general election and the conservatives and labor arnett and neck. hours left for the israeli prime minister to put together a coalition government or face being forced out by a former ally. controversial words from a southern french mayor. he let slip his office -- sump and forbidden by french law -- something forbidden by french law. plenty more on the british elections, including hit by the global oil price slump. how workers in scotland want the new government to boost an industry that is slashing costs and jobs. the boxer who lost the fight of the century in las vegas is hit with a lawsuit. the plaintiffs say manny pacquiao should have admitted to having a hurt shoulder before the fight. that and more on the way. host: there is just one day left to go before voting begins in the u.k.. the conservatives and labor are still and neck. prime minister david cameron and ed miliband are making a last-ditch for votes today. many brits are unimpressed with how the parties have run their campaigns. she joins us now from london. the latest polls are showin

jim: peter arnett is a special correspondent for ap. and he has been there whenever anything was happening in vietnam. and he just came out also with the group of newsmen this past weekend. jack: both of you gentlemen, what are the immediate problems that that country faces now under its new government? peter: well, money is a major one. people just don't have money anymore. the banks have been closed since the takeover. jack: the south vietnamese currency is still valid? peter: yes. jack: the piaster. peter: it's an interesting situation which i never thought i would see in 30 years. but the south vietnamese currency, the pisater, is more valuable than the american dollar. in the streets of saigon, there are citizens the businessmen they attempt to change their dollars back into piasters at a very good rate. but dollars weren't any good to us either because we could not change them. jack: is there enough food in the city and in the country? peter: there is diminishing food. the authorities from what we can see have started issuing some

peter arnett of the associated press. jim laurie and jack perkins of nbc news. >>> neil davis, who took the pictures we saw is not with us tonight. he is still in saigon, still filming what he is allowed to see. and that is less and less as the new government closes its hand over the country. we've seen the military takeover, but not the political one, which we've heard about, but were unable to photograph. things such as political re-education confiscation of property. the occasional execution of people denounced as thieves or resisters of the new government. the people who are running vietnam now are filled with a sense of national destiny and righteousness which we americans seem to have lost in vietnam. to us all this seems to be the end of something. to them, the 30 years war was a preparation for a beginning of something neither nor south but simply vietnam, their vietnam. i'm john hart. good night for nbc news. can

polls say the ruling conservatives and their labor rivals arnett and neck but smaller parties could tip the balance. a france -- a french court rules taped phone conversations between nicolas sarkozy and his lawyer can be admitted as evidence in court. a coalition deal in israel sealed two hours before the deadline. prime minister benjamin netanyahu lines up the slimmest majority with the backing of the far right.

polls say the ruling conservatives and their labor rivals arnett and neck but smaller parties could tip the balance. a france -- a french court rules taped phone conversations between nicolas sarkozy and his lawyer can be admitted as evidence in court. a coalition deal in israel sealed two hours before the deadline. prime minister benjamin netanyahu lines up the slimmest majority with the backing of the far right. coming up, the troubled french nuclear company areva says it is slashing thousands of jobs to plug the hole in its finances. we will have the details in business. the spanish football season could shut down completely in a battle over tv rights. that and more on the way. ♪ genie: voting is underway in the u.k. in the closest election there in years. polls seem to say no party would come out the clear winner. conservatives and labor seem to be at and neck -- seem to be no and neck. luke brown is covering the vote for us at a polling station. he joins us now. this is such a tight election where every seat counts. luke: you're quite right. at least 40 years in the united kingdom.

general election and the conservatives and labor arnett and neck. hours left for the israeli prime minister to put together a coalition government or face being forced out by a former ally. controversial words from a southern french mayor. he let slip his office -- sump and forbidden by french law -- something forbidden by french law. plenty more on the british elections, including hit by the global oil price

. >> that was a panel of legendary reporters, including bob schieffer, peter arnett and david kennerly. the exhibit will run until september next year. vip to say with vietnam in particular, you hear this idea that the media was in some way an actor, not just an observer. and the stories on that panel and the reporting in there is just -- it's really important to see. and on sunday on "face the nation," bob schieffer is going to take another look back with those panelists and not only peter arnett laura palmer, david kennerly but our only bill plante and will talk also with john mccain. >> could two weeks change the wa >>> american >> american snieter chris was a devoted father. ahead his wife says good-bye to him in a poignant note. that's ahead on "cbs this morning." ♪ to you, they're more than just a pet. so protect them... ...with k9 advantix® ii. it's broad-spectrum protection k ills fleas ticks and mosquitoes too. k9 advantix® ii. for the love of dog™. if your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful aller

three reporters, bernie saw, peter arnette, the management at cnn, tim turner and tom johnson were underessure from colin powell and probably from the president, get those guys out because once the air war starts, we don't know if they're going to be okay. >> but our responsibility is to our worldwide audience and we will stay and we'll cover this war as best we can and we'll report on the war. >> military experts say a night air attack is the likely scenario for start of any fighting. >> >> that night i was at the pentagon. >> i had a chance to see two senior pentagon officials almost running through the hall. >> they can't say when this would begin because that could endanger u.s. troops. >> it was past midnight dagd time and i was walking past the open window and coming down from the sky, the black sky, it looks like silver paper and i knew instantly what it was. it was chafe. radar jamming chafe. >> tonight the battle has been joined. >> and as soon as that chafe started filtering down to the ground. >> all hell broke loose. >> i was walking by the control room and i could hear the c

producers that remained in baghdad in 1991 when three of our reporters, bernie shaw and john and peter arnette and willing to risk their lives literally because the hotel where they were staying, it was in the crosshairs, and the brass and leadership told our leadership at cnn to get those guys out of there because that's not going to be safe and that was one of the targets, and they were willing to take the risks and they stayed behind and we were the only the news organization that stayed behind and covered the war from inside and the whole world was watching. >> what sticks in your mined as the most memorable moment? i want you to talk personally about this. >> the most memorable and powerful and poignant moment for me was on 9/11 when i was here in washington and all of a sudden we saw what was going on in new york and we heard about a plate go into the pentagon, and i was trying to drive downtown from my house and get to the cnn bureau, and i originally wanted to go to new york but there was no way to get to new york and i started understanding the enormity of what was happening and it w

the parallels to today's military conflicts we brought together some veteran vietnam hands peter arnett an award for the associated press his new book is "saigon" has fallen. david kennerly also won a pulitzer for photography while working there for united press international. laura palmer was 22 when she went to vietnam she there was for the fall of saigon and our own bill plante filed many reports for cbs news from there as well. then there was this young reporter who went there for the fort worth star tell gram in 1956, he seems not to have aged at all. welcome to all of you. i'm struck by -- when we think about the length of this war. i went there in 1965, peter you were there before i met you in sigh began. then by the time you got there it was a totally different war. peter, tell me about how the war changed as the years went by. >> well the earlier period when i was in '6 was kennedy administration war. it was an advisors' war and it was conducted basically secretly. we made increasing observations of american military direct involvement with helicopter attacks, aerial bombardmen

peter arnette, bernie shaw and i was at the been. >> you had just started. >> i started a few monthsmay 8th, 1990 saddam hussein and operation desert storm and tv was a whole new world and at that time the whole world literally was watching cnn because we were the only 24/7 cable network and the only one reporting live from baghdad so it was an amazing story that we were covering. and it put cnn on the map. >> and it is incredible how a seemingly ordinary day, not that there is any ordinary day but everything can change in the matter of a seconds, a story comes out of nowhere, a u.s. airways jet down in the hudson and michael jackson dies and the whole network kicks into high gear. >> it is what i love about cnn and i'm sure you love it too. that we have incredible news gathering capabilities here in the united states and around the world. i don't think anyone has the reach that we have around the world, when there is a tsunami in japan, we were all over there. you were there. and it is amazing. any big story that happens and it has been like that for me since i started in 1990 wheth

plus our photographers, our producers who were there, peter arnette, bernie shah john holman.erally risking their lives. i was at the pentagon reporting on what was going on. >> you had just started. >> i started on may 8th 1980 and saddam hussein invaded kuwait a few months later. so tv was a whole new world. and at that time you remember anderson the whole world literally was watching cnn, because we were the only 24/7 cable network. we were the only one reporting live from baghdad. it was really an amazing story that we were covering. and as i said it really put cnn on the map. >> it's also incredible how a seemingly ordinary day, i mean not that there's any ordinary day, but everything can change in a matter of seconds. a story just comes out of nowhere, sometimes. a us airways jet down in the hudson river, a well-known person michael jackson, dying. something happens somewhere in the world, and the whole network kicks into high gear. >> that's really what i love about cnn. i'm sure you love it too. that we have incredible news gathering capabilities. obviously, here in th

. >> reporter: peter arnett, earned a pulitzer prize for his vietnam reporting for the associated press. >> the caravelle hotel is where all the news networks had their offices and we used to come up here. >> reporter: he and other western journalists have come back to a much different ho chi minh city for the 40th anniversary of the fall of what they knew as saigon in 1975. many of these veteran journalists thought the eventual takeover of vietnam was inevitable. after the north vietnamese's tet offensive of 1968 in several key cities closely followed by peace negotiations and the gradual drawdown of american forces starting in 1969. the north vietnamese took over as much as a third of south vietnam during the easter offensive of 1972. >> i see people dying every day before my eyes. >> reporter: nick ut's iconic photograph of a young vietnamese girl accidentally hit with napalm during the north vietnamese invasion of the south marked the beginning of the end of the diminishing public support for the war by many americans. >> right at the beginning, they say that picture went anti-war e

nation," bob schiffer is actually going to take nook look back with those panelists and not only peter arnett chris kyle, devoted husband and water. ahead his widow write as poignant note to herself. >> every time you say good-bye to him, you fear the worst. >> that's i had on "cbs this morning." ♪ to you, they're more than just a pet. so protect them... ...with k9 advantix® ii. it's broad-spectrum protection k ills fleas ticks and mosquitoes too. k9 advantix® ii. for the love of dog™. if your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. muddle no more™ . introducing lunch at outback every bloomin' day! hurry in for all your outback favorites. plus new aussie tacos, new savory ribeye melt and our delicious burgers. over 70 lunch combinations starting at just $6.99. it's lunch at last every day at outback. >>> in our "morning rounds" why juicing and cleansing and fad diets may not be the best way

host: arnett a, democrat line. caller: what i was calling about was the collection of the metadata. way i understand it is that the nsa is collecting telephone numbers, dates and times. there is no other information there. the telephone call can come from anywhere. my granddaughter lives in texas but she still has the same area code on her phone when she was living in missouri. you don't really know where the call is coming in from. i thought that if someone they had targeted -- they wanted to find out if they were connected with america, they would then come to nsa and ask them to run a query and they would have to go and get an authorization to further follow that number. guest: i'm not sure i understand the russian. -- i am not sure i understand the question. metadata is all the information about the telephone call other than the content. it can be invasive of legitimate privacy and that collection has to be restricted. under the existing program, you get one warrant to verizon or at&t and that warrant says give us all the phone calls made in the united date on your system for th

of cnn, and tom johnson was the president of the cnn, and they were getting those reports, peter arnett staying was a target for the u.s. air strike. we really stayed behind and had a fore wire which was a communication device that awill youed them to report live on the first night of the war, and i was reporting from the pentagon. like so many other people millions hundreds of millions of people i was so worried that these journalists at cnn in baghdad were going to be killed and thank god they got out okay and did an amazing job of what was going on. >> you were just recalling some of the stories we covered at cnn, and i am taking back when i was a kid and watching some of the things playing out, and faces have changed and we are new faces to the network, and breaking news has been the bread and butter for the 25 years you have been here and for the 35 years cnn has been around. >> yeah it's true. when there is a huge breaking news story, whether it's the first gulf war or what happened in boston at the boston marathon and what happened on 9/11, and cnn is there and will go nonstop, a