let's get the latest from charlie d'agata in london. good morning, charlie. >> reporter: good morning. bp has finally given boss tony hayward the boot, though the company said it was deeply saddened hayward would be stepping down, but he walks away with a year's salary plus benefits plus a retirement worth a million dollars a year for life. tony hayward won't be bp's ceo much longer. early this morning, the company announced he'll step down october 1st and will be nominated for a new role at bp's joint venture in russia. the energy giant released this statement saying the decision was made by mutual agreement. for nearly two months, hayward was the face of bp's response in the gulf. >> i'm devastated by the accident. absolutely devastated. >> reporter: but he came under fire after his many missteps and misstatements. >> nobody wants this thing over more than i do. i'd like my life back. >> reporter: bp also announced hayward's replacement, current chief operating officer and mississippi native bob dudley. >> it's tragic. >> reporter: dud

charlie d'agata reports from london. >>> reporter: so you're in the gym, feeling the burn. you're hot and dying of thirst. the first thing you would want to grab is a big bottle of water, right? >> just want something cold and refreshing i would think, yeah. >> reporter: but british researchers say you would be better off sipping a nice cup of tea. doctors say they want to bag the common myth that tea is dehydrating. >> i think because tea contains caffeine, there is a thought that caffeine might cause the body to lose fluids but when you drink in moderate amounts of tea that appears not to be the case. >> reporter: researchers to two groups of men, they served one tea over 12 hours, the other the same amount of water. they ran tests and found tea drinkers were even more hydrated than those who drank water. doctors aren't sure why. but in a nation of total tea junkies, they are proud their beloved brew beat out plain old h2o. >> he is english. so it's a british thing. so i'm not going to knock it. [ laughter ] >> reporter: so next time you're feeling a bit parched, go on, a

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charlie d'agata, cbs news. >>> 15 people died in a stampede and raid in germany. hundreds of thousands of party- goers attended the love parade festival. police were trying to piece together exactly what led to the panic but they say the stampede happened in a crowded tunnel after they turned away thousands from going into the already overcrowded parade grounds. >>> it has been nearly two months since a deadly rain in daly city. could the activity at the cow palace be a sign of the new direction for the troubled facility? >>> plus tour buses stopped by chp. what drivers had to prove before they could leave. >>> i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the cbs 5 weather center. we're kind of stuck in the summer dole drums and low clouds and fog around parts of the bay area and cooler weather is ahead. we will talk about that coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, troubled facilty. >>> the debut of a weekly farm ler's market at the cow palace could signal a new direction for the troubled facility. local and state officials helped bring the market to an area that has little access to

i'm charlie d'agata in london.'ll have the story coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "meg whitman says she'll run california like her company..." seen this attack on meg whitman? who are these people? they're the unions and special interests behind jerry brown. they want jerry brown because, he won't "rock the boat," in sacramento. he'll be the same as he ever was. high taxes. lost jobs. big pensions for state employees. the special interests have chosen their governor. how about you? 27th of july. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> good morning. a view of the bay bridge from high atop world headquarters of cbs 5 at battery and broadway. >> we have had low clouds and fog keeping it cool around the bay area. >> i think maybe in a couple of days we might be seeing a little warming. we'll leave it to the experts. >> i'm not going to complain. >>> elizabeth, how are things going? >> elizabeth can complain. >> i can complain easy. i complain every morning. [ laughter ] >>> in hay

charlie d'agata shows us afghan security forces are struggling to secure the country. >> reporter: afghan police struggled to control an angry mob shouting, death to america! the chaos on the street of kabul broke out during what's become the deadliest month for u.s. forces in afghanistan. the u.s. military says the death toll has reached at least 66, with six more soldiers killed in roadside bombings in an attack by insurgents. that breaks the record set only last month when 60 americans died. the u.s. and nato commanders warn, casualties will climb as forces go on the offensive. pushing further into taliban territory and take the fight to the enemy. [ sound of gunfire ] >> 200 meters! >> i see them! >> reporter: president obama has ordered up 30,000 more u.s. troops to afghanistan to help turn the tide against determined taliban fighters. total foreign troop levels are now nearing a peak of 150,000 as the nine-year war rages on. charlie d'agata cbs 5. >> you can see the conditions that our men and women overseas face there in afghanistan. and it prompted maureen in san rafael to ask thi

charlie d'agata, cbs news, london. >>> a standing room only medical conference at stanford universitye topic, the dangers of sitting. experts gathered to talk about the health risks of inactivity. brian noonan shows us it's in the a problem we can afford to "sit" and ponder. >>> reporter: no exercise? eating poorly? lack of sleep? now add sitting too long to that list for a unhealthy lifestyle. >> could lead to obesity, diabetes. >> reporter: tackling the topic. >> when you talk about multiple days of continuous inactivity. >> reporter: at stanford researchers are discussion the long-term effects of sitting. >> when people stay still for a long period of time, that things can start to change in their body either metabolically or through their muscles, and this looked like something that could actually print a health hazard. >> reporter: some of our habits in question? television watching. being in the car. and working at the office. >> get the questionnaire, occupation, as a intervention site -- >> work is a big part of this whole thing. >> even though i'm also running around at work