yeah. >> kroft: shane. >> holmes: uh-huh. >> kroft: he was...supposed to be with us here. >> holmes: yeah, he was. we planned this trip to meet up with you guys, then i took off to europe. that was when he died. >> kroft: you were with him? >> holmes: yep. >> kroft: shane crashed in italy because he was unable to release his ski bindings quickly enough so he could begin flying. how did it affect you? >> holmes: it saddened me deeply. you know, i miss my friend. >> kroft: did it make you think about quitting? >> holmes: yeah. >> kroft: but you didn't. >> holmes: no, i didn't. i didn't quit. at least, i haven't quit yet. >> kroft: near the end of our stay, we chartered a helicopter for the biggest adventure of our visit. we were going to the top of one of the most famous mountains in norway, romsdalshorn. when j.t. and the others climb up here, they don't even use ropes. the chopper saved us time and energy. it was a dizzying flight, not for the faint-hearted. from the air, our landing pad looked tiny but solid, a flat piece of rock. but when we t

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at the beginning of 2009, he sat down with steve kroft for his first television interview. >> kroft: until the end of 2008, harry markopolos was an obscure financial analyst and mildly eccentric fraud investigator from boston who most people would never notice on the street. >> my modern greek hero. how you doing? >> kroft: but today he enjoys an almost heroic status, pursued by journalists and movie producers and honored by colleagues as the man who went to the securities and exchange commission and blew the whistle on bernie madoff and his $50 billion fraud. >> (blows whistle) thank you. thank you. please take your seats. >> kroft: but he seems uncomfortable with all the attention, and knows that he is no hero. >> i stand before you a $50 billion failure. (laughter) >> kroft: how many times did you send material to the sec? >> may 2000, october 2001, october, november, and december of 2005, then again june 2007, and finally april 2008. >> kroft: hmm. >> so five separate sec submissions. >> kroft: and in spite of all of the things that you did, it still ended up in disaster. >> ther

steve kroft talking about the piece that aired last month which is the genesis of the stock act that is quickly moving through the house and the senate. but tonight, politico puts it this way, a feel-good beill has suddenly turned nasty. eric cantor strips one provision that would require so-called political consultants to disclose their activities like lobbyists who are already required the do that and the provision would scrap one plan that empowers federal prosecutors go after corruption by public officials. all of this shaz stoked a backlash from the democrats and some republicans who according to politico are furious with eric cantor and accusing him of watering down the legislation that easily passed the legislation last week including criticism of a fellow republican chuck grassley saying that it slashed his amendment which tracks action on capitol hill, and then sells the information to investors an instead the house bill requires a study of the industry's activities within 12 months. now, senator grassley calling this an astonishingly and deeply disappointing move by the hou

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steve kroft will tell us how this story change the course of congressional votes. >> i'm erica hill. authorities believe chilling 911 tapes from a frantic social worker locked out of josh powell's home when he murdered his sonts. a showdown over whether they're hiding secrets. >> i'm gayle king. what in the middle are penguins doing in the middle of dubai. gloria estefan is here too. >> first as we do every morning we begin with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> conservative is alive and well in missouri and minnesota. >> rick santorum's three-state sweep jolts the gop race. >> i want to congratulate senator santorum. wish him the very best. >> even though there were three elections they didn't mean much because no delegates were awarded. >> it's a bigger waste of time than voting on "american idol." >> i smell gasoline and he won't let me in. >> 911 calls reveal the panic as josh powell torched his own home. >> he blew up the house and the kids. >> the kids and the husband -- and the father were in the house? >> yes. he slammed the door in my face. >> we're

steve kroft of 60 minutes will be here. we'll ask him about the new pelosi provision that just got added by republicans. some call it a personal dig against the minority leader. we'll explore that at 7:00. we'll see you then. >> we will be watching, gail. thank you. have a good day. >>> cbs this morning will also be talking about the republican presidential race and tuesday, rick santorum was the big winner three for three. >> it was a big day for him. delia goncalves is tracking the results. good morning, delia. >> reporter: good morning. it's interesting mitt romney won minnesota back in 2008. this time around he came in a lowly third place. santorum ran away with that race. so romney is trying to downplay santorum's victory last night but the former massachusetts governor certainly took a hit as his position as front- runner. pundits say the results indicate that republicans are torn. they don't know who to really stand behind and they're not yet sold on romney despite the big win there were no delegates earned last nigh

i depend on myself to take charge of my financial future. [ bell dinging ] >> as steve kroft reported in november of 2009, end-of-life health care may prolong life, but the cost of doing that may also bankrupt the country. >> with end-of-life care, there are also delicate cultural and political considerations. patients with their family's support want to cling to life, and it is often easier to hope for medical miracles than to discuss how they want to die. >> hey, charlie, i want you to meet somebody. how you doing? >> when we met charlie haggard, he was 68 years old and suffering from liver and kidney failure. he wanted a double transplant which would cost about $450,000. but doctors told him he was currently too weak to be a candidate for the procedure. at a meeting with charlie's family and his doctors, dr. byock raised the awkward question of what should be done if charlie got worse and his heart or lungs failed. dr. byock told him that resuscitation rarely works on someone in charlie's condition and that it could lead to a drawn-out death in the icu. >> either way you decide, we

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i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we meet two silicon valley billionaires a generation apart who revolutionized the world of computing and the internet. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and paul allen, microsoft's cofounder. we begin with mark zuckerberg and facebook. if you have a facebook account, you've probably reconnected with an old pal, shared photos with your family, and gotten advice from your friends on what to buy and what to read. but facebook has bigger plans. it wants to turn the entire web into one big social network. lesley stahl first talked with mark zuckerberg in 2008, and three years later, we sat down with mark again. he gave us a preview of his site's new profile page, a change that would affect the 500 million people who were then using facebook, an idea that zuckerberg had cooked up in his dorm room at harvard. >> when you first thought about this--19 years old--is this what you had in mind? did you see this far into the future, or is it way beyond what you dreamed? >> well, it's f

but first, steve kroft's story on the enormous amount of money being spent to treat people as they approach the end of their lives. how much money? well, in 2009, medicare paid $55 billion for doctor and hospital bills for patients as they approached the last two months of life. to give you some perspective, that's more than the budget for the department of homeland security or the department of education. and as we reported in 2009, most of those bills were paid for by the government with few or no questions asked and with an estimated 30% of the treatments having no meaningful impact. >> ms. klish, it's dr. byock. >> marcia klish is either being saved by medical technology or being prevented from dying a natural death. >> we're just here checking on you. >> she's been unconscious in the intensive care unit at dartmouth hitchcock medical center in lebanon, new hampshire, for the better part of a week. one of her doctors, ira byock, told us it costs up to $10,000 a day to maintain someone in the icu. >> this is the way so many americans die. something like 18% to 20% of americans spend thei

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i'm steve kroft. we live on an increasingly endangered planet, from the glaciers of antarctica to the rich prairie lands of canada. and the ultimate disaster may be financial as well as environmental. later in this episode, scott pelley reports from antarctica on the wide-ranging effects of global warming. and later bob simon has a story from canada on the environmental damage caused by the next great oil rush. but our first story involves a controversial waste product that could have damaging effects on the environment. there are more than 600 coal-fired power plants generating electricity in the u.s., and those plants produce 130 million tons of waste called coal ash. it contains concentrations of mercury, arsenic, lead, and other toxic materials. and as lesley stahl first reported in 2009, when coal ash is dumped into wet ponds--and there are more than 500 of those across the country-- the result can have an enormous health risk on the people living in nearby communities. >> we get about 48%, nearl

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i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. >>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts. they're nuts. they know nothing. i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. "mad money" you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. my job is not to just entertain, but to educate, call me, 1-800-743-cnbc. we are not used to this. we are not accustomed to markets that let you in and allow you to make money practically on a daily basis. markets that permit you to make a decent profit buying companies that are doing well with good profits going forward. that is what i found myself thinking as we started lower in the morning and looking ugly and then blossomed over the course of the day into a decent session. dow rallied and nasdaq advanced .07. this action is different from the stock market we have had from the last 12 years, it's worth discussing what is going on. if you have

i'm steve kroft. precious commodities are, by definition, rare, valuable, and in high demand, and very often they're located in places that are difficult to reach and sometimes dangerous. this edition features stories that take us down into the world of sharks, deep into the heart of africa, and onto the high seas for a look at the dark side of big-time commercial fishing. we begin with gold. there's a demand for gold for investments, for the circuits in cell phones and computers, and of course for jewelry. and mining it often comes at a huge cost, one of which you probably haven't heard very much about. in the democratic republic of congo, gold and other minerals are fueling the deadliest conflict since world war ii. in november of 2009, scott pelley went to the heart of central africa and found a campaign of rape and murder being largely funded by gold that's exported to the world. >> this is a gold mine in eastern congo, dug from the side of a mountain by the bare hands and stooped backs of 100 men

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i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we talk with julian assange, the mysterious and eccentric founder of wikileaks, whose website made public thousands of u.s. secrets. and we examine the secret danger behind a type of dust that's killing american factory workers. we begin with wikileaks, a website that publishes classified and suppressed material from whistle-blowers around the world. in the late summer of 2011, wikileaks made news when someone--it's not clear who-- dumped 250,000 unredacted and classified state department and pentagon documents, which had been in wikileaks' possession, onto the internet. when we interviewed assange, he was already under investigation by the justice department for publishing classified material and possible violations of the espionage act. he was also under house arrest in britain, fighting extradition to sweden in connection with two sexual assault cases, which he has called part of a smear campaign against him. in what is still his most extensive television interview

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we look at the world of big deals on wall street and in las vegas and examine the impact of high-speed computers in both places. we begin with perhaps the most famous investor of them all, warren buffett. his fame extends far beyond wall street, his oldest son, howard, not so much. and yet he's the person warren buffett wants to succeed him as chairman of berkshire hathaway, the mega holding company that buffett built. for most of his adult life, howard has been a corn and soybean farmer in nebraska and illinois. and as lesley stahl first reported in december of 2011, howard doesn't live the high life, and he loves getting down in the dirt. >> this is the man who'll become the next chairman of the company-acquiring, investment-picking, moneymaking machine berkshire hathaway if warren buffett has his way. howard is a farmer who would rather dig up the ground and drive big machines than sit in a boardroom. were you stunned? were you surprised? >> i was surprised. >> but

joining us are kent kroft and hugh johnson. good to see you, gentlemen. hugh, we'll start with you.e a little worried about this. and bob pisani pointed out earlier that we're seeming to get a divergence between the dow jones transports and the dow jones industrial average. what are we in for? >> it's hard to call short-term swings. most people should probably ignore anybody that tries to call short-term swings. but a couple of things bother me. first of all, from a valuation point of view, as i do the number, we're about 8% overvalued right now, or above the level we should be right now in this current quarter. that's one thing. and the other thing is there's widespread optimism. as you know, when there's fairly widespread optimism and the market's somewhat overvalued, you have to brace yourself for a little bit of a correction. and we could get some news. the february economic numbers are going to be very important. we'll see those over the next week and a half. they better be good. otherwise, they may touch off a correction. i'm a little bit concerned but all within the context o

i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] >>> i'm jim cramer, and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game! >> firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts! they are nuts! they know nothing! >> i always like to say there is a bull market somewhere. "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but teach and coach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. on a roller coaster day where the dow surged above 13,000 before reversing, s&p inching higher, nasdaq declining. got to ask ourselves, does that nice round, juicy, dow 13,000 number actually matter? you bet it does! i hear tons of people talk about what really matters isn't the dow jones industrial average but rather the s&p 500. taking out the s&p's high from april of last year. suddenly about ten points away. sure, it would allow us to break the double top pattern the market has been stuck in