katie. >> couric: elaine quijano. elaine, thank you. and coming up next, muslim by faith, american by birth. >> couric: there are more than two million muslims living in this country. to sample their reaction to the death of osama bin laden, national correspondent dean reynolds went to dearborn, michigan, the u.s. city with the highest percent annual of muslims. >> i love this. >> reporter: mohsen amen came to dearborn from lebanon 41 years ago, married liula, and worked for three decades building american cars at ford. they raised four children. but for this muslim family, the specter of osama bin laden and 9/11 has shadowed their lives. >> sometimes you feel uncomfortable because people give you a look. for me, it's not as much as it is for my kids. >> reporter: we spoke with a court administrator, bilal, and shadia. >> personally a lot of people didn't know i was arab, so if you see me out and about not too many people do but once they find out their entire demeanor changes. everybody closes up, gives you a different look and it was

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elaine quijano is in smithville tonight with the very latest. elaine, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening to you russ. well, of all the towns hit by deadly tornadoes this week, smithville, mississippi, was decimated by the most powerful kind, an ef-5 tornado, and the police chief here, darwin hathcock, told us he was caught directly in its path. >> it was just like a monster coming and i'm just thinking there's no way any of us are going to survive this because it was huge. >> reporter: smithville, mississippi, police chief darwin hathcock scrambled to take cover inside the police station and remembers looking up just as the giant storm passed. >> we could actually see the tornado still, like, right up over us. >> reporter: what did it look like? >> it was just like a lot of dust and a rotation and quiet looking. >> reporter: in less than 60 seconds, the tornado had destroyed half the homes in town and 14 of the town's 16 businesses. it was the strongest tornado to hit mississippi in more than 50 years. >> we've lost our whole town. we

elaine quijano has the story of a woman who drives into damaged communities to help the children there heal. >> reporter: when dozens of tornadoes slammed into the south, children were among those directly in the storm's path. >> everything was shaking and stuff, and we heard trees falling, and nobody know what to do exactly. >> reporter: in tuscaloosa alabama, where many kids and their families lost everything, kathryn mart and i know her team at t.j.'s bus hoped to restore some normalcy. >> when we drive sointo a disaster site they know this bus is for them, that it's special. >> reporter: martin understands loss. her son c.j. was just two when a deadly tornado tore through evansville, indiana, in 2005. he and 24 others were killed. >> it made me realize that i must be here for something. i've got to do something. you want to come in and color? >> reporter: so with this converted camper filled with toys and games, dubbed "c.j.'s bus," martin and her team are trying to create a safe haven... >> let's get you some toys. >> reporter: ...for kids in disaster zones. >> we're not mental he

katie. >> couric: elaine quijano, elaine, thanks so much. turning now to the middle east. for weeks, the white house had moved carefully on syria, saying little, even as the government there kept up its crackdown on protesters, but today, that changed. chip reid is our chief white house correspondent. chip, president obama is now taking aim at syria's leaders. >> reporter: well, today, president obama imposed sanctions on syrian president bashar al-assad, and six other top syrian officials. those sanctions would freeze their assets in the united states and make it illegal for americans to do business with them. the president ordered the sanctions in response to assad's brutal crackdown on antigovernment protests in which about 850 people have been killed. now, assad is in a strong position in syria, so it's not clear whether the sanctions will have much effect, but they're significant because this is the first time president obama has pointed his finger directly at assad, essentially declaring that he is now the new bad guy in that part of the world. tomorrow, president ob

elaine quijano, cbs news, buffalo. >> mitchell: overseas a saudi woman was detained this weekend for defying the country's ban on women driving by posting a video on youtube of herself behind the wheel of a car. she urged other women to join as mass drive next month to protest the ban which she calls humiliating. >> just ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news", how the death of a little girl is helping to bring music to other youngsters. with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is a non-narcotic treatment that's fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk

so elaine quijano has more from over at the news desk. good morning to you. >> good morning guys.d morning to you at home. we begin with new protests in yemen this morning in the capital pro democracy demonstrators gathered to protest the blood shed. at least 20 people were killed in the southern city of taiz after a government soldiers fired on them. demonstrators call for the ouster of president ali abdullah saleh. ratko mladic's lawyers plan to oppose his extradition. thousands of supporters demanding his release clashed with police in belgrade. mladic is charged in the massacre of 8,000 muslims in the bosnian war. germany's government agreed to phase out its nuclear power plants by the year 2022, the first major power to become nuclear-free since the disaster in japan. germany has 17 nuclear plants. seven are off line. the space shuttle "endeavour" is orbiting the earth on its own again. the astronauts undocked from the space station and are headed home for the last time. after it lands early wednesday "endeavour" will be retired. >> and a rookie mistake on the final lap helps

. >> mitchell: elaine quijano, thank you very much. there is news from the obama administration tonight on the nation's oil supply. in the wake of sky-high gas prices, the president says he wants to boost u.s. production of oil. whit johnson has more on the new plan and reaction from washington and beyond. >> reporter: with americans reeling over gas prices nearly $4 per gallon, president obama has begun to tweak his energy policy. >> i believe that we should continue to expand oil production in america, even as we increase safety and environmental standardses. >> reporter: accused of not doing enough to curb skyrocketing oil prices, today the president announced a series of initiatives. they include extending drilling leases in alaska and the gulf of mexico, frozen after the b.p. oil spill. beginning annual lease sales of the national pretrollium reserve, 23 million acres on the north slope of alaska, and providing incentives for oil companies to speed up development of sites already leases. >> there are a few steps we should take tha

elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >> joining us now cbs news aviation safety expert mark rosenker,ional transportation safety board. good to have you here. good to talk to you in the studio. instead of over satellite. taking a look at these proposals, and they are just proposals at this point, would they make passengers and crew safer? >> i think so. this is a really big change in the way the philosophy of training at the faa, and for the air carriers. they're going to require the pilots to demonstrate proficiency in critical skills. rather than just read in a syllabus and take a test. very important step to raise the bar of safety. >> and these are things, just clear up for us, the things that they're going to have to prove they can do now on these simulators, did pilots actually have to prove those skills in the past? or simply that they had, as you say, read the manual. >> no, in some cases you actually had to recognize that you were approaching the stall. but in the more advanced simulators, you're actually able to put these pilots in to stalls, into upsets, and let them demons

>> elaine quijano in tuscaloosa, thanks very much. it is 7:15 right now. back over to erica and chris. >> jeff, thank you so much. >>> we want to take a closer look at the weather now. this is heartbreaking to think about what they are facing now and the aftermath. >> it is, chris and erica, and it's called the katrina of tornadoes the severe weather folks saw last week. today if you look at the map there is a brief reprieve in severe weather, and that will hopefully aid the cleanup effort. we look at really nice, sunny skies on the wes thanks so much. that's your latest weather. back to you guys. we'll tell you a little bit more about frost advisories. i know it's may, still some frost advisories. >> don't bother. skip it. >> mary, thanks. >>> coming up on "the early show," inside osama bin laden's hideout in pakistan and what investigators learn from the evidence that he left behind. >> and a rare look at navy s.e.a.l.s in action. go along on a secret mission to hunt down a taliban leader, all ahead as we continue here. you're watching "the early show" o

elaine quijano, thanks. now here's chris. >> erica, thank you.ght now. if you're selling one, dealers are paying a lot more than they did just a few months ago. and regina lewis, who covers personal finance for dailyfinance.com is here to tell us exactly why and what you should do, get a little advantage out there. good to see you. >> thank you. >> why are they going for so much more this year? >> a lot of it has to do with good old-fashioned supply and demand. we're talking about 16% more year over year. 16-year highs. pretty incredible. bottom line, chris, people are holding onto their vehicles longer. about a year longer. so, there's the numbers. >> yeah. >> so they're simply not trading them in. i was at car max, the guy looked at me and said the lot's half empty. number two, this is a biggie a lot of people don't realize, in 2008 credit really tightened up. that means people had trouble getting leases. if you fast forward to 2011, right about now, these leased cars would be used cars. that pipeline is dry. rental car companies did the same t

elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >>> in other news, they haven't seen each other at fenway park in boston since 1918. but, friday night the chicago cubs and boston red sox squared off for the first time in 93 years. boston won 15-5, behind a 19-hit attack. for generations, though, the two teams battled each other for the title of lovable losers. until the red sox won a pair of championships during the last decade. now, the cubs, they have not won a world series since 1908. poor cubs. hopefully they don't have to wait another 100 years to win a world series. >> thanks, betty. earlier she asked me if i was at that game in 1918. >> i did not! >> thanks for not going there, betty. >> okay. >> yeah, well i had my money on the cubs so i'm really sad today. >> chicago girl. >> yes, of course. lonnie quinn has our first check of the weather. lonnie, we have some sun finally in new york. >> you know what? all part of my headlines for the northeast. that's right. the sunshine has returned to the northeast. new york city, after seven days in the soup, with the rain, today the sun is back. 90s