martin: that is a bold statement. >> david martin: why do you make a statement like that? ere's a lot of misinformation out there, but the real information eventually does come out. the truth does come out that this person is alive today and that person is alive today, or this police officer is not harmed today because of this less-than-lethal device. >> david martin: the first taser was invented by space scientist jack cover. he designed it to look like a flashlight, fired it using gunpowder, and named it for one of his science fiction heroes, the thomas a. swift electric rifle-- taser. the smith brothers struck a deal with cover, and then they re- engineered his weapon. they drew straws and went out in the backyard to take the first hits from their new improved taser-- first tom, then rick-- standing in a pool of water. today, they run a worldwide business from their over-the-top headquarters in scottsdale, arizona, which the smith brothers designed from the ground up as a corporate statement. >> tom smith: this is an iris scanner. >> identification is completed. >> tom s

to the men and women in uniform for their many sack despises that reminded us of a soldier that david martinroduced us to eight years ago in the early days of the iraq war. he had been seriously wounded but david tells us he's made an incredible recovery. in fact, you might have seen him last night. he won "dancing with the stars." >> reporter: we met j.r. martinez in 2003. seven months after his humvee hit a land minot road to baghdad. >> 40% of my body was burned. they say 34%, 33% was third degree. >> reporter: the first thing he saw when he came to in the burn unit of his mother but then the once-handsome nine-year-old had to confront himself in the mirror. >> the first time i seen my face it was pretty hard. the doctors didn't want to let me do it yet, but i said i gotta get strong and i gotta learn how to deal with it. >> reporter: imagine going out in public for the first time. you must see people when they look at your scars. >> yes. i do. >> reporter: they do a double take or look away. >> yeah. it's happened a lot. i would just say to myself, i know why i look like this. and you do

david martin, cbs news. >> pelley: be grateful for audacity. that is the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news, all around the world, i'm scott pelley. have a lovely thanksgiving. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most watched entertainment news magazine in the world. >>> amajor development in the natalie wood investigation. police interrogate this witness. >> what time did i hear natalie start to scream in. >> after her interview on "e.t.." >> very important question. most people haven't asked before. >>> plus the man who pulled natalie's body out of the icy water, home movies before her tragic death and a surprise inside the autopsy report. >>> new angelina jolie, opening up about her bad girl past. >> i went through heavy and darker t

you'll see why in a david martin interview. >> reporter: was that the worst day of your life? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. herman cain tonight is considering whether to go forward with his campaign for the republican nomination for president just five weeks out now from the first voting in iowa. after an allegation of an extra marital affair yesterday, cain held a conference call yesterday with key people in his campaign. a transcript of the call was released by the publication "national review." we have a team of correspondents covering the race beginning with dean reynolds with the cain wmpaign in michigan tonight. dean? >> reporter: scott, herman cain is supposed to give a speech here at hillsdale college tonight on foreign policy but what a lot of people are wondering is whether his campaign a k survive this latest scandal. in a conference call with supporters herman cain acknowledged the accusation of a long-term extra marital affair could end his run for the presidency. >> reporter: cain told suppo

david martin talks to the whistle blowers. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it's not the way you'd expect a football legend to leave, not joe paterno, not penn state, where the motto for athletes is "success with honor." but today, paterno, who is 84, wid he will retire at the end rf this season. after questions were raised about what he did and what he oiled to do after a longtime assistant coach was accused of sexually abusing boys, some of deem on campus. tonight, there is also word that tonight, there is also word that the university president may be the next out the door. our chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian has the latest from state college, pennsylvania. >> reporter: paterno made his announcement in a five-paragraph statement that said in part," i am absolutely devastated by the developments in the case. i grieve for the children and their families, and i pray for their comfort and relief." >> everybody hustle! let's start it off right

it's a story david martin broke. staff sergeant cal again gibbs was charged with killing unarmed afghan civilians. gibbs admitted cutting off the fingers of the corpses to keep as war trophies. he faces life in prison. just when we thought the scandal over mishandled remains ofmainsf fallen american troops at dover air force base couldn't get any worse, it did today. david martin has been reporting on the investigation that led to a career-ending letter of reprimand for the commander of the mortuary and tonight david is at the pentagon with new developments. >> reporter: a landfill is no one's idea of a fitting resting place for a soldier fall in battle. >> no human being should be placed into a landfill, no matter if it's a fingernail, a foot or an entire body. >> reporter: yet that is what happened to gari-lynn smith's husband, sergeant first class scott smith who was blown apart by a roadside bomb in iraq in 2006. without her knowing, part of his body was incinerated and disposed of as medical waste in this virgin

anthony mason and david martin report it's all fallout from the failure in washington. leree american students are swept up in massive riots in cairo while egypt's military rulers say they'll give in to the demonstrators. elizabeth palmer is in the capital. and a drought of historic proportions: cities running out of water. anna warner reports from a town that is down to its last drops. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. having failed to bring the federal budget under control, congress left on vacation, pulling the rug out from under consumer confidence as we head into the most important shopping season of the year. the failure to reach a compromise means that payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits could expire new year's day, cutting into the income of millions. add to that uncertainty a report that we just got: the government says that the economy, as measured by the gross domestic product, grew more slowly in the third quarter than we thought. it was revised to just 2%. that is down from

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david martin has the story. at independence hall, we asked some of the most successful people in america the toughest question. how do you create jobs in this country? and remembering smoking joe frazier and the fight of the century. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> pelley: good evening, herman cain, the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination, forcefully confronted charges of sexual harassment late today. he called one accuser a troubled woman and he said that he is being slandered in a firestorm that he blames on democrats and the media. in the last week, four women have accused cairn of inappropriate sexual behavior. three of them had been anonymous, but late today one of them revealed her name to cbs news. cain confronted all the allegations in a late news conference in arizona. we have two reports tonight. first, bill whitaker many phoenix. bill? >> reporter: scott, in a week in which attempts to put this scandal behind time seemingly have failed, herman cain tod

david martin at the pentagon. another woman comes forward to claim a

anthony mason and david martin report it's all fallout from the failure in washington.

well, david martin kept working on the story today, and he found the mortuary workers who first reported the trouble and who paid a price. >> reporter: these are people who almost never talk about their grim, heartbreaking work, mortuary technicians at dover air force base in delaware, where remains of the fallen come moment from iraq and afghanist afghanistan. >> working at dover it's like you get a train wreck every single day. >> reporter: at any one time, mary ellen spera keeps track of 1,000 different pieces of young bodies torn apart by war. then one day, a piece of ankle belonging to a soldier went missing. >> i went through the entire facility, every single rack. i couldn't find it. >> reporter: that must have been a terrible job. >> it's the job, sir and i'm proud to do it. >> reporter: bill zigarosky has worked at dover for 12 years and it's the first time a body part has ever been lost. he didn't like the way the commander handled it. >> i think consideration should have been given to notify the family. that's the way i've been brought up in this business is to face your mista

david martin at the pentagon is looking into this. >> reporter: there was gross mismanagement in the solemn gut-wrenching return of the fallen from iraq and afghanistan. that according to this letter to president obama from the office of special counsel which investigates whistle-blower complaints. carolyn lerner heads the office. >> we found a pattern of misconduct. they knew about these problems about two and a half years ago and only recently took action to correct them. >> reporter: the grisly fact is that many remains arrive at dover air force base in pieces and the investigation found two cases in which body parts of a soldier and an air force pilot were either lost or misplaced. in another case, an arm bone was sawed off in order to fit a marine killed by a roadside bomb into his dress uniform for burial. it happened between 2008 and 2010 when some 4,000 remains passed through dover. >> this was difficult work. and while their performance did not meet standards, this was not a deliberate act. >> reporter: but air force chief of staff norton schwartz acknowledged the families w

david martin has been talking to his sources and has a preview tonight of what the u.n.estigators have uncovered. >> reporter: the report from the international atomic energy agency will reveal new evidence iran is not just enriching uranium but developing the capability to use in the a weapon. among other things, a satellite photo of an iranian military base shows an enormous steel container apparently used to secretly test the high explosives needed to trigger a nuclear weapon. >> it's part of this evidence that's accumulating that iran has continued to work on furthering its ability to make the nuclear weapon itself. >> reporter: former u.n. weapons inspector david albright has seen much of the evidence. >> they know how to make a crude nuclear weapon that they can test underground. >> reporter: have they mastered the engineering of building a nuclear weapon that they could use against one of their enemys? >> most assessments-- and i think the i yay assessment-- is that they have not. >> reporter: but the i.a.e.a. assessment scheduled to be released later this week co

david martin has been talking to his sources at the pentagon. tagoeporter: the closing of eupply routes through pakistan tanl have no immediate impact on the war effort in afghanistan, aat according to u.s. officials who say supplies already stockpiled in afghanistan plus routes coming us from the north and by air can make up the difference. the facts of the cross-border thre fight remain in dispute, but there's no doubting the fresh wave of anti-americanism it has triggered. the state department had to warn americans in pakistan they could be targets of retaliation. general james mattis, commander of central command which overseas in afghanistan ordered an investigation into what everyone agrees is a major setback in an already rocky relationship. according to u.s. officials it began when a patrol of american special forces and afghan troops took fire from the direction of two pakistani military outposts. pakistani officials insist the two outposts located on a rage 300 yards from the border did not fire first. the americans called in helicopte

anthony mason and david martin report it's all fallout from the failure in washington.hree american students are swept up in massive riots in cairo, while egypt's military rulers say they'll give in to the demonstrators. elizabeth palmer is in the capital. and a drought of historic proportions. cities running out of water. anna warner reports from a town that is down to its last drops. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. good evening. having failed to bring the federal budget under control, congress left on vacation. pulling the rug out from under consumer confidence as we head into the most important shopping season of the year. the failure to reach a compromise means that pay

we asked david martin to look into that. >> reporter: to hear defense secretary panetta tell it, automatic spending cuts would be devastating to national defense. >> it's a ship without sailors. it's a brigade without bullets. it's an air wing without enough trained pilots. it's a paper tiger. >> reporter: in a letter to capitol hill, panetta provided specific examples of what he believes the cuts, which would reduce defense spending by $1 trillion over the next ten years, might mean. the smallest ground force since the beginning of world war ii. the smallest fleet since world war i. and what he says would be the smallest fighter force in air force history. what he didn't say was that today's weapons systems are dramatically more capable and are therefore needed in fewer numbers. just to take one example. the radar evading b-2 stealth bomber can fly solo missions about earlier bombers required escorts of fighter and electronic jamming aircraft to protect them against enemy air defenses. and with precision-guided weapons each one of those bombs can strike a different target. but across-the-

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the pentagon is launching an investigation and david martin has details. >> reporter: air force chiefigation has found gross mismanagement at the dover air force base mortuary in delaware, the first stop of the fallen on their final journey home. >> we found a pattern of wrongdoing and the air force has refused to admit culpability. >> reporter: carol learner's office of special counsel investigated whistle-blower complaints and found two cases in which body parts of a soldier and an air force pilot were either lost or misplaced. in another case, an arm bone was sawed off in order to fit a marine killed by a roadside bomb into his dress uniform. investigation covered the years 2008 to 2010. but general schwartz acknowledged he does not know whether there have been other instances. >> i cannot certify with certainty that prior performance met our standard of perfection. >> reporter: the families were not told what it happened to their loved ones until this past weekend. >> they should have informed the family members the minute they knew that there was a problem. they chose not to. it

martinez talked to david martin about his amazing struggle back from the battle field. >> i have to gettrong and i have to learn how to deal with it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it wasn't long ago that newt gingrich was nearly through. even his campaign staff was quitting. now he's running at the head of the pack for the republican presidential nominn,

david martin at the pentagon. another woman comes forward to claim a relationship with g.o.p. candidate herman cain. jan crawford looks at his campaign and children falling into poverty-- some living in their cars. one county fights to get families back on their feet. >> to still put this glow on the outside, that's the hard part. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mark the calendar: tonight we may bex pernsing the biggest sales day in the history of the internet. and that comes after the biggest black

. >> david martin takes a look at the legendary unit which is celebrating a very special anniversary.: before president kennedy showered them with his glamour, special forces were the black sheep of the american military. >> even today to a certain extent after ten years of conflict, there is a perception, i think, that we are outsiders. more as outlaws. >> reporter: outlaws because you're scruffy. >> the beards in afghanistan, the nonstandard uniforms. and sometimes our unconventional methods of getting things done. >> reporter: but says colonel mark mitchell they were black sheep no more after jfk went to ft. bragg and awarded them their destinthive green berets. >> once the president says these are my guys. >> it makes a big difference having the support from the commander in chief. >> reporter: i doubt president kennedy could have imagined the use special forces were put in afghanistan. >> riding on horseback, calling in airstrikes, probably would not have been, it would have been tough for him to envision. >> reporter: as one of the first green berets into afghanistan after 9/11,

david martin has the story.pendence hall, we asked some of the most successful people in america the toughest question. how do you create jobs in this country? and remembering smoking joe frazier and the fight of the century. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> pelley: good evening, herman cain, the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination, forcefully confronted charges of sexual harassment late ty.

david martin talks to the whistle blowers.is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it's not the way you'd expect a football legend to leave, not joe paterno, not penn state, where the motto for athletes is "success with honor." but today, paterno, who is 84, said he will retire at the end of this season. after questions were raised

david martin reports for wjz with details on an investigation by the pentagon. >> what i want to talkut is tough stuff. >> reporter: air force chief of staff, norton schwartz is talking about caskets, coming home from iraq and afghanistan. a federal investigation has found gross mismanagement at the dover air force base mortuary in delaware. the first stop of the fallen on their final journey home? >> we found a pattern of wrongdoing, and the air force has refused to admit culpability. >> reporter: they investigated whistle-blower complaints and found two cases in which body parts of a soldier and an air force pilot were either lost or misplaced. in another case, an arm bone was sawed off, in order to fit a marine killed by a roadside bomb, into his dress uniform. the investigation covered the years 2008 to 2010. but general schwartz acknowledged, he does not know whether there have been other instances. >> i cannot identify with certainty that prior performance met our standard of perfection. >> reporter: the families were not told what had happened to their loved ones until this pas

martin, david lee, general manager, mr. ginsburg. i am the brother of betty ann ong. my family and i would like to take this opportunity to thank the park and recreation center. supporters who are here and in attendance, those who are unable to attend, petition signers, and all citizens of this great nation at large. we urge you to support the renaming of the recreation center. the ong family would be extremely honored to have the chinese recreation center renamed the betty ann ong recreation center. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> gloria or cathy, would you like to speak? >> good morning. i am the older sister of betty ann ong. i live in bakersfield, california. it's a real honor to be here today. i want to thank you all for your consideration in renaming the chinese recreation center to the betty ann ong recreation center. i would also like to thank all of the supporters that we have had and to everybody for being here. i can still remember growing up in san francisco chinatown and playing at the chinese recreation center very clearly. the playground was a

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. >> joining me now, fellow democratic martin frost and david winston, adviser to john boehner.staffer. gentlemen, good morning. >> good morning. >> cbs has responded to the e-mail to bachmann saying it was a candid exchange about the reality of the circumstances. bachmann remains at 4% in the polls. david, does this legitimize the debate process in delegitimize, pardon me? >> for someone, if you're in single digits, it's frustrating. obviously, the network and who the leading the debate has to focus on the frontrunners and make sure that the other individuals get a say in terms of the debate. having said that, that's obviously going to be a situation where some people might not get as many questions as others. look, you've seen two candidates in that situation manage to emerge, newt gingrich and herman cain. it's tough but it means you have to make your message that much more compelling. i sympathize with her and the other candidates at that point. but the challenge to them is be compelling. >> martin, bachmann is not the only candidate frustrated. huntsman said it's lonely her

school of government university and howard affects policy may gain with martin and david and lindsay she received her degree from tufts university and a proud member of the board treasurer. please welcome when the balance your. [applause] >> it is the privilege to be here for a fascinating evening. i am privileged to introduce gilad sharon the son and biographer of israeli prime minister. what is best known of controversial figures of the middle east, gilad sharon has just produced a biography the life of a leader. the youngest son of aerial jerome three sons and has been a constant in his life and he holds a master's three economics and a frequent columnist for an israel the newspaper. he currently manages his family's fund . >> >> what did is really interesting is is combining their young states of the life of israel so we are combined in the history of the country with good thing about the road map is moving from one stage to the next 14 fulfilling obligations of the previous day's. unfortunately with the obligations, and they never fought jihad britney other organization. nothing