john blackstone reports on whether the cops should be allowed to cut off your cell phone service. and celia hatton on what happens when a billion chinese start eating like americans. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. when the head of the world's largest retail chain sends up a caution flag, well, it certainly got our attention today. wal-mart stores account for more than 11% of this country's retail sales, but c.e.o. mike dukes says that his customers are stretched, struggling, and worried about jobs. it shows in wal-mart's second- quarter sales, down nine-tenths of one percent-- their ninth straight quarterly drop. and add the that another report out today that says sales at u.s. chain stores overall fell 1.5% last week, the third straight weekly decline. we asked jim axelrod to find out how a cutback in consumer spending is threatening the recovery. >> reporter: from televisions to townhouses, consumer fear of the future is stalling sales. >> the pace of sales is slower than we ordinarily would like to see them

john blackstone, cbs news, los angeles. >>> meteorologist jim bernard joining us.een kind of cold, hasn't it? >> it has been. below normal for a week or two now and looks like that will continue here through the week. nothing dramatic. just a couple degrees cooler than we should be for this year. keep in mind peak fog in the month of august. fog at the coast and cool temperatures to prevail through the week. below normal for quite awhile much that was the trend today. low clouds and fog clinging to the shoreline slow to go out there. it did clear gradually through the afternoon but again kept a bit of chill in the air. lots of thunderstorms out over the high country of the sierra moving eastward here. a lot of lightening strikes in all those clouds out there. not much rain but a lot of activity nontheless yesterday and today. will be in the southern mountains tomorrow. we will see the clouds clear and in the afternoon we will look for sunny conditions across the interior. again, fog will be slow to go and at the beach we will hang onto the fog there. that's the sta

and as john blackstone tells us, bankruptcy is no solution. >> what is that one again. >> reporter: she always believed a college degree would mean a better future. but at 30 faced with $80,000 in student loan debt, the future is hard to think about. >> i actually currently make almost exactly what i made before i had my degree. i definitely some days feel going back to school ruined my life. >> reporter: today two-thirds of all students graduate in debt. the average debt is $24,000. but thousands begin their adult lives more than $100,000 in debt. >> some people say it's like graduates when you already have a mortgage but you don't have a house. >> reporter: but the real shock comes with the repayment terms. like many students crooks signed up for two kinds of loans, one federal and one private. but at the time she admits she didn't understand the distinction. >> today her 40,000 dollar federal loan offers flexible options. she pays $160 a month. but the private loan of the same amount came with very expensive nonnegotiable terms costing her $800 a month. add the interest, cooks will b

john blackstone, cbs news, los angeles. >>> coming up later on "the early show" full coverage of what'se of the debt limit crisis. erica hill is in washington and will have live reports from the white house and capitol hill. the house and senate are expected to vote on the deal today. >>> plus, has the fbi finally tracked down the mysterious hijacker d.b. cooper? all that and more later on, on "the early show." that's it for this monday morning edition of the "cbs morning news." i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com how you doing? my name is steve. my family's lived in this neighborhood for years. recently, things got so tight we had to go to our local food bank for help. i lost a lot of sleep worrying about what the neighbors might think. that is, until i saw them there, too. how'd i do, steve? a little stiff. you could have done a little better. what? come on. you know, i have an academy award. yeah, but not for playing me. announcer: play a role in ending hunger. visit feedingamerica.org/hunger and find your local food bank.

we asked john blackstone to look into what this means. >> reporter: andrea garcia was five years oldwhen her mother brought her here illegally from mexico. now she's a college graduate. >> this is my life, this is my culture and i am american. >> reporter: but her life in america is threatened by a pending deportation order. >> it was very surreal. our lawyer calling us and saying, "you know, they might come pick you guys up at 5:00 in the morning." >> reporter: the new policy directing immigration authorities to focus on deporting convicted criminals may mean andrea's family can stay. >> we're just kind of floating there in limbo, we don't know. we don't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: you still can't relax fully about this? >> no. >> reporter: immigrant advocates like attorney mike silverman says the change makes economic sense. each deportation costs an estimated $24,000. >> do we want to spend our money deporting and looking for janitors and college students, or do we want to focus on people who have committed serious crimes? >> reporter: critics like dan stein say the

bank of america is reportedly in talks to sell off some real estate assets to the blackstone group to the tune of $1 billion. and, finally, cyber loafers rejoice. according to a new study out of singapore, a moderate amount of mindless web surfing actually boosts productivity later in the work day. i knew it all along. well, coming up, the night of the walk-off. walk-off single, a walk-off homer and a walkoff grand slam. plus, the odds of a triple play occurring are high enough, but how about one happening two nights in a row? your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> in weather we're still dealing with intense heat in texas, in florida, thunderstorms this afternoon. >>> good morning. if you are just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, in baseball's dog days of august, there's at least one thing you can usually count on. a first place battle between the yankees and the red sox. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. as september approaches, it appears the yankees and red sox will go down to the wire for fi

john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >>> a popular animal shelter threatened with closure raised the money it needs to stay open. the valley humane society in pleasantton saved hundreds of cats and dogs each year. community donations are keeping the doors from closing. >> we were getting donations from little kids giving us their piggy banks. $13.11, all the way up to $125,000. >> the society relies mainly on volunteer labor. the economy caused donations to fall, costs and animal rescues are on the rise. the reprieve may be only temporary. the staff is still figuring out how they can stay afloat past november. >> the royal mascot of burger king is being dethrowned. the struggling fast food chain is kicking out its creepy -- you know that guy? it's going to air a new commercial beginning next week. doesn't have any dialogue at all. it features the sights and sounds of fresh veggies being prepared. burger king wants to freshen up its image and focus on its food. >>> a tropical storm and the remnants of it and the affect on your seven-day forecast as eyewitness news continues right

john blackstone, cbs news, los angeles. >>> an album from 2006 hits number 1 in the music charts again and the boy with her, harry potter gets initiated into an exclusive club. "the smurfs 3-d" and "cowboys and aliens" were tied for first place. both opened with 36-point-two million dollars in earnings. tual rankings won >>> cowboys and ailens tied for first place. $36 million in earnings. >>> captain america the first avengers flip to number 3. "harry potter and the deathly hallows" part ii crossed the $1 billion mark at the world wide box office this weekend. the last of the eight films. the first of the series earned almost $975 million in 2001. "avatar" with the biggest record earning 2.8 billion. titanic number 2 at 1.8 billion. >>> eight days after her death amy winehouse's album back to black is back on top of the british charts. the debut album frank went to number 5. she was found dead of unknown causes of her london home after years of struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. she was 27 years old. >>> serena williams goes for her first title in over a year. i'm dennis o'do

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john blackstone, san francisco news. >>> -- cbs-2 news, san francisco. >>> just after 3:00 this afternooncers say a child was shot in the arm. his family drove him to highland hospital. the wounds are not life threatening. last week a stray bullet killed another boy, carlos nava, just a few blocks away from today's shooting in another hit and run in san francisco injures a young boy. the five-year-old was hit by a car while crossing the street with a family member this morning. it happened on silver avenue. the boy's injuries do not appear to be life threatening. the vehicle is a 1980s dark green hatchback with a missing passenger side mirror. just a week ago, a nine-year- old boy, visiting from pennsylvania, was hit by a drunk driver. that boy is now home, continuing his treatment. >>> an update on the woman hit and killed by a san francisco muni bus friday afternoon. the examiner reports the victim is 23-year-old emily dunn of san francisco. the incident happened as the bus was turning from 18th street on to hartford street in the castro district. the woman was in a crosswalk. the drive

late today, there are reports b- of-a is talking with the blackstone group about selling real estate the bank got when it bought merrill lynch. the best dow component today was home depot, jumping more than 5%. customers are spending more per visit, helping increase sales. the company also is optimistic enough to raise its earnings outlook. here are the quarterly results, coming in three cents better than estimates. the company says it sees strength across hardware, tools and plumbing. meantime, wal-mart also turned in better than anticipated earnings, four cents ahead of estimates. same-store sales in the u.s. were a weak spot, down for the ninth straight quarter. company management says their customers continue to be "strained." shares responded nicely to the earnings and the outlook, though, up almost 4%. volume was heavy on this rally today, too. and that's tonight's "market focus." the banking business has been under pressure and scrutiny for more than three years now. it's blamed for contributing to the financial crisis, and its criticized for not doing enough to lift the econo

that actually goes back to the tenth century in england he literally i mean go back you know read blackstone's law in the seventy's in the eighteenth century and seventeen hundreds and he points out that from the tenth century there had been this distinction between artificial persons which was the king in the kingdom and the churches and in modern days also corporations and natural persons but up until the eight hundred ninety s. in the united states and up until the one nine hundred twenty s. in fact in some states wisconsin being one of them corporations had to have one single purpose they could only do one thing a corporation can do multiple things their licenses revokable they'd be in court in a member of a corporation did not relieve corporate management or stockholders of responsibility or only loss of financial liability corporate directors officers or agents couldn't break the law and claim they were doing their jobs directors were hired to come from the most stockholders their headquarters had to be in their state they could not live for more than thirty years so they had to go throu

we have this sunday journal from john blackstone. >> reporter: when shane bauer and josh fattal facedst month hopes were raised their ordeal was nearing an end. iran's foreign minister hinted they could soon be released. but factions in the iranian leadership don't always agree says patrick, the washington institute for near east policy. >> the general rule of thumb in u.s.-iran relations is that the people who don't have any power in iran are interested in a deal with the united states, and the people who go have power in iran are not. >> reporter: in july of 2009 fattal, bauer and sarah shourd were hiking in the largely peaceful kurdish region of iraq when they apparently strayed across the unmarked border in iran and were arrested and jailed. sarah shourd who was engaged to bauer was released last september for medical reasons. after payment of $500,000 bail. >> the most difficult thing i've ever had to do is leave prison without shane and josh. that day they were smiling, they were beaming. they were so happy for me. and they were so hopeful that they would soon follow me. >> repo

as blackstone said, the second amendment is definitely there. talk about the second amendment, but the right to self-defense, the right to arms is there to secure against public and private violence. and we believe that riots, dangerous situations, of course, would qualify. so we're looking forward to a decision there. in the immediate term, some of these carrying cases are filtering their way up to the supreme court be. there are currently two petitions before the supreme court that may yet get granted or denied when the court comes back from its summer vacation. i will go over those very briefly. first, there's a case called williams v. maryland. this case arises out of the conviction of a gentleman in maryland for carrying a gun without a license. the conviction was affirmed and a cert of petition has been filed. i am not super optimistic about the petition being granted in that place although there is an okay chance of it being granted, and i suppose that if that petition were granted and mr. williams' case were heard that the supreme court