear from them tomorrow morning, though, when they plan to hold a news conference. >> big news for raiders fan the team is expected to name jack del rio as their next head coach. espn reports the owner and mark del rio are working out the terms of a contract. the june-year-old is no stranger to the bay area grow up in hayward. he has had coaching experience with jacksonville and under contract still, in denver where he spent three years as defensive coordinator. >> still to come this morning, a satire sell out the image on "charlie hebdo" that drew passive crowds in paris with the group now claiming responsibility if the attack. >> equal to suggestion spend jury selection in the trial of the suspected boston marathon bombing and what the judge decid