bill whitaker on the all-out aefort to challenge mitt romney heading into south carolina. harvesting hope after the earthquake in haiti. how homegrown solutions are nursing malnourished children back to healthy. and broncos miracle man tim tebow in the game of his life tonight against the patriot. james brown of cbs sports goes one on one with the quarterback. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening. we begin tonight with stories of fear and panic from the ship costa requested equality concordia" as it ran aground and keeled over near a small island near tuscany. at least three people are known dead, dozens more unaccounted for. alan pizzey picks up the story. >> reporter: passengers had just sat down to dinner when they heard a loud bang. the impact tore a 160-foot gash in the hull and an eight-day mediterranean cruise turned into what some passengers described as scenes from the movie "titanic." with water pouring in, the costaa "concordia" began to list. the lucas family from girdwood, alaska knew it was time to go. >> when tiffs list

bill whitaker has the latest. joe paterno the patriarch of penn state's storied but recently troubled football program is dead at 85. armen keteyian is in state college tonight. newt gingrich's big victory in south carolina throws the republican race wide open. we have reports from jan crawford, john dickerson and dean reynolds. and cynthia bowers has the story of the reverend who has taken his anti-violence sermon to the rooftop. >> this is the "cbs evening news." >> good evening, i'm jeff glor, congresswoman gabrielle giffords says she is doing what is best for arizona. this afternoon in a surprise announcement giffords says she will resign from congress this week. the news coming a little more than a year after she was shot in the head and survived. bill whitaker has more on giffords's statement and her future plans. >> a lot has happened over the past year. we cannot change that. >> reporter: poised, showing remarkably little sign of the violent trauma she endured, representative gabrielle giffords of arizona

bill whitaker on what a solar eruption will mean for our planet. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: good evening, in a short while president obama will leave the white house and make his way up pennsylvania avenue to the capitol to deliver his third state of the union address. the nationally televised speech will, in many ways, be the unofficial kickoff for his campaign for reelection, setting the tone and laying out the themes. chief among those themes, what he calls economic fairness. the same rules top to bottom. tonight the president will call for an america with "no bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts." norah o'donnell has seen more of the president's speech. she's at the white house tonight. norah? >> reporter: scott, the tonight the president will say that economic fairness is "the defining issue of our time" and with the millions of americans who work hard and play by the rules everyday deserve. and that's largely what this speech is all about. that's

>> glor: bill whitaker, thank you. joined by national political reporter for real clear politics. scott, good evening to you, bill just talked about the fractured tea party vote in south carolina. the same case you have seen nationwide as well? opinions yeah, i mean not only in south carolina, i can't remember the last time any presidential candidate has used the words tea party at an event i have attended in new hampshire, iowa and in south carolina it is really remarkable because in the 2010 midterm collections, of course, they could not get enough of talking about how they were pro tea party, how they embodied the movement. it is not that the ideals of the movement are gone from the discussion but almost never hear the candidates talking about the tea party any more. >> and because there is a failure to coalesce on any one candidate it is more continuing good news for mitt romney, is it not? >> yeah, i mean i think there is a lot of conservatives here in south carolina who are wrapping their minds around the idea th

bill whitaker reports. >> reporter: while everything inside this l.a.eria may be nutritious. >> it tastes bad t looks bad t doesn't even look like it's real food. >> reporter: few students have anything good to say about l.a.'s healthier lunch menus. >> the healthier it gets, the more disgusting it is. >> reporter: some can barely describe what it is. >> it's called like a barbecue sandwich. but it kind of looks like an imitation sloppy joe. >> reporter: it wasn't supposed to be this way. for the past ten years the los angeles school district has been working to overhaul the menu. first to go, canned sodas. then came the push for fresh fruits and vegetables which today account for 19% of total spending, up from just 2% in 2005. old stand bys like corn dogs are out. turkey burgers are in. moves hailed by ucla newtitionist wendy slusser. >> it is common sense to serve a child healthy food. the big question is why aren't we all doing this. and it is because it is a shift. and where we were and change takes time. >> reporter: taking time to change is not so

we asked bill whitaker to tell us how other candidates propose to stop romney. bill's also in south carolina tonight. bill. >> reporter: scott, with outside political action committees weighing in this, year could be more negative than ever, which is saying a lot for south carolina. labeling romney a corporate raider who shut factories and sent jobs overseas as head of bain capital from 1984 to 1999. it's one of the most profitable private equity investment firms in the country. >> and that hurt so bad to leave my home because of one man that's got 15 homes. >> as his record is better and better known, i think he will grow weaker and weaker very fast. >> reporter: while the negative advertising may rankle many republicans across the country, party members here simply say welcome to south carolina. wesley donehue is a much-in-demand political consultant in columbia born and raised in the state. >> we're hot heads here, a little bit of red necks in us. >> reporter: donehue earned a name for himself with a web site that secured presidential hopeful fred thompson. h

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first, bill whitaker with the huntsman campaign. bill? >> reporter: can social security be saved and, if so, how? this is the state where half the voters are over 40, these are questions jon huntsman hears everyday. >> what policies would you promote the protect social security? >> reporter: all over new hampshire... >> in our case, we're on a fixed income. >> reporter: voters like financial planner don ladd are asking about the future of the country's largest entitlement program. >> social security... we're living much longer now there's a bigger draw on social security. >> reporter: can you explain your position on social security? >> we're going to have to means test. it means those at the upper- income categories are going to get less. >> reporter: he also wants to change the formula for cost of living adjustments. >> we're going to have to take the underlying assumptions for inflation, to begin with, and tie them more to real wage growth as opposed to the consumer price index. >> reporter: and huntsman wants to push the age of full r

bill whitaker bill whitaker is with the former pennsylvania senator tonight. bill? >> scott, only jon huntsman spent more time here in new hampshire than former pennsylvania senator rick santorum. fresh off his surprise finish in iowa, he came here hoping to secure his position as the conservative standard bearer. the alternative to mitt romney. >> you believe here in new hampshire exactly what they believe in iowa. >> reporter: well, not exactly. >> thank you so much, iowa. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: boosted out of iowa eight votes shy of victory on the shoulders of evangelicals, rick santorum predicted a new hampshire surprise. >> good morning, everybody. >> reporter: but in this state with fewer born-again christian voters his message didn't resonate as it had in iowa. >> my answer to that was we always need a jesus candidate. how are you? his socially conservative rhetoric overshadowed his fiscally conservative economic message. at one of his last campaign events, he found himself surrounded and hounded by protesters. he was left hoping for at least a

eight votes separating the two of them after deadlocked most of the night. >> correspondent bill whitakeris morning for us. good morning, bill. >> good morning, guys. >> reporter: iowa, as it often does, shuffled the deck last night. newt gingrich in the lead a month ago, came in fourth. for the top two, a photo fish. >> game on. >> reporter: a late surge by former pennsylvania jor risenatk santorum pushed him to near victory thanks to the passionate support of social conservatives. >> i've survived the challenges so far by the daily grace that comes from god. >> reporter: in a nail-biter, mitt romney sweeped to victory in the iowa caucuses. the former massachusetts governor, at first indifferent to iowa made a big and ultimately successful final push. >> we are going to change the white house and get america back on track. >> reporter: libertarian leader texas congressman ron paul finished third. >> this movement is going to continue and we are going to keep scoring just as we have tonight. >> reporter: now the focus shifts to new hampshire, where gingrich is rolling out a stinging add i

bill whitaker shows us the difference between good and yummy. reporter: while everything inside this l.a. cafeteria may be nutritious -- >> it tastes bad, it looks bad. it doesn't even look like it's real food. reporter: -- few students have anything good to say about the healthier lunch menus. >> the healthier it gets, the more disgusting it. is. reporter: some can barely describe what it is. >> it's called like a barbecue sandwich, but it kind of looks like an imitation sloppy joe. reporter: it wasn't supposed to be this way. for the past 10 years the los angeles school district has been working to overhaul the menu, first to go, canned sodas of then came the push for fresh fruits and vegetables which code account for 19% of total -- today account for 19% of total spending. old stand-byes like corn dogs are out. turkey burgers are in moves haled by nutritionist wendy schlosser. >> it's common sense to feed a child nutritious food. the big question is why aren't we all doing this and it is because it's a shift from where we were and change take

so we asked bill whitaker to try to catch up to the man who is adding campaign stops as fast as he can. >> welcome to our 150th public event! (cheers and applause) >> reporter: jon huntsman skipped iowa to woo the voters of new hampshire. he's campaigned here almost nonstop since june. still, he admits this: . >> i am the underdog in this race. >> reporter: is new hampshire make or break for your campaign? >> we have to do well. we have to do well in new hampshire. >> reporter: in this high-visibility race, the 51-year-old huntsman has flown under the radar, despite his impressive resume. he's the chopper-riding popular two-term governor of utah with a picture-perfect family. was c.e.o. of his family's chemical company. served four presidents: ronald reagan and both presidents bush. he was ambassador to china under president obama, an unforgivable sin to some republicans. >> if you're asked to serve your country by the president of the united states, you do it. you put your country first. and that's the philosophy that i will take to my grave. >> reporter: his economic plan-- a streaml

. >> correspondent bill whitaker has been following santorum's campaign and joins us now. >> good morning. >> reporter: one day after his surprise finish in iowa, rick santorum raised $1 million, half of all the money he has raised so far. the upside of being a top-tier candidate. >> game on! >> reporter: rick santorum swept into new hampshire basking in the post-iowa glow. on earlier visits, he struggled to fill a living room. last night, he asked a packed haul in brentwood to give him support. >> so that's what i ask you to do. what i asked iowans to do. lead and be bold. >> reporter: less than a week from the primaries, still a single digit in the polls here, despite his strong showing in iowa, the former pennsylvania senator sees a chance to repeat his iowa surprise. >> there are limitations as a result of it being a short campaign but we believe we can move up and show momentum here too. >> reporter: in iowa, his social conservatism had strong appeal to 56% of caucus goers and the last new hampshire primary only 21% of gop voters were born again christians. to win here he must broade

with it, she had lots of songs to sing. ♪ at last >> reporter: for cbs this morning, bill whitaker inreat stuff. >> gives you goosebumps. >> it really does. >>> coming up, some college majors are major losers. a look at which degrees will get you a graduate work. >> also, coming up here, why you may want to not use that blanket on the airplane. some secrets of airplane travel, coming up. watching "cbs this morning saturday." >>> two black boxes have been found off the "costa concordia." we talked with the captain of the ship to give us some insight ow how the ships have changed. >> for the first time, you will hear about the high-seas >>> coming up, we'll we'll talk about the >>> look at that snow in new york city. welcome back. >> it has arrived. >> yes, it has. welcome back. i'm jeff glor. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. >> the latest on the cruise ship capsizing in italy. the first time, the captain speaks out about the training it takes to save thousands of lives. when should disaster strike. >>> and degrees that are likely to get you a job and also the degrees that may leave you without o

bill whitaker on what a solar eruption will mean for our planet. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting from washington. >> pelley: good evening, in a short while president obama will leave the white house and make his way up pennsylvania avenue to the capitol to deliver his third state of the union address. the nationally televised speech will, in many ways, be the

. >> pelley: jan crawford, bill whitaker and dean reynolds are on the campaign. o'donnell on a shakeup in the obama administration. the man who runs the white house is out. dr. jon lapook has details of a drug recall. were powerful painkillers mixed into bottles of over-the-counter drugs? and we'll take you to an american town that's buried in snow-- 18 feet of it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from manchester, new hampshire. >> pelley: good evening from the granite state where mitt romney's lead heading into tomorrow's republican primary is rock-solid. the latest polling shows him 13 points ahead of ron paul. romney at 33%, pau

with it, she had lots of songs to sing. ♪ at last >> reporter: for cbs this morning, bill whitaker inreat stuff. >> gives you goosebumps. >> it really does. >>> coming up, some college majors are major losers. a look at which degrees will get you a graduate work. >> also, coming up here, why you may want to not use that blanket on the airplane. some secrets of airplane travel, coming up. watching "cbs this morning saturday." >>> two black boxes have been found off the "costa concordia." we talked with the captain of the ship to give us some insight ow how the ships have changed. >> for the first time, you will hear about the high-seas laces? really? slip-on's the way to go. more people do that, security would be like -- there's no charge for the bag. thanks. i know a quiet little place where we can get some work done. there's a three-prong plug. i have club passes. [ male announcer ] now there's a mileage card that offers special perks on united, like a free checked bag, united club passes, and priority boarding. thanks. ♪ okay. what's your secret? ♪ [ male announcer ] the new united

with it, she had lots of songs to sing. ♪ at last >> reporter: for cbs this morning, bill whitaker inreat stuff. >> gives you goosebumps. >> it really does. >>> coming up, some college majors are major losers. a look at which degrees will get you a graduate rk. >> also, coming up here, why you may want to not use that blanket on the airplane. some secrets of airplane travel, coming up. watching "cbs this morning saturday." ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> two black boxes have been found off the "costa concordia." we talked with the captain of the ship to give us some insight ow how the ships have changed. >> for the first time, you will hear about the high-seas traini,,,,,,,, >>> good morning. it is saturday, january 21st, i'm gigi barnett. here is walt people are talking about. >>> a hit-and-run accident leads police to arrest a man who is connected to stealing thousands of dollars in civil war memorabilia. 30-year-old jason bowen is accused of stealing the items. police found bowen's car, that believe that hit a man on a bike as he thread the scene. >>> fire rips through allegheny county home killi

they were bitter rivals and today they embrace. >> with bill whitaker, let's ask you, throw it back towhat we can see from this point out for the next week or so here in new hampshire. and rather unhappy newt gingrich left iowa last night and is going to be landing in new hampshire. how is that going to interface with the tone of what we can expect here in the next couple of days? >> what we have seen from newt gingrich, he's just been flum oxed by mitt romney and ron paul in iowa. he was riding high a month ago. and paul and romney combine really cut him down to size in iowa and they just didn't know what to do about it. he said, i'm going to stay positive, then he would talk about how much money mitt's super pac was spending against him. they never figured out what to do. and now it may be too little too late for gingrich to do much more than go after romney. it is unclear who is listening anymore to newt gingrich. >> does he stay with mr. nice guy or does he sort of revert back to regular old newt? >> i think we're going to see dr. jekyll and mr. newt. this is a new game now. newt g

jan crawford and bill whitaker report. who's killing iran's nuclear scientists? another died today. david martin is on the story. and the first lady talks to gail king about life under the spotlight. >> that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since, you know, the day barack announced that i'm some angry black woman. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. good evening. we begin tonight in an mesh town where the military has set

he said he knew someone with the perfect look for the part, his roommate, bill whitaker. the only hitch was he didn't speak french. when he agreed to take on the role, she had to coach him to learn the lines and speak with a convincing accent. they met before rehearsals and in her apartment where she oversaw a suite of rooms for students who wanted to speak the language and attend her weekly teas. she was impressed by how quickly he learn and by what a good mimic he was. he noticed how his cheeks dimpled and the worry lines creased when he was making a serious point. in all, there was no mistaking how handsome he was, particularly when he put on the grass skirt costumes for commercials. she was startled the night of the wrap party, which she threw at robert's. when they were talking in a crowded corner in her apartment, and all of the sudden, he kissed her. she pulled back, looking confused. i thought you wanted me to do that, he said, the other day when you touched my arm, i thought it was a signal. i'm sorry, she said, that's just something i have the habit of doing whe

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for "cbs this morning," bill whitaker in los angeles. >> you had the best line. but a terrible smell. for the first time they're saying it's dangerous. >> i have a friend who won't do it. >> you weren't planning to try, were you? >> no, i was not. >> charlie's going to be busy on e bay trying to find his computer. >> that's r-o-s-e. >> at "cbs this morning.." >>> harry potter's >>> what happened to him? >> he was playing at the beach with his friends and they said the tide must have caught him off guard. you've seen him, haven't you? >> this morning in the fire. >> after eight "harry potter" blockbusters and it bus blockbuster with a capital "b," daniel radcliffe is starring in the next act of his career. he's starting in "women in black." >> he plays the father haunted by the death of his wife. he's decidedly less scary in person. >> you were very scary in the movie. >> i'm very intimidating all five of me. >> but did you decide was it a conscious decision on your part daniel, that you said notice how neither one of us said "harry potter" is here. neither one of

one student is writing about bill buckley and catholicism and his relationship with whitaker chambers. the legacy is here. [laughter] i have two things one of which comes up often about early buckley and one that is sort of self interested question. the first is students are often quite interested in this idea of this outsider identity, alienation from what buckley articulated as establishment so the question of where that comes from. partly being a catholic and a place like ale or temperamental? because yale was liberal in certain ways in the 1950s but yale in 1940 was not franklin roosevelt. it goes for wendell willkie. we can overstate the liberal socialistic nature of yale and the 40s and 50s. i wonder if you have thought of where in those early years that sense of alienation and outsiders comes from which is so important to his project and more self interested question is i happen to be writing a biography of j. edgar hoover. trying to think about the role of a figure like hoover in conservative politics and the conservative movement. spending time reading buckley's fbi file whic