and in a state with high unemployment, ben tracy on why there are thousands of jobs with no workers to fill them. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting from seattle. >> pelley: good evening. from the emerald city. at a time when there is so much anger in the streets of america over wall street greed and corporate corruption, we begin tonight with one of the biggest wall street insider trading cases ever. at a time when many americans were losing their 401(k)s, prosecutors say rajat gupta was leaking secret corporate information to a hedge fund tycoon so that that tycoon's fund wouldn't suffer the same fate. gupta was in a perfect position to do that inside the board rooms of some of the country's biggest corporations. the result, prosecutors say, was that the hedge fund made millions while ordinary americans got soaked. justice correspondent bob orr has our story. >> reporter: as a board member for proctor & gamble, and goldman sachs, rajat gupta regularly heard sensitive corporate secrets, capable of moving stocks up or down, but federa

ben tracy looks at the impact in california. and the comeback cardinals cap their miracle season with their 11th world series championship. mark strassmann talks to the series mvp, and his mom. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. l: aitchell: and good evening. aay, the calendar may say that it's still only october, but up middle the east coast today, y ac a look outside your window, ningit might convince you that it is the middle of winter. trav an early snowstorm is blasting out in across the region this itning, downing power lines, and snarling air and ground travel for thousands. noine quijano has been out in the thick of it. >> reporter: fall fell away quickly today in the northeast. in its place: an unwelcome, storming dose of winter. t> this is crazy. this is absolutely crazy. and it's so wet. it's just-- and it's not stopping. >> reporter: 12 states at one point were under a winter storm warning, stretching from west torm nia all the way to maine. >> this is a once-in-a-50-year r

ben tracy on operation hackerazzi, the f.b.i. arrests a man accused of hacking into the personnel e-mail accounts of hollywood celebrities. and dewey bozella wouldn't let a terrible injustice defeat him. now he's fighting for his dream. >> don't let nobody tell you what you can do, and that's what i'm doing. i'm letting my dream come to reality. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama slapped new sanctions on iran today, and the white house said there could be more to come. all of that in response to that alleged plot to assassination saudi arabia's ambassador to the united states. the administration is consulting with allies all around the world. u.s. officials insist that the iranian government was behind the plot. norah o'donnell is at the white house with the latest. norah. >> reporter: scott, tonight, secretary of state hillary clinton said iran must be held accountable for what she called a reckless act that the u.s. will not tolerate. >> this pl

people are-- people will go out of business. >> reporter: ben tracy, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: as the frost came to washington state, so did the snow to colorado. a foot or more across much of the state. the snow snapped trees and knocked out power to more than 100,000 homes and businesses. a hard lesson for students about the cost of college when we come back. shipping starts at just $4.95, only from the postal service. >> pelley: an executive order from president obama could help millions pay off their student loans. he announced it today at the university of colorado denver. his plan will let borrowers consolidate their debt into a single government loan at a lower rate. but student debt in this country is approaching $1 trillion, and today the college board reported tuition and fees at public colleges rose by more than $600 this year. we asked dean reynolds to look into that. >> reporter: it would be nice if katrina manalac, a senior at the university of illinois at chicago, could just concentrate on her studies. >> what is this? >> reporter: but there's something else on h

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> pelley: this was a tough day for millions of smart phone customersll around the world. their blackberrys were blacked out. the parent company, research in motion, says it started way technical glitch in europe that quickly spread. the problem has been fixed but it's taking some time to clear up the backlog of e-mails and messages. with millions out of work, this man has been able to turn job offers away. why employers are begging to hire more just like him coming next. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven low-dose tablet you take every day so you can be ready anytime the moment's right, even if it's not every day. [ man ] tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medications and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sexual activity. don't take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, as this may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. [ man ] do not drink alcohol in excess with cialis. side effects may

ben tracy reports. >> reporter: it's the height of the harvest in washington's apple orchards and growergainst time. >> we are just running out of days. >> reporter: he needs to clear his 240 acres of apples before the first freeze. he usually has 80 pickers. this year, he could barely find 60. >> once they are frozen, that quality goes downhill fast and after a couple of days, you're done. >> reporter: help wanted signs are planted up and down the wenatchee valley, nicknamed the apple capital of the world. right now this state desperately needs more than 10,000 apple pickers so where are all of the workers? a lot of growers are convinced all the talk about illegal immigration in washington, d.c. has scared away the apple pickers here in washington state. most of the pickers here are migrant workers. an estimated 66,000 are here illegally. that is about 72% of all farmhands statewide. >> whether they are legal or illegal, they are not traveling. >> reporter: alfonso garcia has a green card. he has worked these orchards for 24 years. >> and this last year, they deport more and arrest more

ben tracy brought us a story today that shows that sometimes the unemployed just can't win. it turns out the bad credit rating that often comes with unemployment can keep folks from landing a new job. >> reporter: mark manzo never thought he'd struggle to provide for his two daughters. >> we weren't rich but we were comfortable. we had a house, we paid all our bills on time. i had excellent credit. >> reporter: he and his wife kristen were making $96,000 a year. but last year the stalled economy forced manzo to shut down his car rental business near los angeles. without a paycheck, he can't pay the bills. the bank foreclosed on the family's condominium. what's it like to be back here now? >> it's a little sad. >> reporter: their credit is now wrecked. >> as a man, i feel like... i feel really bad, honestly. i feel like i can't provide for my kids. i can't seem to find a job. >> reporter: manzo says his damaged credit is why he's been rejected eight times for recent jobs. >> they sent me a letter stating that because of information on my credit report, i was not being conside

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> murray's lawyers said this week they will not call him to testifyn his own behalf. >>> eastern turkey now this morning. another miracle rescue. a 13-year-old boy was pulled alive from a collapsed building five days after sunday's powerful earthquake. the death toll from that quake now at 570. >>> early this morning, nasa launched the first in a just nwn earth observation satellites. the satellite will test instruments to measure environmental data and improve weather forecasts. >>> here on earth, a very rare early snowfall in texas. parts of the panhandle got as much as 4 inches yesterday. it's been 41 years since that area got that much snow so early. forecasters say it will melt quickly as temperatures rise today. >>> parts of the northeast saw their first snow of the season yesterday. about an inch fell in albany new york and in parts of connecticut more snow on the way this weekend. they were ready in worcester, massachusetts, with salt trucks and snow plows clearing the roads. i am not ready for know yet! >>> this morning, new safety concerns f

we asked ben tracy to look into this. >> reporter: where do most of these animals come from? >> predominantly they were somebody's pet. >> reporter: martine colette runs the wildlife way station, a sanctuary outside los angeles for nearly 500 animals, everything from chimps to alligators to tigers were once in people's homes or backyards. >> it may be a wonderful thing for an individual to have them as a pet, but it's a miserable life for an individual animal. it's not who it's supposed to be. >> reporter: they end up here when most owners inevitably realize they are not like other pets. >> it is not a dog. it will never be a dog. you can love it like you love your dog, but a tiger is a tiger. and a lion is a lion. >> reporter: the problem is that's getting exotic pets is all too easy. >> how much they going for? >> reporter: they are sold at animal auctions like this one caught on hidden camera in alabama. and also in the classifieds of animal magazines. $8,000 for a baby tiger, $30,000 for a snow tiger. 28 states ban ownership of the most dangerous exotic petses-- lion, tig

ben tracy has that story. >> reporter: his alleged victims are a who's who of film and music, includingscarlett johansson and mila kunis as well as christina aguilera. the arrest of christopher chaney in florida comes after 11-month investigation dubbed operation, hack a razzi. investigators say during a three-month span, chaney took control of the forwarding feature so that a copy of every e-mail was sent virtually instantaneously to his e-mail account. >> using these methods, chaney stole not only private and personal photographs of the victims, he also took financial information, movie scripts, and conversations that the victims believed to be private. >> reporter: chaney is charged with 26 counts, including identity theft and wire-tapping. authorities say he offered some of what he stole to celebrity blog sites and some of it was published, including nude photos of scarlett johansson that appeared online earlier this year. but they say chaney was not trying to make money. >> there was no money to be had here. these are high profile people that are put on a pedestal in our society an

cbs news correspondent ben tracy reports. >> reporter: in concert rehearsals just days before he died, michael jackson could still put on a show. but in court thursday -- >> stiff doses. they were above average doses. >> reporter: addiction specialist dr. robert waldman testified that jackson all too often relied on the pain killer demeral. >> i believe there was evidence that he was dependent upon demeral. >> what about addicted? >> possibly. >> reporter: jackson was consistently given demeral by dr. arnold klein, the beverly hills dermatologist who gave the singer regular botox injections. >> he used extensive, large doses of demeral all through april, all through early may and again at the end of may. >> reporter: the defense seems to be arguing that jackson's withdrawal from demeral caused insomnia which led to propofol. dr. murray admits to giving jackson the drug in his bedroom to help him sleep, but says jackson administered the fatal dose himself. >> if murray administered the doses that he described, i would not have expected michael jackson to have died. >> reporter: on cros

ben tracy, cbs news, los angel angeles. >> pelley: mark manzo tells us he's tried a new strategy. in his last interview, he brought up the credit problem and explained it and that worked. he told us today that he got a job. something sounded familiar in last night's world series game. we'll tell you about it next. it's even clinically proven to help reverse it in just 4 weeks. crest pro-health clinical gum protection. ♪ [ female announcer ] mini™ meets berries. kellogg's® frosted mini-wheats cereal with a touch of fruit in the middle. helloooooo fruit in the middle. you know what else is early? medicare open enrollment. now through december 7th. can i stick with my old medicare plan? sure! or find a new plan with better coverage, less cost, or both. medicare plans give you free cancer screenings and wellness visits and 50% off on brand-name prescriptions when you're in the doughnut hole. it's part of the healthcare law. so it's time to look, compare... and choose the right plan for you. >> pelley: we were arguing in the newsroom today about whether last night's world series game w

ben tracy reports from the courthouse in los angeles. >> you keep throwing out these kind of rehearsed lines. >> reporter: prosecutor david walgren aggressively cross-examined the star witness for the defense, anesthesiologist paul white previously testified that michael jackson injected himself with the fatal dose of the sedative propofol, although today he conceded that dr. conrad murray's in-home treatment of jackson violated medical standards. >> have you ever administered propofol in someone's bedroom. >> no, i have not. >> reporter: have you ever heard of anyone doing that prior to this case? >> no, i have not. >> reporter: dr. white was grilled on murray's lack of monitoring equipment and that dr. murray did not immediately call 911 when he found michael jackson unresponsive. >> are you saying he was not capable of pushing 911? >> reporter: murray also did not tell emergency personnel about the propofol. >> is that your testimony, that it was a detail that was overlookd? >> it was obviously overlooked, he didn't... >> not obviously. it could also be a lie, correct? >> correct. >

its moment is is now as ben tracy will show us. >> we worked hard. we still to come have a lot of the same work ethic. >> reporter: charles kelly and dave heyward tried writing songs on their own. >> carp diem is on vacation. we're really bad. >> ♪ i'm all alone and i need you now ♪ >> reporter: but then they met a girl. >> the first time i was really incredibly proud of the song was the first song we ever wrote. >> y'all just needed a lady. >> reporter: why three? lady antebellum later on sunday morning. >> osgood: the duke is the unofficial title by which movie fans remember one of hollywood's most ruggeded stars john wayne. with john blackstone's help this morning we'll remember him too. >> what's going on, debbie? >> reporter: john wayne was more than an actor. he became a national symbol of strength and courage. >> the green beret. >> reporter: now john wayne's family is sharing some keepsakes and some memories. >> life with him was at least for me was an adventure. >> reporter: he was all american from his boots to his hats. and we'll take off

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> and joining us this morning is jean casarez, a correspondent forshe has been in the courtroom every day of dr. murray's trial. good to have you back with us this morning. taking a look at that medical examiner's testimony, what does that do to the defense? >> well, the defense actually made a lot of points on cross-examination. now, this was a very important witness of the prosecution. he was very strong for the prosecution, because the medical examiner of los angeles county testified that michael jackson died because of acute propofol intoxicati intoxication. it was all throughout his body. the death at the hands of another. the reason he came to these conclusions was because conrad murray admitted he had given michael jackson propofol and other sedatives to put him to sleep and propofol should never be used for insomnia and not a monitoring device in the bedroom. he said he didn't know how much conrad murray could have known what he had given him because he didn't have the device to adequate measure the propofol. too much going in and then he die

ben tracy on operation hackerazzi, the f.b.i. accused of hacking into the personnel e-mail accounts of hollywood celebrities. and dewey bozella wouldn't let a terrible injustice defeat him. now he's fighting for his dream. >> don't let nobody tell you what you can do, and that's what i'm doing. i'm letting my dream come to reality. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama slapped new sanctions on iran today, and the white house said there could be more to come. all of that in response to that alleged plot to assassinati

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> still to come on "the early show," the situation comedy is backthere had been a little break from the laughs for a while. we will take a look 3q you disgust me. prove it. enough's enough. d-con baits are specially formulated to kill in one feeding, guaranteed. d-con. get out. ♪ >>> less an decade ago, the sitcom wasn't looking so hot for the networks. even critics declared tv comedy dead. >> always good for a laugh. >> i know! >> cbs correspondent mo rocca, funny is making a very big examineback. >> i guess now is as good a time as any. [ screaming ] >> reporter: "two and a half men" kicked of hits ashton kutcher. the rating are still up 44%. >> yum, yum, yum! like this. look. >> reporter: emmy winning best winning "family" is up 25%. >> drop it. >> in its seventh season, "how i met your mother" has risen 19%. >> because i got to know. >> ready to order? >> i'd like a seven-day course of penicillin and syrup to induce vomiting and a mint. >> i didn't understand. >> he drank from leonard's glass easement words they will be carving into my tombstone

cbs news correspondents ben tracy reports. >> 1-2-3 go!tire, barry manilow shows no signs of slowing down. ♪ >> reporter: he sold 80 million albums and performs hundreds of concerts a year to sold-out crowds but 15 years ago, he suffered an episode that changed his life. >> i was driving home. and my -- i felt my heart skip a beat. your heart is skipping a beat, doesn't sound like it's anything serious so i didn't pay much attention to it. then it went like this. and it got crazier and crazier. it felt like there was a fish flopping around in my chest. i was like this! i called my doctor and i said, what is this? he said come on in. and he knew exactly what it was. it was atrial fibrillation. i think it did scare me half a death because any time a doctor tells you that your heart, you know, really, my heart? something wrong with my heart? but he said not to worry about it, it's really good that you called us because that's what you got to do. >> reporter: it occurs when the upper chambers of the heart beat faster than the lower chambers an

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> joining us is j.or 40 years. he has a new book "the magic, the madness, the whole story." you knew michael for almost 40 years. what is your reaction when you hear him in this condition on these recordings? >> it's devastating. i think anybody who knew michael jackson and cared about michael, this is absolutely devastating. i guess there will always be unanswered questions about michael jackson's life and times, but what we now know from this tape is that he really was a man who was tormented by a childhood that, you know, he felt he never had. you know, we have seen this in a lot of celebrities over the years, fame corrupts and it ruins a child's sense of self, but never more so, i think, than in the case of michael jackson and also what strikes me, chris, is that while many people over the years may have felt that michael was exaggerating this narrative of a lost childhood for maybe the purposes of publicity or career advancement, i think that we see now that even in this highly intoxicated state, i

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> chaney is free on $10,000 bail. from computers and stay offline. how about that? >> that will be interesting claim there >>> here is jeff glor at the news desk with a check of today's other headlines for us. >> i ask why do you even keep the pictures on your phone? not that the hacking is okay in the first place. >> maybe it will change now. thank you for making sure, jeffrey. >>> good morning, everyone at home. >>> the man behind a horrendous shooting rampage may be targeting his wife. eight people were killed there. dekraai was wearing body armor when arrested half a mile away. witnesses say he is the ex-husband of a salon employee. >>> the so-called underwear bomber abdulmutallab pled guilty yesterday. he told the judge yesterday he tried to blow up a jetliner on christmas day in 2009 as revenge for the deaths of muslims worldwide. >>> the resort island of bali was struck by an earthquake this morning. you can see people running out into the streets. a magnitude 6.1 quake centered 60 miles southwest of the island

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> joining us now is jean casarez who is kolvcovering the jackson trial on true tv. do you think the prosecution proved their case? >> prosecution did a great job. head so much would work with and going toward the extreme deviation of the standard of care. when you look at that bedroom and you look what was done and what was not done in administering padminister ing propofol. it is who caused michael jackson's death. if the jury believes that jackson swallowed lorazepam pills they cannot convict conrad murray. >> what does the defense team need to do or what should they do, do you think? >> they have focus in on michael jackson. i don't think they have to absolutely make a mockery of his life, but they have to show the person he was, that he was so uptight, he was paranoid. he wasn't making rehearsals. he wasn't well. he was absolutely scared to death to go on the road for this big concert tour because of that. he needed to sleep. he would do anything to sleep. a lot of the jurors have family members that addicted to alcohol and drugs. they have got to sh

ben tracy has the story. >> that man sitting there is the best doctor i've ever seen. >> one by one, five of comrade murray's former patients came to his defense. >> i'm alive today because of that man. >> i have never had a doctor that was more caring. >> reporter: murray was moved to tears wednesday as his grateful patients took the stand as character witnesses. >> he's a great guy. >> reporter: they say that dr. murray they knew from his time as a houston cardiologist was diligent, kind and not out for money. >> you did not see a sign when you walked in that said pay at the time services rendered. >> reporter: for three weeks prosecutors argued that murray was in it for the murray and in way over his head. they say he gave michael jackson what he wanted. the powerful anesthetic propofol to help him sing. turning the singer's bedroom into a pseudo hospital room. >> it's been four weeks where he's been battered where the prosecution has accused him of being incompetent, uncaring, unforgiving in terms of his quality of care. these witnesses hope to humanize conrad murray but i don't

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> joining us now is "early show" contributor jen goldstein. this is the way of the future. this is how kids are learning. kindergartners are getting ipads instead of laptops. >> wait. instead of lap tops? before they were getting lap p tops? >> it's old school. they're providing kids with laptops, now they're providing ipads. it's how they're learning. with anything, they need balance. this is what kids are learning how to practice on. >> do we get worried? we both ask that question a lot when we see the kids -- >> it's bad if it becomes a replacement for your parenting, as a parent. if you're like, just stop and hand them a gadget. >> it's just like tv really. >> it's just like tv. the fact is that kids are learning. there's so many applications on these devices that kids can learn from. they can do math, learn their colors, learn their shapes. it doesn't take the place of, as we heard in that piece, going outside and playing, having face to face interaction. etiquette, you need to learn how to talk to someone. what a great supplement. you ca

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ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> joining us now is jean casarez, a correspondent for in sessionry day of the jackson trial and is in our studios this morning. >> good morning. >> the prosecution has done a fantastic job of painting dr. murray as this very selfish incompetent person. but that is not the same as proving he is guilty of manslaughter, right? >> it's one of the elements. i mean, a gross deviation of care, everything that dr. conrad murray did do antididn't do, obviously, goes into it and i think, in a sense, the defense has to concede some of that but at the heart and soul of this case is who caused the death of michael jackson. the coroner's office didn't test the stomach contents of michael jackson. they had all of the liquid but they didn't test it. the defense did and they did it just recently. what they found was lorazepam, which is a sedative and puts you to sleep and it was four times the concentration in the stomach as everywhere else in the body. so that is going to be a major point for the defense here. >> so then are you surprised that the defense hasn't d

ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> joining us now is early show contributor dr. morning. >> good morning. >> what do with make of all this? >> the is the way kids are learning. kindergartners are getting ipads in their schools instead of laptops. >> wait, instead of laptops? >> schools provide laptops for kids. they're starting with laptops you now. it's like with anything, they need some balance. this is what kids are learning how to practice on. >> is it bad? >> we get worried. we both ask that question a lot when we see the kids. >> it's bad if it becomes a replacement for your parenting as a parent. if you're like, just stop, and you hand them a gadget. >> it's juk like tv. >> it's just like tv. but the fact is, kids are learning. there's so many applications on these devices kids can learn from. there's so much that it's not bad. it doesn't take the place of, as we heard in that piece, going outside and playing, having a face-to-face interaction. etiquette, you need to know how to talk to someone. so it doesn't take the place, but what a great supplement. th

. >> reporter: ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >>> more about a fib, doctor, good to have you with the dangers of a fib. >> the top concern is a stroke. because atrial fibrillation causes blood to move through the heart more slowly, it's liable to clot. a clot can move to the brain and cause a stroke. other concerns would be heart failure because it causes the heart to work harder. the key with all of this is to get diagnosed early before any of these things become a concern. >> diagnosed, you can treat it. his treatment he uses, is that sort of the standard or different with each person. >> he described shock shock, described it as paddles. that's called an electrocardio version, where they use a defibrillator to shock the heart back to normal rhythm. there are other treatments, medication, surgery, even an implantable pacemaker or atrial defibrillator is also used. many people just live with their atrial did he fibrillation while taking blood thinners perfectly well. >> symptoms he talked about, are they normal or does it vary? >> no, he described it spot on. heart palpations are