don was not a news snob. don was an editor and a producer, but he also had the common touch.>> kroft: you think he was concerned about the ratings? >> walters: i think that don may have been one of the most competitive people i know. >> kroft: and it's true. the first thing he did every monday morning was to call the research department for the overnight ratings. >> hewitt: okay. >> bradley: how'd we do last night? >> hewitt: i'm afraid to find out. hi, hon, it's don hewitt. you got the fast track nationals from last night? we dropped under 11.5. i'm being... yeah, most people would pray for 11.5. oh, ( bleep ) yeah. 10.8. that's pretty bad. what was the share, 20? >> kroft: don said he worried that he had ruined television news because he had made it profitable... >> hewitt: now, how did disney do? >> kroft: ... and that profit, not quality, would become the driving force for network executives. >> hewitt: all right, it looks like we'll have another good season. >> kroft: don had nominal bosses at both the news division and the television network, but the best of them allowe

murrow. >> i can turn to don hewitt here and say, don, will you push a button and bring in the atlantic post? >> reporter: don shaped the early days of t.v. with cue cards, editing techniques and camera placements. >> nobody knew what he was doing but you didn't care because who had a television set? >> reporter: he called it dumb luck. when the italian line ere "andrea doria" was sinking in 1956, don got there last and thought he had missed the story. >> we were the only ones flying over the "andrea doria's." it turned over like a big dead elephant and all of a sudden you looked down and where there was this ocean liner, there was nothing. >> reporter: he was tapped to produce and direct... >> i've got a natural walk over here and we zoom in. >> reporter: ...the first televised presidential debate. >> can you take camera two, please? i was awed by the whole thing. nobody had ever done this before. all right, what we will do is this... and it was up to me to sort of tell these guys what the rules were, what they had to do, what they didn't have to do. >> then we move over here, right? >

>> reporter: hi, don. well, yes, kenny macatskill did make that announcement about megrahi would be released on compassionate grounds, suffering from terminal cancer. and he met the criteria for the judicial decision, which means you only have three months to live. he says mr. megrahi will be going home to die. a controversial decision. he said he talked to many of the families, many of the interested parties, the libyan government representatives, the u.s., and he understood that he would never be able to square the circle. he would never be able to satisfy all parties with the decisions that he was going to make. now, we were actually in the town only a few days ago talking to people there about how they felt about megrahi's release. and they said they preferred not to dwell on the past. only one man was ever convicted for the bombing of pan am flight 10320 years ago. megrahi was found guilty on 270 counts of murder. his co-defendant, acquitted by a scottish court in the netherlands. many doubt lockerbie

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don hewitt was 86 years old. drew levin has his story. >> reporter: when it came to broadcast journalism, don hewitt was the pioneer, helping to create the blueprint for television news. a career that can be described as illustrious began in 1948. that's when he became the director of the first cbs evening news show. he directed many other programs, including edward r. murrow's signature show, "see it now." >> i can turn to don hewitt and say, don, can you push a button and bring on the atlantic coast. >> reporter: don took on various duties, directing and producing the presidential debate between john kennedy and richard nixon. >> i felt like the referee before a fight. giving them the last-minute instructions before they went to their corner and came out swinging. >> reporter: hewitt advised nixon to wear makeup, but he did not, losing the debate, appearing tired and pale on television. a couple of years later, don hewitt became the executive producer of the cbs new englaevs with walker cronkite. but his greate

don hewitt the late arty bloom. people were superstars. it's a remarkable bar for which >>> hello again. clouds overhead and lots of humidity on the ground. sharon will wrap up what is going on after marty's first warning weather. >> clouds this morning. there is no rain in them, not yet anyway. the forecast will call for a chance of a passing shower or thunderstorm. 88 and humid the high this day. in the mid-70s now. over to sharon at wjz tv traffic control. >> an oil slick on the northbound lanes of jfx is causing big headache for drivers. the northbound lanes are shut down. that is between fayette and north avenue. traffic is being detoured to falls way. charles street is another alternate. watch for two problems on the west side. an accident on the west side inner loop at baltimore blocking two right lanes. ramp closure from 40 to the inner loop. a backup from 895. outer loop rub near necking delays to 795. a second problem approaching frederick, disabled vehicle blocking the right center lane. this traffic repo

>> well, this is the whole don imus, you know? of people know as acerbic, controversial, hard-hitting, and then he builds this 4,500-acre paradise for kids, invites them in. you're the surrogate father. >> but i would have never done that myself. we did it together. sean: in other words, is there a different side to don imus than maybe other people know and this is it here, this is the don imus that people don't know? >> definitely now they will know who don't know this. but this -- >> what it is, i wouldn't have done it myself. i mean, i may have gotten the idea, but i would have never done it. i wouldn't know how to do it. but we -- and i'm not patronizing her, because if i could get her in a wood chipper, i would. that's not true. but she's on her best behavior. >> you laugh, but -- that's why i have my knife here. he couldn't get me in the wood chipper. yeah, right, try it, honey, try it. >> if she had not met me, she'd probably be out in hollywood having sex with people, trying to get in movies. sean: oh, geez. >> which is wh

don?now that we've talked about the government intimidation towards the media, atia, i'm sure that's not the only thing the taliban has been doing to intimidate people from heading to the polls. >> reporter: the problem with the people of afghanistan, they're getting intimidation from every which way they go. the taliban has threatened to chop off index fingers. when an afghan person goes out to vote, they deep their finger in a bottle of ink to show they voted and they can't vote again. it takes weeks for that ink to come off. the taliban says if they see that on anyone's finger, they'll chop their fingers off. they've also threatened to cut their throats, attack polling stations. threats are coming to both foreign and american journalists. an e-mail was a requirement that we not report on the elections. if the foreign media reports on violence during that time period, they're told they'll be kick out of the country and the afghan media's organization will be shut down. >> atia, thank you

don? >> pay close attention to the weather forecast and, of course, "american morning" tomorrow morning starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. they'll have it covered for you as well. thanks again, jacqui. >>> he's a huge bollywood star but the security screeners at a newark international airport didn't recognize him and caused a little bit of trouble there. >>> also, an american arrested in myanmar. a u.s. senator tries to get him freed. what happens next? >>> a missouri man jailed in myanmar for taking a forbidden swim is in the clear now. john yet ttaw landed in thailan today looking pale and worn out. jim webb's mercy mission got him out of a seven-year prison sentence. the uninvited visit earned the nobel laureate an extra 18 months house arrest. >>> an international uproar after a bollywood vip was questioned by immigration officials at the newark airport. some angry fans are burning american flags in india while others are marching with posters of shah rukh khan. immigration off

don? >> thank you, david mckenzie in nairobi, we apologize for that satellite hit, dave sudfar away and we had a bit of a problem there. >>> fareed zakaria interviewed the secretary of state about her trip to africa and you can watch it this sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> loud, boisterous, out of control. people disrupting town hall meetings. who are they and why are they doing it? a great deal gets even better. let us recycle your older vehicle and you could qualify for an additional $3500 or $4500 cash back on a new, more fuel-efficient chevy. your chevy dealer has more eligible models to choose from. more than ford, toyota, or honda. now get an '09 silverado for under twenty eight-five after all offers. and get it for even less if you qualify for cash for clunkers program. go to chevy.com for details. welcome to the now network. right now five co-workers are working from the road using a mifi, a mobile hotspot that provides up to five shared wifi connection

. >>> now, don scott, mary bass. breaking news with mary bubala, it's wjz, maryland east news station. >>> it's a sticky day start but a pretty one at the moment and sharon has a couple of more accidents to relate to you after marty's first warning weather. >>> good morning, don and good morning everybody. i want to look at first warning doppler weather radar because ultimately this cold front is what we are looking at. you're seeing showers dissipating as they are leaving buffalo, between buffalo annuity -- and utica. that's going to define your afternoon weather. it's a beautiful day to start. let's look at the day part. we will begin partly sunny. i think we probably will start to see some thunderstorms fire up around the mid atlantic by mid -- let's say lunch time. late afternoon, evening through bedtime, the potential for a strong thunderstorm will exist. 84 degrees at lunch, on its way to a high of 90. i'm figuring 88-90 degrees. come on back here one second. we're not on the air until 4, 5 and 6 but you've got

we'll get don and brian in. so he goes from the auto parts store, drives to this -- it's a shoe place where his fiancee who's hassani's aunt, works, right? >> that's correct. >> did he drive to the back of the store and let little hassani off? >> he said the plan was he actually parked. and he says the last time he saw hassani was when the boy got out of the vehicle. he could walk on his own. >> okay. >> and he said he looked to the back as he went around to the front of the store and saw the boy get out of the vehicle. and then he went around to go in through the front door. and then they were going to let the kid in through the back. and so like i said, there's apparently no surveillance video of the rear of the store. there's no indication that anybody saw the boy or what had happened at that point. >> okay. >> so that's where we are there. >> got you. let me bring in don clark on that. don, raising a couple of sons myself, when they were 5, i wouldn't just drop them off anywhere. right? isn't that fishy to y

don? >> all right, ali velshi on the cnn express in des moines, iowa, bring me some cotton candy and really good popcorn back, stick in the overnight. >> will do. >> ali velshi, thank you for joining us. we've got this covered from the town halls going on across america. people are for it or against it to people who are in the middle, we're covering it all for you. you're not going to miss any of it. also, again, we're waiting the president, the president has arrived in grand junction, colorado. he's going to speak in just a minute. as soon as he comes on stage and starts speaking, we'll bring that to you as well. don't go anywhere we've got it all covered four live right here on cnn. >>> all right, don lemon reporting live here from centennial olympic park in atlanta. you're looking live at pictures from the president's rare town hall meeting in grand junction, colorado, where he's going to be speaking and taking questions from americans in the audience there. the president can arrive at

don invented supers. he said, you know, on the screen we need another way to convey information to viewers, maybe we can superimpose them and he figured out technically a way to do it. he was a director, which is a technical job in television and he figured that out. he also invented the term anchorman. because he says, you know, these guys, they're like, as i recall, the way he told it to me, wasn't that they anchored the broadcast in terms of holding it down, he said it was more like a relay race where you had your best guy run the anchor leg and you have all these correspondents in the field, but your absolute best one, that would be your anchorman and that is where that term came from. that came straight out of don's head. another thing that you see when you watch the news you'll see a reporter and then covers the reporters' interview. in the old days you had left the reporting talking and then don invented this idea that you could then roll a "b" roll of film and lay it over to illustrate what the tv

where do we go next, don? >> mike, you saw looking into this person's background, i think it's ryan that's on there with us, you talk about that, you look in the background and you find out what can you do based on that background to try to prevent these from happening. that's what law enforcement has to be a lot about today, is preventing these from happening. i lived through virginia tech with cnn for many, many hours, and we talked about these very same things, of people coming in, innocent and everybody says, well, yeah, he was a little strange, he was a little bit different but then he does that. the next end of that, mike, is to try to get security on that end. if we're going to have gun laws the way they are today, we're going to have to have some mechanisms in place, whether it's magnetometers or other devices to see who's bringing guns in where they shouldn't be. >> guys, we'll take a quick break. when we come back, we'll hear from george sodini again. he pulled off such a heinous act. he's going to t

don?pay close attention to the weather forecast and, of course, "american morning" tomorrow morning starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern here on cnn. they'll have it covered for you as well. thanks again, jacqui. >>> he's a huge bollywood star but the security screeners at a newark international airport didn't recognize him and caused a little bit of trouble there. >>> also, an american arrested in myanmar. a u.s. senator tries to get him freed. what happens next? >>> a missouri man jailed in myanmar for taking a forbidden swim is in the clear now. john yettaw landed in thailand today looking pale and worn out. put but first he met with u.s. senator jim webb, whose mercy mission got him out of a seven-year prison sentence. he was convicted for swimming to the home of detained pro-democracy leader aung san suu kyi. the uninvited visit earned the nobel laureate an extra 18 months house arrest. >>> an international uproar after a bollywood vip was questioned by immigration officials at the newark ai

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not all good news here, don. the unemployment rate for folks collecting those checks for more than six months, long-term unemployment, that is at a record high of nearly 5 million people. also you have to know the unemployment rate counts people that are actively looking for work. if they have stopped looking for work and heading back to school in september or frustrated, done looking all together, or early retirement, they don't count in that number. we have a lot of concerns out there. >> what people are concerned about as they are being laid off and unemployed, benefits. >> we have something i want to point out on cnnmoney.com. unemployment benefits vary per state. michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. 15.2%, but the longest term in terms of unemployment benefits. you have up to 79 weeks. if you are not getting that, look into extending benefits. alabama, 10.1%, still over the national average, 59 weeks there. 20 weeks less than michigan. utah, the story is great relatively speaking. 5.7% u

i'm don lemon. our top story, thousands of people fleeing their homes ahead of wildfires raging in southern california. especially hard hit los angeles county prompting governor arnold schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency. for the latest we turn to cnn's kara finnstrom live in la canada flintridge, california. >> reporter: you can see this fire is continuing to burn in the hillsides behind me. we are expecting a news briefing any minute now with the latest numbers from this fire, but at last report more than 35,000 acres had burned in this fire. that number expected to go up. thousands of homes had been threatened. we caught up with one of the families who had been in edge in la canada for days. >> wetted everything down a couple of times yesterday, really soaked everything down good and waited. >> reporter: defying orders to evacuate, skeet mccauley watched his family leave with the la canada fire exploding. more than quadrupling in size in 24 hours. he chose to guard his home. so this wa

don hewitt dead of pancreatic cancer at the age of 86. this sunday 60 minutes will dedicate its entire show to its creator. cbs news white house correspondent bill plant worked with him. thank you for talking with us today, bill. >> my pleasure to be here. >> people like to throw the word legend around. what sets don hewitt around from a lot of other talented news folks? >> there was this guy in the control room when i first joined cbs of the new walter cronkite evening news, 1964. he was always yelling and screaming but he had great ideas. he was full of ideas. some of them were lousy but a lot of them were great. above all, he understood that television was about pictures. and that really was something that a lot of us didn't get back toward the beginning. he came in 1948, television really was infant and he helped bill the idea that pictures meant just as much as the words and that's how he built the success of "60 minutes" as well. >> he talked about tell me a story. came down to those four words when it came down to news magazine. wh

. >>> hello, everyone, i'm don lemon. breaking news. this has all of the makings of an explosive international incident. three american hikers arrested and detained inside iran. tonight cnn has confirmed the name of one of those detainees, joshua fatal in his mid-20s from elkins park, pennsylvania. just within the last few minutes, we heard from his mother. in a phone call, he says, quote, my husband and i are only concerned with the welfare of joshua. the americans reportedly strayed into iranian territory while hiking on the iran/iraq border. live to the middle east and arwa damon with the details. >> reporter: hello, don. we have also confirmed thatcfess grandmother, is the fourth american traveling with the other three is in the embassy in baghdad. this is what happened, the time line as we do know it. the four americans, four of them started out in the beginning left from syria and then traveled to turkey, crossing into northern iraq on july 28th. and then on july 31st, they ended up in suey ma knee, where three of them, including

don back to you. >>> thank you very much.e is set for september 8th. >>> >>> west virginia official versus discovered the remains of a fort mead soldier who disappeared during a sky diving exercise. the body harry parish was found near the regional airport. the 53-year-old was taking part in a civilian training exercise on saturday night when he went missing. officials are investigating but believe his death was an accident. >>> the military has located the remains of a fighter pilot named michael speicher. the captain was shot down at the start of the first gulf war. >>> the only american unaccounted for from the gulf war has been found. the remains of scott speicher were found buried in the iraqi desert. >> to bring scott home and you know, that really does mean something to us. i'm just sorry we couldn't bring him home alive. >> these are some of the last pictures of speicher. >> i'd like to say hello to joanne, my son michael, i love you and miss you. >> the f18 was shot down in the first few hours of the war. dick cheney

don? >> jacqui, thank you very much for that. >>> it's a relationship that for too long has been strained, police officers and the black community. tonight a frank and honest conversation with your input. >>> plus, it is not a story from the 1960s. claims of separate rest rooms for blacks and whites on the job. >>> earlier we told you about a developing story happening in chicago. six people shot there today. police believe it was gang related. earlier in the week, 15 people shot there. t.o. hardman is director of the gang immediateuation and community organizations for the group cease-fire. alongside him, t.o. -- alongside t.o. is gary slukman. the executive director of cease-fire. t.o., i'll start with you. what is going on with this uptick of gang violence in chicago? more importantly, what is happening to solve it? >> first of all, there's the subculture, there's the working class culture. a lot of guys that participate in the violence in chicago, it's learned behavior, passed down, ge

don?> jacqui, thank you very much for that. we appreciate it. jacqui also reporting on the tornadoes that she is following as well. we'll check back with her as she gets new information. >>> meantime, justin green is an aviation attorney. he's also a persian gulf war vet who served in the u.s. marine corps as an attack helicopter pilot and aviation officer. thank you, sir, for joining us tonight. here's my question. what is it going to take before stricter air traffic regulations are put into place where these crashes are happening? especially in a very busy area like the new york city area? >> i hope that this accident is going to be enough to make the faa take action. after the cory lidle accident, i, among others, suggested closing the vfr corridor, at least restricting access to it. but this is a double tragedy today. >> after cory lidle, they shut down that space over the east river for quite -- a bit of time. they didn't do that today. might they do that if their investigation turns

i'm don lemon. we're bringing you breaking news on the story that could turn into an international powder keg. on the surface looking at it from here in the u.s., it appears to be an innocent mistake, but seen through the lens of world politics, the arrest of three young american hikers who apparently strayed into iran from northern iraq takes on a much more dangerous dimension. we have new information on this story we first told you about last night. some of it coming from a high-ranking administration source there. are lots of serious questions that remain unanswered. for starters, where are the americans now? how is the iranian government treating them? and what's the u.s. government doing to bring them home? in a moment we'll have the first reaction to the story from inside the white house, but first we want to tell you more about these hikers and who they are and why as american civilians they were even in the area to begin with. our national correspondent susan candiotti joins us with the late

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back with us, don clark, former fbi special agent in charge. mark eiglarsh with us as well, defense attorney, former prosecutor, and also joining us, greg hahn, local news editor for "the idaho statesman." that paper has done a great job on this story. greg, let's -- do we know that robert was definitively murdered july 24th? that was the last day we think he was seen, right? >> yeah, we sure don't. the police started stayed -- or yesterday asking folks if they could offer more information about the week leading up to when he was reported missing. midway through that first ten days when they were searching for him, you know, they kind of changed their tone as well. it wasn't who was missing friday night, it was who was reported missing friday night. so i think they've been finding evidence that there may have been some stuff leading up to this before ha night. >> don, let me get you in on this very quick, former fbi special agent in charge. what evidence do you need that will tell us when was this little guy last alive? because he was found in

tavis: next up a look at the life and legend of don hewitt. stay with us.is: few people have had the kind of impact on this medium of television the way don hewitt did. as the creator of "60 minutes" he would change the face of the news business providing a primetime platform for one of tv's longest running and most successful shows. but prior to that he helped change the face of american politics as the producer of the first ever televised debate in 1960 between richard nixon and john f. kennedy. in his most recent appearance on this program i began by asking don hewitt if debates today meant as much as they did back then. >> nothing matters as much as the first one. the first one was a blockbuster. when the first one was over, jack kennedy was president of the united states. they didn't have to wait for election day. nothing like that has happened since. you know, my most vivid recollection of that first debate is the politicians looking at us and saying to themselves, that's the only way to run for office, and we, us, looking at them saying, that's a bot

murrah's signature show, see it now. >> i can turn to don hewitt and say don, will you push a button and bring in the atlantic post. >> reporter: he took on duties directing the debate between john kennedy and richard nixon. >> i felt like a referee at a fight. i was giving them them last minute instructions before they went to the corner and came out swinging. >> reporter: hewitt advised him use make up bethe declined eventually losing the election. a couple of years later he became the executive producer of the cbs evening news with walter cronkite. he is credited with coining the term anchorman and creating a look that for decades defined how information news was presented but his greatest reindication is no -- creation was 60 minutes the face of journalism. >> this is 60 minutes a kind of magazine for television. >> reporter: 6 a minutes was the first news program to become a top ten television show. it regularly made headlines with stories ranging from hard- hitting investigative pieces to interviews with the famous and the notorious. the show won every award in the book. >> you

>> you know, don, i'm certainly no economist. but if you are to believe those such as alan greenspan who says we have turned the corner, you know, perhaps they are right. but you know, for the average american, when you talk about growth in the american economy that doesn't necessarily mean jobs. and we all know that jobs are a lagging indicator, so even administration officials today were saying that while things are on the upswing and they're happy about it, you won't see the job numbers improve until next year. >> that's what's really important. you need money in your pocket to feel some sort of recovery. the president has said over and over that the economy was in turmoil before he took office, but does that matter? the people really want to see progress and they want jobs now. >> yes, people really want jobs now. i talked to a democratic pollster, cornell belcher, before we went on the air tonight. and i asked him. he said basically the president's approval ratings are closely tied, closely linked to the american public's an

don, take it away. >> here's sharon at wjz traffic control. it's a pretty comfortable ride if you do have to go to work this morning. we don't have accidents or congestion at this point. we have continuing road work going on because of a water main break earlier this week. that's still blocking the westbound lane of northern parkway. there's a look at your drive times and speeds on the beltway as well as 95. you can see it all very close to the full speed. 16 minutes there on the uh, 895 between 95 and the north side and the south side. there's a live look at the top side of the beltway. looking good at harford road. no issues at the tidings memorial bridge. there's a look at, i had a hard time looking at that one. 95 and 395. looking good. wjz13 is always on. for traffic information log onto wjz.com. >>> people are anticipating the recession winding down. today the government will release the unemployment numbers. will it show a slow down in the number of americans getting pink slips or are more still being let go in record numbers? series su

it was that don hewitt knew what made a great story and how to tell it.hough his correspondents often did not agree. >> this is the story that i see every night in the news. >> i know that, don. but that's -- those are the facts. you have to establish a context in which we are telling the rest of the story. why is that important? because he -- >> mike, mike, mike! >> reporter: he produced "60 minutes" for 36 years. >> be as candid as you know how, and then from there on, you say, "i said it on '60 minutes.'" >> my competition is the remote. i figure in every living room in america, everybody who's watching television has one of these things sitting within easy reach. the minute their mind wanders, and they reach for this, you're dead. >> reporter: few people did reach for the remote during a hewitt broadcast. he died holding the highest respect of all of us in this business he loved. he was and extraordinary broadcaster. >>> and a follow up to our story last night on a study raisinging questions about a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. many of you post

dop, back don. back to you. >>> the mayor's legal team has issued a subpoena asking for all of the details. the mayor is facing several charges, including corruption and theft. >>> susan roberts reports from "wjz," only the second time afghans have been able to go to the polls to elect a leader. >> reporter: one of the first to cast his ballot this morning -- >> this will be for peace, for progress and for the well-being of the afghan people. >> reporter: he is seeking a second term, called on afghans to defy taliban threats and participate in today's election. security was tight. for days, militants have tried to discourage voters. the government imposed a media blackout. there were six more american deaths, putting august on track to be the deadliest since the war began. of kaszie is the favorite to win, but he will need 50% of the vote or face a runoff. >> the war is getting worse. can the president there stop what he was unable to stop before? we don't know. >> reporter: before we do know, afgha

don, take it away. >>> thank you. at wjz traffic control. >> don, delays beginning to build out there on the roadway, if you are traveling on the harbor tunnel freeway in the northbound direction we did have earlier debris slowing things down, but we are looking at a lingering delay. as far the west side, that's stop and go a ten minute delay in that direction. >>> harbor, we have a delay attracting attention. harrisburg continues to mover well. the water main break remains there. closed between green street and martin luther king boulevard. if you want to avoid that the best way is to take pennsylvania avenue, and here is a live look at 95 south as you can see volume definitely beginning to build there. this traffic report is brought to you by toyota and your local toyota dealer, choose from 16 different fuel efficient. click, on buy buy a tie owe at toyota.com. >> ladies and gentlemen, chris burnsment we have been listening to your prefer yows interviews -- previous interviews here. the idea here is back to school,

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but don it's the same process. they all need to be merged into one bill that will at some point go before the house. so you have this extensive process and then both chambers, what we're seeing is a pretty long process. and this gets even more complicated. once the house and the senate ultimately do pass something, if they do, then, those two go into these committees where they need to be merged. so we're talking about a lot of steps. you know, one of our producers was mentioning to me recently, and it's true, that the founding fathers wanted really big tasks to be kind of tough. for congress. and they got their wish. >> all right. our josh levs helping us out with that. so what is the best way for millions of uninsured americans to get health care? our conversation is just getting started tonight. coming up in our 10:00 p.m. eastern hour we're posing tough questions to dr. peter thomas who advocates for uninsured african-american. we want to hear from you, as well. make sure you send us your questions, your concer

>> you know what, don, it's not a coincidence there.ican-americans have a much harder time getting kidneys. and there are a couple of reasons why. one of them just for biological reasons, african-americans seem to have very strong and active immune systems that makes them more likely to reject the kidney. and then as they go on dialysis as people do when they need a kidney, it makes them even more likely to reject the kidney. so, that's just a couple of reasons why african-americans simply have a tougher time getting a kidney. >> boy, oh, boy, it's a happy day, for the recipients. does anyone have concerns about this kind of arrangement? there are always people on the other side of it here. >> well, there are people that definitely have worries, don. and the reason why these donors, they were perfectly healthy. they walked into the hospital perfectly healthy, and they underwent surgery not for themselves but to help someone else. and so these people had to undergo the risks of the surgery, and also the risk of living -- and you see some

no reports of damage, don. as we get more information, we're monitoring our affiliate care-11. >> jacqui jeras, we will check back. thank you very much. >>> we are also following breaking news out of new york city. divers will be back in the murky hudson river early tomorrow. they will resume the search for two downed aircraft and six missing bodies off the hoboken waterfront. a tourist helicopter and a small plane with three people aboard collided about noon today, sending both careening into the hudson river. three bodies have been recovered so far. federal investigator are on the scene and have begun interviewing witnesses. the ntsb said one witness said another helicopter pilot who radioed a warning to his fellow pilot but it was too late. moments later, hundreds, if not thousands of people, saw the heartstopping horror unfold before their eyes. in seconds, the wreckage sank to the bottom of the hudson almost as if nothing had happened. let's go right now straight to the scene. susan candiotti. she has been

don st this. >> don, good news for men who elect to undergo. >> reporter: good morning. positive news for men who undergo prostate cancer surgery. they appear to do well. a recent study evaluated the ute comes of nearly 13,000 man who had a radical, which is surgical removal of the cancerous prostate gland and found only 12% of them died of cancer. one researchers says the patients who had what he and his colleagues considered a high risk prostate cancer had a much lower risk of dieing and more favorable prostate cancers. >> i'm kellye lynn with health watch. >> the great prostate challenge is right around the corner as part of our commitment you can get a free screening this sunday from 8:00 to 1:00 at the first mount olive baptist church at the hebrew congregation and come out september 24th. marly bass will be there to get the race going and yet to come. break news about the missing mad lynn. what a private investigators has uncovered. >> time is running out, the state wants to hear how you would cut the budget but has set a deadline. i'm mary. >> i'm mike in down tun

and also don clark with us to help or the it out. keith, what are authorities telling you about that tip in north carolina? >> what we heard is what you guys reported, that it dumb through that show on saturday night, the "america's most wanted" show, that it was in their estimation one of many tips that they've gotten from a variety of sources. and our understanding was that they weren't that -- didn't have any more confidence or less confidence in that particular tip than they did others they were working on, the indication we got from them. >> we'll take a quick break. more with keith and don coming up as we continue to search and hope for kristie cornwell.

don hewett, one of the great tv pioneers died at age 86. drew levinson reports on wjz news on his extraordinary career. >>> when it came to broadcast journalism, he was a pioneer, helping to create the blueprint for television news. a career that can be described as ill lose treous started in 1948. that's when he was a director of the first evening news show. he directed many other shows including the signature show "see it now." >> ky say, don, push a button and bring in the coast. >> he took on producing duties as well. directing and producing the presidential debate between kennedy and nixon. >> i felt like a referee. i was giving them instructions before they went to the corner and came out swinging. >> hewett advised mixon to use makeup, losing the debate when he appeared tired and pale and losing the election. years later he was the first executive producer of the cbs evening news. he is credited with coining the term anchor man. and creating the look defined how news was presented. but his greatest creation was no doubt 60 minutes. t

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, i'll do it. >> i can turn to don hewitt -- >> tonight we look back at his life and his work. >> this is "60 minutes". kind of a magazine for television. >> you've got to establish a context in which we are telling the rest of the story. >> i once said to cbs in my next contract i want a gun, a whip and a chair. because it's like being in a cage with a tiger, and there are temperaments. not the least of which is mine.

murrow's signature shows, "see it now." >> i can turn to donahueit and say-- don hewitt and say, don, will you produce the host. >> reporter: producing the general debate between john kennedy and richard nixon. >> i felt like the referee of a fight. i was giving them the last bit of instructions before they came out swinging. >> reporter: hewitt advised nixon to wear makeup. but he declined, appearing tired and pale on television, and eventually losing the election. >> reporter: he is credited with creating the look that for decades defined how television news was propertied. -- was presented. but his greatest creation was no doubt "60 minutes ," the show that changed the face of broadcast journalism. >> good evening. this is "60 minutes." it's kind of a magazine for television. >> reporter: it was the first to become a top 10 show for news. hewitt had already celebrated his 80th birthday, when in 2004, he officially stepped down as head of "60 minutes ." but he remained in the family, lending his experience and expertise, to lend a hand in searching for a new way to cover news in the