white introduced young leaders to charlotte, the spider in his classic, "charlotte's web." elaine quijano takes a look at this tale of loyalty and friendship and the painful realities of life and death. >> reporter: e.b. white's classic, "charlotte's web," has sold millions of copies, and spawned two movies. >> my name is charlotte,. >> reporter: the story centers on the friendship between sharyl orbit a spider, and wilbur, a pig destined for slaughter. writer e.b. white based wilbur on an actual sickly pig from his farm in maine says sirnl the author of "the story of charlotte's web." >> he did everything he could to save him. stayed up all night, had the veterinarian over. nothing worked. the pig died and he's much more sad than heute aught to have been and it stays in his mind. >> reporter: as for the spider, white's barn was filled with them, and for her name, he consulted with experts. >> and he discovered he had the wrong scientific name for the spired. he learned name was name was arraignia kavadica. >> reporter: even as charlotte saefsz kill burr's life with her cle

. >> thank you, charlotte. >> well, thank you, everybody, for coming here today. as you can see, there was excitement in the air when the mayor of paris comes to san francisco and i want to welcome him, i want to welcome the council general office as well, this is an exciting moment for me, waiting 6 years since his last visit is too long, not to renew a friendship to this city which has been historic friendship and one of the most dynamic sister city relationships that we have, i noticed in our room we have other numbers of our other sister cities, manila and gosh, there's so many, cork, and other regions that also -- and our other council generals that are here today, thank you so much for coming and frn council blats for enjoying this moment, there is a lot to be gained by our sister city and especially with paris, i was informing the mayor of my first trip to paris, it's been my only trip which is why i have to go officially, but that was 1969 was my very first trip to pear ris as a high school student, as a high school choir of high school in seattle, we rais

classic charlotte's we has sold millions of copies. friendship between charlotte and wilbur. on an actual sickly pig from his farm in maine. >>> everything he could to save the fly. worked with son. nothing worked. the pig dies and he's much more sad than he ought to have been. and it stays in his mind. >>> even if charlotte saved the pig's life, why allow charlotte to die. so moved when he recorded the audio book 20 years after the book was published that it took him 17 takes to read about charlotte's death without breaking down. >>> milestone today for a group of boy scouts in portland , maine. 1,000 pumpkins in less than an hour. retreat to help children with life threatening illnesses. their goal is to raise about $6,000 from the event. no word yet if they reached their goal. but all the hard work will be displayed at a mall for the next couple days. >> just ahead, the red sox have a new skipper. huge news in the swimming world. and you know, we'll talk about the big game. break it down. it's all in a minute. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. delicious. but sa

i have -- charlotte was a sweet person, she reminded me i was old and i was in paris now for 11 years, i had the opportunity to work with my great friend, thanks to tom horn, that's in the [inaudible] that this working relationship and eternal relationship with tom, so with the team amongst mr. lee, i could understand that the relationship between san francisco and paris is not just a friendship, it could be a very efficient relationship and i will have the pleasure tomorrow to visit various places where there's a common dynamic between paris and san francisco have made innovations, technology and the spirit of enterprise and all those elements together enable a concrete relationship between paris and san francisco and even remember it last time, with had a virtual highway between san francisco and paris, we started this virtual highway, it had a lot of babies and a lot of [inaudible] in paris and in san francisco was created, were developed from this common belief that we had in innovation, in research and with the need of building economic development on new technology, on new ways

. >> 60 years of "charlott web." it's warmed millions of young hearts and teaches a very important lesson about friendship. all that and so much more on cbs "this morning saturday," saturday, october 20, 2012. >>> welcome to the weekend. we begin with a countdown to the pivotal final debate between president obama and republican challenger mitt romney. monday night in boca raton, florida. cbs news political news correspondent jan crawford isn't far from there in daytona beach. jan, good morning. >> reporter: well good morning. romney was here last night for a big rally. it's expected to be his last major event going into monday night's debate and with the polls tightening many of those national polls showing romney in the lead. the president on a campaign trail has really sharpened his it yesterday when it got personal. president obama actually came up with a new word and last night in that rally romney had an indirect although not too subtle answer. at a rally in virginia the president introduced a new word in the p

. >> yes, dear friends, i'm very happy to be back in san francisco because charlotte waits for me. [laughter]. >> i [inaudible] charlotte and i don't go in san francisco six years ago, so my english is very bad, and i am going to speak french. (speaking french). >> i'm very happy to be here again. first of all, because san francisco and paris are both very great cities, american and french cities and i cannot think with great emotion that between the american people and the french people, history has given us the best of the friendships and our time tokt together, it called freedom, democracy, to the dignity of all human people, and certainly san francisco and paris are an emblem of the link that exists between the french and the american people. there's something very magical about san francisco, the golden gate that i know now well, but there's a style of life, there's an art of life, there's a way of living together but being different and respecting the freedom of each other. the other privilege for paris is we've always played a role to create a very rich and strong relationsh

charlotte was surprised by the test results. mother of 2 among the first people to be tested for a wide range of industrial chemicals. test revealed that her body contained mercury lead cosmetics. i felt violated charlotte reported. she was upset about the pesticide. i never used them in my house, never on my lawn. i bought organic whenever i could. her body contained several variations of organic chlorines designed to attack nervous systems of insects. i never bought it. isn't that trespassing. i tell this in my story of mary broon. mary never felt called to be an environmentalist she was nursing her 6 month daughter olivia and a story had been done by texas tech where they looked at breast milk samples, all were contaminated with rocket fuel. i was stunned, i thought breast milk was as pure as it came for food source. i was up all night thinking about it. i tell the story about michelle from california whose family was the first family to be monitored in the oakland tribune. it stunned even scientists. the tests found many of

to us about the economic situation particularly in mechanic levenburg -- mecklenburg county and charlotte, which is a big banking center. >> it is primarily a finance center. we have been working to expand our energy base as well with duke energy as kind of a hub of that. but historically has been finance center. we took strong hit in 2008 when wachovia and bank of america both got hit pretty strong. that said, it's still finance town. >> ann in aurora, colorado, is our next caller. she's on our line for independents. go ahead, ann. >> hi, thank you. i used to work for one of the large financial firms and interested because north carolina is a large financial center and romney touted as businessman to get the economy going. but he said that he's going to reverse frank dodd and i think he was pandering to tea partiers after that. so i think that was maintained to pandering to the independents. as best i can tell, he and ryan's policy assimilates accounts in britain, which is now in a full-blown recession. so i think no one can tell what romney is truly saying or speaking. he changes freque

both charlotte and an drea did as well. charlotte at 15 years and joe airna and i 15 years. that's how we got in this program. we practiced very hard. very, very hard we practiced everyday and we have been been in india practicing 8 times where our teacher is from. yes. >> yes. >> well there are similarities all of southeast asia. we performed in bali with a group. it's a story from the [inaudible] and so the indian epiics actually the indian epiics for very common in cambodia and bali and thailand and there is a different aesthetic. all southeast asia and asia there are a lot of similarities. >> he is a male entity. he is not -- are you referring to the story? >> it's interesting you should say that. a unique indian concept is one of half male, half female. and that is -- unlike some dances the solo dancer portrays all of the parts in the story. you can portray a feminine aspect and then masculine aspect with the bow and arrow. the male has to portray feminine and the female has to portray masculine. there is a very fierce dance and a soft sort of dance and every dancer has

host: ron is calling from charlotte on our line for independence. go ahead.harlotte and we are an agency that distribute stimulus cards. have you heard of the static stimulus cards? guest: i have not. caller: great. i've heard of you but if you could we'd like to you spread it throughout the community. we take individuals who are on cash benefits and we run them through our interactive database and give cash backs and could coupons and we enhance those individual by 20% each month. so it's not democratic or republican system, it's just a universal tool that we use to enhance people and we would like your support with this system. and if you'd like -- host: sounds like a sales pitch. let's move to kathleen. caller: thank you this is kathleen and i'm an 81-year-old widow and i have kept up with politics all my life. but this campaign that's gone on between romney and the president is the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen. but i did not vote for romney the first time and i had my reasons and i'm not voting for him this time either. because i don't think he's

this is the scene in which charlotte meets the paperboys.it is. >> this is miss charlotte bless. >> not for long. hillary and i are engaged to be married. >> hello, miss bless, i'm ward. >> mr. ward, good to finally meet you. >> you didn't mention the engagement. >> why don't you clean yourself up? >> well, he just proposed. oh, that looks nasty. >> how did i do that? >> excuse me a second. >> i'm yardley, we thought you and hillary hadn't met. >> only in pictures. but we've been writing each other for a month and we understand each other. >> ward, where should i put her file? >> everything you need to know about hillary van weter that's been in the papers is here in these boxes and the voor exciting correspondence is in the bottom box, in case you're interested. >> mr. jansen, i want to thank you, i want to thank you for replying to my letters and helping me get hillary out of that hell hole. >> i wouldn't go booking the honeymoon but we are going to find out about this. >> thank you, thank you so much. >> nobody deserves the death penalty,

charlotte schultz. (applause) >> now, this week as you know, there is a lot going on here. and in addition to welcoming you here at the scenier leader seminar, i want to tell you we were so excited that the sls would be here that we decided this weekend to also require the americas cup to celebrate -- to require the san francisco giants to have a play off game, the 49ers to play this weekend, the blue grass festival to be here, the parade, as well as the castro sea fair to coincide and welcome you in style. but i wanted to say a few words about the one thing that keeps me up as the head of the legislative body here in san francisco. the reason why i sit with many of our first responders on our city's disaster council, the reason why a few years ago chief white and i led almost a half a billion dollar bond campaign to rebuild the water, fire, and police infrastructure. about every six months i literally wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what would happen if a disaster struck our city. and i think about this and i think i have these nightmares really for three

>> didn't you say it was at charlotte's mommy's house? >> i don't know where charlotte's mommy is. >> we've been seeing you back on reality stuff lately. i thought nothing could drag you back to sitcoms. >> yeah, i was kind of done, and my partner called me up and asked if i would read a script, and i said no. >> why? >> after the reality show, i was done. i was with my wife and kid, we have a foundation that my wife runs and i help with, and i was just happy playing golf and hanging out with my family, and this thing came out of the blue and he said would you read it? and i said no. i said look, do you like it? he said yeah. i said okay, i'm in. >> without reading it? >> yeah. i said, we're shooting a pilot? no, no. >> and it's 20 episodes. >> yeah, we shot the pilot, and we work at paramount, on the old happy days studio, and when i got back to work i realized that i really like doing this, and i missed it. >> it's the old way of doing it where you do it monday through friday and you have an audience in front of you. >> yeah, every day

the former mayor of charlotte. this is an hour. this live debate is being televised across north carolina. we appreciate you being with us tonight and we are confident it will be in light of information for those who either have already voted for plan to vote on november 6. before we get started, let's meet the nominees. one of them will be our next governor. walter delton is finishing his first term as north carolina lieutenant governor. his career began in 1996 as a state senator and served six terms representing rutherford and cleveland counties. pat mccoury became the 53rd mayor of charlotte and served seven terms as the queen city leader. he began his political career in 1989 as a city councilman. >> a few moments ago, we flipped a coin to see the order of how the questions would be asked to night. mr. mccoury won the coin toss. >> our first question is about the economy and unemployment. north carolina has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. as governor, you cannot make law so realistically speaking, what ca

we got into charlotte and i woke up. we got into charlotte. it was 6:15 in the morning. we should have been here around 9:00, but the winter was that. so i just went back to sleep for the announcement. the next one was canceled because of the wind. but the airport does not that you have any information. we had no idea what was going on. those coming into roanoke had no idea what was going on, absolutely none. they finally said, we think we can make it. we are in the valley, so if there is anything around that is a problem -- we are going to go now. that meant that they would blow the plane and there would be gone. you come in on crosswinds. the kids live on their phones now. a girl said, my goodness. i was sitting in 13. she was about in a 11. she said, oh my god, there has been a shooting at virginia tech. 12 people. no, 21 people. then the whole plane is thinking, what? it is probably one or two you're looking at. i weigh about 140 pounds. as i came out of the plane, the wind was so strong, one of the guys came and got me and hugged me. it would not blow me away, but i

in charlotte. >> when american markets broke down, who jump-started our engine!arack obama! and when america needed him most, who got us rolling again on the road to recovery? >> barack obama! >> let me ask you this, people, who couldn't get laid in a whore house with a fist full of hundreds? barack obama! >> that's my favorite am way presentation ever. >> all right, i get it time honored tradition to attach down expectations to make a slight win. >> here is great news for republicans, we have a candidate who is going to do extraordinarily well on wednesday night, oh (bleep) we have a runner! we have a runner! >> what are you doing, christi? apparently new jersey governor chris christie didn't get the memo that romney sucks at this. >> i think you will see the numbers start to move right back in the other direction. >> in whole race will be turned upside down come thursday morning. >> what are you doing, christi? >> for god's sake if romney fails to meet those heavy expectations he will lose the general election creating chaos in the republican party and leave ou

my name is carlotta but my real name was charlotte and they called me carlotica, little charlotte. he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's

he used his position with the city of charlotte to help pay special interests. against a farm family. they say he is a rainmaker, what promises are being made? >> are you a rainmaker, mr. mccrory? >> i am a great marketer, someone who can sell north carolina is what we need. i help client development with my law firm and my brother's company. i am in the private sector now. i'm not working for government. if i don't win this election, will stay in the private sector. we need to build the private sector instead of tearing down the private sector. it is ironic -- this is the way business is being treated north carolina as the enemy. the only way we will bay -- rebuild the economy show the business sector we appreciate them and we want the private sector to grow. it is the private sector that pays the taxes for our teachers and firemen and police officers and builds our roads. this is what we need. >> we could debate that when all night long. if you think promises are being kept. i have one more question for you, mr. mccroy. does the state auditor still have your s

he spoke to wsoc tv in charlotte.he says he doesn't remember the accident but that he certainly is blessed. >> i'm glad god had my back. that's all i know. god was looking out for me. >> it looks like he was running in the mstreet. my mind says if the car hit him, that person wouldn't have gotten in trouble if they would have just stayed there because he wasn't in a crosswalk. but the person shouldn't have left. >> but it's 4:00 in the morning. he was the only thing in the roadway and they still hit him. >> i mean as a driver, you don't necessarily expect a guy to be in the middle of the road at 4:00 in the morning but again, you're right, you can't drive away. you've got to stop. >> according to reports, no arrests have been made in this incident. police are looking for information about who this driver may be. >>> it's a video from the firing line. >> this one will make your heart stop and then you might laugh a little. >> see what happens when the action gets hot. next. >>> and it's time for some bad lip reading vi