every year byron ween comes out a list with his surprises for the year, political and economic. every year he nails a lot and just misses a few. byron joins me now with a look at what he says will happen for the rest of the year. >> always good to be here. >> when you talk about your surprises, let's look at some of yo your predictions for 2012. some have already happened. i'm struck by oil at $85 a barrel. >> that's a reach. >> why do you think that oil is going to go down to $85? >> i think this hydraulic fracking for oil and gas is a very big deal. i refer to it as the game changer. we've got a lot of oil in reservoirs in rock. this is oil that we would get out of reservoirs if we could hang around for 10 million more years because the oil would seep through the rock into reservoirs. but by taking it out of the rook w rock and there is a lot of it. >> do you think oil where it is right now, comfortably above $100 a barrel is overpriced? >> i do. i think there is an iran premium in it right now. i think the normal price is around 100 but i think if i'm right about this hydraul

byron joins me with a look at what he says will happen for the rest of the year. great to have you on the program. >> always good to be here. >> always good to see you, particularly when you're talking about your surprises. let's look at some of your predictions for 2012. >> okay. >> and some have already happened. right? >> yeah. >> fairly optimistic. but i'm struck by oil at $85 a barrel. surprise. >> right, that's a reach. >> why do you think that oil is going to go down to $85? >> maria, i think this hydraulic tra fracking for oil and gas as game-changing. we've got a lot of oil in reserves, in rock. this is oil we would get out of reservoirs if we could hang around for 10 million more years because the oil would seep through the rock into reservoirs. by taking it out of the rock we get it early and there's a lot of it. >> there's a lot of oil in the world. do you think oil where it is right now, comfortably above $100 a barrel, is overpriced? >> i do. i think there's an iran premium in it right now. i think the normal price around $100. but i think if i'm rig

byron munich on their moment sure hope. also must take catch up tonight but in this league a side lost away to switch sides at basel three weeks ago good news for the germans is that influential midfielder posture. could start for the first time since early february after recovering from ligament damage. and once put on we have to believe in ourselves and use our strength and time which would have shown often this season michael did not subsidy trust announcer and with the support of our friends we can beat the disease on sloane norms. all right let's stay with football where the first merseyside derby of twenty twelve gets going in a few hours time liverpool hosting everton for the two hundred seventeen time in their history goes into the game after losing three and a rule in the league series which leaves county georgia sitting seventh everton maybe two spots believe their cross-town rivals but how can being beaten in over two months victory for the toffees elite from the plus one. both right and wrong are one for maybe.

byron pitts was there for the homecoming.ause) >> reporter: it took pope benedict xvi six days, 8,547 miles to arrive here in havana's historic revolution square. >> the most beautiful seaside boulevard in the world. >> reporter: by comparison, 72-year-old rosendo castillo of miami went the long way. you were last in cuba when you were 15 years old. >> that's right. >> reporter: so it's been 57 years. >> correct. >> reporter: welcome home. >> yes. whoo. it's home. la patria. >> reporter: he was not alone. an estimated 800 cuban americans made this pilgrimage to see the pope. many were overcome by the experience. >> and this was the main entrance. >> reporter: castillo took us by his hold high school. his father was a wealthy sugar plantation owner. the family lost it all in castro's revolution in 1959. andy gomez traveled here with castillo. he, too, was born in cuba. a teacher at the university of miami, gomez says an estimated 400,000 americans are now permitted to visit this island annually for humanitarian reasons. >> i t

byron pitts is in santiago tonight. byron? >> reporter: high, scoot, people began arriving here well before sunrise for tonight's mass. as we discovered, the curious may well outnumber the devout. here in hard scrabble santiago, as in much of cuba, making ends meet often takes priority over mass. catholic churches are often all but empty while most cubans say they're catholic, far less than 10% are practicing. this is called santeria, a caribbean blend of west african pagan traditions and catholicism born out of slavery. from latin songs that mirror american gospel to animal sacrifices. while catholics have priests, followers of santeria have holy men. juan gomez is a holy man, machete in hand. to sister elena gomez, she's a pentecostal christian. explain what you have on, it's beautiful. "this is what a black slave wore when he fled to the mountains and became a holy man" gomez told me. "red is for life, black is for death, white is for piece and the ma shet city to defend yourself." elena gomez says she converted to christia

harry reasoner met one and two decades later byron pitts found her still earning her wings. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the pentagon is drawing up plans for military action in syria, although the defense secretary said today that would be a last resort. for almost a year syria's dictator, bashar al-assad, has been killing his own people, tr trying to crush a popular uprising. more than 7,000 civilians have died. his army buried the city of homs in artillery fire. homs, a city of more than a million people and a center of the resistance, fell last thursday. today assad let a u.n. representative into homs to see the the devastation. there was almost nobody there. the u.n. says that assad has committed crimes against humanity. today for the first time the obama here's david martin. >> reporter: with the syrian army's assault on the opposition gather gathering steam, president obama has directed the pentagon to begin preliminary planning for what had once been all but ruled out, military intervention. jo

and byron pitts on how a poster child for america's obesity epidemic became a model for turning it around. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you're one of the millions of americans invested in the stock market maybe through your 401(k) plan, chances are your nest egg is worth more tonight than when you left for work this morning. stocks reached heights today that we haven't seen in years. have a look. the dow gained more than 217 points, closing at 13,177. that's the highest close since december of '07. the nasdaq posted its highest finish since december of 2000. an and the s&p 500, the highest since june of '08. look at look at how far the dow has come in just five months. it is it is up nearly 24%. j.p. morgan chase sparked the market advance today when it announced that it passed the federal reserves latest test that that examines whether a bank is healthy enough to stand a severe recession. anth anthony mason has more now about about the results of these so- called stress tests. anthony. >> mason: the federal rese

byron pitts, cbs news, santiago. >> glor: we'll be right back. >> it appears tiger woods may be back on course. today in orlando, woods won his first pga tour title in two and a half years. for more on the very try and the streak it ended, here's tony guida. >> reporter: tiger woods is back. his long, dark night without a pga tour win, two and a half years, ended in the late afternoon sunshine of the arnold palmer invitational in orlando. >> it feels really good. >> reporter: woods owns this tournament. it's the seventh time he's won it, but woods couldn't buy a victory anywhere on the tour after crashing his car outside his former home in november 2009 amid reports he was cheating on his wife with a nightclub hostess. and when a blizzard of bimbos surfaced, woods hit bottom. >> i am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior. >> reporter: today with the scandal and the series of injuries behind him, woods could saver redemption. >> it was incredible to have that type of support here. >> reporter: now he hopes to win another major, the masters in 11 days. tony guida, cbs

byron pitts takes a look at the pope's historic visit. >> reporter: as the sun sets and another day inantiago, government workers finished up final touches in preparation for pope benedict's open-air mass here monday evening. in some places the smell of fresh paint overpowers the smell of a good cuban cigar. father castillo is 77 years old. he taught at fordham university in new york and is now a priest in santiago. what does it mean to have the pope in cuba? >> it is a present that invites to have more faith, more hope, more solidarity. >> reporter: for all the posters and enthusiasm, cuba is the least catholic country in latin america. communist party banned christmas until pope john paul visited in 1998. while most cubans are catholic, far less than 10% are considered practicing. most churches draw modest crowds for mass. the african tradition is far more popular, a mix of catholicism and west african rituals born out of slavery and widely practiced across the island. the pope's visit comes at a time of deepening economic hardship and increased privately run businesses. very small b

byron pitts, cbs news, guthrie, oklahoma. >>> good for him. i like his motto. don't quit.trucking. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on santorum's big surge in the south and what's next for newt gingrich. >>> more with prince harry. he talks about a charity close to his heart and george clooney on why he's testifying before the senate foreign relations committee today. that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching everyone. i'm betty nguyen. thanks for watching everyone. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com of a new storm system movini >>> when it rains it powers. the bay area in for another rainy day. team coverage of a

>>neil: thank you, byron. republican started class warfare, anarch -- the republican congressman is pushing for tax hikes on the right. the governor got no love for what this guy want dozen do tonight at 6:00 p.m. schumer praising the saudis for pumping more oil. you thought the sheik hit the fan yesterday? wait until you hear the donald. oh! [ baby crying ] ♪ what started as a whisper ♪ every day, millions of people choose to do the right thing. ♪ slowly turned to a scream ♪ there's an insurance company that does that, to liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? ♪ amen, omen chocolate lemonade ? susie's lemonade... the movie. or... we make it pink ! with these 4g lte tablets, you can do business at lightning-fast spes. we'll take all the strawberries, dave. you got it, kid. we have a winner. we're definitely gonna need another one. small sinesses that want to grow use 4g lte technology from verizon. i wonder how she does it. that's why she's the boss. because the small business with the b

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for one doctor there, byron pitts tells us, treating the sick is more than just a job, it's a calling what are you going to do to take care of this? >> nothing. >> what do you mean nothing? >> reporter: folks in tutwiler, mississippi, say sister ann brooks is a savior. in part because she is the only doctor in town. >> hi, michael! can i come in? >> reporter: she sees 8,500 patients a year from around the mississippi delta. mississippi that has highest rate of infant mortality and obesity in the nation. one out of three in this county lives in poverty. in seven out of ten who walk through her door have no way to pay. >> they come in here with really incredible disease processes. that's why when people come and they have no money we take care of them. >> reporter: how do you afford to do that? >> well... (laughs) i'm a sucker. >> reporter: dr. brooks has been treating patients here for 28 years. at aged 73, she still works 12 hours a day, seven days a week. >> last year i spent $48,000 buying medicine for people who couldn't afford it. but who would have died if they had not had medici

byron pitts tells us about an oklahoma boy who turned his life around and now he's helping others do that's good. >> reporter: for 12-year-old mason harvey, a healthy fruit smoothy was not his after-school drink of choice a year ago. back then in sixth grade he todayed 206 pounds. today he's 85 pounds lighter. what made you decide to lose so much weight? >> >> bullies. started in third grade. they would call me names and push me around. >> >> reporter: what was like what? what? >> fat and jello roll or stuff like that. >> how is that cake and ice cream. >> reporter: the more he was teased the more mason ate. his parents mike and julie harvey they were unintentional enablers. how is it possible that an 11-year-old boy would get up to 206 pounds? >> that's a tough question. it really is. we never we never looked at him as fat. we never called him obese. we never we never told him, mason, you've got to lose weight. >> reporter: but mason was set up with the bullying. so he so he began to take small steps. he hit he hit the gym, stopped drinking soda pop. no no more burgers or pizza. >>

and byron pitts is there. >> reporter: there is no mistaking the timeless moves and music that remainnicly cuban. but from the streets of santiago in the south to havana on the northern tip, there's a new sound and it's getting louder. the songs of the self employed. the advantage of owning my business, said this sculptor, i am the boss of me. he's bun of 300,000 cubans to run the, their own business in the past year. all in the shakeup to the economy since castro took power. nail salons, restaurants, fruit and vegetable stands have all taken root. this is in the heart of downtown santiago. the cuban government closed the street to cars and trucks in an effort to increase local commerce. it's one more small admission that the old way of doing business here no longer worked. at this barber shop, daniel garcia perez started cutting hair at 16, he was a barber in the state-run shop for 29 years. guess who owns the shop now? i feel really good, perez told us, and like a good entrepreneur, he reminded us time is money. so we talked while he gave me a shave. i charge double now, he said. i

byron wien. >> brian sullivan is still with us here.th a look now at where we are with veterans in the united states. >> a bit of a special segment we're doing. then i'll get out of your hair, guys. here's the story. just getting the number from the bureau of labor statistics about unemployment and employment among u.s. veterans both having served in the gulf wars, korean war, world war ii, et cetera. end of 2011 annualized number of 8.3%. statistically about in line with the rest of the u.s. population as well. here's the problem, though, guys. the young -- what they call the young veterans, those who served post september 2001, the gulf war veterans, the young ones at that, 18 to 24, young male veterans age 18 to 24 had an unemployment rate of 29.1% at the end of 2011. that is 12% worse than the overall population. so the point, guys, is this. is that young, particularly male veterans, i think it's a national disgrace, coming out are not able to get jobs. in fact, about 1 in 3 is unemployed or was at the end of 2011. and this is why a

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byron york joins us. good evening. byron. let's go first to what rush limbaugh says and he says that president obama can't take credit for the southern part of the pipeline. is he right or not? >> the controversial part of the pipeline is the part that brings the oil from canada down to the texas coast for refining. there is a sort of bottle neck of oil in oklahoma and this part of the pipeline from cushing down to the refineries will help but the whole point of the keystone xcel pipeline had been to bring the 700,000 and 800,000-barrels of oil a day down from the canadian oil fields. that is not happening. >> greta: could the president have stopped this part? or is this something he could have prevented the southern part? >> presidential approval is required for the international part of the pipeline. for a domestic thing it is not a presidential decision. the arm army corps of engineers and other agencies approve it but it is not at the presidential level. >> greta: if the president doesn't have to approve of the central or

and byron pitts on how a poster child for america's obesity epidemic became a model for turning it around. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is a special western eddies, good evening. as the critical test tonight for the republican presidential candidates battling it out in primaries in the deep south. the polls are closed now, and in alabama and mississippi based on our exit polls in alabama first, cbs news estimates that rick santorum has a slight edge but in mississippi exit polls indicate it is a close three way race, santorum, mitt romney and newt gingrich, a key voting group there, of conservatives are split almost evenly among santorum, romney and gingrich, we have campaign 2012 correspondents with the candidates tonight and first we will go to wyatt andrews in liberty, missouri with the romney campaign, wyatt. >> scott, mitt romney is running very strongly in both miss ssippi and in alabama and it is because of one key statistics the high percentage of voters that say the economy is their number one issue an

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byron, good morning to you. not too overstating it to say this is a day that could change thing for every american for years to come. >> absolutely. this would be a huge fact it for president obama, obamacare, the national health care law, is his signature achievement of his time in office so far. having it struck down as unconstitutional or having the heart of it struck down as unconstitutional would be a major blow and major boon for mitt romney, rick santorum, newt gingrich, the republicans vying to replace him. you go to their rallies. every single rally the top applause line comes when the candidate pledges to repeal obamacare. jon: even democrats seem nervous about some of the prospects. congressman john larson was asked, what happens if the court strikes down the individual mandate? here's what he said? >> redouble the efforts and take to the streets, understanding that america is with us on this. understanding what this would mean in terms of women's health, alone. what it means in terms of the disparity

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i thought this was the signature piece of legislation, byron? >> absolutely. what did president obama do yesterday appear at a hospital with doctors and nurses talking about this law? no. he was in front of oil pipelines in oklahoma. he trying to put out fires in all sorts of fronts. he does not want to reignite opposition to obamacare. bill: we just found this on his re-election website. it is all about health care online. read it about there. there is the website on screen. you have a cbo report this week that suggested it could be twice the price in the end. ongoing debate over contraception. and supreme court as we mentioned takes it up next week. would it be smart for him to lay low? >> well he could, but the republicans are not going to let him do it. i've already gotten tons of e-mails this morning from the republican presidential campaigns and republicans on capitol hill about things they will be saying about obamacare today. if you go on the campaign trail, doesn't matter, romney, santorum, gingrich, ron paul, they're all pledging to repeal obamacare

among them was senator byron dorgan of north dakota. >> what does it mean if we have all this concentration and merger activity? well, the bigger they are, the less likely this government can allow them to fail. >> were you aware of the few senators who raised real concerns about removing glass-steagall, about what would happen? >> no one that i'm aware of it saw it clearly. you point out to some senators and congressmen who did, but mehow weescribedhem as being pipheral. and i simply sa, wrond out they weren't. >>i thr dorgan predicted sae compartments whh ulveee wod' h aiste th'sheeaise.te in e exuberance. tusutoavbn omhi wl,ompeleowayheean, t pofs erol eaedt t d ac le ince dikevytngls, o ul bke a wnooc ni reuls >u di'tsk the pson, the homeowner whohoserour g. show me proof of your savings." >> that'right. but can you imagine that you publicly acknowledge that you were creating products and sellg emntthmae that had no documentation or less than normal required documentation? and this was -- it's sort of like taking a product and puina on it and saying, "this might be oin,anpuinit on the s

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