. >> former patriot running back kevin faulk says the checks are thorough and intensive.ey go? >> if you done something in middle school they're going to go back and find somebody that was around that time and ask them. >> trying to head off trouble before the draft, hernandez goes on the offensive, writing a letter to the patriots director of personnel. "if you draft me as a member of the new england patriots" he wrote "i will willfully submit to a biweekly drug test throughout my rookie season." >> day three, round four -- >> prior to the draft, aaron hernandez was projected as a player that could be a first round pick and no later than a second round pick. >> now another selection they go aaron hernandez. >> he ends up the 113th pick, passed over until the fourth round. >> i have to believe that him falling so far is more than just a story about marijuana, that there were questions raised and background checks about him that caused teams to say we're going to downgrade him on our draft board. >> but during his first year with the patriots, he proves himself. >> there w

. >> her faulk asked her to check it out. >> i am a die hard for our country. and i equated our government as our country. you couldn't tell me anything about there could be been wrong decisions. >> you thought the government would do the right thing. >> i thought the government would do the right thing, i thought all they would have to do is be shown there is something here, if it existed. >> so i said okay, i will look into it. >> and she did. digging up 3 million documents mostly on her own, documents that chronicle illnesses cancer, deaths amino has had two brain tumors and uterine cancer herself. that all fuels the fuels the anxiety and anger that the community brings down to the twisted thistle. i am tired of hearing about six kids. >> we have had our share, and then some. question can't endo what's been done. >> that's true. >> trying to make it right amino has led a search for answers. >> neither the government nor the company that ran the site until 1967, ever acknowledges any illness was caused by bomb making or by the nuclear waste dumped in pits acr

he built a career in war zones around the world, faulk land somalia, and nearly every conflict in between, spending decade covering middle east from tel aviv. >> tel aviv's largest square was invaded. sadness beyond word. >> reporter: he went where the news was, risking his life along the way. >> we saw in the deep blue distance and it was an iraqi army jeep. they took us away report report during the opening days of the first gulf war in 1991, simon and three members of the cbs news crew were taken prisoner by the iraqi military and held as pow in iraqi prisons for 40 days. >> it changed you. >> yes. >> how. >> too hard to tell. >> reporter: simon joined 60 minutes in 1996, this was his 19th sees than on the broadcast reporting last week on the selma. sixty minutes executive producer jeff fager, praised his friend. >> he loved his friend and that was from the moment he started at cbs news long and brilliant career and body of work that is really difficult to match. >> reporter: bob simon was 73. >>> and bob worked with his daughter, tanya at 60 minutes. he is survived by her his wife and

. >>> pro football player marshall faulk 42 singer badu 44.gwriter michael bolton turns 62 years old. i'm frances rivera. this is "early today." >>> anybody taking it across that bridge this morning? a live look outside. a beautiful bay bridge. it's thursday february 26th. this is "today in the bay." >>> good thursday morning. it's 4:30. i'm sam brock.

but o'reilly said he was at the faulk falkland islands he wasn't.omething that deserves scrutiny. and i wonder if other stories will come up about other conflict zones he was in. i'm not saying there's anything now, but that's what we thought with brian williams. there was one story and then another and another. >> brian stiller, see you sunday. and monika with "mother jones" manage. appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >>> we are also now getting our first look at the young suspect in the apparent road rage murder. las vegas police just released eric ousch's mug shot. the 19-year-old faces murder and two other charges in connection to the shooting death of his neighbor, tammy meyers. the young man of taken into custody after a police standoff that play out live on the show. this entire hour this time yesterday as it unfolded. the victim's husband confronted -- confronted police confronted reporters. >> he's an animal a block away! are you happy? >> that was around this time. anna bra ca-- anna cabrera is there at the police department out

. >>> the answer to our trivia was marshall faulk. congratulations tom you get my book.t wrong. we said every day people was the number one song, the song you just heard was love will keep us together. the good >> love will keep together two of our next guests. >> it sure will. >> have you ever seen a hunting dog play hide and seek with a mouse. watch. >> olivia being a rodent is a burrower. it's for safety. they like to go under the grass or leaves or a blanket. the funny thing is that cooper wants to play with her and be with her. she's always burrowing under he keeps digging her out. >> joining us right now, cooper the dog, olivia the mouse and their owner chris and the host of nat geo unlikely animal friends. so is any of this true? >> it's totally true. you can see these guys. they have grown up together. this is olivia this is cooper. chris has raised them together. they're best buddies. a little excitable right now. >> was it friendship at first sight? >> it was. i teach children in school about wildlife and stuff. i have to show up with some pets. cooper is a esc