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bill plante is with the president at a western hemisphere summit. dangerous storms-- millions of people across the heart land brace for a night of possible life-threatening tornadoes. dean reynolds is there with the latest. abuse behind bars-- ben tracy details the charges of brutal mistreatment inside america's largest county jail. and the bookkeeper. john blackstone takes us to meet the internet entrepreneur of every book ever published. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. a scandal may be brewinged in the u.s. secret service. several agents were recalled there colombia where they were part of an advance team preparing for president obama's arrival for a weekend summit there. senior white house correspondent bill plante is live in cartagena with allegations of misconduct, include prostitution. bill, good evening. >> reporter: jim, good evening. it's an exwargs incident which has distracted from the president's participation in the 33-nation summit of the americas. 11 or 12 members

in colombia bill plante has the latest on its investigation into misconduct involving secret service agents and prostitutes. and change-up, 65 years after jackie robinson broke the color barrier, tony guida tells us the face of baseball is changing, dramatically. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, i'm jeff glor. it was only the second time in history the storm prediction center issued a high risk warning more than 24 hours in advance. all eyes were on the plains this weekend as conditions were unusually ripe for tornado outbreak. through last night, at least 122 tornadoes formed, one of them hit the small town of woodward, oklahoma, killing at least five. that is where dean reynolds is tonight. dean, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jeff. well, the storm system is still playing itself out across the nation's midsection at this hour. and this town provides a good reason to remain alert. because the weather that hit woodward was both fickle and powerful, leaving most neighborhoods untouched but others in complete ruin. in the minu

. >> bill plante has the answer. >> reporter: the size keeps expanding. it now include 24/secret service and military personnel, but the white house says it has now conducted its own probe and it's department up in of its own staffers were involved. >> simply out of due diligence over the last several days that review was conducted and it produced no indication of any misconduct. >> reporter: the white house monday announced the results of an internal investigation led by the council's office which came ahmed calls by some lawmakers from the executive branch from its people in colombia. >> there are no, to my knowledge, credible or specific allegations of misconduct by any of the white house advance team or white house staff. >> reporter: but one senator argued that the in-house review may not be enough. >> i think it would sub stan chat what they're trying to say and give great credibility to it if we knew it was going to be reviewed by somebody outside the white house. >> reporter: on monday another member of the military was implicated in the incident,

bill plant. thank you for calling in. some reflection. >> good morning, howie. >> some reflection on mike wallace. >> sorry to hear about this. it's a loss for cbs and for the industry. >> what -- when you think about mike's career, what do you think about, bill is this. >> the first time i heard mike on the radio was when i was a kid, and he was doing a show from the nightclub in chicago with his then wife. when i came to cbs, he was doing no the morning news show. he was a tough interviewer, one of his big interviews on his show from parliament with a mob boss whose name i can't remember. and mike was so tough on this guy that everybody thought that mike was going to -- >> was he kind of an inspirational figure for those who worked with those that are younger for cbs? >> there was nobody that did better interviews or tougher interviews than mike. he was also a very tough colleague. he would ask you questions about your work, and sort of demand to know what you were doing, why and where you got the stuff and whether ther

. >> hats off to bill plant who took on jay carney over what the president had to say.et me play that. >> obviously, he talked about the courts not being in a position to overturn -- >> he made a mistake and you can't admit it. >> he is acknowledging. you are sharing in the right out indignation here. >> jon: the president made a mistake. is that possible? >> yes, it is. this is a guy that doesn't mince words. that the larger point. i think the media coverage, it's like the drama of all this. again we miss the fact. the fact and constitutional law professor, he understand marbury versus madison and the media hasn't done a good job that republicans who now have their hair on fire about this have made the exact same comments about judicial activism. yes, they have. >> you are misinterpreting what judicial ago virtually really is. >> this is an existing narrative remember 2010 state of the union address we have unreal spectacle egging on the legislative branch to the judicial branch as they sat right there. so the question should be, after all of these decades of the left

. >> meanwhile as bill plante reports from the white house, there are new questions about u.s. troops connected to the sex scandal. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and good morning in the west. the incident in colombia involved members of the u.s. military as well as of the secret service. while one group of senators questioned the head of the department of homeland security, others are in a briefing from the military and they're not happy. >> it's a waste of time because they had no information. >> reporter: pentagon officials briefed senators on wednesday on the status of a dozen members of the u.s. military implicated in the same partying and prostitution incident which involved members of the secret service. >> i expressed my extreme dissatisfaction with the lack of any concrete information that was provided to us from a national security standpoint. >> reporter: the troops from the army, navy, marine corps and air force including five special forces were working in colombia in advance of the president's trip. secretary panetta said they had security clearance

>> you know it's pretty good, charlie, when bill plante makes jimmy kimmel's unintentional joke.ation. we have sensitive things here, too, this morning. welcome back to "cbs this morning. i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose. kip hawley says for most travelers flying is an unending nightmare. he blames tsa security measures including those put into place when he was head of that agency. >> now he's written a highly critical book "permanent emergency." john miller is a top fbi official and now he's a member of our team and kip hawley, tsa administrator. each the title of the book "permanent emergency" was unsettling to me. one of the things that stuck out to me is we need to forget about no more banned items, and just allow liquids and that seems to go against everything that have been taught over the last nine, ten years. >> we ran so fast to put in measures to stop future attacks that we kept moving and never pulled out the old measures and what i'm saying is the old measures that worked well in 2001 and 2002 have been well protected and we no longer need to prohibit those things

i'm bill plante. there were not many things to laugh about in the last days of saigon and south vietnam. we were concerned about getting the people who had worked with us over the years out of the country as kevin delany told you, and in large measure we did. there were, however, a few light moments. deadline pressures did not loosen up at the very end. and the last battle that the south vietnamese army fought was in a place called swan lock not too far outside saigon. some of us had gone down there every day because, to tell the truth, there was nothing else to do. the only other thing to do was to go and cover the lines of thousands of people outside the u.s. embassy hoping for visas to come to this country and that was even more of a downer than the battle, let me tell you. so we want to swan lock and we went as far as we could until the fire fight made us go back. some of our colleagues rushed up one day in a jeep. they were on deadline and they wanted us to understand that. they said what's going

about those particular days, a last group of witness correspondents, kevin delaney, george esper, bill planteron nessen, will you join us please? ♪ >> hi, i'm kevin delaney. you better hold that slide for just a moment, if you would. what does it tell us, anyway? yet another irishman out of control. and i think that -- the saigon police -- we better pity them at this point. the fact is that they didn't want us to go into that hotel, neither richard pyle or any of the other standing there with us. the vietcong, so-called virks etcong peace negotiators had just been housed there in saigon for the first time. i want to formally thank richard pyle for his terrific moral support on this occasion and i couldn't have been manhandled properly without him, so i want to thank him. i hope you'll catch those sideburns, by the way. eat your heart out, brady anderson. i'm also thankful that both pyl and myself are both very politically correct in our tailored men's correspondent uniforms of that day. i was not a correspondent at that time. i was a bureau chief and our job was to send correspondents and cam

white house correspondent bill plant has the story. >> reporter: for the president who is focusing on trade, energy and security at the summit of the americas, it was a very unwelcome distraction. 11 secret service member were sent home from colombia for misconduct prior to the president's arrival. they had been placed on administrative leave while the incident is being investigated. the 11 were members of an advanced logistics team staying here at the hotel carib. at least one of them got into an argument with a prostitute over money which led to a noisy altercation at the hotel. the inteer team was ordered out of the country and immediately replaced. the white house was informed of the incident on thursday but spokesman jay carney insists that it has not distracted the president. >> he's here engaging in the business that he came here to do. >> reporter: five members of the u.s. military have also been disciplined in the incident. officials stress that no member of the elite presidential protection unit was involved. for sunday morning, this is bill plante in colombia. >> osgood: th

>> bill plante at the white house. thank you. >>> with us, daniel bongino, a former secret service agent. he's now the republican candidate for the united states senate in maryland. welcome. >> thank you. >> so what do former agents and you who know some of these people think about this? what is your assessment? >> where do we start? disgust, embarrassment. this is a very small fraternity of secret service agents, former and active. very small agency. the fbi has 30,000 agents. we have roughly 3,000, 4,000. in 150 years this is probably the most embarrassing episode we've had to suffer through. >> as charlie mentioned, you know some of these people. >> oh, yeah. >> have you spoken to them? >> yeah. >> have they given you any more information as to what they were thinging? >> yeah. unfortunately they weren't thinking. it was an awful decision. the only thing we can take from this is nobody, i mean nobody is trying to paint this with any kind of -- put lipstick on it at all. they're saying, embarrassing, disgusting, apol

bill plante is at the white house. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning erica and good morning in the west. the results of the lie detector test they gave to secret service members involved in the incident should be available today. those results are expected to put into motion the steps required to fire at least some of them. the inquiry into the secret service prostitution scandal is moving quickly on two tracks. government investigators are interviewing employees at the hotel where the scandal unfolded. they identified all of the women who partied with the 11 secret service agents and ten members of the u.s. military. the woman who started it all, a 24-year-old escort, is featured in new york post and new york daily news. she reportedly told investigators she was offered only $30 for her services instead of the 800 she was promised. in washington there are expectations of change. >> i would not be surprised if additional resignations came within the week. >> reporter: cbs news learned the names of the two su

bill plante is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning and good morning in the west as the secret service works to clean up the scandal in colombia, it's got more reports of misbehavior by agents on assignment overseas. the dispute over payment to a prostitute in cartagena, colombia, triggered charges of hard partying around the globe. a cbs affiliate reported on thursday that secret service agents visited the strip club in el salvador in advance of president obama's trip there in march 2011. >> we're here trying to track down some things about president obama's visit last year. >> reporter: the secret service is looking into that report and some others. including accusations that secret service personnel traveling with former president clinton partied at strip clubs on a visit to baneas aires and secret service agent and white house staffers went to a moscow nightclub known for sexually charged atmosphere prior to the trip in 2000. new allegations come soon after a hearing on wednesday in which sen

bill plante is at the white house with more. >> reporter: good morning in the west.hat's why the ability to mention something like the killing of bin laden in a campaign is an example of the power of incumbentsy. an issue only the president is in a position to use. when president obama announced the death of osama bin laden nearly a year ago, he called it a moment for national unity. >> today's achieve is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the american people. >> one year ago later they are using the bin laden mission as a point of contrast to his likely opponent mitt romney. >> osama bin laden no longer walks on this planet today because of that brave decision and the brave actions by the men and women in our military and, quite frankly, mitt romney said it was a foolish thing to do a few years ago. >> reporter: that comes after the friday release of a web video featuring former president clinton in which the campaign asks whether romney would have made the same call. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path and the one tha

>> bill plante at the without. with us a former secret service agent on the president protection detail, now the republican candidate for the united states senate in maryland. welcome. >> thank you. what do former agents and you who know some of these people think about this? what is your assessment? >> where do we start? disgust, embarrassment. it's a very small fromaternity secret service agents. the fbi has 30,000 agents, we have roughly 3,000, 4,000. in 150 years, this is probably the most embarrassing episode we've had to suffer through. >> you know some these people directly involved. you have spoken to them? have they given you any more information about what they were thinking >> yeah. unfortunately they weren't thinking. it was an awful decision. the only thing we can take from this is nobody, and i mean nobody is trying to paint this with any kind of -- put lipstick on this at all. they're all saying embarrassing, disgusted, embarrassed the president, we let the boss down, which as general dempsey said is

>> bill plante, thanks. there's new fallout over britain's phone hacking scandal. james murdoch confirmed he would step down as chairman of bskyb. he faces heavy criticism over his handling of the hacking scandal. >>> turning to last night's big game. kentucky basketball fans celebrated their victory over kansas things did turn violent. after the win thousands took to the streets near the campus in lexington, kentucky. one man was shot. dozens arrested overnight. police say an argument led to the shooting. the victim is in serious condition this morning. and police are looking for that gunman. >> we still do not know who won the record megamillion jackpot but around baltimore people cannot stop talking about the woman who said she won. this morning lottery officials suspect her story may be a hoax. >> reporter: mirlande wilson's claim to a piece of the megamillions jackpot has brought more scrutiny than currency. >> i don't know what's going on. >> reporter: the single mother of seven told the new york post that she won the megamillions lottery but has since clamme

this is from cbs this morning where senior white house correspondent bill plant unwittingly provided our unintentional joke of the day. >> this morning there's word of another agent who has taken a prostitute to a sensitive location. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: where are they going? the nba playoffs are almost here. lakers won over thunder last night. [cheers and applause ] as you probably know, they have a player named metta world peace. his name used to be ron artest, but he changed it to spread his message of pass vimp around the planet. unfortunately world peace came to an end yesterday when metta was ejected from the game after delivering an elbow to the head of thunder guard james harden right after a dunk. for some reason, he pounds his chest and then clears him out. world peace with the elbow to the head. [ laughter ] maybe world peace was too lofty a goal. maybe it should have been metta recycle your aluminum cans or something. i'm not sure why that happened. i'm not sure why james harden has his hair cut like mr. t. on the a team they had to knock him out to get him on a plane.

bill plant reports for wjz from the white house. >> it just gets more troubling. >> reporter: five nights before the president's arrival a 12th secret service official who was not previously under investigation brought a prostitute to the hilton hotel. the hotel where the president later stayed. the officials implicated isn't the scandal stayed here. there are now 6fbi officials that have left their jobs. four have chosen to resign, the other two or supervisor, david cheney have retired. dave stokes has been fired but has a chance to appeal. >> the key thing here is not that they were prostitutes. the fact that foreign nationals were brought back into a secure area on the eve of the trip of the president of the united states goes against everything that the secret service stands for. >> reporter: lieberman who has oversite of the secret service are asking the white house to make sure no administration council are involved. >> i would say they ought to be launching their own internal review of all white house personnel. >> reporter: but for some on capitol hill, questions remain about a cu

as bill plante reports from the white house the scandal doesn't seem to be going anywhere. >> reporterod morning in the west. as this investigation enters its second week, six of the 12 agents implicated in the scandal have been resigned or fired and yet another word of another agent taking a prostitute to a sensitive location. >> it just gets more troubling. >> reporter: five nights before the president's arrival a 12th secret service official who was not previously under investigation, brought a prostitute to the hilton hotel where the president later stayed. white house staff and the press and other 21 secret service officials and members of the military implicated in the scandal stayed here at this hotel caribe. six secret service personnel have now left their jobs in the wake of the incident. four have chosen to resign and other two are supervisors, david cheney has retired and greg stokes has been fired but has a chance to appeal. >> the key here is not that they were prostitutes. the fact that foreign nationals were brought back into a security area on the eve of the trip of the

bill plante is in washington with more on that this morning.d morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. that's right, three more secret service agents have now resigned in the wake of that prostitution scandal in cartagena, colombia, last weekend. an additional agent is under investigation and one more has been cleared of serious misconduct. these latest departures after several days of lie detector tests and interviews followed the dismissal earlier in the week of two supervisors. david cheney, was a member of sarah palin's protective detail during the 2008 campaign. greg stokes was dismissed but has the option to appeal. a third agent resigned. agency officials briefed lawmakers on capitol hill friday as investigators in cartagena continued their attempt to contact all of the women who came to the hotel caribe last week before the president's arrival in colombia. new york post and new york daily news have identified this woman as the one whose dispute over payment ignited the incident. neighbors at this gated community told cbs news it was h

senior white house correspondent bill plante is traveling with the president and he joins us now. >> reporter: good morning. the secret service sent home 12 of personnel a distracting embarrass, for president obama. the secret service members left and were replaced before the president's arrival here yesterday. a source in the secret service tells cbs news that one or more of the officers were involved with prostitutes and that there was a dispute over payment. one prostitute went to the police, who notified the state department. cartagena, prior to the president's trip. a secret service source says says two of those sent home were supervisors and the rest were part of a detail assigned to logistics. none of those relieved of dude were part of the president's protective detail. secret service spokesman says none of the changes will affect the comprehensive security, which was prepared for the trip. rebecca? >> bill plante thank you, bill. >>> ronald kessler is a former secret service agent, former reporter for "the washington post" and a best-selling author. he alerted "the post" to

bill plante, cbs news with the president in cardagena, colombia. >> the president is back in washington this morning and the senate is going to vote on his proposed tax hike on millionaires. it's not expected to pass. >>> it is 6:15 here with howard. it took us a while to get from winter to spring in the forecast. now that we're in spring, we're already jumping to summer like temperatures. >> we'll get to 90 on occasion in april and today may be one of those occasions but we still have some cooler air on the way and this weekend, sunday may end up being cool and damp. today it's going to be summer like. andrea, you said it right. temperatures well up in the 80s to possibly 90 in a couple of spots which is 20 or more above average. here's a look at your bus stop forecast. we've got mainly 60s out there this morning with some temperatures down in the 50s in the cool spots. warm air is going to be in the low 70s the next few hours with partly cloudy skies and sun coming up in just a few minutes at 6:30. day planner 66 at 8:00. 80 by noon. south winds at 11:00. we could get gusts toward 20

that is getting into bill plante territory, right, bill? the award for 2012 and it's great category goes to lunch rush, carry better frown, and john press and of politico. [applause] and the $2,500 marion smith memorial award for 2012 in the broadcast category goes to jake tapper of abc news. [applause] [laughter] are we ready? this award recognizes journalistic excellence and personal qualities of the former president of the white house correspondents association and correspond 4 "the chicago tribune,." this year, the award goes to scott wilson of "the washington post." [applause] >> thank you, david. and congratulations to the winners of the 2012 white house correspondents association awards. [applause] this year marks the 90th anniversary of the white house correspondents association. [applause] this dinner is known for its red carpet movie stars and high- profile news makers. but it is the journalists who cover the white house day in and day out who are at the core of the correspondents association. i would like to take a minute to reco

. >> bill plante is at the white house this morning. >> reporter: good morning. the secret service has dealt with all 12 involved in the scandal just as the agency's ultimate boss janet napolitano testifies today before a senate panel looking into the matter. for the first time since the day after the incident came to light in colombia, president obama addressed the scandal in an interview on nbc's "late night with jimmy fallon". >> the scandal happens with secret service. >> a little distracting. >> reporter: that distraction may be nearing an end. mark sul vn went to capitol hill tuesday to report on his investigation and to brief senators on the sanctions handed don. of the 12 people being investigated in connection with the prostitution scandal, six have resigned, one was allowed to retire, one was fired but can still appeal. another will keep his job but has had his security clearance suspended and three have been cleared of serious wrongdoing. the secret service is still conducting lie detector tests to find out what happened in advance of the president's t

bill plante, good morning. >> reporter: this is a huge embarrassment. the general administration is the government's landlord and procurement manager. it's supposed to set the standard for efficiency and cost cutting, something that's reported in this case it clearly did not do. the report is jaw-dropping. it reports page after page of over-the-top spending by general services administration. for instance, more than $100,000 just to plan the four-daikon frens in las vegas. 24 bikes for team skper cease cost $75,000. one reception cost $31,000. the entertainment at the conference include ued a mind reader that was paid several,000 dollar, a gsa employee dressed as n a clown suit. all totaled, $822,000. taxpayer watchdogs are appalled. >> you'd think it was a birthday party instead of a meeting. >> reporter: the president is outraged. he started a program with the vice president in charge to cut government waste. the president even asked agencies to review money spent on conferences. >> one of the commitments that i made to the american people is that we

bill plant is at the white house. >> good morning.he white house is holding a forum for voters today. just as the gender gap seems to be growing. >> there is an 18 point gender gap. >> there can be a large gender gap -- >> the gender gap is the latest political buzz and the talk of cable news. which ever republican candidate obama faces starts from behind with one of the most important groups of voters -- women. they insist that has nothing to do with today's forum on women and the economy. >> we're focussing on women because there is a number of issues that are important for women in the economy, women's safety, women in education -- >> republicans on the other hand see a political calculation that works. >> the democrats said we had a war on caterpillars, and every mainstream media outlet would talk about a war on caterpillars, then we would have a car on caterpillars. >> a gallup poll shows obama leading romney by 18 points in 12 important swing states. why now? a decision to pull funding from planned parenthood sparks a conversati

bill plante at the white house, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the secret service is working to quickly wrap up that scandal is colombia, but meanwhile it's gotten reports of more misbehaving and rule-breaking by agents overseas. dispute over payment to a prostitute in cartagena has new charges of hard partying around the globe. seattle cbs affiliate kiro tv said they visited strip clubs prior to the president's trip in el salvador. >> we're trying to track down -- >> reporter: the secret service is looking into that report and some others, including accusations that secret service personnel traveling with former president clinton partied at strip clubs on a visit to buenos a aires and they went to amos cow nightclub known for sexual atmosphere. new allegations come soon after a hearing wednesday in which senators were assured that the colombia scandal was an isolated incident. >> that's why we need a thorough investigation. not just by the white house, not just by dhs, but by congress. that's part of our oversight responsibilities. i think it's

. >> reporter: cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante joined the team in 1964. >> cronkite what was going on, what you knew and sometimes said you needed to get more. >> reporter: it was those strict standards that helped cronkite stay on top of the evening news race. a careful, nightly orchestration that was consistent but never grew tired. >> all of that comes from his steadiness. the fact that he wasn't off-putting. ted turner said to me, cronkite's the only guy in television history who people never got sick of. >> reporter: yet in march 1981, cronkite signed off. >> this is my last broadcast as the anchorman of the "cbs evening news." >> reporter: forced by the network's then-policy to retire at age 65. did he have any regrets? >> i think he did. i think he did. i think there was a certain point in time where he wanted to have it back. he wanted to get back in that anchor chair. >> reporter: his legacy has inspired countless journalists from watergate interns to his grandson, walt cronkite iiii, part of the cbs washington bureau. >> that's the way it is. >> that's the