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i'm bob simon. thank you for joining us. [ticking] [ticking] >> one of the threats from the great recession was the sudden surge in the number of abandoned houses. vacant homes have become so ruinous to some neighborhoods that one city, cleveland, decided it had to find a solution. perfectly good homes... once worth $75,000 and $100,000 or more... are being ripped to splinters in cleveland. [ticking] the new manned space program rocket was supposed to be called constellation. >> mm-hmm. >> and now you guys call it-- >> all: cancellation. >> unfortunately. >> they had been counting on a new space program in brevard county, florida, for years, but it didn't happen. >> and liftoff. the final liftoff of atlantis. >> and after the last space shuttle mission touched down... >> this is a matter of national pride. >> things around the kennedy space center changed in a way that may surprise you. [ticking] >> inside, you feel like a part of you has been ripped out from losing a job. >> 1/3 of the unemployed h

in tonight's first deooe diggs of "60 minutes:sports" bob simon has a rare interview with lionel messiart. one lionel messi. >> reporter: he is hailed not merely as great athlete but as an emperor or more. >> it's now messi, messi. we all worship at his feet. it's a temple. he's the high priest and that's why we're getting to worship states here. >> reporter: and barcelona isn't the only temple. hundreds of millions are watching on six continents. there are hundreds of fan clubs around the world. this is the smithfield the bar on west 128th street in new york city. it houses the clan of the messy fans and guess who ease just scored a goal. bob wineberg is a leader of the brooklyn contingent. >> messi is obviously the greatest player of all time. he place straight he plays smart, he's not huge he's just fast as hell and he's great. >> reporter: and he's got a great team behind him. the other players are responsible for more than their share of goals and they help messi as much as he helps them. when people say to you, hay leo, you are the best player in the world, how does that make you

i'm bob simon. in this edition, we examine two very different kinds of fraud. bernie madoff's wife and surviving son break their silence about wall street's most infamous criminal. and later, we visit a high school con man who figured the best way to make the grade was to cheat the s.a.t.s but first, in december 2008, bernie madoff confessed to running a $65-billion ponzi scheme, the largest financial fraud in history. while madoff is serving 150 years in prison, his family had to deal with the consequences of his crimes. his wife ruth divested of most of her great wealth and derided by a suspicious world. their son mark dead, driven to suicide by shame and accusations of guilt. their other son andrew isolated, trying to live with the disgrace. are they innocent or willing partners? in october of 2011, ruth and andrew gave their first interview since bernie madoff's arrest. they sat down with morley safer to speak out about crime, punishment, and the shame of being a madoff. >> it's a tough name to live with. >> it sure is. >> ruth madoff. you feel the shame? >

i'm bob simon. in this edition, we're going to visit with a driving force behind the resurrection of chrysler. and later, hunt for the most expensive food in the world. but first, we begin with a story about the rapidly growing trade in fake stem cell cures. many people with incurable illness look forward to the promise of stem cells. stem cells have the potential to turn into any kind of cell, and in theory, they could repair damaged cells. scientists tell us that we are years away from realizing that dream. but conmen have moved in to offer the hope that science cannot. just look online and you'll find hundreds of credible-looking websites offering stem cell cures in overseas clinics. as scott pelley reported in january 2012, the 60 minutes investigation found something even more alarming: illegal stem cell transplants that are dangerous and delivered to your doorstep. >> i know you're tired. >> adam and brandon susser are 11-year-old twins. adam has cerebral palsy, his brain was damaged by a lack

i'm bob simon. in this edition, we look at the life of tech titan steve jobs, the cofounder of apple, and we also examine the unexpected impact that one of his inventions, the ipad, is having on children and parents living with autism. in 2004, jobs asked walter isaacson, a former editor of time magazine, if he would write his biography. isaacson thought the request premature since jobs was still a young man. what he didn't know at the time, and only a few people did, was that jobs was about to undergo surgery for pancreatic cancer and was feeling his mortality. in 2009, with jobs already gravely ill, isaacson began the first of more than 40 interviews with him, the last being conducted a few weeks before his death. as steve kroft first reported in october 2011, the result was the best-selling book of the year. >> when walter isaacson first began working on the book-- which is published by simon & schuster, a division of cbs--steve jobs' wife, laurene powell, told him, "be honest with his failings a

but as bob simon first reported in 2007, getting there was half the fun. >> after a 20-hour flight toarta, indonesia, followed by a 7-hour plane ride to new guinea, we had concluded the easy part of the trip. we then boarded a single-engine plane with bruce beehler, the lead scientist from conservation international, which stirred the world with its discoveries in 2005. after an hour in the air, we were looking for a grass runway. we skirted the treetops and touched down. [people singing in native language] we landed right in the middle of a party. the guests of honor: us. >> all: [singing] >> what is going on? >> whoa, that's quite a welcome. >> who are these people? >> these are the papasena people. they seem to like you. >> when the papasena people like you, they dab you with clay. the village of papasena was our jumping-off point for the final leg up to the rain forest the next day. since the villagers owned the land we wanted to visit, we needed their blessing. >> hello mama. >> bruce was looking for one villager in particular, pak timothy, the papasena chief, the man we hoped wo

i'm bob simon.ough fraud played a significant role in the 2008 meltdown of the american economy, as of late 2012, there have been several civil suits filed against major wall street financial firms, but not a single criminal prosecution. in this edition, we look back at the 2008 financial crisis and the failure of government regulators to prosecute those who might be criminally responsible. later, lehman brothers bankruptcy investigator anton valukas shares his findings on the collapse of the giant investment bank where no senior official has ever faced charges in the biggest bankruptcy in u.s. history. but first we begin with a nine-month 60 minutes investigation looking for wall street cases that might have prosecutorial merit. in december 2011, steve kroft reported on two such cases. we begin with a woman named eileen foster, a former senior executive at countrywide financial, one of the epicenters of the crisis. >> do you believe that there are people at countrywide who belong behind bars? >> ye

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i'm bob simon. in this edition, we look at two innovative experiments in the housing and job markets aimed at solving long-term problems caused by the great recession. and later on, we examine the impact on brevard county, florida, of scuttling the space shuttle program. we begin with the housing industry. chances are the home you're in isn't worth what it used to be. you may not have indulged in the real estate bubble with its liars' loans and wall street greed, but you were stuck with the bill. and if you thought your home value couldn't drop any more, have a look up and down the block. you might say, "there goes the neighborhood." one of the threats from the great recession was the sudden surge in the number of abandoned houses. as scott pelley reported in december 2011, vacant homes become so ruinous in some neighborhoods that one city, cleveland, decided it had to find a solution. >> perfectly good homes... worth $75,000, $100,000 or more a couple of years ago... are being ripped to splinters i

as bob simon first reported in 2005, a growing number of tourists are doing just that, combing holidayst's because a growing number of countries are offering first rate medical care at third world prices. and many of these medical tourists are uninsured and can't afford healthcare at home. others go for procedures that aren't covered by their insurance, like infertility treatment or a face lift, and the hospitals in these faraway places are courting their business, trying to get more people to outsource their own healthcare. [jingly thai music] >> thailand: an exotic vacation land known for its buddhas, its beaches, its brothels, the bustle of bangkok. [car horn honks] but for people needing medical care, it's known increasingly for bumrungrad hospital, a luxurious place which claims to have more foreign patients than any other hospital in the world. it's like a united nations of patients here. they're cared for by more than 500 doctors, most with international training. the hospital has state-of-the-art technology, and here's the clincher: the price. treatment here costs about 1/8 what

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i'm bob simon. thank you for joining us. [ticking] joining us. >>> this is cnbc's special coverage of the second inauguration of barack obama. from the death threat to the nation's economic recovery, the issues that matter most to your money. here now tyler mathisen and john harbaugh. >> good morning, everybody, and welcome to cnbc's coverage of the second inauguration of barack obama. the 57th inaugural of an american president. between a half a million and 800,000 people are estimated to attend today's festivities. most of them not very close to the capitol where the swearing in will take place. that's roughly a third of the number who attended president obama's first inauguration four years ago. once again welcome, everybody. i'm tyler mathisen joined by cnbc's chief washington correspondent john harwood. great to be with you on this day of history. >> welcome to d.c. >> good to see you. the oath of office will take place in about 50 minutes, but today, of course, is all about the ceremony. you probably know this already,

will be going down to the southern ocean with four ships the steve irwin the bob barker the brigitte bardot and our new sam simon which is actually a bit of an embarrassment for the japanese because we brought up the japanese government and it was part of the whaling fleet so we now have one of their ships in in our fleet so they're going down with four ships that were going down with or were evenly matched this year they want to kill it as in wales and our objective is sure they don't kill any and that's why we're calling it operation their zero tolerance all right so end in japan of course politically things have changed they have a new prime minister who has decided to go on a war footing with china that was part of his election campaign is that he would pick a fight with china and they're on a war footing there so they they've got very much more aggressive do you think that this poses new dangers for sea shepherd this year. it does the prime ministers are meeting prime minister who happens to hail from the same town where the whaling fleet is from and he's very pro whaling and last year the prime minister th

simone, again, i can't report anything that i can't report. do you have any comments on what -- >> it would be a terrible scandal for these prostitutes to now be associated with bob> hold on, let him finish. >> see that's funny. that's pretty good. >> i would hope this is not true. but i don't know. you'd think if there were no fbi investigation, menendez would have gotten them to put out some kind of statement. he's got a big problem if he just took those trips because that's a donor, that's a huge gift and apparently he didn't report that. >> that's a really important point. these are third-party trips, in other words, they're not business trips, they're financed by a third party and none of it shows up on the ethics committee web site. >> that's a serious violation. throughout his career he's always had people reporting him to ethics panels and committees. who knows. this kind of allegation against him has been going on for some time. >> sarah? >> think about all the scandals we've had over the last ten years. when there is smoke, where has there not been fire? i think it's a troubling allegation. >> but we don't know. it's not confirmed. >> it's not confirmed

simon, "los angeles times." janet, national council of la raza and guest of our speaker. i was it the speaker for just -- i will skip the speaker for just a moment. bob wiener, newsmaker and midi member that to organize today's event. hector sanchez, chair of the national hispanic worship agenda and guest of the speaker -- leadership agenda and guest of the speaker. jeff, al jazeera, governor elect and speaker committee member who organized the event. michelle, immediate task resident, national association of hispanic journalists. larry gibbons, gannett news service. thank you all for joining us today. [applause]before becoming los angeles's 41st mayor, public service came early to antonio villaraigosa. during his youth he became a farm worker, volunteer and activist leading student walkout. this led him on a path, taking into the state assembly, city hall and the inner circle of the democratic national committee and he chaired the 2012 convention in charlotte. regarding the topic of immigration, mayor antonio villaraigosa has said the time is now to pass comprehensive immigration reform. he has slammed congress for doing nothing on the issue, yet su

simons from the "los angeles times", president and ceo and guest of the speaker. alison fitzgerald, speaker committee chair and freelance journalist. i will skip our speaker for just a moment. bob wiener, president of the robert wiener associate news, public affairs and issue strategies and he helped organize today's event. after sanchez, chair of the national hispanic leadership agenda and guest of the speaker. jeff al jazeera, governor elect, national press club speaker committee member who organized today's event. and michelle who is a national spokesperson of hispanic journalists. until yesterday. [applause] before becoming the mayor of los angeles, the 41st mayor, during his youth he became a farmworker volunteer and activist leading student walkout. this led him on the path taking him state assembly. also city hall and the inner circle of the democratic national committee, where he chaired the 2012 convention in charlotte. regarding the topic of immigration, mayor antonio villaraigosa has said that the time is now to pass comprehensive immigration reform. he has slammed congress for doing nothing on the issue. yet on sunday on face the nation he said he was heartened that

melissa and simon, was one of the reasons they saw more inflows in the fourth quarter, as these concerns about higher taxes under the fiscal cliff came into play as well. >> great points, bob york's health department finding fracking could be conducted safely in the say, according to "new york times." wayne deangelo is special counsel on energy and environmental matters in the consulting firm kellie fry. >> i would think for a lot of the companies that wand to frack in the state, this could be po templeally game changing. at the same time there's some controversy about the validity of this study, which had southbound kept secret. a copy was obtained by the times. a spokesperson say the documents is merely a victimry. nearly a year old and there would be substantial changes to that version. what do you know about this document and whether it's up to date and could be used to make the case that flacking is okay in new york? >> the study is only a years old, and i would say the biggest -- the key factor here is it is entirely consistent with what industry has been saying for years and what the data has shown. hydraulic fracturing is not new technology. it's been used for over

simon. >> for sure. sharon, thank you very much. >>> it is extraordinary on a day that we learn that the american economy didn't grow in the fourth quarter that the stock market has barely moved, bobsome people think. tails you win, heads you win. it was a crummy stock market. 've the bulls were struggling to explain it away. let me talk about why. let me answer the question that everybody keeps asking. why isn't the dow down? there's a couple of things going on. number one, there's huge momentum in stocks right now and that's very difficult to reverse even with a lousy number. secondly, the market tends to rise on fed days could be the third thing and that is the crummy number the feds will continue their stimulus and that may be a big factor here. let me show you. there is an upward bias on fed days here. we've known it for a while, but the s&p 500 is up 65% of the time on the day when the fed has its announcement. here's what's really annoying. the following day it's down 60% of the time and the average loss is 0.4%. if you average it out over the two days it's about the same. the numbers don't go anywhere. it's the first day that always really matters. also don't just look at