the lapd called him a hug- hugger. i will repeat everything that they have said, not because of sore afraid of using profanity but because it was a different lapd. it was rumored that the mexican mafia was allowed to meet in his church and that he held guns for gang members. and he was helping gang members across the border. i am certain he knew where the body of jimmy hoffa was buried when you got done listening to the rumors. now, the lapd uses home with industries as an integral part of its anti-gang efforts. not all of them, not 9000 members, but i can tell you this, homeboy industries have their annual benefit to honor people in the community as well as former gang members, the person they honored was chief charlie of the lapd. unless you think that was an anomaly, the year before they honored the sheriff. there is an alliance between community-based organizations, and law-enforcement. this is not enough. there has also been in the streets, ongoing, a relationship, a delicate one, a thoughtful one between the loss

for the last 10 years i have been married to someone who was a deputy chief of the lapd and i now refer to him as being in recovery. at the same time, i have been working extensively with home with industries, and my brother said, if he had dreamed i would be married to a policeman and working with a priest, somebody would be lying. i have been working with gangs and been involved with gangs, trying to figure them out for 34 years. i began as a young social worker in south los angeles. with gang infested housing projects that are now almost mythic, jordan downs and nickerson gardens, and i worked in these projects during what is referred to as the decade of death, when crack and unregulated gun availability laid waste to communities of color. in los angeles during the late 1980's and early 1990's, there were 1000 homicides per year in the city of los angeles, not the county, the city. now, we have between 203 hundred homicides per year. people talk about the gang problem having been addressed. i want to share with you, what i experienced, what i have learned, i am not a typical academic

here's the yes, why is the lapd refuse to go hand them over to the feds for deportation? but it's a bird a plane and it is not super man. that is astroid 3 miles long about to pass. very dangerously close to the earth. >> it is 21 after the hour. they are donating all of the advertising revenues for the rest of the year to the family of the nurse who committed suicide after the prank. that's 525,000 dollars. the thursday's family demanding a full investigation into her death. later today look at this, a massive astroid will buzz by the earth. the three mile wide rock will pass withinmiles. it doesn't pose a threat to our planet but it will be close enough so that you can see it in a telescope. you can watch it live on-line starting at 3:00 p.m. look at that, it's huge heather. >> ainsley, thank you so much. here's a question we ask ourselves from time to time. dr. keith ablow here. >> my sister never got over the death of her dog. it was ten years ago. listen to this. in the same span of time we have lost a grandmother and even a house to a flood but she is depressed abou

when called op it, the lapd officer said it was just a nudge to enforce the already existing law.ry write a negative review on a website in this story may make you think twice before you do it. a judge ordered a woman to change negative yelp review about a building contractor. the writeup accused the construction company danieling her house and stealing jewelry. police found no connection between the company and the missing jewels. the construction company sued for three-quarters of a million dollars. the woman's attorney said it amounts to judge copy editing her review. >>> some of staunchest vocal supports of the 99% are prominent member of the 1'for vocal skills. forbes reports in the 25 highest paid musicians you will find four of them lip service to occupy wall street movement. roger waters of pink floyd made a video saying the country is being run for the benefit of the rich. he happens to be one of them. he made $88 million. katy perry visited occupy wall street with then husband russell brand and played it up on twitter and took in $45 million. jay-z told t-shirt to occupi

. >> let's talk about the lapd apologizing to the family of notorious b.i.g., aka, christopher wallacefailing to warn them about the planned release of his autopsy report that came more than 15 years after he died in the drive-by shooting. detectives said they intended to notify the rapper's family. the report was released prematurely according to an administrative error. they said that in a statement. in case you are wondering the 23-page report, revealed the rapper was hit by four bullets leaving a music industry event in '97, one hit his heart, left lung and colon and caused his death. attorney for the rapper's family come mrae complained friday they weren't giving notice and the report would be released and krit si criticized. >> i don't like this. i don't like this. this is a man who died viole violently, has children, has a mother. you are going to release his autopsy. they're so graphic anyone who has ever seen one release it without telling the family. that is a shame on you moment. >> you know they will be besieged by cameras, reporter. need to be prepared. >> awful. shame on

reporter: many people are turning in their guns here that land officials expect this to be -- that lapd officials expect this to be their most successful buy-back ever. >>> president obama will spend the night aboard airforce 1 making a red-eye trip from hawaii to washington. when he arrives on thursday, it's right back to budget negotiations with the fiscal cliff deadline less than a week away. >> reporter: as the president wrapped up his vacation, federal workers trickled back into the nation's capital. the only people who can avert the fiscal cliff, members of the house and senate, have not returned. and in just six days, a 2% payroll tax is set to expire, along with the bush-era tax cuts, shrinking the average worker's paycheck in 2013 by about $1,500. long-term unemployment benefits for about 2 million jobless americans are also set to expire, and $110 billion worth of spending cuts to domestic and defense programs will kick in, forcing layoffs in the public and private sector. if congress doesn't act, all the cuts and new taxes will squish the economy back into a mild recession by

. >> we're getting a look at the arsenal of weapons taken off the streets in los angeles w lapd collectedirearms on wednesday's event including 75 assault weapons and two rocket launchers. police collected weapons. this was the most successful buy back event on record. the event moved up several months in response to the sandy hook school nas masa ker happening two weeks ago. >> at least one law enforcement official responding to the national rifle association's call to book armed cops in schools. following what happened in the controversial sheriff considering placing an armed volunteer sheriff deputy near schools. >> this is when they're going to be talking about the guns now, but i have the certainmt>"f resources at my disposal. i'm not going talk about it. i'm going to do it. >> the group usually patrols shopping balls but he says may extend the tour to keep schools safe. volume lun tears won't be patrolling on campus, but rather, around school autos still ahead an arrest today of a shooting ambush that left two firefighters dead. why police say a neighbor helped with the attack. >> l

. >>> the lapd has admitted an error. >> they released the autopsy report of rapper notorious b.i.g. without warning his family. he was hit by four bullets in a drive-by slooting in 1997. only one caused the fatal injuries. >> it's remarkable it was released without the family's knowledge. >> you would think they get n e notifi notified. >>> finally, a lucky break for a lobster in maine. a little something extra is all it needed to avoid the pot. >> a fisherman noticed something different about it. four claws? a rare abnormality. >> wow, four claus. the fisherman was so impressed, he decided to keep it as a pet, at least for now. apparently, he wants to turn the lucky lobster over the marine researches, as opposed to having a tasty meal. >> there you go. you get an extra claw. that's always nice. >> well, for some of you, your local news is up next. >>> for everyone else, the business of ugly holiday sweaters. everyone needs one. you ever have one? >> i have one. i love those ugly holiday sweater parties. >> you have been to party? i need to get one from this guy. he's selling ugly h

he was not with the lapd. he was with a smaller police department for 30 years. he has since retired. he has been married twice. he has raised four children. he has lived an extraordinary life. i am grateful for having had him in my life as a guidepost. i do think it is the ultimate irony that he turned out to be a police officer. >> we have some other questions. very good questions. we do not have much time. i work at san quentin prison. they segregate inmates based on color and gangs. why do prisons not work on educating inmates on social relations, racial tolerance, and why don't they find a way so the different races can get to know each other? >> i would like to enter that. segregation has -- i would like to answer that. segregation has always been a problem in this country. i grew up in new orleans. we believe that education is the key. we all need to sit at the table. i do not believe in segregation for inmates. they need to tear that barrier down and put people together, no matter what. when we go inside the walls of san quentin, it is not just black inma

. >>> the lapd has admitted an error. >> they released the autopsy report of rapper notorious b.i.g.ily. he was hit by four bullets in a drive-by slooting in 1997. only one caused the fatal injuries. >> it's remarkable it was released without the family's knowledge. >> you would think they get n e notifi notified. >>> finally, a lucky break for a lobster in maine. a little something extra is all it needed to avoid the pot. >> a fisherman noticed something different about it. four claws? a rare abnormality. >> wow, four claus. the fisherman was so impressed, he decided to keep it as a pet, at least for now. apparently, he wants to turn the lucky lobster over the marine researches, as opposed to having a tasty meal. >> there you go. you get an extra claw. that's always nice. >> well, for some of you, your local news is up next. >>> for everyone else, the business of ugly holiday sweaters. everyone needs one. you ever have one? >> i have one. i love those ugly holiday sweater parties. >> you have been to party? i need to get one from this guy. he's selling ugly holiday swerts. one day g

the lapd says this is actually one of the most challenging cases for them to solve.t it, when i heard this, wow, 15 years ago, this was at the peterson here in los angeles, which is a very public place on a night where there were so many people around, and to still not figure out who did this. it really is kind of a head scratcher. >> it has inspired a lot of conspiracy theories around the country, a lot of books on it. still an unsolved mystery. >>> mtv's new reality show "buckwild" getting a lot of heat. one west virginia senator not too happy about it. we'll hear what the senator has to say as well. >>> egypt will go ahead with a referendum on the new constitution saturday even though president morsi backed off granting himself extraordinary powers. cnn's reza joins us from cairo. i know you sat down with one of the president's top advisers in an exclusive interview. what did he tell you about saturday's referendum? >> reporter: ted, this was the president's chief of staff, and he told us point blank that this nationwide vote on the constitution will go on as sche

. >> reporter: so many people are turning in their guns here that lapd officials believe there will beir most successful gun buyback program ever, collecting over 2,500 guns. john blackstone, cbs news, los angeles. >>> north of los angeles, partial traffic is expected to reopen this morning after a rock slide. the slide shut down part of highway 1, turning the throughway into a parking lot. crews have been clearing debris. major rock slides happen almost every year, and residents say it's a trade-off for living there. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the biggest sports stories of 2012. i'm duarte geraldino. this is the "cbs morning news." geraldino. this is the "cbs morning news." up to 40% off all nordictrack treadmills and ellipticals, and up to 50% off all mechanics tool sets and wrenches this is how to gift yourself. this is sears. the latest coffee machine from nespresso. modular. intuitive. combines espresso and fresh milk. the new u. nespresso. what else? available at these fine retailers. >>> a follow-up now on a hurricane sandy survivor who lost her h

. >>> the lapd has admitted an error. >> they released the autopsy report of rapper notorious b.i.g.s hit by four bullets in a drive-by slooting in 1997. only one caused the fatal injuries. >> it's remarkable it was released without the family's knowledge. >> you would think they get n e notifi notified. >>> finally, a lucky break for a lobster in maine. a little something extra is all it needed to avoid the pot. >> a fisherman noticed something different about it. four claws? a rare abnormality. >> wow, four claus. the fisherman was so impressed, he decided to keep it as a pet, at least for now. apparently, he wants to turn the lucky lobster over the marine researches, as opposed to having a tasty meal. >> there you go. you get an extra claw. that's always nice. >> well, for some of you, your local news is up next. >>> for everyone else, the business of ugly holiday sweaters. everyone needs one. you ever have one? >> i have one. i love those ugly holiday sweater parties. >> you have been to party? i need to get one from this gu te you celebrate a little win. nicorette gum helps calm

absolute privilege the last couple of years, i hope every year until i'm an old lady, to go to the lapd medal of valor ceremony and narrate each of the stories that accompany that soldier, that police officer, who was injured in the line of duty or killed in the line of duty. i tell their story at a huge luncheon filled with police officers and their families with charlie beck honoring the fallen and the injured in the line of duty. but again, we don't see it. so i think our children are inured from any absolute sense of risk and, therefore, bravery has a whole different face to it. tavis: how much bravery does it take to age in this business as a woman? am i overstating it? >> no. here's the reality and it's sad and true. when you cut to me in a movie and your image of me is from "trading places" and you cut to me, i know that there are a bunch of people who go, "oh, wow, she really got old." it's the nature of the movie business. it's the tinsel town and all that. nowadays, when you make movies, you don't need any lights at all. you have to remember, back in the day, the film stocks t

jacks former lapd detective. here in new york with me chief mcnamara. what do you think, chief? >>> oo we should have our eye on the irresponsibilissue. not one single with the ability to do it. is that not an option? when which looks at more school resource officers in the high school? obviously now as the violence tends to trickle down in the school. that's one option. >> i am talking about doing something right now. many cops during a typical weekday in newtown connecticut? >> four or five. >> why can't one cop stay in a patrol car outside of school? >> let's face it law enforcement the demands on law enforcement are increasing. when you don't have the resources to devote to one school. >> ken trump do you have an opinion on that? what do you think? >> all of the ideas starting to trickle out of washington and some of the broader things that you talked about. we have school research officers in a number of our schools. we the cops and schools program funded. it has been eliminated. it was eliminated and the u.s. department of education two years ago eliminated completely. the

. >> i think there is a lapd minutis -- lastminute deal. >> deal or no deal, i don't think it matters this is just a dog and pony show, the economy is in trouble. lou: thank you very much. appreciate it. on that happy note. >> thank you, lou. lou: what the bleep just happened thank you. for us that is it good night fr new york. neil: influential tea partier jim demint is leaving senate captain, and john boehner removing tea party party from all leadership posts first indicated it. stick a fork in him, the republican party as we know it is dead. i am neilavuto, allow me to be so blunt to say, what else can you saybout a light taken out of the party, rublicans who 1 proudly school their taxrowned over decades, seeding that and then some over weeks, only real debate among the grand old party is how much to hike taxes, not if. i did not know they lost their backbone. starting 800 billion in tax hikes to match the president, shouldn't surprise anyone whetr we doubled that to $1.6 trillion, that will become the new starts point for the president. new york times and front page story praising

lapd detective mark fuhrman joins us. in terms of investigation, at this point what do we need to know and why? we know who did it, and he's dead. there's no suspicion that there is a co-conspirator out there or that he had help. yet, you know, we're obsessively going after this. why? >> well, greta, you have to do it just as a matter of protocol. you have to match up all the ballistics for every bullet that's comparable to that fire arm. you have to do that. you have to do the forensics, the toxicology on the shooter, make sure the shooter's gun was actually the gun that was used to kill himself. you have to put all these pieces of the puzzle together because you really don't know where this is going to go. you don't know if somebody could have actually been in contact with adam lanza and actually gave him the idea or was in a chat room and really kind of prodded him into this crime. you don't know where it's going, and i think that's why they're so aggressive. >> all right. what could possibly be on the hard drive? why

the lapd held a gun buyback and they received to rocket launchers in addition to 1900 and again, shot rifles. gift cards with up to $200. are you worried about this? >> weapons of war. not target guns, hunting guns. >> where you get a rocket launcher? >> they say they came from family members. >> i'm not quite. when i was a kid there was a kid down the block to have a bazooka that his father brought. >> where did you go to school? >> another kid down the block, his father had been in vietnam. these things happen. >> that's a little different. >> they showed up before. >> may be that all of them are unusable, but most of them. too old. >> is in their essonne, if i have a rocket launcher. actually is a song. okay. we may be getting close to the day when you can leave your electronic devices on during takeoff. the faa says the rule makers will review a decision sometime in january. when do you think we will see them do something that allows you to use the kindle the whole flight to back people sneak it on a never turned off. >> anything that doesn't transmit signals should be allowed, bu

. >> reporter: a sergeant with lapd says a detective will follow up on this case and reminds pet owners to use some sort of identifying tag so if your pet is lost, you can be notified. >> you're home now, baby, you're home. you're never going outside again. >>> walmart is expanding a recall of smoked salmon to 42 states including california. paramount reserve smoke almon may have listeria. the bacteria was found after a routine lab test. consumers should return the salmon for a refund. no illnesses have been reported. the voluntary recall started last week and is a precaution. >>> he is a star basketball player and we bet you don't see anything different about him. for him that's the whole idea. stay tuned for our student rising above. coming up next. >>> and we have light showers around the bay area today. it doesn't look like there will be too much from this. but new year's eve might be more coming in. we have the entire forecast coming up. >>> and the warriors continue to play good basketball. you will hear from head coach marc jackson as he explains why. and prior to this sunday mat

all the other lapd officers came up from down the street. >> the shooter dies at the scene. with the street secured, victim john atterberry is rushed to the e.r. >> they removed him from the car. he was lying on the pavement. and then he was picked up and put on a gurney and wheeled away to an ambulance. i thought, i hope he's going to be okay. as it turned out, he wasn't okay. >> atterberry's wounds are too severe. he dies three days later. >> he was jubilant, joyful. he a just had this effervescent that shined through him. he was special. >> actress jen godson stars in "god's country," a film atterberry co-wrote and was producing hen he died. >> he had a lot of friends and a lot of loved ones. i think it's because he cared so much for people. when god took him, that was one thing i was praying, god, why? why? it's senseless. the shooter is later identified as 26-year-old tyler brem. he was apparently distraught over a breakup with his long time girlfriend just days before. toxicology reports reveal marijuana and traces of methamphetamine in his system. >> we can't control

but the lapd says in the last four years, they've seen violent crime drop by 33% in the city, once theyade-in program. >> let's go back to los angeles now because we understand the massive los angeles -- the unified school district may be making security changes after the newtown shooting. what changes can we expect? >> reporter: that district has about 1,000 schools. the high schools, about 400 of them, already have armed police officers on duty. but the middle schools and the elementary schools do not have armed guards. they will not be getting an armed guard for 24 hours. but they say they may have enough officers to make sure that at least once a day, somebody at least stops by an elementary school, a member of the police department, so there's just sort of that further layer of possible enforcement there. >> paul vercammen, thank you. >>> if you live in l.a. and would like to exchange your gun for a gift card, you can hand in your weapon at the l.a. sports arena and the van nuys masonic temple. details are on the lapdonline.org. hair pulls, stink eyes, man we see eveything. oh, it'

, arms could be hand grenades, it could be mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, which i believe the lapdseized two rocket launchers during a gun buyback program. we don't have to sell people on the fact that you shouldn't have cannons and artillery. i think the question is, what's practical? and in this case, i don't think we need assault weapons with high capacity magazines that are military-style weapons that are used in combat because they end up on the streets killing people. the fact is, there's some reasonable things that we could do. i believe there's only seven states in the country that require the reporting of the loss, theft or transfer of a firearm, which is crazy. that's what fuels the illegal gun market in our urban centers across this country. and the city of chicago is experiencing gun violence, every other urban center in this country is. if i could just say one thing, i think it's important to realize that early in the year, we had a 66% increase in murders in our first quarter. we put some things in place. and i think we've got solutions that are working at this point

the lapd collected more than 2,000 guns from the anonymous buy back program. the weapons were turned in, no questions asked in exchange for grocery gift card worth up to 200 bucks. the event held earlier than planned because of the school massacre in newtown, connecticut. >>> in china, 16 people recovering after an aquarium in shanghai mall, there it is right there, it burst open last week. investigators say a combination of low temperatures and weak materials caused it. the 33-ton tank housed sharks, hurtles and some fish, as well. some of those animals died. >>> toyota paying more than $1 billion in a record settlement of defects. it's the end of a four-year battle between the automaker and hundreds of car owners who allege that recalls over acceleration problems caused the value of the cars to depreciate. >>> breaking news for you right now from the house a few minutes ago, house gop aides say that house leader cantor told the republican conference that the entire house would be coming back sunday night at 6:30. again, eric cantor telling folks that the hou

. >> reporter: since the program began in 2009, the lapd collected 8,000 weapons.s voluntarily surrender their firearms, no questions asked, no i.d.s needed. in exchange, they get a ralph's gift card. $200 for assault weapons. $100 for other firearms. >> i don't need it anymore. i'm too old already. i'm 85 years old. i don't need that. >> reporter: while critics call it a failure saying it gives people money for old weapons that don't work, officials say they know collecting bins full of assault weapons, like this tech 9, and a fully functioning automatic world war ii sten gun, save lives. >> wow. the last time they did this, they got about 1700 weapons off the street. >> that's great that they're getting so many weapons, but it's also a worry that there are that many weapons out there that people have no use for. >> those are the ones they're just turning in for the money, or because they want to. who knows the real reason? >> absolutely. >>> coming up, a potential bombshell report about whitney houston's death. >>> and a big business deal involvin ♪ skinny, so sk

, arms could be hand grenades, it could be mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, which i believe the lapded two rocket launchers during a gun buyback program. we don't have to sell people on the fact that you shouldn't have cannons and artillery. i think the question is, what's practical? and in this case, i don't think we need assault weapons with high capacity magazines that are military-style weapons that are used in combat because they end up on the streets killing people. the fact is, there's some reasonable things that we could do. i believe there's only seven states in the country that require the reporting of the loss, theft or transfer of a firearm, which is crazy. that's what fuels the illegal gun market in our urban centers across this country. and the city of chicago is experiencing gun violence, every other urban center in this country is. if i could just say one thing, i think it's important to realize that early in the year, we had a 66% increase in murders in our first quarter. we put some things in place. and i think we've got solutions that are working at this point beca

they just don't know how it made its way through to the hands of the lapd. >> thanks, kung lah. >>> angry and grief. a teenager's suicide and why investigators are taking some of the blame. ...so as you can see, geico's customer satisfaction is at 97%. mmmm tasty. and cut! very good. people are always asking me how we make these geico adverts. so we're taking you behind the scenes. this coffee cup, for example, is computer animated. it's not real. geico's customer satisfaction is quite real though. this computer-animated coffee tastes dreadful. geico. 15 minutes could save you 15 % or more on car insurance. someone get me a latte will ya, please? >>> another brutal rape case in india is drawing outrage. a 17-year-old girl committed suicide after alleging she was gang raped a month and a half ago. inaction on the part of local police may have played a part in this story. >> reporter: family and friends of the 17-year-old victim were grief-stricken at her funeral on thursday. the girl's mother overcome with emotion cutting a picture of her daughter tightly to her chest. the teenager died we

when i was in the lapd, i had sis, the special investigation section.fter the bank robbers, heavily armed serial robber groups, and when they came out of their cars against a heavily armed band of stick-up men, we used the ar-15, the cut-down model, m-4. when i went on training missions with them and fired that weapon, it was -- about five pounds, it has a great sighting system, you can improve on that with optics and lasers. but even without any of the fancy stuff, down range from a target pretty far away, something you'd have trouble hitting accurately with a handgun, you can put the round right there. it's an easy gun to shoot. there's one other element which is a lot of these mass shooters are involved in a fantasy, and you know, they dress up in the tactical gear, and they have the black outfits and all that stuff. this gun fits in with the fantasy. in all their video games and all their movies, this is what the hero is using. >> part of the reason we asked chip reid to do this piece and talk about this is the ar-15 was used at sandy hook, newtown,

here in the states, the lapd is apologizing to the family of the late rapper, no toreious for not releasing prematurely. the rap star was killed 15 years ago in a drive by shooting. those are the fast five headlines. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are butting heads. earlier on "meet the press," dick durbin said the president wants to solve this problem. republican congressman kevin mccarthy claimed the commander and chief is playing political games. >> listen, if we are going to have a certainty for businesses to invest and workers to know new jobs are created, we have to get this behind us once and for all. >> i don't want to do it. the president doesn't want to do it. we cannot allow the reckless position to drive this economy into another recession, a recession the republicans will own. >> ask the president to come off the campaign trail. he's been to pennsylvania. tomorrow, he's going to detroit. it's time to govern. the election is over. >> he's a phone call away. >> he's a phone call away? we will come down to him. >> president obama and house speaker john boehner cannot reach a

of let's say four years, by the time they get done today that will be 10,000 guns collected by the lapdhey would argue that 10,000 guns does indeed have a ripple effect and, in fact, violent crime dove tailing in the same period over four years is down 33% in los angeles. so they feel like this is a big victory and a good start to this. they would like to see other parts of the country join in with the buyback programs. >> paul vercammen in los angeles for us. thank you, paul. >>> this was prompted and moved up a few months because of the tragedy in newtown. so let's go to newtown. you've seen these pictures. the teddy bears, candles, pictures, displayed everywhere in remembrance of the victims who lost their lives in the shooting massacre at sandy hook elementary. well, the community united during the holiday to support the families of the victims of those who are grieving. 20 children, 7 adults were killed december 14th. the memorials remembering them are here to stay. an official announced a special plan by the city to convert the memorial saying, quote, the thousands of flowers and