jan crawford, bob schieffer and anthony mason report. this could be one solution to the drought. but jim axelrod tells us funding for it has dried up. could jesus have been married? a scholar says an ancient scrap of papyrus may hold a clue. and to this 15-year-old, the great recession looks like opportunity. >> i'm trying to get as many houses as i can while the market is low. >> pelley: anna werner with a future mogul. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. with 49 days to election day, a

i'm anthony mason. >>> i'm rebecca jarvis. here a few of the stories we'll be looking at on "cbs this morning" saturday. >>> 59 days until the election. and there's no talk of a convention bounce. instead, a disappointing jobs report has both candidates telling us only they can get us back to work. >>> an 85 mile an hour speed limit on a texas toll road. authorities say it's a good way to raise money. but will it cost more in lives? >>> some of the biggest names in tech race their cutting-edge product to the market. nokia, google trying to beat apple. >> the stars of tv, film and theater, take the stage together fighting back for a great cause. we'll look as barry, hanks, swichlt and paltrow stand up for cancer. >>> all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday." >>> all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday." september 8, 2012. captioning funded by cbs >>> good saturday morning to you anthony. >> welcome to the weekend. >> welcome to the weekend. it's been a couple of weeks of ho

anthony mason cbs news >>> a winery's says it makes its wind by honor courage and bravery.uliette goodrich with more >>> meet josh lane >>> i've done three deployments >>> former marine turned winemaker a tasty did not care for. >>> no respect for ed then all of a sudden now i love that >>> when he was discharged from marines he found his mission help employ veterans through want he now calls the dollar winery >>> the greatest thing we have our veterans >>> veterans who otherwise would not have the job >>> i sort of fallen on hard times >>> what happens here the magic happens >>> an ambitious endeavor but when judge started he did not know anything about making want he turned to the resources we all turned to youtube >>> is youtube winery in a modest warehouse in livermore with 1 a. of vineyard employs dozens of veterans and ships out boxes of wine throughout the country >>> we offer security for veterans >>> patrick o'connor was in the air force now works at valley valor winery >>> josh welcomes visitors to his tasting room and wants everyone to know valor wants and makes

and museum is meant to remember the victims remains unfinished anthony mason shows us why the project is delayed. >>> everyday people lined up to see the memorial for and a half million visitors in the past year the come to see the pools were the twin towers once stood to touch the names of victims, which they cannot visit is the ninth/11 museum. >>> the place where the story will be told. >>> once it is built visitors will see the faces behind the names their personal mementos and relics of the tragic day. museum curator general mayoress organizes 40,000 artifacts >>> this is herself on >>> andrea have an and was visiting new york on business trips she was on the 93rd floor of the trade center unable to call her parents or fiancee. or to get out. >>> keys to her new apartment her car, and her eyeglasses >>> the museum also plans to display the observations of astronaut frank culbertson orbiting earth in the international space station on 9/11. >>> the country still looks good new york risher city still looks great from appear on. >>> why has the ribbon cutting happen? >>> an ongoing

million properties in foreclosure to banks rolled out test programs to keep people in their homes anthony mason explants out works. >>> artist and fashion designer amber knox brought to buy a house in phoenix it was 2007 she was 22, >>> and i felt like an adult we had housewarming party and invited our friends >>> a party did not last long within two years resistor moved out and she struggled to pay the mortgage just as the housing market was crashing prome lost more than half its value then she lost her job and fell behind. >>> i was scared i would lose everything >>> with only part-time work and she was not eligible for loan modification she was facing foreclosure and bankruptcy then her lender offered this a pilot program called mortgage to lease the bank takes back ownership forgives the debt and gives knocks in a chance to rent she loses the equity but reduces monthly from $1,250 to $712 and stay in the house >>> in some situations where the homeowners are under water this is a great opportunity to get a fresh start >>> bank of america rolls out the test program to 2500 distressed homeowne

anthony mason cbs news >>> in livermore a winery says it makes its wine with honor courage and bravery and is operated by veterans. juliette goodrich with more. >>> me josh line >>> i've done three deployments >>> former marine turned winemaker at tasty did not care for >>> i have no respect for it and then all of a sudden i love and >>> when he was discharge from the marines he found his mission helped veterans through want he calls it valor of winery >>> and the greatest thing we have our veterans >>> veterans who otherwise would not have a job like shame as connors >>> what happens here is where the magic happens >>> when josh first started out he knew nothing about one he turned to the resource we often turn to youtube. this winery and a warehouse and livermore with 1 a. of vineyards employs dozens of veterans and ships out boxes of winds throughout the country. >>> we offer security for veterans whether some form of employment >>> this man worked in the air force and now works at the winery >>> on or like a team we have camaraderie >>> josh welcomes visitors to the tasting room an

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anthony mason cbs news in new york >>> california judge says arnold schwarzenegger did not break laws when he issued a pardon hours before he left office he reduced to manslaughter sentence of the son of a political ally of the san diego da's suit, the judge said while with the governor did was distasteful it did not violate any laws. >>> where's the justice for our son he was murdered. to conniving politicians got away with that >>> the family says it will continue to fight the commutation. >>> nasa's retired space shuttle endeavor flies over the san francisco's skyline on its way to its final resting place later this month it will catch a ride on the back of a boeing 747 from florida it will soar over san francisco on september 20th before touching down in los angeles. >>> cbs 5 chief meteorologist paul deanno had visions about being a shuttle pilot. but the program is done >>> that's a heck of the turn to go over san francisco on his way to los angeles. order and good weather for the 20th, for today picture- perfect, anything and outside excellent today if you cannot get an outside

anthony mason cbs news and new york >>> 2 men disappeared from the bay area found in a shallow graved miles away the mysterious thing buried with them. >>> these are the most important photos >>> he provided prove the most wanted terrorist was dead with his former navy seal dead to make osama bin laden's look better in the photos. >>> this is mail tonight >>> sheffer famous bay area boxer invite says to the kitchen why he's eating grass,,, >>> update you on our top story tonight children did took two children say it after there were and abducted and taken to see by their father l.f. monterey in a car with their mom less than one hour ago. coast guard rescuer the three wrote girl and her brother from stolen sailboat a few miles off the coast the father christopher maffei brought back to san mateo county to face charges. >>> toussaint was a man found dead thousands of miles away want valencia and raul the lobos went missing at this summer the remains were discovered in shallow graves near indianapolis. sharon chin on what else detectives found. >>> the corner used dental records to ide

but as anthony mason reports it's opening is being delayed by a dispute over money. >> reporter: every people line up to see the memorial, 4.5 million visitors in the past year. they come to see the pools where the twin towers once stood. to touch the names of the victims. what they cannot visit is the 9/11 museum. alice greenwald is its director. >> it's a place where the story will be told and without the museum the memorial is incomplete. >> reporter: once it is built, the museum is where visitors will see faces behind the names. their personal momentos and relics of that tragic day. the museum curator is organizing 40,000 artifacts. >> cell phones? >> on 9/11 andrea was visiting new york on a business trip. she was on the 93rd floor of the trade center, unable to call her parents or fiancee. or to get out. >> these are the keys to her, they later told us her new apartment, her car. >> her eye glasses. >> the museum plans to display the observations of astronaut frank culbertson who was orbiting earth in the international space station on 9/11. >> hard to deal with this and recover

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anthony mason compares them. >> what time you got to be back at work?perry is a labor statistic again. for the second time in the past four years, he's out of work. >> it just seems like there's so many jobs that i apply for and i hear nothing from them. >> the 44-year-old lost his first job as a forklift operator at the wilmington, ohio facility of airborne express in 2008. >> felt like the world kind of ended. >> perry was one of some 8,000 workers let go when dhl and airborne shut the facility. he had spent 20 years, more than half his life working there. >> what did you think your job prospects were at that point? >> didn't know what i was going to do. i planned on retiring then. >> retrained as a heating and air conditioning technician, perry found work with this dayton company. >> how did you feel when you got that job? >> relieved. i felt real good about myself again. >> but the pay was lower. perry has a wife and four children to support, two with type 1 diabetes. >> this year when csx offered him a train conductor's job with first class health

anthony mason on what all this means for jobs. jan crawford and nancy cordes with the president at the romney in ohio promoting free trade. jeff glor on the call that every football fan is talking about. >> it was awful. that's all i'm going to say about it. >> pelley: and these images helped change america. >> how could you not ask the question "what ever happened to that kid?" >> pelley: seth doane with the man who uncovered the stories behind the faces. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. six weeks before an election that may turn on the state of the economy, a new survey out today finds that americans are feeling better about things. consumer confidence is at its highest level in seven months, largely because more americans expect the jobs picture to improve. but confidence is still at what's considered a weak level. home values are increasing. another report out today says prices in 20 major cities rose 1.6% in july. that's the fourth straight increase. but pr

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anthony mason tells us why. mark strassmann on the reincarnation of isaac, and the storm's oily legacy on the gulf coast. and mark phillips with bradley snyder. he lost something precious in the war but back home, he found something priceless. >> to be able to hop in the pool, it gives me an immense amount of confidence moving forward into life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. high stakes here tonight for the president of the united states as he tries for a breakout moment in this dead-heat race for the white house. barack obama will accept the nomination of his party, but under very different circumstances than his first nomination. in 2008, he was leading a movement for hope and change. tonight, he hopes that the voters impatient with the economy will not seek change again so soon. in his speech tonight, mr. obama will say that the american people face the clearest choice of any time in a generation. our campaign 2012 correspondents are cov

. >> pelley: reports from anthony mason and our campaign 2012 team. he shot osama bin laden and snapped the last pictures ever of the most-wanted terrorist. can you describe what they look like? in a "60 minutes" interview, a former navy seal tells his story. john blackstone on a historic fire season. breaking the bank and texting the firefighters. and steve hartman "on the road." an unusual request gets a surprising response. >> i've got two of them and i only need one. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from charlotte, north carolina. >> pelley: good evening. the glow of president obama's renomination in this city last night was eclipsed today by another bad jobs report. the labor department told us the economy created fewer jobs than expected in august-- just 96,000. average monthly job creation so far this year is 139,000, and that's down from 153,000 last year. the unemployment rate in august fell two-tenths of a point to 8.1%, but that's only because more people gave up looking and eve

we asked anthony mason to tell us what the presidential candidates would do to put americans back to work. >> what time are you going to be back at work? >> reporter: tim perry is a labor statistic again. for the second time in the past four years he's out of work. >> it just seems like there's so many jobs that i apply for and hear nothing from them. >> reporter: the 44-year-old lost his first job as a forklift operator at the wilmington, ohio, facility of airborne express in 2008. >> felt like the world kind of ended. >> reporter: perry was one of some 8,000 workers let go when d.h.l. and airborne shut the facility. he'd spent 20 years-- mre than half his life-- working there. what did you think your job prospects were at this point? >> i didn't know what i was going to do. i planned on retiring there. >> rep retrained as a heating and air conditioning technician, perry found work with this dayton company. how did you feel when you got that job? >> relieved. i felt real good about myself, again. >> reporter: but the pay was lower. perry as a wife and four children to support-- two

jan crawford, bob schieffer and anthony mason report. this could be one solution to the drought. but jim axelrod tells us funding for it has dried up. could jesus have been married? a scholar says an ancient scrap of papyrus may hold a clue. and to this 15-year-old, the great recession looks like opportunity. >> i'm trying to get as many houses as i can while the market is low. >> pelley: anna werner with a future mogul. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. with 49 days to election day, a candidate for president doesn't want a distraction from his message but it's happened in a big way to mitt romney. today, opponents and supporters parsed and examined in minute detail secretly recorded comments governor romney made about four months ago. it was during a private fund- raiser in a private home. romney was explaining why he believes that nearly half of the country would always be on the side of president obama. >> pelley: the video was recorded on may 17. it was obtained by the liberal magazine "mother jones." "mothe

i'm anthony mason. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. >> the british royal family said it will sue the magazine that publish ad topless kathryn. the pictures were taken last week while she and prince william were vacationing in france. an italian magazine said they too will publish the pictures. seth dome is traveling with prince william and with kate. >> reporter: this high-profile tour through southeast asia was designed to introduce the duke and duchess of cambridge. with all the photo opes, just a handful of unauthorized snapshots may be the most memorable images of this tour. those pictures of the topless kate sun bathing pool side were published yesterday by the french magazine "closer." a caption in french reads the photos that will go around the world. william and kate had been vacations at this sprawling chateau on 640 acres. it's surrounded by lavender fields and woodlands. the couple had every expectation of privacy in this remote house a statement from saint james palace. it added the incident is reminiscent of the worse exce

i'm anthony mason. >> i'm rebecca jarvis.g up in this half hour the first televised presidential debate, john kennedy cool and calm, richard nixon, if you were watching it on tv you saw him sweating bullets and we will take a look at what it takes to win one of these high pressure presidential encounter. >> then elmy winner damian lewis met with president obama and the president told him a secret. we'll ask him about that and of course about the second season of his hit tv thriller that begins tomorrow night. >> how about a presidentialth suite for your pooch. it can give you pause especially when you get the bill. we'll take you to new york's first hotel that's just for dogs. >> first our top story this half hour. >>> on that we turn to the trial of pop benedict's former butler which has ended for the day. he's accused of leaking the pope's personal pap towers an italian journalist. the case is one of the biggest scandals to hit the value can. alan, good morning, what is the latest? >> reporter: good morning. well the trial

i'm anthony mason. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. here a few of the stories we're looking at on cbs "this morning saturday." a very taxing day for the romney campaign. ann romney has a scare in the air. her husband decides to release his 2011 returns. we'll look inside the numbers as early voting begins in the 2012 presidential campaign. >> mauling at the famed bronx zoo. a man leaps from a monorail into the tiger's cage. only quick action by zoo keepers may have saved his life. >> rarely do you get to see a random act of guidance. we'll tell you one by a canadian bus driver that left his passengers in tears. ♪ fly me to the moon >> a living legend in the sky. the nation's longest serving flight attendant, served celebrities and presidents in a career that lasted more than 60 years. he'll tell us what it was like to fly so many miles that he could have gone to the moon back 40 times over. all that and so much more on cbs "this morning saturday," september 22, 2012. >> good morning, welcome to the weekend. nice to be with you. >> grea

anthony mason on what all this means for jobs. jan crawford and nancy cordes with the president at the u.n. promoting free speech and mitt romney in ohio promoting free trade. jeff glor on the call that every football fan is talking about. >> it was awful. that's all i'm going to say about it. >> pelley: and these images helped change america. >> how could you not ask the question "what ever happened to that kid?" >> pelley: seth doane with the man who uncovered the stories behind the faces. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. six weeks before an election that may turn on the state of the economy, a new survey out today finds that americans are feeling better about things. consumer confidence is at its highest level in seven months, largely because more americans expect the jobs picture to improve. but confidence is still at what's considered a weak level. home values are increasing. another report out today says prices in 20 major cities rose 1.6% in july. that's

anthony mason looks at the drought and other threats to jobs. israel's prime minister shows how close he believes iran is to a nuclear bomb. how close is it? david martin looks into that. mark phillips on a contwo verse net art world. she has that mystic smile, but is this a real mopa lisa? who says crime doesn't pay? jim axelrod on an auction of memorabilia from america's most notorious criminals. >> reporter: this was in clyde's waistband? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it turns out the economy is growing even more slowly than we thought. the government told us that u.s. growth in the second quarter was an anemic 1.7%, but today, the commerce department put out a new estimate showing us it was even less than that, just 1.3%. and this is what caught our attention in the report-- the government said half of the downward revision can be blamed on the drought. it's destroying crops, including the corn in this field inula roy, illinois. and on the land clayton arnold has been f

. >> i'm anthony mason. here are a few stories we'll be looking at on "cbs this morning" saturday. the biggest scandal to hit the vatican. the pope's personal butler admits to giving out secret information and stands trial this morning. the verdict could have profound implications for the roman catholic church. >>> polls show mitt romney's path to the white house may be narrowing. his best chance to turn the tide is wednesday's first presidential debate. with the stakes incredibly high, both candidates have begun preparing for their big night. >>> he's a former governor, action star and weight lifter. now arnold schwarzenegger is looking to become the comeback kid. he's written a memoir, but his first test comes on "60 minut " minutes." >> i think it was the stupidest thing i've done in the whole relationship. >> will there be a second act for schwarzenegger? >>> he's the british secret agent with the best gadgets and the hottest villains. his name bond, james bond. he's turn 50 and he may be trading in his shaken martini for a beer, but still nobody does it better. >> the name is

jan crawford, bob schieffer and anthony mason report. this could be one solution to the drought. but jim axelrod tells us funding for it has dried up. could jesus have been married? a scholar says an ancient scrap of papyrus may hold a clue. and to this 15-year-old, the great recession looks like opportunity. >> i'm trying to get as many houses as i can while the market is low. >> pelley: anna we were we are a future mogul. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. with 49 days to election day, a candidate for president doesn't want a distraction from his message but it's happened in a big way to mitt romney. today, opponents and supporters parsed and examined in minute detail secretly recorded comments governor romney made about four months ago. it was during a private fund-raiser in a private home. romney was explaining why he believes that nearly half of the country would always be on the side of president obama. >> pelley: the video was recorded on may 17. it was obtained by the liberal magazine "mother jones." "mot

the band members spoke with our anthony mason "for the record." ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter:e breakout rock bands of the '90s, "no doubt" has sold more than 33 million albums worldwide. ♪ don't think i know what you're thinking ♪ >> reporter: but after ruling the charts with monster hits like "don't speak," and" it's my life," no doubt went more than a decade without releasing a new record. now the band is back. ♪ get in line and settle down ♪ snet >> reporter: lead singer gwen stefani has reunitedded with her three band mates. this week they'll release "push and shove," their first album in 11 years >> the boys rehearse way more than me because i kind of feel like i'll just wing it. >> reporter: (laughing) at 42, stefani is still a style icon. as well as being the band's lead singer and songwriter, she's a cover girl, fashion designer, and a celebrity mom to two boys, kingston and zuma >> it's just chaos now. a lot of great problems >> reporter: in fact since their last record all four band members have married and become parents with eight children now between them. bass pl

anthony mason cbs news new york. there is also good news about housing prices rose in july for the second straight month of a year-to-year improvement the down side people in the rental market are seen the lowest level of inventory and 10 years and rent has surged to a 5% on average just since last year. pannikin bay area bart stations 9 days ago with the agency now says for passengers to flee the platform. kugels futuristic cars get the green light from the governors might itself driving cars could mean more than just a more lax in commutes. what brought out throngs of shades of gray stance tonight in the bay area. we're getting a good lead at the chaos that followed the bart station malfunctioned back on september 16th a train that is. this surveillance video from the civic center station when a train experienced what art is calling a great overload they say that is what cause the bright flash of light and all that smoke. as you can see some people are scrambling on a platform and even of stairs in the hallways und

anthony mason now with black keys for the record. >> mason: they're anything but an overnight sensationuccess to slowly boil for the black keys. but suddenly they just may be the hottest rock band in the country. ♪ i wanted love ♪ i needed love ♪ most of all, most of all >> reporter: after their latest album el camino debuted at number two on the charts, they sold out madison square garden in just 15 minutes. ♪ if you haven't heard of the black keys, you've almost certainly heard their music. it's been used in more than 300 commercials, tv shows, and films. the black keys are dan auerbach on guitar and patrick carney in those buddy holly glasses. two otherwise quiet guys who just like to make a mountain of noise. >> we don't have a real act. our fans know that we're normal people. >> reporter: you don't have a schtick. >> it hurt us i think early on because i think people like schtick. >> reporter: did you contemplate coming up with a schtick? >> no, we're not that smart. reporter: growing up in akron, ohio, auerbach and carney connected in high school. a grade apart they weren't really

i'm anthony mason. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. coming up he went into hiding for 13 years.alman rushdie will explain how he stayed alive after the iranian ayatollah sentenced him to death. >> new clues at how important a good night's sleep is to your health. >> and he mixes drinks with burt lancaster as he and the cast of "from here to eternity." we'll talk to the flight attendant who met celebrities and presidents during his historic 63 year career. he was the longest steward in the industry. >> extraordinary. i'm looking forward to that. first our top story this half hour. we begin with new protests over that anti-muslim film. thousands took to streets peacefully today in nigeria. in bangladesh protesters clashed with police. rallies were held in 12 cities around the world ned. in pack tan 19 people were killed on friday. mark phillips reports. >> reporter: pakistani officials had tried to contain the anger by declaring a national holiday and what theyalled a day of love for the prophet. it didn't work. violent crowds rampaged through many of the country's cities. police

anthony mason has been sampling the tracks. >> reporter: it's been more than a decade since "no doubt" released a new record. but one of the '90s' biggest bands is back. >> the boys rehearse way more than me because i kind of feel like i'll just wing it. >> reporter: style icon and lead singer gwen stefani has returned to her roots. ahead on sunday morning, "no doubt" is making music again. >> osgood: nora roberts is a novelist who is anything but a novelty in this or any other publishing season. this morning she shares some of her wildly successful book-writing secrets with our rit a braver >> she's one of the most successful writers in the world, and she makes no apologies about what sells. >> you want these characters to have fabulous sex. either very romantic sex or fun sex or hot sex >> reporter: later on sunday morning, we'll meet the real nora roberts. >> osgood: mo rocca talks with actress and screen writer. mark strassman goes back stage at the tv series homeland. steve hartman marvels at one man's marvelous ways and much more. but first the headline for this morning the 23rd

anthony mason is in new tonight. anthony, what's going on? >> reporter: scott, the catalyst was a move by the european central bank that raised hopes that the european debt crisis may finally be stabilizing. that's been weighing on the market for months. the e.c.b. today announced a sweeping plan to buy up debt to prop up the euro and protect spain and italy from financial collapse. od ne was also good news here at home. oe number of americans filing first-time unemployment claims fell by 12,000 last week to 365,000. f thehe real barometer of the economy's health will be the monthly unemployment number. that comes out tomorrow, scott. >> pelley: anthony, thank you. a roman catholic bishop today became the highest ranking church official in the country to be convicted in the child sex abuse scandal. bishop robert finn leads the diocese of kansas city, missouri. he was found guilty of one misdemeanor count for failing to report suspected abuse by one of his priests. lyaine quijano is in kansas city tonight. elaine. >> reporter: good evening, tr

so we asked anthony mason to dig further into the impact the rtought is having on our economy. t reporter: 90 miles southwest of dallas, in aquilla, texas, the drought has cut back ronnie gerik's cotton crop severely this year. f> it impacted not just myself but all the ag industry. >> reporter: in fact, the government now says the drought is slowing the entire economy, costing the country $12 billion in the spring. >> farmers don't have money to spend. they're not going to spend it, you know. and we have a nickel in our pocket, we'll probably go buy a new tractor. >> reporter: but the drought is just one of three headwinds holding back growth. the recession in europe is also eating into american exports, but nothing looms larger than washington's so-called fiscal cliff, the spending cuts and tax hikes that will kick in next year if congress and the administration can't end the rancor and agree on how to handle the deficit. the ratings agency fitch said today uncertainty about u.s. fiscal policy is the single biggest near-term threat to the global recovery. when you see washing

. >> pelley: reports from jan crawford, anthony mason, and bob schieffer. and "on the road" with steve hartman. a silent soldier hears the call of duty. >> 60 years later. still checking on his guys. cbaptioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the storm cleared over the gulf coast today and the full impact of hurricane katrina is now becoming clear. the first hurricane to hit the u.s. this season left at least ve peoeople dead. more than 20 inches of rain combined with the storm surge raft whole neighborhoods underwater in louisiana. dee power is still out for more than half a million homes and businesses and the damage could top $2 billion. our mark strassmann has been talking with some of the people who have lost nearly everything. >> reporter: for the first time oday we were able to look from the air at the abandoned neighborhoods in plaquemines thrish, swamped by five feet of isaac's storm surge. crews have begun cutting as many as 10 holes in its levees east tsd west banks to drain the water a

anthony mason is here with the latest episode in a the latest in a half century of music and drama. >ppen. the beach boys had even filed lawsuits against each other. somehow a special occasion inspired them to bury the hatchet, albeit briefly. ♪ barbara ann >> for one more summer, the sound of summer went on tour again. the five surviving members of the beach boys, brian wilson, mike love, al jardine, bruce johnston and david marks, celebrated a golden anniversary this year with a new album and reunion shows on four continents. >> how did you decide to get back together? >> the 50th anniversary of our group. it makes a lot of sense, don't you think, a remarkable milestone. >> they've made a career of setting milestones. no american rock band has more top 40 hits. for all the high notes and harmonies, a discordant history hangs over the beach boys. >> you haven't always gotten along. >> that's true. >> in an interview on "cbs sunday morning" earlier this year, mike love admitted drugs long ago divided the bachbd. >> there's myself and bruce and allen who didn't partake and the wilsons

anthony mason has been sampling the tracks. >> reporter: it's been more than a decade since "no doubt" released a new record. but one of the '90s' biggest bands is back. >> the boys rehearse way more than me because i kind of feel like i'll just wing it. >> reporter: style icon and lead singer gwen stefani has returned to her roots. ahead on sunday morning, "no doubt" is making music again. >> osgood: nora roberts is a novelist who is anything but a novelty in this or any other publishing season. this morning she shares some of her wildly successful book-writing secrets with our rit a braver >> she's one of the most successful writers in the world, and she makes no apologies about what sells. >> you want these characters to have fabulous sex. either very romantic sex or fun sex or hot sex >> reporter: later on sunday morning, we'll meet the real nora roberts. >> osgood: mo rocca talks with actress and screen writer. mark strassman goes back stage at the tv series homeland. steve hartman marvels at one man's marvelous ways and much more. but first the headline for this morning the 23rd

i'm anthony mason. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. we're looking at on cbs "this morning saturday." a very taxing day for the romney campaign. ann romney has a scare in the air. her husband decides to release his 2011 returns. we'll look inside the numbers as early voting begins in the 2012 presidential campaign. >> mauling at the famed bronx zoo. a man leaps from a monorail into the tiger's cage. only quick action by zoo keepers may have saved his life. >> rarely do you get to see a random act of guidance. we'll tell you one by a canadian bus driver that left his passengers in tears. ♪ fly me to the moon >> a living legend in the sky. the nation's longest serving flight attendant, served celebrities and presidents in a career that lasted more than 60 years. he'll tell us what it was like to fly so many miles that he could have gone to the moon back 40 times over. all that and so much more on cbs "this morning saturday," ptember 22, 2012. >> good morning, welcome to the weekend. nice to be with you. >> great to see you. we want to beg

anthony mason here with the latest episode in a half century of great songs, high drama. nion never expected to happen. beach boys divided by feuds for decades and filed lawsuits against each other. but a second occasion inspired them to bury the hatchet, although briefly. ♪ >> reporter: for one more summer, the sound of summer went on tour again. the five surviving members of the beach boys, brian wilson, mike love, al gardine, bruce johnson, and david marks celebrated a golden anniversary this year with a new album and reunion shows on four continents. how did you decide to get back together? >> it's the 50th anniversary of our group so it makes a lot of sense. it's a remarkable milestone. >> they made a career of setting milestones. no american rock band has more top 40 hits. but for all the high notes and harmonies, a discordant history hangs over the beach boys. you haven't always gotten along. >> yeah. that's true. >> reporter: in an interview on "cbs sunday morning" earlier this year, mike love admitted drugs long ago divided the band. >> there is myself and bruce a

george mason university real estate professor anthony sanders says all this intervention won't help at. good to see you. thank you for joining us. bruce, you say the banks are making significant money on these lower rates. why don't they just higher more people to push through more loans at these lower rates? >> well, you know, we deal with these banks all the time, maria. they are the most dysfunctional institutions out there. they make a lot of money out there but now it takes them, you know, two, three months to even close a loan. but look at the types of loans they're doing. these are refinances. from the major banks, 70% of these banks are refinances. they haven't even started to really help home buyers out there. that's why we need regulations. even though you have this carrot out there and you say, look, you can make big money out there, they are so incompetent, so bad at what they do that without government guarantees, virtually every bank would be failing out there. so, we've got to have the government -- because i was a regulator. back in those days you could push the banks t

also anthony sanders of george mason university on housing prices, which hit a seven-year high in julyhe day, the federalist society, with a preview of the cases coming before the supreme court, which opens its new term next monday. that is live at 12:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. at 4:15, libya's president addresses the u.n. general assembly in new york. we also hear from the leaders of israel, iraq, and the palestinian authority. a senate debate between republican senator dean heller and his democratic challenger. live on c-span, and also online at c-span.org. >> september 11, 2001, changed my life forever. it changed america's life. i will go through a park and presentation that will outline the account, the historical account of the attack as it happened, as things transpire that day. a lot of things happened very quickly. i will do my best not to ramble on and -- or go to fast. i would ask you to sit back, clear your mind, put yourself in that room, and get a real sense of what it was like to be at the top of the food chain, the national command authority, as a nation of 300 million

let's bring in anthony sanders, finance professor at george mason university and you're on the recordhe housing recovery has legs, limping, walking, running to recovery? >> i would say we're still limping. existing homes sales are back to about levels we saw in 1998. which means, we're going back to the preclinton big push or the giant leap forward in homeownership. and so we've corrected. we're starting to get there. it's slow. this may be a summer recovery only. melissa: anthony, do you think record low mortgage rates encourage people to go out and buy homes? or in a way saying they will be low indefinitely until 2015 is it having the effect of people maybe pushing off the home buying that they don't feel pressure that interest rates are going up? >> i go with the latter argument. when the fed signals they will do q eternity and by mbs as long as they have to, what's the rush? rates aren't going up anytime soon. right now though, again, credit is still very tight and banks are still wanting to, very nervous about making mortgage loans, keeping them on their books. so they have to se

also anthony sanders of george mason university on housing prices, which hit a seven year high in july. live with the day's headlines and your phone calls, every morning on c-span at 7:00 eastern. >> i was always shocked as i think anybody who spends a lot of time around campaigns is. most cannot talk -- cannot explain why they did anything they were doing. how do you know that? how do you do that? at some point, they did it because they always did it that way. they had some said the rules not based in research. some of it around with some degree of skepticism -- so i went around with some degree of skepticism. as the learned about people doing these field experiments with them being adopted by people in the political world and learned more about the innovations of data and targeting based on it that basically revolutionize campaigns in the last decade. in addition to these new forms of research, you have this cultural tension between a lot of the old practices that deter -- old practices and the new, empirical movement. >> more with the victory lap author on book tv saturday night at

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the professor of finance at george mason university is joining us now from washington, d.c. anthony this good for the housing market, or is the economy getting so weak at this point that nothing can save housing? >> well, right now, dagen, you are absolutely right. they can push rates even lower, and it's probably not going to do much good. one reason is that we're getting out of the summer seasonal. the housing market bumps back up in the summer because people are buying new homes or buying existing homes, pending home sales dropped a couple percent. that's to be expected about this time of year. however, we have the fiscal cliff looming, which is going to really maybe put a big damper on housing demand come next year. dagen: but anthony when people get ready to go out and buy a home, what is the biggest factor? because this is dinner table conversation, actually breakfast table conversation, did you see that you can get a mortgage at a new record low rate, or i highly doubt that people are discussing oh we have to hold off because the fiscal cliff is coming at the end of the year.