>> i was involved with the east africa embassy bombing. i was a case agent on an an important component of the investigation into the east african bombings which is the european components, the network, the logistical network that allowed al qaeda to function. even the claims of responsibility for the east africa embassy bombing came from that network was in london and it's called operation challenge and we worked closely scotland yard, the anti-terrorism branch on that. it was a very intesting case and from it i learned a lot because we found out the strong links between the egyptian islamic jiha network and al qaeda. >> rose: and so 9/11 you were where? >> i was in yemen. >> rose: what did you think when you heard that the planes had crashed into 9/11 and one plane had gone into pentagon and another crashed in pennsylvania. >> we had no doubt in my mind... i personally had no doubt in my mind that it was osama bin laden. >> rose: and you believed that he and that organization at that time had the means and the ability toll do that? >> oh,

. >> hundreds of people come together in the south bay to fight aids in east africa. >> the last thing you want to see, the benches clear. >> and fists were flying in the latest show of unsportsmanlike conduct, up next, the consequences. >> leigh: i'm leigh glaser. the weak weather system and clouds cooled us down, and reports of a few sprinkles in south bay, and see how much longer the sprinkles will remain in the forecast. >> check that out. this geyser is part of the damage caused be a suspected trunk driver in redwood city. the driver took out a fire hide draft just before midnight and mowed down a light poll and a parking meter before his suv came to a stop. the condition of the driver isn't known. he was taken to a local hospital. >> suspension were handed down today after a nasty brawl at a conditional basketball game. a total of four university of cincinnati players were suspended. three have been sidelined six games each for kicking and punching opposing players. officials called off the game with seconds on the clock. some xavier players spoke about it at a press conference.

>> i was involved with the east africa embassy bombing. i was a case agent on an an important component of the investigation into the east african bombings which is the european components, the network, the logistical network that allowed al qaeda to function. even the claims of responsibility for the east africa embassy bombing came from that network was in london and it's called operation challenge and we worked closely scotland yard, the anti-terrorism branch on that. it was a very intesting case and from it i learned a lot because we found out the strong links between the egyptian islamic jiha network and al qaeda. >> rose: and so 9/11 you were where? >> i was in yemen. >> rose: what did you think when you heard that the planes had crashed into 9/11 and one plane had gone into pentagon and another crashed in pennsylvania. >> we had no doubt in my mind... i personally had no doubt in my mind that it was osama bin laden. >> rose: and you believed that he and that organization at that time had the means and the ability toll do that? >> oh,

lloyd says the response to the crisis in east africa has been much smaller. >> situations like we see in the horn of africa are long term, they are political, at least partly political, they're somewhat related to the drought situation but it's been a long term political struggle in those areas and that has not excited the packers and the donors in the same way. >> it's not so much about compassion fatigue. i think people are as compassionate today as they ever have been. for us, it's actually more a belief fatigue. >> daniel wordsworth heads another minnesota-based group, the american refugee committee. arc also saw a huge response to the haiti earthquake. but support for pakistan, hit by massive floods a few months later, was far weaker. initially, wordsworth says, there also was indifference toward the horn of africa. >> i think what we see in both pakistan, and we're seeing it very strongly in somalia, is that, and it really is almost confronting to us, is the lack of belief that people have for that country. so it's not that they don't feel compassionate. they just can't make the

today we will take a look at a volcano that sits on the great plains of east africa. on this scorching continent, we can directly feel the earth's 30 million-year-old pull. a lake of lava, one of the oldest in the world, reveals itself to us. ♪ we approach the molten lava. it is as if we can feel the breathing pulse of the earth. ♪ as the colorful volcano is created, and how you is this possible? great nature, the scorching land of africa, we take a closer look at one of the earth's unique volcanoes. we journey into africa, to a land situated about 13 degrees north of the equator. the danakil lowlands, found in ethiopia, africa. they form a depression that is over 100 meters below sea level. here extends a concentration of active and sometimes violent volcanoes that are unmatched in majesty. we find ourselves below sea level in what has been called the cruelest place on earth. the haze of stifling heat looks hot indeed. but that is not surprising. for in summer, temperatures exceed 50 degrees celsius, making it the hottest place on earth. the danakil lowlands are clos

it was pickard who decided o'neill would not lead the investigation in east africa.d now, pickard and freeh decided john o'neill would not get the big job in new york. >> my daddy always said, "don't kill your mavericks; they might save your life someday. and they're the ones that will always have the great ideas, so try to take care of them." and john was a maverick, a brilliant maverick. >> narrator: the buzz around the new york office was that the new boss, barry mawn, wasn't keen on keeping o'neill around. >> barry was a skeptic. he had heard sort of the headquarters' gossip about john o'neill's style. but it was funny; i can remember saying to john, "barry doesn't stand a chance. if you decide to win him over, you'll win him over. >> there was a knock on the door, and john was holding two beers. and he said, "well, i understand you're an irishman and you like to drink beer. these are for you." so i laughed. he wanted to stay in new york. he said, "i will be your most loyal supporter, and all i ask in return is that you be supportive of me in my efforts." and so,

but i got a chance to go to east africa for our series "into the wild" and see how new cameras are changinghe picture. at the top of the food chain, if we need a drink, we find a tap. but for the african spotted deer, thirst is a lot more complicated. for a wildebeest, a simple cross-river commute is not so simple. behold reality tv in its most primal form. without the invention of the moving picture, without the patient skills of the natural photographer, our understanding of predator and prey would be severely limited. but for most of the history of wild life photography, we had no idea how these animals behaved when the sun went down. but now, with the advent of cameras that can sense body heat, scientists and animal lovers can witness a kind of drama never before seen by human eyes. a leopard stalking a msomething high in the tree, only to miss dinner and get stuck like a house cat. crocodiles actually fishing, using team work to separate the tasty fish from the small fries. and most jaw-dropping, the way the power struggle between lion and hyena changes after dark. to better understand

to the contrary, in east africa, drought and famine. so i would like to extend my sincere condolences and sympathy to the victims of all those natural disasters. we talk about march 11, at the tsunami and the nuclear power accident. japan has faced tremendous difficulties. but with your compassion and support and encouragement, japan is now on the the way to recovery and reconstruction. [applause] thank you very much. thank you. with your determination and prayers, and again, support and friendship and from you, we will overcome this tremendous difficulty. thank you is again for your help, and thank you. [applause] i would like to extend my gratitude to the mayor. thank you. >> what a beautiful tree, and while we have the children gathering, i want to read one of the minute -- many wishes we got on the origami. it says i wish for a world for our children more just, more fair, and more kind than the one we know now, president barack obama. [applause] i think they're just about gathered. you will tell me when. this is the chinese-american

and will ross, our east africa correspondent joins us from nairobi. can you give us a sense of how bad this is? it looks pretty fierce. >> yes, we understand the fighting began at around dawn and lasted for about four hours. as you say, difficult to get casualty numbers at the moment. but it was certainly some of the fiercest fighting that's taken place for several months, probably since august when most of al-shabab left the capital of mogadishu. now the government forces are saying al she bab attacked the government and african union peacekeeping missions and the government and a.u. troops then went on the offensive and we understand the area is now calm and in the hands of the government and they said six al-shabab fighters were killed and there were some concerns because the troops were useding heavy artillery and there was concerns that would put the civilians in great danger, but they said the area was actually not heavily populated and there weren't heavy civilian casualties, but it's hard to verify this information. >> there was a bit of a spi

from southeast asia all the way to east africa. in phuket, 8,000 people were killed or went missing. on monday, about 50 japanese friends and relatives of the victims attended a memorial service. [ chanting ] >> translator: as japan suffered the march 11th earthquake this year, the indian ocean tsunami overlaps, making this year particularly special. i can never forget what happened, but i don't want it to be tied to the past. >> in japan, which experiences frequent earthquakes, there is a saying, a disaster strikes the moment a person forgets. reconstruction is progressing in phuket, tourist numbers are back to five million a year. but family members of the victims hope that lessons learned from the tragedy are reflected in measures to prevent future disasters all around the globe. >>> the indian ocean tsunami was triggered by a massive earthquake off the coast of indonesia. the province of aceh, near the epicenter was devastated. seven years on, life is still far from normal. reconstruction of homes and infrastructure has progres

they helped millions affected by a major famine in east africa. there were also challenges here at home with deadly tornadoes, severe flooding and a rear east coast earthquake that caused an estimated $15 million worth of damage at washington national cathedral. ♪ but 2011 brought some occasions for celebration as well. christians commemorated the 400th anniversary of the king james version of the bible, and in rome on a record-breaking timetable, pope john paul ii was beautified bringing him one step closer to sainthood. >> kim, a great summary. kim lawton is managing editor of "religion and ethics newsweekly." kevin eckstrom is the editor-in-chief of religion news service and e.j. dionne is a senior fellow at the brookings institution, a columnist for "the washington post" and a professor at georgetown university. welme to each of you. >> thank you. >> i guess my pick for the year would be the arab spring and everything that flowed out of it leading to the occupy movement all over the united states. e.j., what do you make of that? >> well, i thin

military is trying to recover a drone that crashed off the east coast of -- rather off the coast of east africambassy in mauritia said the u.s. used an unmanned aircraft to monitor piracy. the drone had engine problems and went down near the airport on the island nation of seychelles. no one was injured. this comes after iran claims it seized another drone identified as the rq sentinel. the u.s. asked for its return on monday, but iran refused that request and said the u.s. should apologize for funding. >>> conrad murray asked for a publicly funded lawyer to appeal a manslaughter conviction for michael jackson's death saying he could not pay for one himself. murray is currently serving a four-year sentence for the death of michael jackson in 2009. murray would like to appeal both his conviction and his sentence. so far no papers have been filed with a california appeals court. >>> imagine being told you just won $57 million, only to be told, oops, what we meant was you won $100. it happened to a man from switzerland, and now he's suing over the whole ordeal. he played a slot machine at an austr

become a key point on the ancient silk road the vital trading route connecting europe asia and east africa the city is now one of sudden russian's most popular tourist destinations. we continue our acceleration of the republic and this time we're visit a unique you story area of the city of the dead and for many centuries the city developed between two natural walls the mountains and the sea on a strip of land just three kilometers long over the years different nations gave the city different names but all were connected to the word gate the reason perhaps is that did ben stood on the silk road enclosed by strong walls reaching to the sea and the watchtower's the beauty of this area has always attracted visitors from across the country but soon there will be an added incentive to come here this part of dagestan was picked to host one of the five major tourist complexes to be built across the area of north caucasus but that's for the future and for now locals second time two of their past managing to preserve large portions of the area and today they've opened some of the same trees all thi

next, the latest on one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world, the refugee camps in east africamine there. we visited kenya over the summer, saw the devastation firsthand. this morning, we'll ask somalia's former prime minister what's being done to help the hundreds of thousands of somali refugees. this is "the early show" on cbs. how can you get back pain relief that lasts up to 16 hours? with thermacare heatwraps. thermacare works differently. it's the only wrap with patented heat cells that penetrate deep to relax, soothe, and unlock tight muscles for up to 16 hours of relief. that's 8 hours while you wear it, plus an additional 8 hours of relief after you take it off. can your patch, wrap, cream or rub say that? so if you've got pain... get up to 16 hours of pain relief with thermacare. ♪ [ laughs ] [ laughs ] [ woman ] i want to see that. careful. careful. careful. good. ♪ [ female announcer ] they're for bringing us together. ♪ this holiday, select hallmark cards come postage-paid. sears last one-day sale of the year thursday, 7 am! save up to 50% on all tool storage. save

more than 10 million people in east africa hit by the worst drought in six decades.ia becoming the incenter of the famine. two american hikers arrested in 2009 in iran after being accused of spying. finally return home a year after their female friend was released. in a direct challenge to the u.s., the palestinians request statehood recognition at the united nations. anwar al awlaki, american-born senior al qaeda leader killed in yemen by a u.s. drone strike. italian jury clears american student amanda knox of murder nearly four years after she was arrested for allegedly killing her roommate in italy. [horn] >> israel releases over 1,000 palestinian prisoners in exchange for one kidnapped israeli soldier. gilad shalit. [shouting] >> powerful earthquake rocks eastern turkey, killing about 600 people. north korean dictator dies at age 69. his son kim jong un believed to be in his 20's his success glor asked italy about concerns europe's debt crisis one of the big ones. bailout money given to some economies. the economy promises to be a major headline. greg burke, fox

. >> hundreds gathered in san jose to help people with aids in east africa. world vision will establish a thousand kits to caregivers who go from hup to hup to help those dying from aids. they contain items like petroleum jelly to help patients with cracked skin, wash cloths, cotton balls and a handwritten note of encouragement. >> our mission is to make a difference in the world. we teamed up with world vision and we are sending aids caregiver kids to zimbabwe to be used for those who are dying of aids. >> an estimated 14 million african children have lost one or both parents to hiv-aids. if you would like to contribute, sponsor a kid for $29.95. go to abc7news.com and click on see it on tv. >>> now to the east coast where a special version of "silent night" was performed in new york city today. it is the annual tuba christmas. the all tuba orchestra entertained skaters on the rockefeller center ice rink. hundreds of players gathered under the christmas tree and sair nateed the people. >> leigh is here to tell you about the weather now. >> the rain is finall

were you fight in europe, in the middle east, africa, come here to the king monument and see the stone of hope. and when you walk through, you will see a man standing because we have hope and faith, faith that fed us when we were hungry, faith that clothed us when we were nekkid, faith that brought us to the white house from the we come here a trusting in the lord alone, his holy way. he never, he never, he never failed us yet! [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome marian wright edelman. [applause] >> we honor dr. king today in granite, but what's important is that we honor him tomorrow and every day, for as long as it takes, in transformed values, voices for justice, unrelenting nonviolent action to rescue his dream and america's managing dreams from the clutches -- vanishing dreams from the clutches of militarism, racism, and poverty that he warned would undo america. in his last sunday sermon at washington's national cathedral, dr. king retold the parable of the rich man who ignored the poor man, lazarus, who came every day sicking crumbs from the table. the richman wen

the election. 65 percent of the vote, there is an islamic election tsunami sweeping north africa and middle east. gary lane has more from tunist, tu indonesia. >> tu neegss are pleased that their revolution has inspired others throughout north africa and middle east. with up riseings in egypt and yemen and syria, the question is will it result in democracy or be something else. modern islamist one recent elections in morocco. secular itselves will have to wait to see if the new government is -- the best political party in egypt is expected to gain control in that north africa country. little has changed since the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak. the economy has gotten worse and many are struggling just to pay their bills. egypt's de facto leader, ma' mohammed totali. >> it is the same ruler since 1952. these guys are clueless of how to run the country on a daily basis. >> the army leadership wants to rule the country, but not govern it. >> day-to-day matters, bread and butter issues, so far, secular parties are disorganized and weak. the better organized stronger muslim brotherhood and its

military is trying to recover parts of a drone that crashed off the coast of east africa. the air force was using the unmanned aircraft to monitor piracy, it says. the drone had engine trouble and went down shortly after taking off from the seychelles islands. no one was injured. it comes after iran claims it seized another drone identified as the rq-1 sentinel. the u.s. asked for its return on monday, but iran refused that request and said the u.s. should apologize for spying. >>> today the government will start the first auction of offshore petroleum leases in the gulf of mexico since the deep water horizon. interior secretary salazar will conduct the sale. the explosion in the gulf led to the worst oil spill in the history of the u.s., sparking the interior department to regulate how it handles the offshore industry. >>> the capitals have been playing their best hockey since dale hunter took over as coach, but last night they proved the caps have a long way to go. the offense and defense seemed to be lacking, and the flyers absolutely dominated in a 5-1 win at the veriz

to build pipelines in the country so it can import crude oil and natural gas from the middle east and africa. >>> the two most powerful eurozone nations are -- here's more on that. tell us about it. >> we won't know all the details until next week, of course. but french president sarkozy says france and germany will propose changes to the eu treaty on monday. speaking in southern france thursday, sarkozy said the crisis in the euro currency needs a structural response and that the foundation of europe must be rebuilt. he noted a revision is necessary to address the credit uncertainties in europe. sarkozy also said for quicker decision makingmongst eu members, more should be decided by a majority vote than a unanimous vote. >>> in the financial markets on thursday, investors bought government bonds of euro zone nations with excessive debts. this buying caused the yield on tenure bond to go below 7%. now, 7% is a level that's considered difficult for the nation to rebuild its public finances on its own. investors took heart from the previous day's announcement of a concerted action by central

was famine other places which was also british possession, and several father and -- famines in east africa, they didn't quite starve to death, but these are ugly stories in which 20-30 years ago, nobody wanted to go there. of course, the big picture of the war is the big battles and d-day and all the great battles and so on and so forth. these are the big events. we have to be aware of all the other things going on in which more people were dying, that one absolutely fundamental fact, simple fact, but still fundmental. you had a far better chance of coming out of the war in one piece if you were wearing uniform. if you were a serviceman than a civilian. most of the casualties in the war were civilians, innocent people, so-called, victims who never carried a firearm, never shot anybody or anything else who simply starved or died of disease whether it was in china, east bangor, russia. i mean, it was, you know, you had a k457bs of being a he -- you had a chance of being a hero if you wore a gi uniform, russian uniform, or british uniform, but a lot of the housewives and children, i mean, rus

was not as bad but it was -- famine in another british possession, and several famines in which east africa in which people were very, very hungry, and these are ugly stories that nobody wanted to go there 20 or 30 years ago. of course, the main -- the big picture of the war, the big battle, and tito, and all the great battles, the pacific war, the big events, but we don't have to be aware of all these other things that were going on in which more people were dying. one simple fact, fundamental, you had a better chance coming out of the war in one piece if you were wearing a uniform, if you were a servicemen, than you did if you were a civilian most of the casualties in the war were civilians, victims, who never carried a firearm, never shot anybody, who simply starved or died from disease, whether it was in china or east bengal or russia. it's -- you had chance of being a hero if you were wearing a g.i. uniform or a british uniform or a russian uniform, but an awful lot of these housewives and children -- i mean, russian soldiers, i quoted russian soldiers in the book. what really ground y

it with some notion that he's really an african, a mal-mal kind of guy, against the british and east africaxperience he never had, was never shared with him by a father he never knew, complete racist crap. i don't know any other way to describe this. >> but also clever and devious. >> clever? i think it's flagrant. >> they can be both at the same time. but think about the context here. this was the height of the birther movement. was newt gingrich going to come out like the others, like sarah palin and join the birther thing and say that obama's not american? he didn't do that. he did this instead. so he was reaching out to the birther movement with this but not going whole hog. i think that was a very calculated and very clever. of course it falls apart under scrutiny. the previous one falls apart under scrutiny. okay, now that he's faithful to his wife, does that mean he's not patriotic and doesn't love his country anymore? i guess it would follow logically. >> this thing going to the racist stuff. again going back to 1994, the way back machine. it's a golden oldie, newt gingrich saw hims

places and it was not as bad but it was an example which is a british possession which is several in east africa in which people were very, very hungry they didn't quite starve to death but that wasn't -- these are stories which 20 or 30 years ago nobody really wanted to go there and of course the big picture it's the big battles that crossed the day and all the great battles and so on and so forth these are the big events but we just have to be aware of all these other things the were going on in which more people were dying. but one absolutely fundamental fact and simple but it is still fundamental you have a far better chance of coming out of the war in one piece if you were wearing your uniform if you were a service man than a few to civilian most of the casualties were civilians. they were mostly innocent people, they were victims who never carried a firearm in never shot anybody or anything else to simply starved of disease letter it was china or east bangalore russia. you have a chance to be the hero if he were wearing a g.i. uniform or the british uniform or russian uniform, but an awful

related to oil fuel. 40% is met with oil from opec which includes major oil producers in the middle east, africa and south america. the world's largest non-opec oil producers are russia and the united states. united states is also the world's largest consumer and largest importer. net imports make 45% of u.s. oil consumption, but this is down from the peak of 50% in 2005. net imports have declined by 4 million barrels a day in six years. nearly half these declines can be attributed to lower u.s. oil consumption, the result of the economic downturn and higher oil prices. the rest is due to higher domestic production of oil and other liquid fuels, particularly on short crude oil and ethanol. the largest crude oil production increase is taking place in north dakota and texas. production in north dakota formation as rapidly increasing in recent years and enabled the technology advances and horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. ethanol production supported by federal policy and higher gasoline prices. among the largest declines in production have been alaska and california. despite lower u.s.

to build pipelines in the country, so it can import crude oil and natural gas from the middle east and africa. >>> the former chief executive of olympus is resigning from the company's board of directors. and michael woodford wants the remaining members off the board as well. he's calling on the shareholder vote to change the management of the scandal-plagued company. he wants to lead the comeback. olympus dismissed woodford as president and ceo in october. but he remained on the board. now, woodford is asking management to call an emergency shareholders' meeting and said he will prepare a new slate of directors in a proxy fight. >> sometimes in life you have to try to do the right thing. there's no guarantee. i'm not guaranteeing that that would be, you know, it's the choice of the shareholders. but i want to try to do what i think is right for the company. >> olympus lost more than $100 billion yen in investments. company leaders used a series of corporate buy-outs to cover up the shortfall. >>> toyota motor and bmw group say they have agreed to form a partnership in eco-friendly technologi

for the brock about two thousand and eight election campaign scott you mentioned the middle east north africa lots of people say that these were revolutions these were events and mass protests that were internally reminded organized online. what do you think was the true old social network in these revolutions i don't think in a lot of places around the world social networking had been sort of given credit i think the obama campaign social networking got a lot of new credit because it was something that was there was new ultimately obama was going to win that campaign based on his candidacy the right candidate the right message and lots of people very upset with the direction of the united states in places like. going out and organizing in egypt i truly believe that social networking was was the impetus for a lot of that revolutionary change it got people excited and motivated that they were not alone in their feelings against the government it kept people involved and it actually forced people that they could actually go out and organize the tools have become very powerful as far as i'm upse

a lot of clients understand the situation russia is wholly different from that in the middle east north africa but there are concerns that russia's position with the rest of the world could get serious for investors cause does have implications for russia's russian investors have always been concerned about how russia is viewed by the west and whether or not russia will welcome foreign investment just as have implications for things like that and we don't think so this is a done deal but it's definitely worth following that's what investors are pricing right now and that's why they're adopting a wait and see course russian markets. and finally the global sports business is playing well despite economic uncertainty accounting from promise waterhouse coopers expects the industry's revenues to grow twenty percent in four here to almost one hundred fifty billion dollars most of the current will be driven by sponsorship contracts ahead of the winter olympic games in sochi and the summer games in rio de janeiro. that's it for me for now i'll be back in less than fifteen minutes with another business