i was very lucky in that, the brenners are a family of letter writers. everyone had a typewriter in the era before computers and bang away at typewriters in the middle of the night as children and my father and mother, long, long letters. anita brenner turned out to be the same kind of obsessive letter-writer pack right. all of her letters were in the university of texas, the great archives of the world. i was able to go on a traumatic day and see she had neatly kept hundreds of letters that my father and family wrote to each other in the 20s. i saw patterns, the anger that had gone on 60 years before i was on the planet that became stamped on us. it became our dna. >> anything that helped you get insight as to why so much of your brother's anger and passion into what you regarded as coo coo politics? >> that is an interesting question. it is hard. what

. >> gawande: brenner's immediate response was to get involved in police reform. he thought if he could get a hold of crime statistics he could map hotspots, the places where good policing would make a difference. but the department wasn't interested in helping a local doctor. so he went to another place, one he knew well-- the hospital. there, buried in billing records from the er, where violent assaults get treated, he found crime patterns. as he crunched the hospital data, brenner discovered something totally unexpected-- other kinds of hotspots. >> it became clear that there were hotspots of everything. there were hotspots by disease, hotspots by patient. there were certain patients who had been, over and over and over, going to the emergency room and hospital too much. there were hotspots by zip code and by neighborhood. so you sit and begin to look through the data, and i'm looking at my patients who are in the data, and realizing i had no idea how much health care cost. i had no idea how expensive it was. and it was just shocking. >> gawande: brenner says t

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. >> reporter: joel brenner, america's top counterintelligence official until 2009, says their electronic espionage efforts are relentless. how often are these attacks happening? >> around the clock. >> reporter: every day? >> every day. it goes on all the time, seven days a week. >> reporter: state-sponsored spies have repeatedly hacked government servers at the pentagon and stolen corporate secrets from u.s. car makers and chemical companies. chinese hackers are also blamed for attacks on large information systems, including google's networks. it's not known how much has been stolen or at what cost, but reliable estimates put the loss at more than $100 billion a year. in this computer age, cyber espionage is increasingly replacing cloak-and-dagger. >> if you can steal massive amounts of information from other people's networks from halfway around the world, you don't need a spy to penetrate the organization. >> reporter: the new intelligence report warns cyber attacks are going to escalate, calling them, scott, a growing and persistent threat to the u.s. economy's security. >> pelley: b

brenner told us if at all possible we should try to disconnect the grid from the public internet. >> pelley: bob, thank you very much. republican presidential contender herman cain is trying to get his campaign back on track, meeting today with former secretary of state henry kissinger. but the allegations of sexual harassment have not gone away. one of at least three accusers wants to tell her side of the story and her lawyer says the woman may put out a where i am statement tomorrow. cain for his part insist he is has never harassed anyone. science finds a way to slow the aging process. the makers of the diabetes drug avandia will pay a record settlement. and a monster iceberg in the making when the "cbs evening news" continues. [ timers ringing ] [ male announcer ] it's that time of year. time for campbell's green bean casserole. you'll find the recipe at campbellskitchen.com. ♪ campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. that's why there's crest pro-health clinical gum protection. it helps eliminate plaque at the gum line, helping prevent gingivitis. it's even clinically proven to

the next reader is summer brenner. . >> i'm going it read today an excerpt from anana, queen of heaven and earth. i wanted to say a few words about anana. this is the oldest literary work that we have. these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he will no longer bathe in aradu. he will no longer treat the mother of anana of his mother. he will no longer perform his sweet task among the maidens of the city. he will no longer raise his sword higher

. >> reporter: joel brenner, america's top counter 2009, says electronic espionage efforts are relentless happening? >> around the clock. >> reporter: every day? >> every day. it goes on all the time, seven days a week. >> reporter: state sponsored spies have repeatedly hacked government servers at the pentagon and stolen corporate secrets from u.s. car makers and chemical companies. chinese hackers are also blamed for attacks on large information systems, including google's networks. it is not known how much has been stolen or at what cost, but reliable estimates put the loss at more than $100 billion a year. in this computer age, cyberespionage is slowly replacing cloak and dagger. >> if you can steal massive amounts of information from other people's networks from halfway around the world, you don't need a spy to penetrate the organization. >> reporter: and the new intelligence report warns cyberattacks are going to escalate, calling them a growing and persistent threat to economic security. bob orr, cbs news, washington. >>> i'm betty nguyen. this is the "cbs morning news." country su

and research scientists lance brenner explains exactly what will happen. >> it is actually moving straight us from one direction and then whizzing by and straightaway from us in the other direction. its motion across the sky will be close to 180 degrees over the course of two days. >>> there is no need to plan a watch party. it will be too dim to see the asteroid with the naked eye and it is moving too fast for the hubble telescope to capture an image. >>> all right, we're less than three weeks away from thanksgiving. local food banks are worried more families than ever will be left in need and so we want to remind you that we here at channel 9 are sponsoring food drive 9. we're looking for your donations of nonperishable foods and other items like the ones that you see behind us on the set. go to our web site at wusa9.com and find donation links to the capital area food bank as well as other food charities across our area. 9news now is also teaming up with the boy scouts to make donating food easy. last saturday, the scouts dropped off empty bags at homes throughout our region and this sa

brenner says : "it's almost like a polish captain ully who landed in the hudson a while ago.ldn't ask for a more picture perfect landiig without any landing rushing o put out a small safety. brenner says "what i'm moot amazed at, is after that plane stopped emergency crews are right there putting the fire retardant on that aircraft cause that metal right now s you know is probably soohot "(on cam tag) the plane was carrying amazingly, none of the passengers were huut.... the carrier. in london, coming up... fox news. jaw-dropping accusations... against pop star, justin bieber.what one girl... is speakinn out aaout.what one girl is accusing him of doing... that's taking many by surprrse. ((megan live tease)) ((joel live tease)) you're watching ox 45 morring news.. ((break 4)). all morning. bge's instant discounts got our homeowner to switch to energy star® cfl bulbs. 3-way cfls really click with my style. learn to speak the language of energy efficiency at bgesmartenergy.com. of crime... on fox 45 3 target - 3 -downtown 3 3 we have some school closings to pass along to you thi

david brenner says the scanner can deliver up to 20 times more radiation than previously thought, potentiallyncreasing the risk of cancer. but scientists at england's health protection agency says the scanners are safe for flyers to pass through, as many as 5,000 times a year. >> reporter: they say the amount of radiation you get while flying is more than you would get in two or three trips through the body scanner. >> reporter: many doctors call the radiation worries an overreaction. >> you are at higher risk driving to the airport by a long shot than any risks you may have of cancer or even deaths from that particular machine. >> reporter: e.u. says -- the e.u. says it will consider lifting a ban on the scanner fist it gets evidence they're considered safe. in london, tina kraus, wjz eyewitness news. >> the full body scanners were introduced after a 24-year-old nigerian man hid plastic explosives in his underwear to try to blow up a plane in 2009. >> what started out as a normal day for three girls takes a terrifying turn. >> i'm sorry. hello? >> we're trapped under an elevator at high scho

today's question comes from carolina brenner-cronin in darnestown, maryland and her 4- year-old daughterslie asked her the other day while they were raking leaves, mommy where do all the leaves go after the man picks them up in the truck. well, carolina also wants to know what happens to the leaves after they are collected from the curb because she realized when she daughter asked, she didn't know and we all were raking leaves during the last several days. >> i have a pain in the neck to prove it. >> sorry about that. >> today in new york? >> hasn't happened yet. >> you haven't raked your leaves? >> no. >> you were off. you didn't rake leaves. >> it is an overwhelming task. >> we'll ask an expert. we are phoning a friend this morning. joining us now, we are calling him right now. bill davidson is the chief of northern operations for the montgomery county division of solid waste services. are you there? >> good morning, tony. i'm here. >> thank you for joining us on the phone. i assume the leaves get recycled in some kind of way but can you tell us where they go. >> they get recycled. the

scott brenner former chief spokesperson for the faa good morning. >> good morning, bill.l: that is picture-perfect. i don't know if you can see it or not. anybody on board, that was, that was barely felt by the passengers inside. >> yeah, almost like a polish captain sully who landed in the hudson a while ago. you could not ask for more picture-perfect landing without any landing gear. that is what these planes are designed for. bill: that was a 767 boeing-made? >> absolutely. these aircraft, they put them through so many different kind of tests and unfortunately they don't like to run a lot of tests like these but if the captain knows he does not have landing gear he wants to land on the hardest surface he possibly can so he can prevent any kind of cratering. what you're seeing in the video is exactly what it is designed for. coming in smooth. what i'm most amazed at after that plane stops, the rescue crews are right there putting the fire retardant on that aircraft because that metal right now is probably so hot it is actually melting getting ready to catch fire. bill:

to solyndra, the one i issued was issued on a bipartisan basis with my ranking member jim stennen brenner. it was a bipartisan effort because we exhausted all other avenues for obtaining the information from the bush administration first. that has not happened here. the obama administration has been cooperating with the committee and has said it would continue to do so. the white house just yesterday offered to share internal white house emails on all issues that are being debated about the solyndra loan guarantee. by contrast, what my subpoena was, it was just two documents. one of these had been attached to a single email that epa sent or that the white house never even opened. the bush administration white house didn't just refuse to provide them voluntarily, they refused to comply with the subpoena at all until the select committee scheduled a business meeting to consider a contempt motion. this committee should accept the accommodation offer the white house made. subpoenas should be the last resort used to obtain information when the subject of an inquiry has failed to fully cooperat