armstrong say? >> he did say, you know, if we're going to the tour, we've got to -- we've got to perform. we need the results. >> what did that mean? >> i think he just said -- you didn't have to be a rocket sientist to figure it out. if we were going to be competitive, there was only one road to take. >> was there a discussion about doping in any way with mr. swart? >> the only aspect that is true is that he was on the team. beyond that, not true. >> the doping allegations arose in a cases brought by lance armstrong against an insurer based in dallas, nex nex, who provided huge bonuses paid to armstrong for winning the tour de france in successive years. >> these are the checks making the first two payments under the contract. these checks represent when he won on the 4th and the 5th, making those payments for 1.5 million and then 3 million. >> attorney jeff tillityson represented the insurer who rechzed to pay a further $5 million when armstrong won his sixth tour de france in 2004. >> obviously n

on the very first day of his comeback tour de france, lance armstrong won the prologue. >> lance armstrong has delivered a great blow. >> three weeks later, less than three years after being diagnosed with cancer, he won his first tour de france. it would be the first of seven. >> he came back again and again and again, winning tour after tour, and he did it seven times. and of course it's a record. nobody's ever done it, and it's for many people -- for many people it was unacceptable. it was impossible to do that without taking drugs. >> what do you think? >> look, i admit i've been very proud to commentate on armstrong over the years because i've seen a man, see how he's battled the elements how he's come forward and i'm very sad. what do i think? everybody else did it so i find it very difficult not to think lance did it. or geico...as most of you know it. ...i propose savings for everyone! i'm talking hundreds here... and furthermore.. newcaster: breaking news. the gecko is demanding free pudding. and political parties that are actual parties! with cake! and presents! ah, that was good

armstrong is on the right.h armstrong years ago brought tension and exhaustion to the andreu household. she agreed to talk but not at her home. >> when you found out lance had cancer, what was your reaction? >> disbelief. it was unbelievable that an athlete so young, somebody in such good shape had cancer. there was a great sorrow there as well. >> so you and franky, you and your husband go to see him in the hospital. what happened at the hospital? >> franky and i just got engaged six weeks before. we spent as much time as we could, from morning to evening, with lance in the hospital. >> during one visit, she heard something she knew she could never forget. >> doctors began to ask him a few questions and then, boom, have you ever used any performance-enhancing drugs? lance, holding his i.v. nonchalantly rattled off, steroid, testosterone, growth who a hormone. my eyes popped out of my head. franky saw that i was upset. we excused ourselves and left. >> a world away in a village near manchester, england lives an

what's also clear is the bullying nature of lance armstrong. he coerced his fellow team members to do it. they reported that it was not enough of his teammates give maximum effort on the bike. also adhere to the doping program outlined for them or be replaced. now armstrong, we must say, denies any wrong doing. he says this is a witch hunt, a hatchet job. he says he has never failed a drug test. his thousands of supporters around the world, this will make pretty tough reading. >> tough reading, but an awful lot will say if it was such a concerted effort, if so deepseated, how long it's taken to long? low does a man win seven times before this is made public? >> that's right. i think there will be some pretty tough questions for the cycling authority to answer. this investigation was conducted not by the cycling authority but by the u.s. anti-doping agency. they have uncovered this evidence. now the cycling authorities who always supported lance armstrong, they have 21 days to decide whether they want to appeal against this finding. if they don'

he was armstrong's longtime lieutenant and confidant. he admitted that he and armstrong repeatedly used illegal drugs like epo, testosterone, and blood transfusions, and that armstrong provided epo to him as recently as 2005. armstrong has long and vehemently denied the use of any performance enhancing drugs. yesterday, one of his lawyers called the investigation a witch hunt. armstrong insists his conscience is clean. >> we could not see the end of the a's game but we heard loud yelling! >> i was screaming in the newsroom. they were down 3-1, going to the bottom of the 9th, backs against the wall. here's how it ended. coco crisp at the plate, base hit. here's the finish! [ cheering and applause ] >> wow! >> all right. and the giants earlier, gregor blanco hit a home run. the giants won 8-3. tim lincecum one of the big heros in this game with 4 innings pitched, brilliant. the bottom line is the a's and giants have come back from two games down, both forcing a fifth and final desired tomorrow. >> it ain't over till we say it's over! [ lau

hincapie was armstrong's long- time lieutenant and confidant.a., hincapie admitted he and armstrong repeatedly used illegal drugs like the blood- booster e.p.o., testosterone and blood transfusions, and that armstrong provided by e.p.o. to hincapie as recently as 2005. armstrong has long and vehemently denied the use of any performance-enhancing drugs. yesterday, one of his lawyers call the u.s.a.d.a. investigation a witch-hunt. armstrong insists his conscience is clean. scott? >> pelley: armen, thank you. there is an important development tonight in that european debt crisis that is cutting into the growth of the u.s. economy. late today, standard & poor's downgraded spain's credit rating to just above junk bond status. now it's going to be a lot more expensive for spain to finance its crushing debt, and spain is likely to need a bailout. the taliban tried to silence a pakistani hero. why do they think a 14-year-old is so dangerous? that's next. next. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ w

new this morning, armstrong's last major sponsor oakley has also decided to part ways with armstrong.the report a one-sided hatchet job. either way, obviously, the face of cycling, the sport forever changed today, removing the seven titles of once called the greatest psycher in the sport. >> thanks so much. >>> a judge told a wisconsin man he could not go near his wife for the next four years. within three days later, he showed up at the spa she worked with a gun and fuel to start a fire. police say he killed three women and wounded four yesterday near milwaukee. officers rushed to a mall expecting a gun fight and found a building full of smoke. people were screaming, running out the back door. >> she was hurt, critically. i have seen two more victims pulled out. they weren't able to move. they were carried on a stretcher to the ambulances. >> police say he apparently committed suicide before they got to him. he did have a history of violence before the shooting. he was recently arrested for domestic violence and disorderly conduct. police say he also slashed his wife's tired earlier

lance armstrong himself this to me says so much.ed down as the chairman of the board of live strong after nike cut him loose. and that says that he believes that the entity itself, the nonprofit that is live strong will survive this. i hope it does survive this because it has done a lot of good over the years. >> eliot: let's come back to nike for a moment. you tell the story as though you have -- rightly so, deep-seated sense that they have been playing this for a period of time. do you think this catches up with them? does their image get tarnished because people say nike, you were just a commercial endeavor willing to use bad people until you yourself get caught. >> if reagan was the teflon president then nike is teflon on steroids. look at the nike campus in beaverton, oregon. over the last year, they've had to change the name of the lance armstrong fitness center to just the fitness center, the joe paterno child care center is now just the child care center. i don't know if michael vick -- but this is how nike operates as an en

in all kl of hours lance armstrong will take to his bike.i-doping agency banned him of cycling and demanded he get stripped of his seven titles. this could be the calm before the storm. that decision could trigger a string of lawsuits over his millions in endorsement deals. now here to discuss what ee at state is robert tuckman in new york. good morning. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the deal. he's lost nike, anheuser butch, radioshack, trek, honey stinger. how much money are we talking about here? >> basically if you look at all the deals and take into account how many, the number i would put it at that he'll lose personally sproebl around, you know, the course of his lifetime, maybe 150 to $250 million. >> that's a lot of money. >> it sure is. >> what about the lawsuits? because we've already heard about an insurance company that could fire to reklain bonus money arguing that his doping would make that contract null and voice. what else might we see? >> yeah. that's a really good point because there could be potential lawsuits. a lo

he was armstrong's long time lieutenant and confidant.incapie admitted they used the illegal drugs. and armstrong provided them to hincapie as recently as 2005. >>> a new survey out this new york says 30% of workers have called in sick when they weren't actually sick. 30%. that's it? that's in keeping with previous years. here are some of the creative sick day excuses employers have heard. a worker claimed their dog was having a nervous breakdown. they got upset after watching the "hunger games." their toe got stuck in the faucet. they forgot they were hired. some of those excuses will get you fired. you got to be smart about this thing. coming up after your local news on cbs "this morning," singer bryan adams. i'm terrell brown in new york. this is the "cbs morning news". this morning," singer bryan adams. i'm terrell brown in new york. this is the "cbs morning news". [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup

armstrong denies ever doping, arguing he passed hundreds of drug tests. he joined 4000 cyclists over the weekend if a ride to fight cancer. >> people ask me a lot how are you doing? i tell them well, i have been better. but i have also been worse. >> the cancer survivor recently stepped down at chairman at livestrong charity and several sponsors pulled their support. the international cycling organization said it is determined to keep the sport clean and thanked armstrong's teammates who testified against him. >> cycling has a future and something like this must never happen again. >> reporter: the organization said it would not give armstrong's victories to the runners up because so many of those riders had been linked to doping as well. officials said there would simple pli be a hole in the record books. tina krause, cbs news. >>> the world antidoping agency has three weeks to decide when it will appeal the ruling. the international olympic committee is also reviewing armstrong's case and may strip him of the bronze medal he won at the 2000 games in sid

nike fires lance armstrong. and the man who founded livestrong will no longer be its leader. >>> and, head over heels. watch this. a world leader has just become the latest casualty of her high heels. with all those stumbles, a lot of sole searching tonight. >>> good evening. as we come on the air, we have breaking news tonight. the fbi says this 21-year-old man from bangladesh is under arrest, accused of plotting to blow up this building, the one with the red roof. the federal reserve bank here in new york. the man did not know he was being tracked by an fbi sting and abc's dan harris has this developing story at this hour. dan? >> reporter: diane, good evening. police say this morning, the suspect parked a van that he thought was loaded with 1,000 pounds worth of explosives, in front of the building behind me, then walked several blocks away and made a cell phone call that he believed would set it all off. prosecutors say the suspect -- a 21-year-old named quazi mohammad rezwanul ahsan nafis -- moved to americ

lance armstrong was sacked by almost every company he represented. a devastating day for the once heralded athlete. >> good morning, i'm lynn berry. >>> well, a 21-year-old man from bangladesh is being held this morning on charges of plotting to blow up the new york city headquarters of the federal reserve. prosecutors say he was inspired by osama bin laden and that he tried to recruit others from across the country, not realizing those recruits were actually undercover agents. wnbc's jonathan dienst has details. >> reporter: this is the face of suspected bomber quazi mohammad nafis, and this was his alleged target, the federal reserve bank. he was arrested after he allegedly parked a van packed with what he thought was 1,000 pounds of explosives, trying to kill hundreds of innocent new yorkers during the morning rush. >> he clearly had the intent of creating mayhem here. >> reporter: it was a sting operation and nafis was under intense surveillance for months by the fbi, nypd, and homeland security agents. the undercovers even provided some of the f

. >>> and finish line for one of the world's most celebrated athletes, lance armstrong erased from cycling's record books. his seven tour de france victories no longer exist. >> and high risk on the side lines today, why doctors say we need to think about cheerleading the same way we do the athletes we're cheering on. >>> and a mission, making sure america's quiet heros are not lost to history. >>> plus, there is important health news for women, and pediatricians weigh in on organics. nightly news begins now. >>> good evening, after tonight, there are no plans for these two candidates to meet face to face. it will be hand-to-hand combat from here on out until election day. going into tonight's third and final debate, the new national polling out shows the race is a dead heat, 47-47, with 15 days to go. while all the talk, correctly has been around the battleground states, and while they are still vital to victory, the national polls can be an indicator of what we're about to see in the battleground states. we think it is safe to say this, a dead heat two weeks out is nothing that the two can

armstrong has consistently called it a witch-hunt.over the past week his endorse deals have dropped the disgraced cyclist and he's stepping down as chairman of his own foundation. >> he's our founder and he's been the inspiration for this movement. his cancer journey lead to this place. to have him here is phenomenal. >> reporter: in total, 26 people, including 15 riders testified that armstrong and his teams used and trafficked banned substances and routinely used blood transfusions even among his most loyal supporters there's concern. >> it has been a bittersweet time i think livestrong is going to livestrong. the world's most famous could still lose an olympic medal and maybe target of a civil lawsuit. t.j. winick, abc news, new york. >>> this morning wouldn't have been good for going cycling. >>> right now is the best time we are in between the showers from this morning and the ones that are moving into sonoma county. this morning, beautiful picture from katrina rusk, she was around san jose and picked up this beautiful picture of

. >>> now lance armstrong and today the final chapter in his epic fall from grace. once an american hero, now officially stripped of his seven tour de france titles and tonight armstrong is facing an avalanche of lawsuits. what does the sports legend do now? abc's neal karlinsky with that story. >> reporter: seven golden moments on the victory podium in paris, erased. today, lance armstrong was officially banished from the sport that he was once synonymous with. >> lance armstrong has no place in cycling and he deserves to be forgotten in cycling. >> reporter: over the weekend, a few stoic words from a shell-shocked armstrong at his cancer foundation's 15th anniversary. >> people ask me, how are you? and i tell them, well, i've been better but i've also been worse. >> reporter: armstrong has not only his reputation at stake, but his estimated $125 million net worth. major civil cases are on deck. from a company that wants more than $10 million back for bonuses it paid to armstrong for his wins to a sealed whistle-blower case looking for tens of millions paid by the

, even one who armstrong said was like a brother. he said i'm aware he used blood trans fusions in 2005 and 2001, he said. he also said that armstrong twice gave him a banned steroid. another teammate, in 2002, said that armstrong told me if i wanted to continue to ride for the postal service team i would have to follow the doping program to the letter. the report also cites scientific tests from armstrong's blood from races in 2009 and 2010. the results were consistent with doping. an expert said the likelihood of this occurring naturally was less than one in a million. >> this is the most extensive in the doping report that i have ever seen. >> reporter: armstrong's lawyer calls the report a hatchet job. >> everybody knows he was the best, and everybody knows he won because he was the best. >> reporter: so far, arm strong's work to fight cancer, the donations have been more in the last two months and the report says donors still believe in his leadership. lisa myers, nbc washington. >>> and the story the world is reacting to, the 1

armstrong will be formally stripped of his titles. it's hard to know where he goes from here, whether he issues a public apology. if he does, he will be liable to huge legal cases. he will have to repay sponsors, prize money, insurance claims, and so on. it's a very difficult position for him. i'm not sure what he does now. >> thanks very much. still to come, james bond is back this week in skyfall. he opts for a beer instead of the shaken, not stirred. authorities in jordan said they had foiled a major terror plot at shopping centers, residential areas and more. >> a wake-up call for the jordanian government. troubles in neighboring syria are spilling into the heart of amman, jordan. >> there are 11 terrorists all of a jordanian nationality. pictures were displayed on jordan tv and are available on news agencies along with their full names. >> they told reporters the group had been in and out of syria this year smuggling arms into the country. >> the weapons used include explosives, mortars, and rifles. we have distributed a news rep

a move expected to strip armstrong of its seven tour de france titles armstrong denies taking illegal performance-enhacing drugs. but almost all teammates came forward saying he doped. >> to deny the reality of lances doping would be like denying gravity. >> the announcement comes as the organization gears up for a 15th anniversary this weekend. armstrong said the decision was played so the group could focus on its mission instead of his problems. >> former armstrong teammate levi leipheimer's team fired him for his role in the scandal. he confessed to using performance-enhacing drugs as part of the investigation. leipheimer was serving a suspension when he had another contract terminated yesterday. >> another shake frup yahoo. hi, nicole. >> good afternoon, guys. let's talk about ebay first saying sales and profit higher compared to a year ago. ebay is losing market share to amazon and other retailers. the ceo has been fighting for more upgrades. there is issue of the pay pal division. pay pal expected to announce substantial job cuts in the next few weeks. looks like the shake up at

. >>> axing armstrong after a damning report implicates him in a doping scandal, lance armstrong steps down as the head of his charity and is dropped by some of his biggest sponsors. >> this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, october 18, 2012. >>> good morning and thank for joining us. i'm vinita nair. this morning a young bangladesh man is being held without bail ing charged to bomb the federal reserve building here in new york. he was caught by an fbi sting operation. the fbi says he came to the u.s. intent on waging a holy war and was ready to die in the attack. >> reporter: 21-year-old quazi mohammad rezwanul ahsan nafis stood in a manhattan courthouse wednesday hours after he allegedly tried to blow up part of america's financial infrastructure. authorities say nafis wanted to detonate a bomb outside of the federal reserve bank of new york. the building where transactions from the nation's largest banks are processed and where a large reserve of gold is stored. he came to the u.s. on a student visa in january to study cyber security at southeastern missouri state university.

agency's rulings on armstrong and challenged it to justify its ban.he union has three weeks in which to appeal the agency's ruling. if it decides not to, armstrong will permanently lose his seven toward affronts titles -- seven tour de france titles. >> going from lance armstrong to a very special anniversary -- thursday marked the 50th anniversary of european sovereign observatory, europe's leading organization for astronomical research. >> the eso currently has three observatories in chile. the research planets which orbit distant stars. >> is earth the only place where life could exist, or might there be other forms of life out there somewhere else in the universe? the search for planets that orbit distant stars is now a hot field of research. astronomers working at the european southern observatory have made important advances in the field. one of those researchers seeking of distant planets has worked at the eso for nine years. researchers there are scanning the universe for signs of alien life. >> it is an age-old question -- whether life is uni

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hamilton rode with armstrong from 1998 to 2001.for years, he says he admits he lied about his own doping but last year, he finally admitted he had used performance-enhancing drugs. in his book, "the secret race" hamilton describes an incredibly dark side of his sport. hamilton and ten other former teammates in the trial. to this day, armstrong denies doping. his lawyer calls the report a witch hunt. the report showed just how strong the doping case against armstrong appears to be. here's my exclusive interview with tyler hamilton. >> so something i think a lot of people don't understand is why lance armstrong would dope. he's an amazingly naturally gifted athlete, he was a triathalon champion as a teenager. even after his cycling career he was dominating the pro triathalon circuit. what made him want to dope? >> i mean, that's a good question. i can't speak directly for lance. what i can tell you is for myself, when i came into the sport at the top tier, in 1997, it was introduced to me as, you know, for recovery and that's how it

armstrong and nike also are parting ways. the company said they were misled by armstrong. this comes a week after the anti-doping agency stripped armstrong of his tour de france titles. they said he was at the center of a major doping operation. >>> after the debate last night, the presidential candidates are back fighting for votes in the battleground states tonight. republican mitt romney will speak at a rally in loudoun county, virginia, about a half hour from now. julie carey is there as well. and she's going to tell us now about a celebrity traveling with the governor today. julie? >> reporter: i'll talk about that in a minute. virginia seems to be the go-to spot for mitt romney after the first debate. after last night's more combative affair, the mood is a little more subdued. the reviews a little different. supporters rolled into the leesburg park to see mitt romney, last night's combative debate was still replaying in many people's minds. this loudoun county family came to see romney for the first time and maria admits she didn't enjoy the first debate as much as t

what's different about the armstrong saga? >> i think what's different is that lance armstrong has long ago left the sport sphere, the realm of sports and moved on to a much higher plane in terms of his role in the cancer community, as an icon, a cause, someone that people looked up to. millions of cancer survivors, their family members, those fighting cancer have looked up to him. he is much more than just another athlete. even another famous athlete. he has transcended of sports. that's why i think he is so much more important than any other professional athlete we're talking about here and also why his fall is such a mat i can oe >> suarez: even though he competed in a sport that's not followed by most americans the way baseball, football, other competitive sports are? >> absolutely. but his success on his bike and the seven tour de france titles i think that's obviously what was compelling. even though it's not a sport that americans care about except a couple weeks every year for for those couple weeks he was such a compe

we should point out that lance armstrong remains on the board of live strong.ll even attend this weekend's charity bike race in texas. jon? >> nike and radio shack are not the only ones dropping armstrong. >> i mean, no. this was like dominoes, when lance armstrong quit live strong a few minutes later nike dropped him and then radio shack dropped him and now we have learned that anheuser-busch issued a statement today saying they will end their relationship with lance armstrong by the end of the year. but radio shack and anheuser-busch can walk away. but nike is now being accused of covering up this doping scandal by paying off an international cycling authority to cover up a test that lance armstrong failed back in 1999. nike issued a statement saying, quoting here: today or rather nike vehemently denies that it paid former uci president $500,000 to cover up a positive drug test. nike does not condone the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs and analysts also do not believe the charges. listen. >> $500,000 in the grand scheme of things is a drop in the b

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>> i think armstrong's in serious trouble.cy in issuing its report based the report on testimony from 26 witnesses, 15 riders who participated in races with armstrong, 106 th of them his roommates and frankly even his wife was quoted or mentioned in the report on 30 separate occasions. the agency, the u.s. anti-doping agency said it was as strong a case or a stronger case than any case in the history of the agency, so nike pulling away the endorsement contract, it says to me this is a very strong case against lance armstrong, and i think he's going to have a problem winning any cases in the future arising out of it. >> so if he's found guilty, i mean, how big is the damage here? do all the titles get stripped, and what about more lawsuits because now some of the people who have helped raise money for his charity, livestrong, not big corporations, were saying we were duped. we want our money back. >> i do think his titles will be stripped. i don't think that people who were involved in his charity will have a legitimate ground

anti-doping agency's report on armstrong. >> the decision confirming lance armstrong's banned from cycling and stripping him of his tour de france titles completes the cyclist's fall from grace. "lance armstrong has no place in cycling," the president of the agency announced today. the president described the report as sickening. >> we will striban him from cycling and strip him of his seven tour de france titles. lance armstrong has no place in cycling. >> lance armstrong described the investigation and its conclusion as a witch hunt, and his charity with strong has vowed to continue. -- cancer charity livestrong has vowed to continue. he may be forced to pay back enormous sums of money. the titles will not be awarded to another competitor because so many have been tainted by drug accusations. >> still to come, the seasonal flu hits maryland early. the new strain makes flu shots even more important it is at the scary side of the year for moms and dads. -- and it is the scariest night of the year for moms and dads. >> top of a depression number 18. you are just starting to see some circula

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