and steve hartman "on the road." if you paint it, they will come. >> look at that mob! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott is off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. hardly a day passes that we don't show you pictures of the great drought of 2012. but the government put out a report today that brings home just how severe it really is, and it's not just farmers and stockmen who are affected. it's going to mean higher priceses for everyone. nearly one quarter of the country is now in extreme or exceptional drought. today for the second month in a row the agriculture department said that means corn and soybean production will be down again. corn down 13%, soybean production down 12%. beef production will also be down 4%. what this means, of course, is that as food production goes down, food prices go up. anthony mason is covering this story. >> reporter: the worst drought in half a century sent corn prices to a record high on the floor of the chicago board of trade today. >> this is not inflation. we don't

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and "on the road" with steve hartman. a man spent his whole life helping his neighbors. >> he's the epitome of something dear. >> schieffer: now it's their turn to say thank you. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening. scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. well, it's happened again-- two american military men were killed in afghanistan today by an afghan policeman. it happened in a village in afghanistan's far west where u.s. troops have been teaching the afghans to take over their own security. this is just the latest attack by afghans who are supposed to be our allies. they took the lives of 12 americans in 2010. last year that number doubled and already this year there have been 25 who have been killed. david martin has more on today's shooting and this troubling trend. >> reporter: it happened at a graduation ceremony like this. villagers trained by americans to serve as a local police force. a brand new policeman stepped forward to receive his weapon

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. coming up in this half hour thanks to new york city mayor michael bloomberg it's gotten a lot harder to find large sugary drinks in the big apple and now it's about to get a lot harder to find baby formula there too the mayor justified in locking down baby baby formula in city hospitals or is this a classic example of the nanny state overreaching and according do bigots across america in today's tech play appreciation day later in the show we'll get to the bottom of what this chick play uproar is really all about here's a hint it has something to do with a little known supreme court decision more than one hundred years ago we'll find out more in tonight's daily ted. libertarians and haters of so-called big government have a new public enemy number one and that is new york city mayor michael bloomberg first mayor bloomberg put in place a citywide ban on the sale of sugary soft drinks in cups that are larger than sixteen ounces. i mean if you're really really thirsty and you want to hig

welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour is raising taxes for a group of americans struggling to survive really the best idea they were anything so is letting the rich get richer a winning strategy for winning the white house mitt romney thinks so in just a moment in just a moment why what mitt romney thinks is bad for all of us and with the role that wall street plays in politics today it's hard to believe that it one point bank stirs weren't allowed to run roughshod over the country how do we bring this america back to those days and reclaim our democracy from predatory banks stars. so when you hear republicans yell about how president obama is expanding the size of government they're either lying or they're uninformed and you should tell them as much chording to new numbers released by the labor department government employment is now in its lowest level since nineteen sixty eight now the words government is smaller than it's ever been in nearly a half century has a lot to do with republicans pushing austerity up at the state and fe

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zero heartburn. >> pelley: a while back, steve hartman introduced us to a man who decided to spruce upommunity by painting everything in sight. well, the idea has really caught on. so tonight steve lays on a second coat of "on the road." >> reporter: after jim cotter lost his wife last year he set out to paint the town. but don't judge him too harshly for that, not until you hear the rest of his story. >> i miss her. and this just gives me something that keeps me from missing her more. >> reporter: as we first reported earlier this year, the town jim set out to paint is glouster, ohio, population 2000. once a thriving coal community, it's been both peeling and unappealing for years. >> pretty bad. >> reporter: jim said he always wished someone would fix it up. >> the buildings have become dilapidated. >> reporter: after his wife died, he decided to be that someone. he started by painting this fire hydrant. moved down the road and dill the guardrail, then hit a home stretch. >> one, two, three... >> reporter: he painted house after house. business after business. >> gift shop. >> report

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour where you weeks released another bombshell recently a series of e-mails as seem to suggest that every american is being watched by the government what exactly did the emails reveal and if true what does this latest revelation say about our freedoms or lack thereof then believe it or not in some countries when corporations screw up their executives are held accountable but not in america why do we always like corporations get off scot free no matter how much damage they do to our lives and our society we'll explain in tonight's daily take. with you leaks founder julian assange has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london since june nineteenth trying to avoid extradition to sweden and possibly even the united states where he could face espionage charges but this week he may finally learn his fate ecuadorian president rafael correa announced monday night that he hopes to have a decision this week on whether or not his nation will grant political asylum and put an end to his songes exi

and "on the road" with steve hartman. a silent soldier hears the call of duty. >> 660 years later. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the storm cleared over the gulf coast today and the full impact of hurricane katrina is now becoming clear. the first hurricane to hit the u.s. this season left at least five people dead. more than 20 inches of rain combined with the storm surge left whole neighborhoods underwater in louisiana. the power is still out for more than half a million homes and businesses and the damage could top $2 billion. our mark strassmann has been talking with some of the people who have lost nearly everything. >> reporter: for the first time today we were able to look from the air at the abandoned neighborhoods in plaquemines parish, swamped by five feet of isaac's storm surge. crews have begun cutting as many as 10 holes in its levees east and west banks to drain the water and in brathwaite, 19 miles south of norlts, residents are frustrated just as they were after katrina. a flood wall as high

see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. here is mitt romney trying to figure out when they got thing that you remember is paul. far left doesn't want the usa to defeat terrorism. their terrorist cells neighborhood. the old liberal and the christian. folk are going to hold. up his public service because you know the corporate media distracts us from what you and i should care about because they're profit driven industry that sells the facial stick garbage he calls it breaking news i'm having martin and we're. to break the back. of the back to conversations of the great minds i'm speaking with investigative journalist a new york times best selling author craig unger his new book boss rove inside karl rove secret kingdom of power is due out september fourth let's get back to it craig i'm curious where what role billionaire ripper murdoch in the fox news. machine played in the rehabilitation of karl rove well as issues rove and roland if you go back. back to the nixon era roger ailes who of course is

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour to a new report our economy has lost one third of its ability to create what are known as good jobs but that's just half the story the other half is coming up in just a moment and in the last couple of years conservatives have wage wars against women labor and even education and when you throw in their love of conspiracy theories and dog whistle politics it's clear conservatives have gone far far right so why would anyone want to call themselves a conservative today. welcome to the new american economy were good jobs are as hard to find as mitt romney's tax returns a new report by the center for economic and policy research finds that our economy has lost one third of its ability to create what are defined as good jobs a good job is one that pays at least thirty seven thousand thirty seven thousand dollars and offers health insurance and a retirement plan and the data shows that since one nine hundred seventy nine american workers of all education levels have lost these good jobs that incl

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and welcome back to the big picture i'm same sex scene for tom hartman coming up in this half hour. if reincarnation is real then trust me you don't want to come back as mitt romney's pet dog so do we really want to present the united states who thought it was perfectly fine to strap a dog to the roof of his car for ten hours well if the band devo has anything to say about it americans will think mitt romney is barking mad and keep him out of the white house and mitt romney and paul ryan have both complained over and over again about how expensive in costly medicare is yet when president obama tries to cut costs and appease them romney and ryan call him a thief will this newest set of lies from the right help them win in november. mitt romney has a lot of things haunting his campaign first there's the offshore tax havens and his refusal to release more than just two years of tax returns that doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon then there's his record at bain offshoring thousands of american jobs a claim he tried to address by saying he retroactively retired from bain before a

welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour four members of the military have been arrested for murder and are being accused of attempting to overthrow our government is the u.s. government doing enough to prevent best experiment from all possible sources also as european nations continue to struggle through the economic turmoil of austerity citizens are turning to alternative forms of economies to survive are these alternative solutions that could help the american economy too and incentives daily take republicans say they're willing to make difficult decisions the really just the party of no. in the best of the rest of the news while congress the new york police department and our security state are focused on the threats of islamic terror the united states narrowly averted another domestic terror attack for u.s. army soldiers who were arrested on charges of murder are also being accused of plotting to assassinate president obama and overthrow the government soldiers belong to a militia group in georgia known as forever enduring always ready or fear it a

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour besides the vast health and safety concerns surrounding nuclear power one of the other major concerns is where and how to store the nuclear waste isn't time we gave up on nuclear power altogether so trying to hide nuclear waste wouldn't be an issue at all. and republicans have taken billions of dollars away from state local governments instead choosing to siphon that money to the wealthy elite how much destruction have republicans caused to states and towns across america. sixty seven years ago today a nuclear bomb was dropped on nagasaki japan a lesson learned after that and the bombing of hiroshima a few days earlier was that nuclear weapons are apocalyptic and should never be used again and for the most part they haven't been used to it yet japan is still reeling from a nother nuclear crisis this one self inflicted more than five hundred days after an earthquake and tsunami crippled the fukushima nuclear power plant which as we've now learned was woefully unprepared to handle such a disast

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welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman and here's what's coming up in this half hour forget the economy medicare is all the rage right now on the campaign trail with mitt romney and paul ryan leading the charge why are they still talking about medicare considering the fact that they want to do away with it all together and thanks to absurd tax loopholes fourteen point four billion dollars a year in taxpayer money goes to pad the wallets of corporate c.e.o.'s what does this mean it means that corporations are having their way with washington and running the show and it means america may be witnessing the rise of fascism once again. so you think if you're mitt romney and paul ryan and you're running a campaign to end medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher program and pushing seniors off into the private health insurance market where they'll pay more than double what they currently pay then you'd sort of want to keep it a secret right well paul ryan still hasn't got that memo here he was today in new hampshire talking about medicare again. we've he

welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour the occupy encampments in new york city to the streets of anaheim police brutality has been rampant all over the past several months what's gone wrong with police in this country and what can be done to ensure that they truly protect and serve americans and earlier this week harry reid accused mitt romney of not paying taxes for a decade and romney isn't willing to release his tax returns to prove reid wrong story really one of the men who hides his money in offshore accounts and who is the ultimate pirate capitalist to be our next president more on that in tonight's daily take. twenty one year old in jonesboro arkansas was that it appears mysteriously shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car chavis carter was arrested on saturday for possession of marijuana according to police while they were searching carter's car they heard a gunshot and found carter dead in their squad car the odd thing is the odd thing here is that police reports indicate that two searches of carter nev

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sachs in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour every day big oil pumps hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon into our atmosphere polluting our skies and destroying our environment while big oil's actions have gone largely unchecked one democratic congressman wants to change that my next guest thinks that's a bad idea and what do you do if you're the n.r.a. and you're afraid of stronger gun regulations well you start a conspiracy theory and twist the words the constitution i don't know the n.r.a. is exploiting the colorado shooting massacre to whip up fear among gun nuts in america and tonight's daily take. at the top of the show we talked about how a global food crisis is being made worse by dwindling resources and rapid climate change and that we're going to talk about a solution honestly it's a small solution but it's a start democratic congressman jim mcdermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on carbon emissions basically all those greenhouse gases that are being pumped into our skies by the energy industry congress

and welcome back to the big picture i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman coming up in this half hour ever since it was created seventy seven years ago yesterday social security has been a much needed lifeline helping millions of americans survive if this is the case and knowing that so many americans rely on social security to live why do conservatives want to eliminate it and what's the easiest way to make sure every vote counts and to prevent massive vote counting errors from ever happening again well tom will tell you in tonight's daily take. the case so it's pretty well known that paul ryan wants to end medicare as we know it he literally wrote the law to do just that there's no one in congress more actively trying to kill medicare than paul ryan so that's a known fact a lesser known fact is that paul ryan also wants to end social security as we know it see back in two thousand and ten ryan proposed a new program that would shift social security funds out of the coffers of government and into the hands of wall street he also had plans to reduce benefits and raise the retirement age lo

well i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture last day chris christie only mentioned mitt romney eight times in his entire speech what we see tonight speakers doing the same thing box news contributor alan colmes was also along with climate change and education one of the things you won't hear republicans talking about this week is america's failed drug war is the time we finally brought it to an end and put the money funding it to better uses and paul ryan is getting ready to address the r n c tonight what he possibly say considering that he's trying to destroy the american middle class well as congressman chris van hollen. you need to know this it's day two of the republican national convention and we'll see if tonight's speakers got the message mitt romney is actually the guy running for president as that is keynote address to the or unseen jersey governor chris christie seemed to be confused about why he was there giving a speech the more resembled an unofficial launch of

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tim plenty and a higher senator robb hartman and think them both for their cooperation. the son of a silicon valley judges one of three u.s. marines killed by gunmen wearing a police uniform captain mike mckeon was shot early in the morning and seven afghanistan u.s. part of a special operations battalion trading afghan police officers the sons and nine year-old from los altos graduated from st. francis high school in mountain view back in 2001 he was a standout football player there and died in his fourth deployments his serve the first to any rocket and the others in afghanistan his mom is a state appellate court justice and his dad santa clara county judge. mckeon. his been gone for so long we are used to not seeing him that much. >>> mickey and the two other marines were shot after ramadan meal is unclear if the gunman is in custody. the sagas of the suspect in a high-profile their bikini set to the mother hollywood temptress day the shares sank this morning's break cameron county juvenile hall in to free the teenager reporter kristin harris says it could have been a

state department at the time and ambassador hartman i think said it was nineteen eighty two eighty two eighty two and. then we were told that there were no public performances allowed so so the u.s. ambassador used to sponsor house here in moscow to invite russian people musicians and writer the low and i think my first visit here was with gary burton actually playing with tonight and i found it to be a really exciting experience to meet finally some musicians from russia who i was i was able to talk to. you one said i quote the most important thing for me is to understand the musicians who i play with and question is that the reason why you've been playing with gary forty years because you do understand this guy well. i figure that. if i have a good understanding of the musicians i work with and we have a good report. there's a lot of creativity happening between us then that's the product that is what people are going to experience so i put i put my attention on that first because that's my product that's what my result and that's why and also for me as a personal fulfillment it's ho

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i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. plums. oh oh . q. eloi. at the going down of the sun and good morning we will remember them we will do. that. a group linked to the syrian armed opposition in washington wants the u.s. to push through and the no fly zone over a country that moves has always been contested by russia and china the rebels are looking to take advantage of ongoing he'll storm reports claiming an increase of government atrocities and pulling air raids and artillery shelling. looking east egypt's new president mohamed morsi heads to china hoping to bag billions in economic deals after decades of the country being america's loyal ally the gyptian leader seeking a more balanced foreign policy. originally gratian system is under fire after more than one hundred fifty thousand illegal immigrants become accounted for after arriving in the car because the home office is now promising a major review of its policies what's seen as a leaky ship. all wrong. stand a very intriguing piece of information let's clear this up maria sharapova is c

hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. the final hours of joining us on his asylum bid turned into an international showdown with britain threatening to storm ecuador's london embassy and take the whistleblower by force. a powerful saudi based islamic group cancel syria's membership blaming so we damascus for violence adoring the rebels all tried a style terror attacks. heavyweight square up in asia and europe or maps the extent of america's military buildup in the region as china eagerly core its allies of its own. as they outlined brings you the latest for its knees. but of their welcome to the sports update in r.t. thanks for joining us this hour coming up in the program steady start father capello's new look team russia should draw the game under the guidance of the teller and the ivory coast come from behind to secure a one all draw here in moscow. flushing meadows with the range open champ and pulls out of the last grand slam of the season due to a nagging me injury. and golden handshake p

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hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. writer with. a. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. this is r.c. welcome back to the u.s. now where the republican candidate for the presidency me troll me has been laying out his case for office he has some strong views which could war is some nations but he's now got such a reputation for changing his stance on issues it's hard to know exactly where he stands on anything as r.t. has gained extra counties here to tell us more. mitt romney is now officially broke obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough you know throwing rocks verbal rocks not only at the president but also of nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney told did not fail to once again highlight his animosity towards russia he criticized the president for not be

time same sex in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. tonight julian assange remain stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london with british police guarding against any possible escape how does this on his fight represent a larger struggle underway in america and the entire western world also what was supposed to be an organized strike to protest working conditions for miners in south africa turned into a bloody massacre last week why did police open fire on the miners and what should americans take away from this show of violence against organized labor overseas and seen her padding their leather wallets with your taxpayer money you know why because corporations are running our government it's called fascism and tom will tell you more about it and tonight's daily to. ok so it's now been five days since the government of ecuador granted wiki leaks founder julian assange political asylum yet tonight remain stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london as british police around the building

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i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. this morning ecuador announced that it would grant joining us on political asylum the only problem u.k. won't let him leave beyond a songes fate what kind of ramifications will this saga have on journalism and whistleblowers in particular around the world also a century ago americans gain the right to directly elect their senators through the seventeenth amendment and set of state legislatures doing the job for them but now republicans want to strip us of that right to what's their grand scheme here and mitt romney has a ton of character flaws but tying a dog to the roof of a car yeah i'd say that tops them all well this insane lapse in judgment by romney hurt him in november and it was one band trying to make sure that happens because solly of debo joins me later in the show. and we begin tonight with julian a song he was ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patino announcing this morning that his nation will grant a song politica

i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. this year corporations will pay eight billion dollars to the government for defrauding taxpayers and guess how many of these corporate c.e.o.'s will go to jail for literally stealing billions of dollars here's a hint it's less than one also last week wall street trading firm knight capital lost four hundred million dollars in a matter of minutes how did this happen and why is the stability of the entire financial system in danger now because of greedy bankers but because of robots and last night texas executed a mentally disabled man even though that's against the constitution how do they get away with it and why did the supreme court do nothing to stop it. and we begin tonight with a number eight billion that's how many dollars that corporations will have to pay the government this year in settlements for defrauding taxpayers as the new york times reports banks military contractors pharmaceutical companies they're all in track t

i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. another senseless mass shootings left six people dead and three critically wounded in wisconsin so what are investigators saying about the possible cause of this deadly rampage and is this a warning sign that domestic and not islamic terrorism is our nation's biggest threat . also one third of all u.s. executions in america happen in texas and tomorrow they're set to do it again but what's different in particularly deplorable about tomorrow's planned execution and mitt romney says he wants to help the middle class but instead he's raising taxes on the middle class is this really a winning plan for november. right well i wish we could kick things off tonight talking about mars that planet were at one thirty am this morning nasa landed its mars curiosity rover after a several hundred million mile journey that began almost a year ago this is one of the most ambitious missions nasa has taken up since the moon landings and it was executed

or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. is he. stop them book a current of arrogance unemployment the national debt failing governments ask yourself does it really matter who wins with billions created daily you can gamble with your money or turn it into a solid.

or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me where my hands you know just as if anyone would. but they do tell a story they tell a story of. the oxen. walking back to the kaiser report on my skies a time out a goatee and he kingdom talk with john as ease of the nomics dot com john as easy walk in the guy's report fantastic with the maps all right john aziz there was no lie about it relation crime there was no sir prime studio crime so why is everyone so upset with the bankers everyone's upset with the bankers because since the year nine hundred seventy one the bankers who got much much much much richer and everyone else's got much much much poorer as a percentage of g.d.p. you know corporate profits

i'm sam sacks in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. climate change world hunger civil unrest collapse that appears to be the road that oil barons are taking the planet down in just a moment chris hedges joins me to explain why political solutions are no longer the answer also our nation is about to add another political prisoner to our criminal justice system former alabama governor don siegelman joins me to tell his story and why would happen to him cannot be ignored by the rest of us and finally one democratic member of congress has introduced legislation to force big oil to pay for its billions of pounds of pollution and debate later in the show on why we can't trust oil executives to do what's right and cut down pollution on their own. and we begin tonight with this spot as the world is no longer on the brink of a major food crisis it is in a major food crisis for the first time in recent history humanitarian organizations are responding to three major food crises on the plane