bob orr reports on mr. obama's much anticipated speech. a sunday for prayers and for taking stock in towns hit hard by tornadoes. ann ar werner and elaine quijano have survivors firsthand story. >> it's all gone, we have nothing left. >> jeff: ta days before the supertaos showdown, jan crawford and john dickerson on campaign 2012. and rear view cameras in cars. they can save lives and mark strassmann tells us they'll soon be in every new vehicle sold captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> jeff: good evening, everyone, i'm jeff glor, as talk rose of a potential israel arei strike on iran, all sides are closely watching two key events. first today, president obama's speech to american supporters of israel, then tomorrow a crucial meeting between mr. obama and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. bob orr joins us from washington with more on this, bob, good evening. >> good evening, jeff, president obama promised today when the chips are down he has israel's back. but in offering support for israel's security, he

bob orr has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: in the three weeks since trayvon martin wasled inside this gated florida community, neighborhood watch george zimmerman claims he shot martin in self-defense, but attorney been yeah minimum crump says the unarmed teenager was targeted because of his race. >> arrest george zimmerman for the killing of trayvon martin in cold blood today. >> reporter: crump said on the night of the shooting, martin was heading home from the store and on the phone with his girlfriend. in a telephone interview, the young woman told crump she listened as martin was suddenly confronted by a stranger. >> he's following me. >> reporter: the girlfriend said she urged martin to run away, and he responded, he would walk fast. at around the same time, zimmerman also made a call to the sanford, florida, police to report a suspicious person in his neighborhood. >> he's got his hands in his waistband. and he's a black male. >> are you following him? >> yeah. >> okay. we don't need to you do that. >> reporter: what happened next is the critical question. a law

bob orr, cbs news, the white house. >>> tomorrow is super tuesday, which may turn out to be a decisive day in the race for the republican presidential nomination. voters in ten states cast ballots. the biggest single voting day in this year's primary season. a just released nbc news poll finds mitt romney leading rick santorum nationally among republican voters. while 40% of all voters say the bruising primary battle has left them with a less favorable opinion about the gop. drew levinson has our report. >> reporter: the gop front-runner went to georgia sunday where he served up pancakes. >> not every day you get served by the next president. >> and promise. >> mitt romney again ignored his republican rivals and attacked president obama. >> he's been in office for three years. i'm still waiting to hear what his jobs plan is. how he's going to make america more competitive, how he's going to put us back to work. >> georgia offers the most delegates on super tuesday and it's newt gingrich territory. the former house speaker served the state in congress. for 20 years. he says it's a must

bob orr has the latest. bob?ter: scott, those arrests strike at the very core of the international hacker's network anonymous and its offshoot cyber gang lulzsec. for the f.b.i., it's a bit of revenge. one of the suspects nabbed in ireland is accused of hacking into this f.b.i./scotland yard conference call. >> reporter: the suspect, who goes by the name palladium then taunted law enforcement by posting the call on the internet. now he and five other suspected hackers have been arrested, including a new yor man who prosecutors say led a cyber attack on the u.s. senate. hector xavier monsegur who sweets antigovernment messages under the alias "the real sabu" is accused of hacking the senate's sensitive files to download confidential information. monsegur, described as a lulzsec leader was arrested last year and sources say he began corporating with the f.b.i. his help led to today's arrests of the others who are now charged in a series of computer attacks on corporate and government systems. lulzsec is accused of

bob orr has the story. wildfires turn deadly in the colorado mountains. barry petersen is on the scene. and seth doane on a hey school that saves lives. turning addicts into graduates. >> for me sobriety is life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. pelds good evening. in the fight over president obama's health care law, this was the main event. today the nine justices of the supreme court heard arguments on the part of the law that requires all americans to have health insurance or pay a fine. it's called the individual mandate. the obama administration says the mandate will make sure that everyone has health care, while keeping insurance affordable. but opponents say it is a dangerous new power for the government, forcing citizens to buy a product. in a rare move, the supreme court is releasing audio tapes of the arguments, jan crawford was a witness to history in the courtroom today. jan? >> reporter: well, scott, the health care law is considered president obama's signature achievement, but today in that court

it turns out correspondent bob orr has found, back in 2010, the f.b.i. noticed that merah had been detained in afghanistan and released to france, and that's all it took. so far, it doesn't seem that merah tried to get into the united states. it turns out the massacre of civilians in afghanistan was worse than we knew. the death toll was raised today from 16 to 17, at least nine of them children. u.s. army staff sergeant robert bals is being held at fort leavenworth, kansas. he will be charged soon with 17 counts of murder and with assault. correspondent dared martin tells us, bales is under 24-hour watch and has just had a chance to speak to his wife by phone. moving on to presidential politics, gas prices rising, president obama has been defending his energy policy. today, he focused on a hot-button issue-- the keystone pipeline. the president refused to fast track the entire project that would bring more oil down from canada, but today, he did back a smaller section from oklahoma to texas. norah o'donnell traveled with the president today. and she's i

bob orr has been learning more today about the copilot who took over. >> reporter: raymond dower was the man in the man in the copilot's seat of jetblue 191 when it took off orom new york tuesday bound for las vegas. when the flight made an emergency landi emergency landing three and a half hours later in amarillo, texas, dowd was being hailed as a hero. the cool-thinking first officer, who seized command when captain clayton osbon suffered a midair meltdown. dowd's father-in-law, said the family was proud but not surprised. >> he's a great guy. i think he's probably one of the best son-in-laws i could have. i mean, give you the shirt off his back if you want it. >> reporter: dowd managed to get osbon out of the cockpit after the captain began talking incoherently and turning off the jet's radios. once osbon left the flight deck, dowd called an off-duty pilot to help in the cockpit, lock the door, and urged passengers to restrain the troubled captain. then dowd and the offduty pilot both radioed for help. >> 191, declaring an emergency. jetblue, 1 morning we're going to have to go in

bob orr found out what we never knew in a pakistani police report. >> reporter: when osama bin laden fled the u.s. invasion of y heanistan in 2001 officials say he spent a year hiding in the rugged mountains near the pakistan border. but the decade between his escape and his killing by u.s. navy seals has always been a blank page. now this pakistani police report says bin laden's youngest wife, amall amall achmed abdul fateh say she and the al qaeda leaders spent nine years moving among safe houses scattered across pakistan. during those years she gave birth to four of bin laden's children. after the 9/11 attacks, fateh briefly split from bin laden and fled with their infant daughter to pakistan. for nearly nine months she and the baby took refuge in the teeming city of karachi. fateh says she then reunited with bin laden in 2002 in peshawar and that's when their series of moves began. they moved to swat and spent eight or nine months splitting their time in two houses. from there, the bin ladens tracked to haripur, a small town near the near the capital of islamabad. for two years t

the new york to las vegas flight made an emergency landing at amarillo, texas, bob orr has been talking to his sources at the f.a.a. and in law enforcement, and he's pieced together what happened. >> reporter: jet blue 191 was three and a half hours into its flight, with 135 passengers on board. when the incident began. a passenger who asked not to be identified said the captain of the plane left the cockpit, and began walking through the cabin asking random questions. >> he stopped, talked to the guy next to me and put his arm on him and said are you okay, and the guy was like yeah, i'm fine, and he's like are you sure you're okay, the guy is like i'm sure i'm fine. it was really weird. >> reporter: suddenly the captain bolted towards the front of the plane, the co-pilot alarmed by the captain's odd behavior, had locked the cockpit door. >> he was knocking on the cockpit trying to get in, screaming let me in, very quickly maybe six or eight big new yorkers basically pinned him to the ground. >> reporter: david gonzalez was one of the tacklers. >> once i got involved and i was able to g

justice correspondent bob orr has the latest. >> reporter: in the three weeks since trayvon martin was killed inside gated florida community, neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman has maintained he shot martin in self-defense. but attorney benjamin crump, who represents martin's family, says the unarmed teenager was targeted because of his race. >> arrest george zimmerman for the killing of trayvon martin in cold blood today. >> reporter: crump said on the night of the shooting martin was heading home from the store and on the phone with his girlfriend. in a telephone interview, the young woman told crump she listened as martin was suddenly confronted by a stranger. the girlfriend said she urged martin to run away and he responded that he would walk fast. at around the same time, zimmerman made a call to the sanford, florida, police to report a suspicious person in his neighborhood. >> reporter: what happened next is the critical question. a law enforcement source says zimmerman told police he began retreating to his car and only fired his weapon after martin jumped him from be

bob orr has the story. wildfires turn deadly in the colorado mountains. barry petersen is on the scene. and seth doane on a hey school that saves lives. turning addicts into graduates. >> for me sobriety is life. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. pelds good evening. in the fight over president obama's health care law, this was the main event. today the nine justices of the supreme court heard arguments on the part of the law that requires all americans to have health insurance or pay a fine. it's called

it's starting to affect the orr all retu overall returns. >> thank you very much, bob. >>> it's been pretty smooth sailing so far this year. but are we headed for resistance? john kozar joining us for the technical side of things. he made a really spot on prediction last year calling for a bottom back in early august. let's hope you're correct this time, john. great to have you on the show. >> thank you. >> please tell me we haven't seen the best levels so far this year. >> this year i think we probably are going to see better levels. but i think it may be more of a later part of the year, perhaps q4 story. >> why is that? what are the charts telling you that makes you say that, john? >> the charts look almost the opposite to us as they did back in august where you're seeing really a very low vix, which means everybody's unafraid. you're seeing some frothy breath statistics. extremely bullish sentiment by retail trend followers who tend to be wrong at the turns. almost like an inverse of what we've seen before. if you think about it from october through this morning, low to high, the