john blackstone, cbs news, chico, california. >> good for her. >>> well, that's the "cbs morning news friday. thanks for watching. hope you'll join us later for "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. "the early show." i'm betty nguyen. have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good morning, it's friday, the 16th of july. we have a reporter in palo alto. there's been a string of break- ins in silicon valley. and we'll tell you the businesses

katie. >> couric: john blackstone in phoenix tonight, john, thanks so much. jan crawford in washington is our chief legal correspondent, and, jan, judge susan bolton didn't strike down the entire law. so what does that mean, exactly? >> well, katie, she struck down every section the obama administration cared about. it was a complete victory for the administration. judge bolton accepted every major argument the administration made. she ruled the power to regulate immigration lies exclusivly with the federal government and the arizona law will burden aliens and u.s. citizens. she said she recognized arizona has significant interest in confronting illegal immigrants and, obviously, problems with crime but arizona still couldn't step into the federal government's role. >> couric: and, jan, here's a question for you from facebook >> tonight: how will illegal immigration be handled if states like arizona don't address the problem? >> well, the judge ruled that immigration say federal responsibility. i mean, that's what the obama administration had argued, that imm

here's john blackstone with more. >> reporter: at 96, he says something surprising about his health.> any pain there? >> no. >> reporter: he's feeling better now than he was three years ago. >> i do a lot of walking. >> reporter: the improvement is not because he's on a new drug, his daughter says, but because he got a new doctor. >> having a primary care who is sensitive to the needs of an older person is so important. >> reporter: u.c. davis' dr. michael mcleod is a geriatrician, trained to assess the complex needs of patients in their 80s and beyond. >> we're trying to help people to function to their absolute maximal potential with what they have. >> reporter: that often means finding ways to take them off medications other doctors have prescribed, but are causing unwanted side effects. >> we see people sometimes coming in on ten, 15, even 20 medications, and we're able to just unravel these, one by one. >> reporter: geriatricians are certain to be in growing demand now that the oldest baby boomers are approaching 65. but there are just over 7,000 certified geriatricians in the u

john blackstone introduces us to a minor leaguer causing a major stir. >> reporter: on the mound for chico, california, outlaws, knuckleball pitcher eri yoshida has already made baseball history-- the only one now playing professional baseball against men. >> you don't notice that she's five foot nothing, 120 pounds, she just fits in so well. >> reporter: in the dugout she seems to be just one of the guys. but the 18-year-old who arrived from japan just a few months ago is crossing barriers of culture, gender, tradition, and language- - still struggling to learn english. >> very difficult. >> reporter: it's very difficult? >> yes! >> reporter: but baseball comes easy. >> that side arm, i'll tell you, that thing is awesome! >> reporter: though other players tower over her, on the mound the knuckleball is a big equalizer. >> so i thought maybe this is the way that i can compete with men if i can master it. >> the knuckleball's not really about power, it's about precision. >> reporter: u.c. berkeley's bob jacobsen says it's a matter of physics. a well-pitched knuckleball doesn't spin. w

i had been reading blackstone since i was 10. so i went to the court and i pled my own case and won. then, after that, mr. fultz decided he needed to go on to greener pasttures and he left so i realized that i was going to be the court of myself and my children. so i decided now is my chance to be a lawyer. why couldn't i be a lawyer? well, it is right there in the code. you have to be of good moral character. i'm that. you have to be over 21. i'm that. and a white male. so i simply took the code, took out white male, put in person and called it the laid lawyer bill and off i went to -- the lady lawyer bill and off i went to sacramento. there i was. now i had very little money so i was able to talk a conductor of one of the trains into taking me in the caboose for free but i got to sacramento. when i arrived there at the state capitol it was a constitutional convention and i never saw so many men, so well -- throwing tantrums over a little woman like me just wanting to be a lawyer. well, their faces were as red as turkey gobblers

cbs news correspondent john blackstone has the details. >> on the streets of phoenix, protesters were out in force and so were the police on the day arizona's tough new immigration law took effect. giving law enforce many expanded powers to crack down on undocumented immigrants. demonstrations planned earlier went ahead even though major portions of the controversial law were blocked by a federal judge's ruling wednesday. that judge has received thousands of phone calls and e-mails, including threats, which the u.s. marshal service said it is taking seriously. the focus of anger for those protesting the law was sheriff joe arpaio. >> we have investigated, detained, arrested, investigated in our jails, acting as federal immigration agents, over 40,000 people. 40,000 in two years. >> reporter: demonstrators blocked the entrance to the sheriff's headquarters in downtown phoenix in at least 23 arrested. >> we are not going to let protesters hold this sheriff and my office hostage because they don't want us to put people into the jail. >> reporter: arpaio says even without the toughest pro

. >> and kevin blackstone, what does it is a that the players were calling the shots here and not the owners which is usually the case. >> right, the game changed when they opted out of signing long-term deals with their respective clubs just a few years ago. and all of a sudden it became the players and 3409 the owners and general managers who were going to go out and organize the type of team that they wanted to play for. so this has been a pretty significant shift, i think, in the foundation of professional sports. certainly when it comes to professional basketball. we talked a lot about what would happen if professional athletes ever realized that the power that they had collectively if they would coalesce. and this time three guys actually did. now i think that-- i don't flow that this going to impact the membership of the players association, but obviously for elite players, thiss with a big deal. >> woodruff: richard, do you think this is a permanent shift in the balance of power and help us just quickly understand the economics for these teams. this team, miami, is paying thes

as with blackstone's purchase of hilton hotels. >> that in my view is not-- debt in my view is not a bad thing. if the borrowed money is used to build the business, it's when the debt is used to enrich a handful of private equity partners like in the premiera case. that's when it's dastardly. >> they're getting those fees for identifying investments that they can make on behalf of their investors that they can invest in, add value to, and sell for a profit. and that requires a significant infrastructure. so getting fee income for adding all that value is entirely reasonable. >> reporter: but the main danger says kosmin is that the firm's boss and private equity deals now owe so much, they threaten the economy as a whole. >> $700 billion becomes due between 201 and 15. it's a lot of money. in that period 2012 to 2015, the government is going to have to refinance on its own about $00 billion, investment grade companies, better rated-- than these guys are going to have to repay about $1.2 trillion. so su have a huge debt wall coming in this country and these guys will be at the bottom o

our correspondent john blackstone has the latest. >> reporter: determined to prove they can fight cityr council members have been collected $100,000 a year for the part-time job. >> we don't make money like you guys. i'm not up there. and if i was up there, i wouldn't be cheating the people. >> reporter: bell is a blue-collar city of about 37,000, hit hard by the recession, it has a 16% unemployment rate. so, you might think if any city could afford to richly reward its council members it would be this one. but the council members in beverly hills are paid less than $800 a month while those in much less prosperous bell can make $8,000 a month. beverly hills just hired a new city manager, annual salary, $275,000. high compared to other cities around the country. a mere pittance compared to bell's city manager, who makes $787,000 a year. >> we want to find out how in the world could any public servant do this? >> reporter: bell's mayor defended the high paychecks saying the city was well run and a model of financial prudence. john black stone, cbs news los angeles. >>> the latest with lo

. >> congressman kick, that law wouldn't be consistent with the luol of law that's in blackstone or blang'saw. i don't support what ronald reagan did. i don't propose that that's what i'm using here. >> i would submit then reverend the path that you've described is pay the fine, pay back taxes, learn english, that those things are design to use the objective of the person who already broke the law. learning english is one that helps someone. i don't see that as a penalty or wreck come pence for breaking the law. at least 60% commit the crime of crossing the border illegally. >> with all due respect, we have three options. deport everybody or deal with them somehow. i think it's impractical. you'll tear apart families where the children are legal and the parents are not. you'll tear apart families who have no idea what the home country is, can't speak the language and i don't -- >> let me submit this. what i'm suggesting we do, people who break the laws, we put them back in the condition they were in before they broke the law. i turn then to reverend land. the example you used is if you had

. >> congressman kick, that law wouldn't be consistent with the luol of law that'sn blackstone or blang's lck's law. i don't support whatonald reagan did. i don't propose that that's what i'm using here. >> i would submit then reverend the path that you've described is pay the fine, pay back taxes, learn english, that those things are design to use the objective of the person who already broke the law. learning english is one that helps someone. i don't see that as a penalty or wreck come pence for breaking the law. at least 60% commit the cme of crossing the border illegally. >> with all due respect, we have three options. deport everybody or deal with them somehow. i think it's impractical. you'll tear apart families where the children are legal and the parents are not. you'll tear apart families who have no idea what the home country is, can't speak the language and i don't -- >> let me submit this. what i'm suggesting we do, people who break the laws, we put them back in the condition they were in before they broke the law. i turn then to reverend land. the example you used is if you