and now it's clear why the locals regularly climb the cliff.rch. >> in the past, jews and muslims persecuted the christians of ethiopia. ♪ >> so the christians made these intimidating and forbidding cliffs their sanctuary. ♪ 30 million years of the earth's pulse resonates here, in ethiopia, on the scorching continent. the earth's hot breath is still felt here. ♪

when i looked up into the cliff, i saw stacks of rock behind a little spall of the cliff that had stuck out and i realized there was a granary up there. i immediately started for it, climbing hand over hand up the cliff base. my breath tasted hot with discovery. i had found a secret. in past travels i had seen many granaries belonging to the anastasi but they had all been broken open by pot hunters or even by the residents themselves. this one had been built so no one would see it, like an attic accessed through a hidden floor. the structure was rectangular, like a cupboard. i touched its face with probing, diagnostic fingers, measuring it my eyes. 3 feet tall, 2 feet wide and 3 feet deep. i got up on my haunches and lightly dusted off the granaries roof which was undamaged. for 3,000 years not a breeze had entered this chamber, not an inkling of light. what tightly woven baskets were here, what woven textiles, what stockpile of cobalt blue and honey-colored seed corn left many years before the boom of spanish rifles. with my fingers i traced through the dust of fallen rock debris on th

there are cliff dwellings that you find up in the alcoves. this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and i could feel the hair of people who had been there and i was there with a navajo guy that i know who j

a dramatic rescue high on a california cliff as a hiker risks his life to save his dog. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, december 30th, 2011. good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us. i'm whit johnson. >>> we begin with the republicans last-minute jockeying for votes in iowa. as iowans prepare for tuesday's caucuses the latest poll shows mitt romney in a position to win a state he had all but written off. duarte geraldino is in washington with more. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: mitt romney and ron paul clearly in the lead right now in iowa and hoping that position doesn't backfire on them like it did for rick perry and newt gingrich. mitt romney's campaign bus pulled into a packed warehouse in iowa trying to rev your voters. he attacked president obama suggesting he was out of touch with struggling americans and even comparing him to infamous french queen maria antoinette. >> i watched the president. he says, well, it could have been worse. that goes down there with let them eat cake. >> reporter: romney and ron

. >> apparently it's been so dry, it's crumbling on the cliff.dn't get a foothold so that's what was so scary about it. >> it was near the ocean, too, i guess? >> that i don't know. [ laughter ] >> i wasn't there, frank. [ laughter ] >> i don't know it all. [ laughter ] >> you know where it was? >> it was in the foothills. >> how do you know this? >> read about it. >> all right. >> so cal girl. >>> all right. we're talking a little -- it's dry here. we have been talking about the dry weather. your opinion umbrella -- you may need to find it in your closet maybe buried under a big old pile of clothes. we haven't had to use it for a couple of weeks. we are seeing some activity on our hi-def doppler. a little light drizzle and fog. not as thick today as yesterday. our rain chances increase as we head into the afternoon. we're at the tail end of a cold front. so mainly the north bay that's where your greatest chances of rain are but we are putting that for all of the bay area just going to be some light showers and then we're drying out saturday and

that is after they were rescued from a cliff. it all started yesterday when 19-year-old ivan, his father, and two dogs were hiking in the san fernando valley. his father tossed a bottle after the cliff and the dog went after it. >> i thought i was going to die. >> two firefighters repelled down the cliff to rescue sulice and the dog. >>> hundreds of northern california teen anallers were found with drugs while traveling through northern nevada. they displayed the marijuana, pipes, bongs, and alcohol taken off five buses. they were on their way to utah for a ski trip. apparently unchaperoned. police were called to a mcdonalds with reports of teens smoking marijuana. it would have been a huge legal and logistical challenge to determine who each bag of the drugs belonged to. he gave everyone a luckture and urged them to be safe on the slopes. >>> in election news this morning the republican presidential candidates are blanketing the state of iowa this morning just four days ahead of the iowa caucuses. the latest poll shows mitt romn

cliff. thank you so much. jimmy cliff.] he's going to do a classic later on. it's going to be really good. we got a big show tonight. we love it when she comes by. the one, the only betty white is here! [ cheers and applause ] she's a superstar. he's a break-out star from the hbo hit "boardwalk empire." jack huston is stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] he's a good man. also tonight, from the internet sensation diggnation, which is ending soon, kevin rose and alex albrecht are in the house! [ cheers and applause ] plus, music from jimmy cliff! i cannot wait tonight. this is what i'm talking about. [ cheers and applause ] it's a great show. our show is lucky to have the greatest band in late night. the roots over there, everybody. we love them. [ cheers and applause ] we love them so much. [ applause ] but it isn't all -- it isn't all fun and games. from time to time, we put the roots to the test. we pick people from our audience and have the roots make up songs about them on the spot. it's time for "freestylin' with the r

cliff palace. spruce tree house. balcony house. it was the largest concentration ever found of the cliff dwellings--built, occupied, and then mysteriously deserted nearly a thousand years earlier by the ancestors of some of the modern pueblo indians of the southwest. man as al wetherill: we knew that if we did not break into that charmed world, someone else would sometime--someone who might not love and respect those emblems of antiquity as we did. coyote: the cowboys who discovered the ruins were the wetherills--5 brothers from a family of quakers who had moved to colorado from kansas 8 years earlier. the oldest was richard who encouraged them all to spend every free moment digging among the ruins, hoping to sell their discoveries to museums in big cities. man as al wetherill: we had started in as just ordinary pothunters but as work progressed along that sort of questionable business, we developed quite a bit of scientific knowledge by careful work and comparisons. coyote: one day a stranger showed up, a young swedish nobleman wi

the man had to be lowered to the bottom of the cliff. they're all okay. >> and in san jose a man was accused of threatening officer was a machete is under arrest after five hours and it ended peacefully. but convincing the 44-year-old to surrender wasn't easy. at one point sh police fired rubber bullets to get him out. those where the shots captured this morning. he walked out of the apartment on capitol village circle. investigators say he refused to put down a bottle so the k 9 unit repoliced a -- released a police dog. >> this guy we've been trying to get for months. he walks around in the middle of the night without clothes on. >> and those angry neighbors say they want the suspect evicted. >> and the sheriff's office is warning people who use a trail along highway 1 to be on guard after a woman pushing her child in the stroller was assaulted. the woman was walking on the trail between kelly about 7:30 tuesday night. police say someone came and knocked her to the ground and pulled her jacket. the suspect ran when the 2-year-old child

two firefighters as you can see rappelled down the cliff to save him.ne was able to move the dog to safety before the other firefighter and salas were lowered to the bottom with safety harnesses. >>> if all goes well, 2011 will be the safest year ever for u.s. airlines. according to a consulting firm, there is only one death for every 7.1 million passengers flying on commercial or charter flights. the current is 1 per 6.4 million flyers from 2004. >>> ever wonders what happens to loose change that passengers leave behind at the airport checkpoints? unclaimed money added up to $376,000 in fiscal 2010. congress allows the tsa to use that money to fund its operations but now one florida lawmaker want to give the cash to the uso, the nonprofit program supporting the military and it is getting considerable support. the proposal has yet to move out of committee of homeland security. >>> how would you like to skip today and move straight into the weekend? that's exactly what they are doing in samoa and another pacific nation. the tiny pacific nations move it t

. >>> a 48-year-old man is recovering after being rescued from a cliff along the mendocino cliff. he was pulled from a cliff off a road where he got stranded after a wave swept him against a rock and he injured his hip. paramedics had to climb down on ropes to get him. he was eventually flown to a hospital by helicopter. >>> we are expecting addition on whether state legislatures were within the law when they eliminated the re-- eliminated the redevelopment agencies. governor brown wants to help with the budget deficit. they use it to revitalize areas but critics say in recent years the agencies have mostly benefited private developers. >>> a new state law that takes affect on january 1st requires utilities to install remote control shut off valves that run through highly populated -- populated areas. a national transportation safety board concluded -- concluded the time it took to shut off that valve contributed to the disaster. >>> we understand there is some fog in some areas. >> there is fog and the lights are out on the bay bridge and this is something we have never encounter

his father had thrown a bottle over the cliff. the dog followed. they slid down the cliff in the sanford in valley. firefighters tried to hoist sally to safety. the dog is safe. a son of man is safe. >> she is calm and relaxed right now. >> hopefully, she will not do it again. new year's celebrations are getting under way. we are not far away from the new year, particularly in scotland. more than 6000 people carrying torch's were led by vikings and pipe bands through the streets of edinburgh. this comes before tomorrow night's traditional party. about 80,000 revelers are expected to bring in 2012 in the scottish capital. will it be as good as sidney? watch this channel. we will keep you posted. ake sense of international >> make sense of international news. bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu newman's own foundation and union bank. >> you are no longer in the service. only an outsider can find the double agent. >> i'll do my utmost. >> from the bestse

i challenge them to go to cliffs. we regularly shop there for birthdays, parties, leading gifts, housewares. you have everything and it is really a true neighborhood serving hardware store that is also such a great community resources. on behalf of my family and all the families, thank you for your work. >> i have to take my glasses off for this one. san francisco small business commission honors class variety of monday, december 12, 2011. we are proud to and knowledge the contributions that cliffs has made to the vitality of san francisco. in a family owned and operated business over the past 75 years. the company has grown from a library and magazine exchange to the harbor store that is today, supplying products for persons of all interests. in the store has been an icon and a fixture in the cash district. and and the store is run by ernie and martha austin. their daughter, too. they donate proceeds to the civil rights academy, the emergency fund, the rainbow honor walked and other community interests. the commissio

south of the cliffs, homes with water's view bask in the sun. we are drawn to places like solomons island, where land meets the great estry. the calvert marine museum, home of the drum point lighthouse, symbolizes a once-booming fishing village, with fleets of schooners & sloops centered 'round the hauling and shucking of oyster, that has become a popular point of departure for those in search of adventure and favorable winds. tranquility seems to define life on the bay, but appearances deceive. every day, nature's rhythms and human rituals play out. smith island is located 12 miles out in the bay. her quintessential fishing villages cling to the few patches of ground above sea level. come sunrise on any given morning, the towns of tylerton, ewell, and rhodes point are deserted. everyone is out crabbing. smith island fishermen, a fiercely independent breed, heed the call of the water and chart the very same courses of their forbearers, doing what 13 generations before have done since the first settlement at jamestown in 1607. for hard-working wa

a team tried to save this dog, plucked off a cliff. saying he would go through it all over again. >>> good friday morning. i'm sunny hostin. >> and i'm dan koeffler, in for rob nelson today. four candidates are on a mad dash across iowa today. >> with a whole of host in his favor, all eyes are on mitt romney. >> tahman bradley is tracking the latest for us from washington. tahman, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, sunny and dan. this weekend, it's the final push for the republicans in iowa. there will be plenty of campaign events and plenty of negative ads. all while mitt romney, the new front-runner in iowa, tries to come up with a strong finish. the republican presidential candidates will spend new year's weekend hunting for votes. mitt romney is riding high. >> i feel like breaking in the 76 trombones. i will not do that right now. >> reporter: the latest gallup poll shows the former massachusetts governor leads the poll marbly. newt gingrich is following in four points. romney is up 5%. gingrich, down 14%. romney's tr

it would end medicare as we know it for millions of seniors, so, are we looking at granny off the cliff part two? i'm still convinced that's the late great harvey korman, but i digress. to dagen mcdowell and adam, and dagen, what do you think of this? >> the white house communications people said that this plan from widen and ryan, by the way, who is a democrat, who calls caused medicare to whiither on the vine and play book in 2012. they're going to talk about it endlessly, it's going to that the republicans want to end it, and push granny and granddaddy off the cliff. and this is going to be something that they try to hammer, but i do believe that the ryan-weiden plan at least opens the door, bipartisan to a normal ragsal conversation. >> i don't want to get too wonky about this, but-- i am a dork, but me, okay. charles, the idea was that this was going to give people flexibility. you can go with this health care plan or stick with the medicare plan, easier said than done. you have a democrat on board, top republican on board, makes it bipartisan. >> you look, we were talking earlier

the son slid down the cliff side. firefighters used the rope to reach the teen and his dog and bring them both to safety. >>> an accident involving a big rig and the transit authority bus sends the bus driver to the hospital t. happened at 4:15 this morning in san jose. no passengers were on that bus and the driver was the only person injured but both vehicles were damaged. service on the 22 line was not effected. >>> now, in san francisco, where people living near laguna hospital says they endured an earful since the opening of a new wing on that property. we listened to the com-- complaints and describes what is happens. >> reporter: they are saying they are a noisy neighbor. he launched a petition to quiet the roof top air-conditioning system. >> it is hike a giant leaf blower or something over there. >> on warm days the low humming sound you just heard is loud. another neighborhood resident told us the air-conditioner sometimes sounds like a jet plane idling on a runway. >> it is quieter at the front of my house.

she wanted off that cliff in a bad way. >> within seconds they've reached the helicopter.lls the woman in followed by demarto. >> she was thanking me before i was even able to get the rescue strope off. >> only later does the sheriff's department find out she was anemic and close to losing consciousness. >> she said she was trying to think of a way to stay conscious. she started singing songs trying to not lose consciousness. as she started singing these songs about being rescued she sees the helicopter come into view almost like it's a dream. >> lucky for her that was no dream. just another very real rescue team coming for her in the nick of time. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera.

call 877-242-usaa. >>> a cliff rescue in southern california. firefighters had to pull a stranded hiker and dog to safety they fell about 150 feet off a trail. it happened in a steep wildland area in the san fernando valley. the 19-year-old tried to save his dog after the dog went over the cliff. firefighters lifted the dog and the man had to be lowered down to the bottom of the cliff, as you can see. and this 19-year-old was able to walk the rest of his way on his own. >> skpefr day hundreds of thousands of airline passengers check bags and don't see them again until reaching their destination. what do the bags see along the journey? delta airlines fitted a special suitcase with six cameras to thans burning question. the cameras reported nearly every second of the journey from atlanta to new york promoting a bag tracking app. it's gone viral on you tube perhaps it gives a rare behind the scenes look it provides. >> wild. >> yeah. >> and there could be a shake up in the works in iowa. just five days rl nl republican caucus autos a look at polls

for everyone watching, it was surely a cliff-hanger. clayton sandell was there. >> reporter: it started as a normal family hike that in an instant plunged 19-year-old ivan salas into a nightmare. ivan was hiking along this ridge with his brother and father when his dad threw a bottle over the edge of a 300-foot drop. that's when lola, a year old german shepherd mix, fetched. she slid down the side of the ravine, 150 feet from the bottom. ivan tried to rescue her. then, needed his own rescue. >> the terrain itself was very steep. >> reporter: 35 firefighters responded as the 2 dangled for 90 long minutes, as rescuers inched closer on an instable hillside. they wanted to use a helicopter to hoist them out. but the winds from the rotor blades forced them to plan b. >> we were able to make members from the top of the ridge top, rappel down, secure the victim, along with his dog and lower them to safety. >> reporter: finally, rescuers were able to get a harness and leash on lola. then, ivan and a rescuer slowly rappelled down. they were unhu

firefighters pulled him and his dog to safety after both ended up stuck on a cliff. the young man's father through a water bottle over the edge of the cliff and their german shepherd mix went to fetch the bottle. what happened next gained national attention. >> i was trying to rescue my dog. i tumbled down, then i got stuck. >> 35 at firefighters responded as the boy and his dog waited 90 minutes dangling precariously as rescue workers moved closer on an unstable hillside. >> the helicopters were kicking up rocks. >> yeah, they were hitting us in the face. >> wanted to hoist them out, but the wind from the routers forced them to plan b. >> we were able to rappel down, secure the victim and his dog and it with them to safety. >> finally they were slowly brought down and on injured. that's how long were you out there? >> about two hours. >> house. was it? -- how scary was it? >> very scary. i appreciate it. >> two hours later, he was an arms of his family, no worse for wear. >>> tonight, gabrielle giffords makes it an important date. also still ahead big changes if you

that is after they were rescued from a cliff. it's an amazing story. it started when 19-year-old ivan and his father and two dogs were hiking in the san fernando value. his father tossed a bottle off the cliff and the dog chased after it. >> i thought i was going to die. i'm like that's the end of my life. >> two firefighters had to repel down the cliff to rescue the dog. he was dehydrated but otherwise didn't complain of my injuries. >>> more than 100 children will be waking up inside an oakland church after taking part in a sleepover. it's happening at the allen temple baptist church. sleepover features 24 hours of food, few, and friends. all designed to keep the children off the streets and in a safe environment. organizers say the event also allows the young participates to truly connect with the church. >> we asked for a lot of chaperons. we are getting some. we are finding the parents are not chaperons. they are seeing date night. >> i was really happy to be able to bring my daughter here for this experience. because she needs as much exposure to

should keep us from going off the cliff. >> barney frank was elected state representative in 1972. lost 49 of 50 states. he wasurting. barney frank went up tgeorge mcgovern and said, he did not know him and he said, i run on your coat tails. he has had a remarkable career. the personalityty problems are real but the intellect is towering. >> he will be remembereds the guy in the years when we could have had reigned in fannie anand freddie, defend and protected ththem and try to intimidate those who wanted to tell the truth about it. i think his leaving the congress will raise the level of civil discourse in washington. >> [ baby coughing ] [ coughing continues ] [ female announcer ] more pollution from power plants means more childhood asthma attacks. [ labored breathing ] there's technology that makes the air cleaner but too many plants don't use it. we can't wait. epa must update power plant standards to protect our kids. [ baby coughing ] >> it is because ofou in the words of what we have done, we are now ablto end the war. >> vice-president joe biden in baghdad. that was this w

half full of lather and runs out into nature to see the bighorn sheep coming down this nearly sheer cliff. and burroughs said, "what kind of president is this?" qu he's just an overgrown boy who's so enthusiastic about nature that it infects everyone around him with a new enthusiasm for the natural world. coyote: roosevelt was witnessing firsthand the results of the wildlife protection bill he and george bird grinnell and congressman john lacey had worked so hard to pass. the game animals were now much more numerous he assured burroughs than when he had last visited the park 12 years earlier. still, the president was itching to shoot something. schullery: roosevelt will always baffle people who don't hunt because he both loved animals and loved hunting them and in yellowstone what he really wanted to do was shoot a mountain lion. at the time, park managers were killing predators. it was something that was going on anyway. and so to roosevelt's mind "well, why not me?" coyote: the president's advisers thought killing any animal in a national park would be bad politics and quietly dissuaded

. >>> was a real cliff hanger grab mattic rescue that millions watched live on television yesterday, as los angeles firefighters came to the rescue of a young man and his doc. here are the details from scott goldberg. >> reporter: they were enjoying a cliffside hike until the dad decided to toss a bottle over. >> the dog went after it. >> reporter: it could have been thdeadliest fetch. lola, the one-year-old german shepherd mix went after the bottle and then huffle -- then tumbled halfway down the 300 foot press his. the went after her, and also fell halfway. >> the dog was getting nervous, she was shaking allot, and i was slighting down as well. >> reporter: a large bloom of stuff starting pelting the sky. two firefighters repelled over the side of the cliff, attached harnesses to the two, and then whisked the dog away first, and then snap ivan just as the hillside beneath him slipped away. the only thing hurt, his feelings for his dad. >> he gave me a hug, and then he just gavemy money, because he knew it was his fault. >> reporter: lola didn't really blame anyone. >> oh, lola is f

luckily cliff had the perfect way to reboot the u.s.e the next step for the union is to you know put commercials out there saying send your mom a letter. it would be a nobel effort in this country for people to start writing letters again. >> so with what looks like an ad for vagisil, the post office produced this commercial encouraging people to use the mail. >> give your customers the added feeling of security a printed receipt provides with mail. >> that's your pitch, u.s. mail, we give you a receipt. if we're going to do this we would have to make the mail cool again. and i knew just how to do it. >> action! >> hi, i'm harold. >> and i'm kumar. >> save the mail. >> what's up, mail. >> mail! >> mail! >> you must be krasesy not to want to save the post office. >> you bet, celo and you know who else is a big mail fan, christina aguilera. >> huh? she's not doing this. >> mail! >> it's like texting with a pencil. >> save the mail! >> tell them tony hawk. >> mail is gnarley. >> without mail you couldn't do this. >> so use your voice to sa