jan crawford made waves reporting on both questions this week. here's what mitt romney told her. >> i agreed with the dissent. and the dissent made it very clear that they thought it was unconstitutional. but the dissent lost. it's in the minority. and so now the supreme court has spoken. they concluded it was a tax, that is what it is and the american people know that president obama has broken the pledge he made. he said he wouldn't raise taxes on middle income americans. gwen:and here is what barack obama said to supporters in ohio today. >> when you hear all these folks saying, oh, no, no, this is a tax, this is a burden on middle-class families, let me tell you, we know because the guy i'm running against tried this in massachusetts and it's working just fine -- [laughter] -- even though now he denies it. basically, what we say is, you know what, if you have health insurance you're all good. if you don't have health insurance, we'll help you get it. gwen: both candidates seem to want to keep moving away from health care, but for different re

jan, thank you. we will have more of jan's interview with mitt and anne romney tomorrow an cbs "this morning." this week, the summer driving season moves into high gear and americans are paying a lot less at the pump. the price of gas is now $3.34 a gallon-- down 60 cents in almost three months. michelle miller examines whether that trend will continue. >> as you can see the size of the fuel tanks... >> reporter: when we visited trucking fleet owner andy anastasio in connecticut last march, his big rigs were guzzling almost $1,400 worth of diesel every time he filled a tank. not anymore. what's your fuel cost today? >> to fill up the truck, about $1,000. >> reporter: that's a savings of $5,000 every week. you don't sound particularly excited. >> well, we're cautiously optimistic. we'd like to see fuel back down to $2 a gallon where it was only a couple years ago. >> reporter: but analysts say it's unlikely prices will dip that low in the future. the last independent state to see the average price of

jan crawford talks to the candidate. >> doesn't the buck stop with you? >> mason: and the c.e.o. of patrice bergeron written financial is arrested in a scheme that stole more than $200 million from investors. remembering the victims of the "costa concordia" disaster six months later. liz palmer is on the island of giglio. and steve hartman "on the road" and on the trail of flag fill. ers. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> mason: good evening, scott is on assignment i'm anthony mason. it's getting nasty in the presidential campaign with each side accusing the other of lying about mitt romney's role of bain capital and romney demanding an apology. with jobs the number-one issue in the election, the obama campaign says romney was running the private equity firm at a time when it was investing in companies that were sending american jobs overseas. romney insists he'd already left bain at the time in question. we'll hear from him in just a moment. first, wyatt andrews look at romney and his role at bain capital. >> reporter: when mitt rom

>> jan, i had no involvement with the management of bain capital after february of 1999. >> reporter: do you think the president owes you an apology because his campaign has suggested you're a criminal or a liar? >> absolutely. my goodness, what kind of a president would have a campaign that says something like that about the nominee of another party? this is reckless and absurd on his part. >> mason: jan, there's also a brewing controversy over those u.s. olympic uniforms for american athletes that were made in china. did romney have anything to say about that? >> reporter: anthony, i did ask him about those uniforms and here's what he had to say. >> i don't know the particulars of the circumstance so i really can't comment on that. i presume they have sponsors that are associated with uniforms and matters of that nature so i'm not going to weigh into the decisions made in that regard. >> mason: thanks, jan. jan, ralph lauren has just announced the uniforms made for the next olympics will be made in the united states. a federal court in washington heard closing arguments today in a c

jan crawford has a rare look inside the deliberations. and in a city at war with street violence, this was too much to bear. dean reynolds in chicago on the killing of a seven-year-old named heaven. >> she took her last breath in my arms. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: and this is a special western edition. good evening. in the west, thousands of v fled their homes. in the east, millions are without electricity. rarely do we see the power of fire and wind over so much of the nation at once. the wind came in hurricane force announced friday night across the mid-atlantic by lightning that some describe as artillery barrage. 22 people were killed over the weekend, mostly by trees uprooted in 80 miles an hour winds. more than two million homes and businesses are still without power. marcia mcleod and her great granddaughter mikaila milton found refuge in a red cross center in virginia. in the west, emmanuel and his daughter grace have no home to return to. the wildfire in colorado leve

jan crawford has the interview. >> aleppo, a report from inside syria's largest city, under fire by the assad regime. >> breaking auto sales and lower earnings in detroit, rebecca jarvis on what comes next. and helping hand, meets a new generation of robot that gives back what illness has taken away. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: and good evening, everyone, i am jeff glor, after a rough first stop on his seven-day overseas trip, mitt romney was hoping israel would go better than britain, the day was not error free. in jerusalem, voicing strong support for israel's right to self defense, romney also had to back off an aide's suggestion he support an israeli strike against iran's nuclear program. political correspondent jan crawford is traveling with the campaign. >> between meetings with israeli officials, romney visited the holiest of jewish sites the western wall where he was besieged by well-wishers. >> before he walked to the wall and left a prayer. >> in visits with senior officials, romney got a warm welcome, including from prime minister benj

thank you very much, jan, an extraordinary story. senator john mccain joins us now from monaco, where he is attend ago global economic and security conference, he is also just back from afghanistan and lebanon. good morning, senator. i want to start with the news from overnight. secretary of state clinton said today that the as saddam hussein regime in syria is on the verge of collapse. here is what she said. >> the days are a numbered and the sooner there can be an end to the violence and a beginning of a political transition process, not only will fewer people die, but there is a chance to save the syrian state. >> schieffer: so, senator, i guess the first thing i would ask you is, number one, do you agree with that and number 2, what should we be doing? >> well, first of all, i appreciate the remarks the secretary of state, i admire her greatly, but the fact is, the united states has played no leadership role, now 14,000 people have been massacred by bazaar as saddam hussein, the united states of america has been shameful and disg

jan doesn't know them. >> reporter: they may be jan's only recourse, employment attorney, albert rouschon. wal-mart could face negligence for putting a 73-year-old on security detail. >> physically you wouldn't want her in front of a stampeding crowd on black friday. i don't want my grandmother in the front. >> reporter: despite the rally cries, jan doesn't want her $15 an hour job back. she feels like her other side of the badge, rusted and worn out along the edges. >> i would have to make myself smile. and that is not me. abc news. >> and worse yet, she tried to collect unemployment and was denied by the state she was fired due to misconduct. she can't get unemployment. >> i wonder what everyone else thinks. that brings us to the facebook question this morning. should walmart reconsider its no-touching policy? >> share your comments with us at wnnfans.com. hard not to feel bad for that woman. come on. >> i understand -- the policy. but it just seems to have been misapplied here. you know, you shouldn't be touching customers. >> stampede, trying to hang on. she is an old woman. man. >>

jan, thank you very much. most of you probably didn't need the government to tell you that the drought is getting worse. but the report we got today was an eye-opener. have a look. this is where the drought was last week. now look at the map the government sent us today. the amount of the country experiencing extreme or exceptional drought conditions in red has grown from 13% to 20% in just one week. bad news for the tank he uses for watering cattle has gone bone dry. we sent sharyl attkisson into the pale, dry skies of indiana. >> reporter: david eby has been in the processing business for almost 40 years. >> typically, we have 16 or so airplanes in there to help us. this year we've been doing everything ourselves with our five airplanes. >> reporter: just five airplanes. >> yeah. >> reporter: the corn in this part of indiana is three feet shorter than it should be, so there's less need for crop dusting. 64 counties of the state have been declared drought disaster areas. >> for the farmer to recover from a ye

jan? >> reporter: scott, that was shift that no one would have expected. chief justice john roberts, who was appointed by president george w. bush to lead this court in a more conservative direction initially was poised to strike down the key part of the health care law. but then he changed his mind and the outcome of this entire case. after oral arguments in the landmark case, sources tell cbs news roberts agreed with the court's four conservative justices that the heart of the law, the individual mandate that requires all americans to buy health insurance, was unconstitutional. but as roberts set out to write the court's majority opinion-- according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations-- his views began to change. he forged an alliance with the court's four liberal justices and crafted a decision upholding the law under congress's power to levy taxes. that argument had gotten little attention and was uniformly rejected in the lower court. roberts then withstood a month-long desperate campaign by the conservatives led by justice ant

what happened, jan? >> reporter: scott, romney took his economic message to the president's most solid most loyal group of supporters and he didn't pull any punches, but the crowd here didn't either. >> if you want to a president who will make things better in the african american community you are looking at him. (smattering of applause). >> reporter: the boos and jeers started about halfway through his speech when romney said he would repeal president obama's signature achievement-- health care reform. >> in order to do that, i'm going to eliminate nonessential expensive program i can find. that includes obamacare, and i'm going to work to reform and save... (boos) >> reporter: that's a talking point in all of romney's speeches and part of his plan to jump start the economy. but the crowd didn't like it or any of romney's criticism of president obama. shirley rivens smith of washington, d.c. was one of those who booed. >> he made it very clear he was going to try to bring jobs to the black community to

jan crawford is quick to follow the campaign. jan? >> reporter: romney interrupted his family vacation to talk about the jobs report which he called "a kick in the gut" and he said president obama needed to stand up and take responsibility for it. >> the president doesn't have a plan, hasn't proposed any new ideas to get the economy going, just the same old ideas of the past that have failed. i have a plan. my plan calls for action that will get america working again and create have good jobs, both near term and long term. >> reporter: last fall, romney unveiled a 59-point economic plan that includes cutting corporate taxes and taxes for people who make under $200,000 a year, tapping into energy resources to create jobs and cut fuel costs, and opening up new markets for trade overseas. critics say his ideas don't sound that new or specific and that he needs a bolder vision and a more focused message. but romney says the election will be a referendum on the president's performance. >> the american people have now had a chance to see wh

>> jan is a very good reporter and we assume that she got it from another justice. she had a lot of detail about anthony kennedy, you know, apparently spending a month trying to get roberts on this decision, it opens up a whole n new-- where to come from and information and including the courts now. >> it does seem strange, judy, the supreme court has been sort of a bastion of secrecy up until now. >> it has been and you could see up to the lead up of this decision, just about everybody, including jeffrey toobin, much respected got it wrong. and you can keep a secret or at least jim, could keep a secret until this reporter, this very enterprising and excellent jan crawford reporter, gave us some genuine news and insight into the court. >> jon: alan, i'm certain that as the liberal, you are pleased with the ruling. >> you don't need me here. >> jon: what about the tactful the coverage to caused the chief judge to change his mind. >> on the line. it must have been he wanted to please the liberal media or please the white house or please the establishment. if he did ch

crawford tonight, jan, thank you. inside the civil war in syria tonight, the assad regime declared victory in a battle with rebels in the capital city of damascus and also the ongoing fight in aleppo, the biggest city and commercial center. wsewart ramsey of the british sky news is in syria this evening, and joins us now on the phone. stewart, what are you seeing inside aleppo tonight? >> reporter: the artillery that usually starts about now has started, though it is very sporadic. last night it was very, very heavy for a long period of time, consistent with the syrian government's strategy. they failed to take that stronghold in the southwest with ground troops, so they withdrew, and have been bombarding it with artillery and with helicopter gunships firing. : glor: stewart, from the best information we have been able to gather, the opposition controls between a third and half of the neighborhoods inside aleppo. does that sync up with what you are seeing? >> i would say maybe. it might be a little on the optimistic s

. >> for years, this picture haunted jan irvine. >> it's so sad. >> it's a picture of jan's mother, janen. over the years, she's asked relatives why her mother, now deceased, looked so sad. no one ever gave her an answer until this past february. that's when her aunt spilled a tightly held family secret. >> i said aunt, do you have any idea why my mother looked so sad in this picture? she told me, she said, you know, who knows how long i'm going to live so you deserve to know that you have a brother living. >> she told jan that in 1945, during world war ii, her mother was working as an air traffic controller in charlotte, north carolina on the night shift. >> there was a man who was married and had children, they had an affair. she became pregnant with david. >> jane's brother john was living in baltimore at the time. and convinced his sister to move in with him because she could not work and support her child. once she arrived, family members convinced jane to give up her baby. >> that baby has to be put up for adoption. this is a shameful thing. we can't have this in our family. so my

jan crawford has the latest on that. ballot battle in pennsylvania. elaine quijano lays out the stakes in the court fight over the state's new voter i.d. law. and meet the new bond girl. >> good evening, mr. bond. >> mark phillips recaps the opening olympic ceremony that put her majesty, the queen, in the middle of the action. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> good evening. i'm nancy cordes. the civil war in syria has moved into the country's largest city. government forces are staging a full-scale attack on rebel fighters in aleppo, the nation's commercial heart and a strategic prize for both sides. elizabeth palmer is on the syrian help lebanese border tonight with more. >> reporter: the opposition fighters in aleppo are, for the most part, lightly armed. and no match for the government's heavy artillery or helicopter gunships. an activist video shows once again, it's terrified civilians who are dying in the cross-fire. thousands of residents saw this battle coming and fled days ago into the countryside or toward swelling

jan? >> well, anthony, we've seen the president hit romney hard for a while about his work at bain capital. and in our interview, i ask him whether he thought those attacks would resonate and how he planned to respond. >> he's in a real tough spot. he's grasping at any kind of straw he can find. and the reality is the american people can make their own assessment of whether the economy has gotten better under president obama or not. we have now 8.2% unemployment in america. >> reporter: is that the new normal? >> it may be under this president, but i think we can do better, a lot better. the president predicted that we would be at 5.6% unemployment now. we have millions and millions of more americans unemployed than what the president predicted. the american people want to see someone who can get this economy going again, and create jobs for their kids coming out of high school and college. get people off the unemployment line. that's what i know how to do. that's what i want to bring to a

let's bring in congresswoman jan schakowsky of illinois. welcome to the show. >> thank you, professor. >> are you disappointed that president obama won't get behind some form of gun control? >> i think the president is correct in thinking that it's unlikely, impossible, i would say right now, for any kind of substantial legislation to pass the house of representatives and probably the senate as well. but i think it is time to have that conversation. look, the national rifle association and others say, well, it's not time to be political. but it's they, the national rifle association and their kin that are making a public safety issue a political issue. they don't want to see any kind of legislation that would not only keep guns out of the hands of crazy individuals, but why does any individual need an automatic weapon? why do they need to buy 6,000 bullets? why do they need to have a high capacity magazine, the ability to shoot off 100 bullets in just a few seconds and kill so many people? i think that most americans, even those, i imagine,

jan crawford is in washington and has more on that, jan, good evening to you. >> well, jeff, i mean this is really quite a story that's been uncovered by "the new york times". think about this. according to the times the fda was secretly monitoring e-mail accounts of its own scientists who were looking to blow the whistle on the agency. and then as part of that surveillance they swept up thousands of e-mails at the that the scientists had with lawyers, journalists, congressional staff, even a letter to president obama. for years fda scientists had raised safety concerns about devices the agency had approved for routine breast cancer scans. after fda authorities dismissed their complaints, nine wrote a letter in early 2009 to president obama's transition team, warning that fda managers failed to take appropriate action. according to court papers, shortly after the scientists sent the letter, the fda commenced a covert and secret search operation capturing scientist e-mails from private accounts on government issued laptops. but according to the times, the spying effort quickly went beyond

. >> congresswoman jan schakowsky of illinois. thank you for your time and your honesty this morning, i appreciate it. i want to bring in our monday morning power panel. we have keith boykin, republican strategist trey hardin, and erin mcpike. great to have all three of you here. and erin, the associated press wrote, in a world where amazon can track your next book purchase and you must register to buy allergy medicine, james holmes spent months stockpiling ballistic bullets without raising any red flags with authorities. erin, this is obviously a serious problem in this country. both sides could probably agree on this, but they won't. >> you're right. but i think the bigger thing here is that the white house has already said that president obama will not be pushing for more gun control. and you just had on congresswoman schakowsky, who is saying we need to have a national conversation about this. i don't think that's going to happen when you already have a democratic president in office, in the white house, saying they're not goi

in several interviews, including one with jan crawford, romney said he left bain well before it controlled several companies downsizing in america. >> jan, i had no involvement with the management of bain capital after february of 1999. >> reporter: however, bin's public filings repeatedly lists romney as sole shareholder, sole directer, chief executive officer, president, and even managing directer. still, romney is adamant he did not manage bain at the time. but the obama campaign said he was either misrepresenting his position at bain, which is a felony, or misrepresenting his position at bain to the american people. >> stay tuned for complete coverage of campaign 2012. we'll bridge you the very latest on air and online at wjz.com. >>> six legendary orioles the focus of a season-long celebration at cal den yards. fans today cheered for a real team favorite. >> reporter: number 22 jim palmer becomes the third or quoll honored with a bronze statue at camden yards. >> so me, the theme of all these statues is not about what i did, because i wouldn't have won cy young awards, wouldn't have b

megyn: jan crawford said he initially vote with the conservatives.hen when they were having the debate about throwing out the entire law he got quote wobbly." it's not clear if he was watching the media coverage but he is known to pay attention to the media unlike the other justices. it's not known why he changed his view ultimately but one of the other conservatives tried to get him to explain it but was unsatisfied with his response. if he changed his vote on a perception, a need to protect the court's legacy as non-partisan, is that a legitimate motivation? >> i would say not. i disagree with the premise of the question. i think you have to consider the source. by every reading this report was used sources that were clearly sour grapes. consider what happened last week. they were clearly sources from the conservative side of the court. consider what happened. a conservative supreme court slam dunk declared unconstitutional the arizona state law and immigration. smacked down the conservative point of view when it came to immigration. then a conserv