we take a look at the enduring fascination with super hero movies. imfhe former head of the is due in court today. the 62-year-old frenchman is currently under house arrest. this report from washington. >> as head of the international monetary fund, dominique strauss-kahn was one of the world's most powerful men. he was also a french presidential front-runner until he was arrested last month, accused of assaulting a hotel maid. he has already appeared in court. today he will be charged with criminal charges, criminal rate, sex abuse, unlawful imprisonment, enforceable touching. his lawyers say he will deny all the charges. the 62-year-old was staying at this luxury hotel in new york when it is alleged he emerged naked from his room and attacked the maid, a 32-year-old woman from guinea. with no apparent witnesses, the case is likely to pivot on their conflicting testimony. both sides will have the next couple of months to outline their arguments and some of possible evidence before the judge set a trial date -- possibly in september. after a week in

in india, here we have super heroes like, tell me a hero. >> super man. we have super heroes in india. krishna. lifts mountains and throws them to the ocean to create bridges. i will tell you the story about a super hero. krishna as a little boy in the village where the trees blow and the water flows and the birds fly and the grass grows, in this village there are cows. and people and they go to the river and they go to get their water. and they go to the river and what do they see? an evil demon is polluting the river. callia. and they can't get water because it's killing the cows and the people. so, they go to krishna and say, please, do something about this this is not good. he says, he thinks about it and says, okay. he takes his friends to the river to play. they play ball. they play with the ball and then by accident or may be not, the ball goes in the -- river. and callia is in the river. krishna is swimming through the dark waters and sees the ball is in the tail of the serpant demon. he sees the ball and the demon is sleeping. so guess what he do

the postman is being called a hero. >> whenever i go, here comes the hero, blah blah blah. and i'm like no, come on now. it's a good deed but that's as far as i would take it. >> some fancy duds for a mailman, huh? >> as for the woman, she is recovering and in the hands of caretakers and pretty happy that mailman happened to come along. >> good for him. he takes care of the neighbors. >> blah blah blah, huh? >> there we go. >> here's our hero! >> i was waiting for you to say that. >> i'm sorry i forgot to say that. you're our hero. >> a lot of folks are very happy to see this weather outside. lots of sunshine. comfortable temperatures. it's been raining and raining. finally an end to the rain. of course that rain bringing lots of snow in the high country and hey, you know, they will be skiing until the 4th of july in some spots. they did that last year at mammoth. i suppose they can do it again. they are seeing record amounts of snow. this is amazing to see all that snow up there in june, of course the river running very high as soon as we get a heat wave. but i don't see a

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takes courage my courage may not be enough to be called a hero it's the result their actions have on history itself that will determine how they will be remembered and as for bradley manning the world will be healing and debating the results of what has been done for many years to come. as always we thank you for your responses and here's our next topic for you it was just reported that sony has been hacked yet again this time by the group the same people who gained access to p.b.s. earlier this week but the. target sony pictures entertainment which is a different division of the mega electronics company over little sykes still managed to obtain over eight million passwords that were of course on encrypted so now that it's public knowledge that sony really sucks at protecting consumer privacy could this be the company's a fatal flaw tell us what you think is this the end of sony as we know it you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air. still to come on tonight's show i respond to a critic upset that i was asked to blog

now a new super hero has joined the league of comic book heroes. foreskin man.is blond, buff and handsome. his mission is not so typical. saving baby boys from circumcision by battling the villain did you observed as the monster moyle. in the jewish community a moyle is the person trained to perform circumcisions. >> this was a very dramatic way to look at it from the other side of the knife, so to speak, than the person who is actually receiving the surgery. >> reporter: lloyd is the man behind the ballot measure to outlaw male circumcision in san francisco. he says the it reflects the trauma baby experiences when he is circumcised. >> when you come from the standpoint of the person who is having their genitals cut intent it doesn't matter. and the pain and the dissfigurement does. >> it doesn't make it right. >> reporter: nancy from the anti-defamation league feels the comic is anti-sematic. >> they show stereotypical orthodox jews as evil in their facial features, as blood thirsty, as determined to try to do harm to this innocent child. >> reporter: she feels

they are heroes because. everything they are they are. security systems so what if a robber a bank robber is technically. proficient enough to get into a bank does that make him a hero to. the. police department goes into certain things and the government goes into certain things probably i would put that on the same level as i would someone who goes in and hacks into a site they're not supposed to be on their hot cars which are five thing fossil kind of ideological. or just doing illegal activities. i think just. really open to things that should be oh i don't have that much of a problem is that it's so subjective though why are we in trusting thieves essentially making that kind of a judgment call. that's a strong word well they're going to take it people do information good or bad for the good or bad will if you're if you're going to be taking a lot of credit card numbers and credit card accounts and doing that type of thing and you're using that information again hurt. i don't think that's a good thing have you ever had your personal

i would like to acknowledge those present who have joined us today to remember our true fallen heroes and who have expressed their condolences and offers of support. democratic leader, nancy pelosi. congresswoman jackie spear, governor jerry brown. lieutenant governor goo vain newsome. attorney general pamela harris. and state senator. state assembly member. mayor willy lewis brown jr. former senator john burton. san francisco board president, david chu. supervisor. supervisor david campos. supervisor carmen chu. supervisor cohen. supervisor. and supervisor mark ferrell. supervisor jane kim. supervisor ross. supervisor scott weiner. and district attorney george cascon. city attorney dennis hererra. sheriff michael henesee. former supervisor. former supervisor angela. former supervisor bevin. our chief of protocol charlotte . i also want to thank all of firefighters, paramedics, and other add money straiters -- administrators of public safety organizations from throughout the state and our country. i want to thank our city's commissioners and our city's departments heads for all joinin

because baking they are heroes because they can sold. everything they are they are from across all of the security systems this in some less positive takes on the hackers and then motives in a few minutes also coming up. there are a lot of different legends and myths around this area in the past the locals try to avoid going to the sets down as they say anyone who dares to get in will never get out alive. find out how russia close up to you guys to with death to bring you this report from the list of the countries. sell. stories to come but first a number of u.s. congressmen have received a letter apparently written by colonel gadhafi saying he's ready to negotiate a cease fire and asking for humanitarian aid the authenticity of the letter has not been confirmed nato is continuing to step up its airstrikes on the capital tripoli despite a fresh lawsuit by colonel gadhafi daughter against the french president she is suing nicolas sarkozy and nato for killing four members of her family during an airstrike on a. turkish prime minister's off

the fact that ellsberg was called a traitor at that point that is later he's considered a national hero so when comparing him to bradley manning we asked if twenty years from now we'll be calling manning a hero let's get some responses from our viewers from producer richardson a sente. events surrounding bradley manning in the documents he's suspected of leaking cannot be ignored by history it's become a complicated mix of national security morality personal tragedy and human freedom and a national and global scale when it's over and it's far from being over just yet how do you think history will look back on manning's actions will he be remembered as a hero a traitor or a victim and facebook beyond believe he's already a hero bill martin told us being a soldier you give up certain rights when you raise your right hand and take your oath of service and leaking secret documents is not whistleblowing it's treason i knew to hide a varian said bradley manning will be forgotten as an individual perhaps a true maybe we will take a larger type in history books on twitter open mind concluded i

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a gangster to wiley that in boston, at least, he became almost a folk hero. only today did we find out what whitey bulger really looks like. a big difference from all those grainy photos from long lenses. perhaps that's why the bearded bulger seemed to be smiling. captured on camera. right after the fbi finally knocked on his door. a door to a rent-controlled apartment here in santa monica, now sealed off with police tape. >> the arrest marks the end of a long and exhaustive hunt for america's most wanted man, for one of america's most wanted men. >> reporter: today, investigators hold out dozens of boxes of evidence, including more than 60 weapons. they also found $800,000 cash. bulger and his girlfriend catherine greig have lived in this biflding for 15 years. as charlie and carol gasko. barbara lived just down the hall in apartment 307 for 15 years. >> i think he was impatient and full of rage. he seemed so vie leapt. >> reporter: other neighbors described them as friendly enough, but low key. >> they seemed like they did not want to make eye contact. >> r

made a bay area pilot a hero.was the aircraft that made a splash on the hudson river and made a bay area pilot a hero. the plane that became the miracle on the hudson is being rebuilt. the reconstruction and what people hope to get out of it. >> it looks in good shape until you look at the bottom where we hit the water. >> in the salvage yard was the last time that this pilot saw the plane. >> it's one thing to reed about it or hear about it but it quite another to see it up close and personal. i think it will be an emotional experience. >> for the people that stood on its wings, the plane was a hero too. staying afloat just long enough for every passenger to be rescued. are seeing it for the first time since that take. >> it's comforting to have it where it was supposed to arrive in the first place and granted it was you know two and a half years later, but it's here. >> this is a wing, and this is the back. >> the rest of the air bus will be put together like a puzzle. crews collected everything down to the news

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for a real hero, support small business. shop small. >> charlie: additional funding provided by these funders. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: j.j. abrams is here and written and direct and produced some of the most successful television shows and films in recent memory. [♪] >> i can't believe it. i' officially become a cheater. i am a cheater. i cheated on ben and now the paper. >> fine, don't get caught this time. >> it's getting published. >> a ten people that read the uny journal. >> i don't need any of that. >> how far are they coming. >> are you listening to me? the only way you're going to get what you want is to -- you don't think i'll do it. where is it? where the hell is it? >> look at me. stay with me. >> i swear to god i'm going kill you. [ screaming ] >> you're under arrest. >> nice work. >> thank you. >> charlie: perhaps the best job of his life came as a teenager at 15 he and a friend were hired to cut togetherst eve spielberg's 3