jim axelrod catches up with the everyday heroes who helped america heal. >> that was the only job. that was the one i was trained to do. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. more investors decided today that it's time to get out of the stock market while the getting is good-- or before it gets any worse. here's how bad it got today. the dow fell more than 160 points closing at 12, 419. it's still clinging to a small gain for the year of 1.66%. that matters a lot to the marathon 50% of americans who are invested in the market and have now seen it fall 16 of the past 20 sessions. so we asked anthony mason why the market is rattled and to tell us about what it means for the economy going forward. >> reporter: may has been a month of misery for the markets. the dow has been up only five of 21 trading sessions this month. the u.s. economy continues to grow slowly. >> we're facing a very challenging global environment with europe deepening its recession, with china slowing. >> reporter: bruce kazman is chief economist with

i'm jim axelrod. all but certain republican presidential romney mitt romney made an appeal today to evangelical christians, a group whose whose support he will certainly need if he is to prevail in the fall. romney traveled to the largest evangelical college in the world to reach out. chip reid joins us now. chip, good evening. >> reporter: well,ing good evening, jim. mitt romney has struggled to win over evangelical christians in part because many evangelicals believe mormonnism, romney's faict, is a religious cult. today romney emphasized the shared values of two very different branches of christianity. >> people of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there are so many differences in creed and theology. >> reporter: their different faiths can meet, romney contended, by way of a common world view based on christian values. >> there is no greater force for good in the nation than christian conscience in action. >> reporter: romney said the w

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up on the morning news, roger clemens under fire. a star witness in his perjury trial testified he gave the seven-time cy young award winner steroids. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia, thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and for some people, it can work in as early as the first week of treatment. so now i can do more of the things that i enjoy. lyrica is not for everyone. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior, or any swelling or affected breathing or skin, or changes in eyesight, including blurry vision or muscle pain with fever or tired feeling. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, and swelling of hands, legs and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until you

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an updatethe middle east on cease-fire efforts in syria. we'll hear from former envoy and ambassador dennis ross. we'll go to greensboro, north carolina, for the latest on jury deliberations in the john edwards corruption trial. and actor ethan hawke stops by tud yoe 57 to discuss his new movie. that is the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. as always, appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown. take care, everybody. ,,,,,, >>> happening right now a big rig accident and they do so spoke on

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: the shoe company sketchers has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a federal complaint that its ads were deceptive. sketchers claims its shape-ups would help people lose weight and strengthen muscles but the federal trade commission today said the only thing that got a workout was their wallets. customers will get refund. hundreds had to run from their homes to escape a growing wildfire. we'll show you next. i can tell you, down here, people measure commitment by what's getting done. i'm mike utsler, and it's my job to make sure we keep making progress in the gulf. the twenty billion dollars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. another fourteen billion dollars has been spent on response and cleanup. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to the gulf of mexico research initiative... to support ten years of independent scientific research on the environment. results will continue to be shared with the public. and we're making sure people know that the gulf is open for business - the beaches

jim axelrod, cbs news, greensboro, georgia. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. to leave you now with traditional decorating of arlington national cemetery in honor of memorial day. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> now, "entertainment tonight" the most watched entertainment newsmagazine? is the world. >>> was the "american idol" finale j. lo's last show? >> not because i don't want to be here -- >> i know. >> her sexy finale performance and why she might not be the only judge leaving. >>> will smith with his whole family. >>> plus a star spangled katy perry singing for the sailors. ♪ >> it's all about america today, boys. >>> sharon stone sued by her former nanny. the disturbing c

jim axelrod has the story. >> reporter: these days most kids at green county high school are dreamingummer break. then there's tiesha dalton. >> i work hard, i worked very hard to get where i am. >> reporter: she spent 12 years dreaming about a future beyond greensboro, georgia, where nearly 20% live in poverty. >> in this community, some might have been in foster care and not really have a home or a room that they can call their own. >> reporter: this was dalton in the year 2000 when she was one of 54 first graders chosen to be part of greensboro's i have a dream program. the project was created by tom kelly, a health care executive who had moved nearby when he retired. >> my mom came from ireland. if she had a nickel, she gave it to someone. she always told us, you have to give back. >> reporter: the promise you made these kids 12 years ago was what? >> the promise was that we will help you get into college and we will pay your scholar so you can definitely not have finances be a problem in going to college. >> reporter: kelly raised $2 million to cover expenses not covered by schol

jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most watched entertainment newsmagazine in the world. >>> jessica simpson. the first photos of her baby girl maxwell. three weeks old. chubby cheeks and the big money that jessica was paid for the shots and news on when she'll say i do. >>> neil patrick harris at home with his 19-month-old twins. >> i didn't feel like i was bonding with them. >>> then -- kathie lee today, asking martin short is doing, two years after she

jim axelrod on the prospects for an economic recovery this summer. the massacre of civilians in syria. why can't the world stop the killing? elizabeth palmer and bob orr report. and brian rooney with the story of fallen heroes lost during world war ii and found nearly seven decades later. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> mason: good evening, scott is off, i'm anthony mason. many today are enjoying a day of leisure, but we've never forgotten the men and women who paid for the freedom we enjoy the day. ceremonies honoring america's war dead were held across the country, including two led by the commander-in-chief. president obama began the day on hallowed ground: arlington national cemetery in virginia where he laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. during the ceremony, the president noted for the first time in nine years no americans are fighting in iraq and that the end of fighting was also near in afghanistan. >> after a decade under a dark cloud of war we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. >> mason: >> the presid

jim axelrod tells us they're creating one in a laboratory, a lab that uses nanotechnology. that's the science of subatomic particles to make computer chips and jobs. >> reporter: don't let the physical decay of downtown albany, new york, fool you. this may be the restbelt, but there's a new kind of industrial revolution going on here. just ask john keefe. >> the recession seems to be every place but here. >> reporter: "here" is albany's college of nanoscale science and engineering, where keefe, who did not graduate from college, has a job as an assistant, helping an army of ph.d.s develop the world's next generation of computer chips. >> i felt i was way over my head, but once i started doing what they were asking me to do, it was like any other job,un. >> reporter: five years ago, if i showed and you your clean room get-up, you probably wouldn't have believed that was you going to work. >> i didn't even know what a clean room was. >> reporter: keefe worked in a local paper factory for 23 years before being laid off. today, he's one of more than 2700 employees at the nanoco

jim axelrod, cbs news, greensboro, georgia. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. to leave you now with traditional decorating of arlington national cemetery in honor of memorial day. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> this is 9 news now. >>> we begin tonight with breaking news, another shakeup at the general services administration, the gsa, 9news investigative reporter russ ptacek learned five people are now out at the agency and officials want to oust four others all in connection to that lavish las vegas convention. russ, are these the same five people your investigation profiled tuesday? >> we're still gathering information on this. we've confirmed at least one jeffrey neely, one you saw tuesday night, and trying to identify the four others right now. our investigation uncovered gsa documents showing those five officials received bonus money just a few months ago all linked to that lavish $823,000 convention including neely who is famous for a bathtub photo and globe trti

we asked jim axelrod to take a look. >> r >> reporter: 23-year-old nicholas peart the, two weeks from college graduation and never in trouble with the law says he's been stopped and frisked by new york city police a half dozen times in his harlem neighborhood. what's that feel like when you're stopped and frisked? >> you just feel a sense of hopelessness and that, you know, you're less than human. >> reporter: peart is a witness in a lawsuit charging the policy that allows n.y.p.d. officers to detain anyone they find suspicious discriminates against minorities. last year 685,000 people were stopped and frisked. 84% were black and latino. 88% of those stopped were not arrested nor given summons. the judge's decision to grant class action status allows thousands to join the suit, targeting the policy itself and not the action of an individual officer. what does it mean to get this kind of... for a judge to say, hey, this has probably happened to many people who will never sue. >> i think it says that we can have faith in the law. that, you know, it is possible to seek change and assist

jim axelrod on the 50% of recent college grads struggling to find jobs. and two wonders of aerospace. >> at first off you don't think it's possible. >> pelley: chip reid with the story behind the space shuttle and its closest friend on earth. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, heads are rolling in a wall street debacle of the kind that few expected to see again so soon. stock in the nation's largest bank-- j.p. morgan chase-- continued to fall today. it has lost $19 billion in value since friday, more than 12% of its total worth. late last week, the bank shocked investors with a $2 billion loss in its trading department. j.p. morgan chase had made enormous bets on what are known as derivatives, an exotic wall street investment that was at the heart of the financial collapse in 2008. by this morning, a top executive was out and anthony mason picks up the story from there. >> reporter: the first casualty of the bank's $2 billion blunder was its chief investment officer, ina drew, a 30-year

we asked jim axelrod to tell us more about we, the people of the united states. >> reporter: in chicago, laura hernandez is holding her one-month-old daughter. veronica hernandez is part of the majority of american infants who are minorities. >> our children are probably have more friends in school that are from hispanic or mexican descent in comparison probably to what i grew up with. >> reporter: hispanics are the nation's fastest growing minority group making up more than half of all infants born in california, texas, and new mexico. >> i see it every day in the stores, like, for example, when i go to target, i see the translations of the signs or the labels. >> reporter: it's not just the big cities. in des moines, iowa, a third of the staff at the primary health care clinic is bilingual. and they have phones in the exam rooms to connect with translators for other languages if need be. when grant wood painted american gothic in 1930, america was nearly 90% white. today, the united states has a much different complexion. hispanics make up close to 17% of the population, the nation's

but as jim axelrod reports, all signs point to a strong summer. >> reporter: it's heating up on the board walk in ocean city, new jersey and vacationers tim and tina aren't talking about the thermometer. >> i just think financially this summer we feel we're a little better off than we were a year ago. >> reporter: they're not alone. consumer confidence is at its highest since october, 2007, two months before the recession started. which might help explain the crowd inside schriver's salt water taffy and fudge may recall van geloff is the owner. >> everybody has had a very strong attitude thinking about how the summer is going to be this year for us all. >> reporter: the optimism is easy for van geloff to explain. she's no economist but she is a driver. >> the gas prices are going to be helping people out. they'll come down and they can have a better time. they can do more things hopefully as they might not have been able to do before. >> reporter: normally, gas prices rise heading into the memorial day weekend but this year they've fallen 18 cents in the past month. the average price for

we asked jim axelrod to look into that for us. >> reporter: jihan forbes got good grades and a degree two years ago. the only thing she didn't get: a full-time job. >> they said it was going to... "get a degree and you'll get a job. you're going to be a step ahead of everybody." and that really hasn't been the case. >> reporter: the 23-year-old wants to break into the fashion industry so she's blogging as a paid intern at one web site and working part time at another. >> i've sent out hundreds of resumes, at least00 in the past few years. >> reporter: you're smiling, i imagine there's times you want to scream. >> i mean, i have my breakdowns but, like, i can't, like, stress myself out about it because that's not going to go anything but give me wrinkles and this face cannot have wrinkles before it's 60. >> reporter: forbes majored in english but a recent study found employers most likely to hire graduates with engineering, business, accounting, or computer science degrees. another study by rutgers university found more than a quarter of recent grads say their jobs have been working be

jim axelrod tells us the deadline for that deal has come. >> all students, you are now dismissed. >>e days, most kids at green county high school are dreaming about summer break. >> go down for your orientation on friday. >> reporter: then there's taisha dalton. >> i worked very hard to get where i am. >> reporter: she spent 12 years dreaming about a future beyond greensboro, georgia, where nearly 20% live in poverty. >> in this community, some might have been in foster care and not really have a home or a room that they can call their own. >> reporter: this was dalton in the year 2000, when she was one of 54 first-graders chosen to be part of greensboro's "i have a dream" program. >> let's make sure tomorrow we practice. >> reporter: the project was created by tom kelly, a health care executive who had moved nearby when he retired. >> my mom came from ireland, and if she had a nickel, she gave it to someone. and she always told us, you better give back. you have to give back. >> reporter: the promise you made these kids 12 years ago was what? >> the promise was that we will help you

now as jim axelrod reports, he has been linked to at least two suspicious deaths. >> reporter: authorities won't say yet whether two bodies found over the weekend are those of jo ann bain or any of her three daughters. police made the grim discovery at a home near guntown, mississippi, where it's believed their main suspect, adam mayes, had been staying. described as a family friend, the fbi believes mayes kidnapped the mother along with 8-year-old kelei yeah, 12-year-old alexandria and 14-year-old a dree yuan. the family was last sen ten days ago at their home in tennessee where investigators returned sunday, searching for any clues. >> let us know where the kids are. let us know where that mom is. it's that important. >> reporter: authorities have issued an amber alert and are calling mayes armed and extremely dangerous. while he was last seen in mississippi, authorities say mayes has ties to arizona, texas, north carolina, south carolina and florida. his neighbors say they hope officials will track him down soon. >> i don't want him hurting any more kids or, you know, hurting anybody. >

jim axelrod on the 50% of recent college grads struggling to find jobs.two wonders of aerospace. >> at first off you don't think it's possible. >> pelley: chip reid with the story behind the space shuttle and its closest friend on earth. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, heads are rolling in a wall street debacle of the kind that few expected to see again so soon. stock in the nation's largest bank-- j.p. morgan chase-- continued to fall today. it has lost $19 billion in value

jim axelrod catches up with the everyday heroes who helped america heal. >> that was the only job.e one i was trained to do. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. more investors decided today that it's time to get out of the stock market while the getting is good-- or before it gets any worse. here's how bad it got today. the dow fell more than

jim axelrod on the prospects for an economic recovery this summer.of civilians in syria. why can't the world stop the killing? elizabeth palmer and bob orr report. and brian rooney with the story of fallen heroes lost during world war ii and found nearly seven decades later. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> mason: good evening, scott is off, i'm anthony mason. many today are enjoying a day of leisure, but we've never forgotten the men and women who paid for the freedom we enjoy the day. ceremonies honoring america's war dead were held across the country,in

>> jim axelrod says one man with visions of green jackets is trying to find out. ion just about every golfer has asked at some point, usually when they're stuck behind their desk. how good could i be if i didn't have to go to work and just golf all day? we found someone who's providing lessons that go far beyond the course. >> reporter: in portland, oregon, dan mclaughlin is living the dream, or at least the dream as a lot of people would define it. >> it's beautiful. >> reporter: for six hours a day, six days a week, mclaughlin plays golf. do you ever get tired of playing? >> you know, every 10 or 12 days or so i usually take a day off. >> reporter: i mean, dan, i like chocolate but i can't eat it for every meal. >> well, yeah, yeah. but, you know, i mean doing this, it's not unlike any, you know, career. >> reporter: any career was exactly the problem. mclaughlin's job, a photographer for a dental supply company, paid well but bored him to tears. >> nice. >> reporter: wanting to find a new way to make a living and a new way to make a life, he began to read and ca

now as jim axelrod reports, he has been linked to two suspicious deaths. >> reporter: authorities won'tay yet whether two bodies found over the weekend are those of jo ann bain or any of her three daughters. police made the discovery in hometown guntown, mississippi where adam may es had been staying. they believe the man kidnapped along with the mother and three daughters. the family was last seen ten days ago at their home in tennessee where investigators returned sunday searching for any clues. >> let us know where the kids are. let us know where that mom is. it's that important. >> reporter: authorities have issued an amber alert and are calling mayes armed and extremely dangerous. last seen in mississippi, authorities say mayes has ties to texas, arizona and texas and north carolina and south carolina and officials hope to track him down soon. >> i don't want him hurting any more kids. >> this is a quiet community. nothing serious has happened around here. so it's pretty rough situation. >> reporter: authorities believe mayes has altered his appearance and may have cut and dyed the

it's jim messina, david axelrod, stephanie cutter, larry griz lan know, from the house david bluff, valerieouse, dan pfeiffer and melissa mastromonaco. not joe biden. were you surprised by that? >> there may be other meetings he or his representatives are in. he obviously wants to keep those meetings close. i think joe biden is doing a great job for this administration. he can go out and get a big crowd and fire people up. so he could probably get a bigger crowd than mitt romney at this point i would think. >> i think the team you see there is the president and all of the chief advisers. you don't see other principals. michele is not in the room but i don't think anyone doubts that michele has plenty of input on his thinking and is used as a surrogate. i'm not sure there's a precedent for the vice president putting his time in there, as well. >> the one thing you see with that will full screen that you just brought up is everyone thaemts on that screen has been there since the early days. those are the guys and gals that have been there when they had no money to rub two pennies together. th