so we sent out our tech contributor daniel sieberg out to bust people. >> we're here at the hard rocke're seeing people who are more preoccupied with their devices. let's go have a look. >> reporter: at one of the first tables, daniel spots four young adults, but nobody's talking to one another. instead they're just texting. you're texting each other? >> yes. >> i do that with my mom. me and my mom go out, i text my mom. >> reporter: next, two women eating lunch together, one of them cannot stop looking at her phone. does that bother you? >> got to stay connected. not at all. >> you have to check everything out. >> anything that you should check right now. >> no, not right now. >> reporter: but it's not just dining and texting, it's walking, too. this windows mobile commercial shows the dangers of a virtual minefield of distracted walkers. >> we're here in times square where it is easy to bump into people as you are walking around but full of a lot of people sitting and talking. >> reporter: daniel caught up with this guy who was texting and walking at the same time. >> have you ever

so, we sent our tech contributor, daniel sieberg, out to bust people. >> we're here at the hard rock . people are dining and talking. but we're seeing more people that are preoccupied with their devices. let's take a look. >> reporter: daniel finds four, young adults. nobody is talking to each other. they're just texting. >> are you texting each other? >> i do that to my mom. like, my mom and i go out. we're texting right there. yeah. >> across the table? >> yeah. >> reporter: two women eating lunch together. one can't stop looking at her phone. >> does that bother you? >> you have to stay connected. not at all. got to check it out. >> anything you should be checking out right now? >> not right now. >> reporter: it's not just dining and texting, it's walking, too. this windows mobile commercial, show the dangers of a virtual minefield of distracted walkers. >> we're in times square. it's easy to bump into people when you're walking around. it's also full of a lot of people sitting and typing. >> reporter: daniel caught up with this guy who was texting and walking at the same time. >>

you daniel sieberg it becoming a movement around the freedom rides. >> reporter: the rides pressured the kennedy administration to finally enfort federal laws. now in their 70s, many of the freedom riders recently reunited in chicago to remember those lessons learned. >> non-violent direct action has power. it's hard to argue with success. >> reporter: success of a movement that changed their lives and the nation. russ mitchell, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> couric: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm katie couric. thank you for watching. i'll see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org can i eat heart healthy without giving up taste? a man can only try... and try...and try. [ male announcer ] honey nut cheerios tastes great and can help lower cholesterol. bee happy. bee healthy. ♪ that's ever happened to cinnamon. introducing cinnamon burst cheerios. 20% daily value of fiber bursting with the delicious taste of cinnamon. new cinnamon burst cheerios. prepare your taste buds. >>> now, "entertainmen

you daniel sieberg it becoming a movement around the freedom rides. >> reporter: the rides pressured the kennedy administration to finally enfort federal laws. now in their 70s, many of the freedom riders recently reunited in chicago to remember those lessons learned. >> non-violent direct action has power. it's hard to argue with success. >> reporter: success of a movement that changed their lives and the nation. russ mitchell, cbs news, birmingham, alabama. >> couric: and that is the cbs evening news for tonight. i'm katie couric. thank you for watching. i'll see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is 9news now. >>> good evening, i'm derek mcginty. tonight, no pictures but still plenty of debate about the death of osama bin laden. president obama said releasing the photos would be a bad idea. >> it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an an insightment to more violence, a propaganda tool. >> president obama will hono

technology reporter and recovering digital addict daniel sieberg's first book "the digital diet." >> to talk to you about this. i just have to get one e-mail out. >> when my friend ali velshi and i go to dinner, he has two devices in front of him. >> you see the top of his head more than you see his face. >> he processes all the information and can answer in a split second. he's managing his tech obsession. you say there's four steps to getting through this digital diet. >> this is something that i've struggling with myself and i hope the book offers tools and tips and exercises. it is broken down into this four-step plan. the first step is to rethink and this is all about taking a step back and getting some perspective and research in the book, too. then you move on to reboot. that's about a little bit of a detox. i'm not suggesting people throw all their devices out or anything like that. a day or two just to get perspective on things and then the third part of it is reconnect. go out and meet with people you haven't seen in a while and having that face-to-face conversation and peo

it's tuesday, may 31st. >>> good morning, i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm daniel sieberg. on assignment. >>> the heat was so oppressive in chicago, several people went from the beach to the hospital for treatment. get this, it snowed near fresno, california. campers who had packed their bathing suits, not fur-lined ones unfortunately, had to scramble to find hats and gloves. their holiday getaway ended early because of the cold. >> unbelievable. >>> also this half-hour coming up, the new crisis facing so many victims of the joplin, missouri tornado. they can't find a place to stay. temporary housing is nowhere to be found. see who is helping those who really need it the most. >>> later, the royal newlyweds and their upcoming north american adventure. kate is making her first trip to the states. >> what? >> and to canada, by the way. all the excitement as will and kate plan their great north american getaway. >> you and i both have a lot of canadian background, but who can believe this is her first trip to the states. >> or canada. as well. she has canadian roots. i think h

. >>> good morning, i'm daniel sieberg in for rob nelson. >> i'm stephanie sy.unker. >>> it was an important memorial day tribute to the victims of the joplin tornado. as the president prayed for those who died and are suffering one week after this tremendous twister. >>> also this half-hour, a massachusetts father who lost his son in battle in afghanistan won a very emotional battle at the national cemetery where he is buried. >>> and later on, look what cameras at the ballpark caught. i can't wait for this story. a fly ball, heading for the stands. daddy drops it. he dropped something even more valuable, his little girl. >> oh, boy. yeah. >> gave him a pretty stiff elbow there afterwards. but first, president obama remembers those who died in service to our country during ceremonies at arlington national cemetery. >> but yesterday the president was in joplin, missouri meeting with those who lost so much to the tornado. and steve portnoy was there. >> reporter: president obama saw firsthand the power and destructive force of the massive ef-5 tornado that ripped

i'm joined by the book's author, daniel sieberg. >> i love to have this conversation. ok page, then we can have the conversation. >> that's our told daniel. you had to go through a 28-day program. >> the book is driven by a personal theirive because i love technology and i want other people to love it, too, not put it in a blender. at some point i realized it was too much and i almost needed an intervention of sorts from my friends and family members. eventually it took the form of this book, which i hope will help other people, too. >> okay. why is it, though, you think that we are all so consumed. when i've lost this, when i've done twice. >> anxiety creeps in? >> until i get used to it and then it's actually kind of dmis. >> i think that's the book is meant to give people permission to think about these things. and awareness. and empower people. these days there's a broad spectrum of feeling addicted to technology or obsessed with it. on the one hand people are totally consumed by it. reins marriages and relationships. somewhere in the mid dle are th rest of us. we w

our tech contributor daniel sieberg is out with a new book.ow to power down. it's finally good to see you face to face. we certainly know your pieces. but it's good to see you. >> you too, rob. i would love to talk more but i have to finish this e-mail. it's crazy. >> i will give you a minute. >> get back to it. >> the book is fascinating. i love the topic. how big of a problem do you really think it is? >> i think that it's pretty pervasive and a spectrum that we're talking about here. you know on the one end of the scale there are people who are totally addicted to their gadgets, can't put them down, it's harming their lives. on the other end, there are people who really don't think about this stuff. they're not interested in new technology, and some in the middle are the rest of us, grappling with in stuff, trying to find a way to fit it into our lives and overwhelmed in many cases. >> and, again, just really have changed the way we lived. they've changed the way that we communicate. how do you know, though, if you're into it or if you have

our daniel sieberg teched it out. >> reporter: will wright, best known for creating the immersive worldvideo games, decided to branch out in 2011 with something a little different. a tv show inspired by the video game world with bar karma which is produced with ideas and story lines submitted online from the viewers. >> well, the initial idea of it did come from the sims community. we were giving players the ability to take snapshots of the game in progress, write text and post it on the web. these little comic books and initially getting these comic books about superheroes. predictable stuff. but eventually getting these very long involved ones that were people's autobiographies. a huge amount of creative story-telling. we got thinking what if we could make a system where it was more collaborative and what would the right format would that be? so did some experiments and kind of eventually came up with the idea of what would be a television show. >> reporter: bar karma has just finished a full season on current tv. which wright says was a perfect fit. >> current was much more open to t