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i'm lesley stahl. in this edition, we examine the american work force and we discover what stimulates new homebuyers. but we begin with steelworkers. steel, the so-called backbone of america, is suffering. at the beginning of 2009, steel plants across the country were hanging on for the stimulus package to kick in, with its over $100 billion for building things like highways and bridges. as i first reported in february 2009, the package included a "buy american" clause that the steel industry had fought hard for. it says any infrastructure project paid for with stimulus dollars must use steel made in the u.s.a., not cheaper imports. >> the whole purpose of your stimulus package-- and it's the right purpose-- is to stop the bleeding of jobs and to create new jobs here in america, not overseas, not in china, not in europe. >> dan dimicco is the c.e.o. of nucor, the biggest steelmaker in the united states, with 18 plants all across the country, including this one outside blytheville, arkansas, along the m

has other priorities at play not only globally but also in africa. >> all right, lesley anne warner, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: this weekend, the crossword puzzle marks it's hundredth birthday, first published in a new york newspaper. it's become a daily ritual for many and even been rumored to help stave off dementia. but there isn't much evidence to back up that claim. on the other hand, special correspondent jake schoneker reports on new research using video games to sharpen an aging mind. >> reporter: 57-year-old ashley wolff has been a self-employed children's author and illustrator for 25 years, working out of her small home studio in san francisco. she says she loves being her own boss, but that working from home can be a challenge. >> working from home allows me really just let my attention deficit problem-- fly. >> reporter: like many people her age, she's recently found herself forgetting things more often, and getting easily distracted from work. she was worried about these problems getting worse as she got older, especially because her mother, at age 85, w

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. >> lesley kays came to volunteer along with her girl scout troop.a generation where now the sky's the limit. >> they can be astronauts. they can be pilots. and these bim really paved the way for them. not just the float. it's history. >> living history. >> but most reft maining wasps are now in their 90s. and as nice as it is to ride in the rose parade, alyce with give anything tore just one more flight. >> if i were capable, i would take one of those planes up again right now. but i can't see well enough to land. >> but history's vision of the wasps is now clear. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> jeff: the countdown is on to 2014. there is a new crystal ball and quite a story to tell about the square where it is dropped. that is next. >> jeff: u.s. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor will lead the 62nd countdown to 2014 in new york's times square this week. organizers expect a million people will be there when the 59-year-old bronc native flips the switch to start the ball drop. as terrell brown tells us, it's a tradition with a fascinating

thomas and the phone lesley risk of stroke heart attack comes later on using equipment manufactured in goal with white medtronic surgeons exposed kidney nerves to no power radio frequency energy there is no homework in class. after the delivery of the device is removed and patient as i love to go home after overnight stay the whole process takes around forty minutes. it brings about its significance and in most cases sustained reduction in blood pressure and you don't feel i mean really after effect after a minute though you're not even doing anything. capote although these regions have been very very tall the lesson of analysis to accept that which we have to see the trick as yours. so to you and you know something three inches used here in twenty eleven the technology is now being rolled and elsewhere. almost twenty consultants for and workcover to go live to see first hand the process operates have a picture is the leading cause of death on the one episode you can imagine the at the degree of interest in focus the other is on the stone you have a new treatment with half the fort aga

. >> reporter: lesley kays came to volunteer along with her girl scout troops, a generation now whereave the way for them. it's not just a float. it's history. >> reporter: living history, but most of the remaining w.a.s.p.s are in their 90s, and as nice as it is in the rose parade, alyse would give anything for just one more flight. >> if i were capable, i'd take one of those planes up again right now, but i can't see well enough to land. >> reporter: but history's vision of the w.a.s.p.s is now clear. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >>> finally getting the recognition they deserve. >>> well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on the investigation into the suicide bombing attacks in southern russia. >>> plus, we'll look at what ibm predicts will be the top innovations that will change your life in the next five years. >>> and we'll tell you why now may be the best time to buy a new car. that's the "cbs morning news" for this monday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. or watching. or watching. i' -- captions by vitac -- www

with legislation how we could effect that we can't stop that shotting but we could have made it far lesley that will. 11 kids are alive today because they escaped when he paused to reload. when you have 30 rounds in a magazine you don't have to stop shooting people for quite some time, you thread more deaths. a limit on the number of bullets you can put in a gun, any gun. it makes sense. we're not going to stop every shooting but we can do better than we're doing now. we don't have to accept these things as normal. we don't have to accept it as part of the second amendment in our society. that's just not acceptable. >> could you jump in here. you and tina disagree in banning assault weapons. when you do so speak for 40% or 50% of americans agree with you. >> we have to do something. we have to do something that's relevant to the problem dean it now. there are 100 million high capacity magazines in america. banning the future sale of them is going to have no impact. the vice president said to us, the president said everything is on the table. i think it's time in this country that we have a

according to journalist lesley hazelton, author of "mary: a flesh and blood biography of the virgin motherary was not just an observer, but directly involved in the politics of her time. >> there's no doubt in my mind that she -- because she knew the ins and outs and all the side roads of the hills, where the caves were, where you could hide, where you could safely go and nobody could track you, even at night without a moon, especially on moonless nights -- she would have been used to, and she would have wanted to, guide rebels who were fleeing from the military to safety. rather like a kind of underground railroad. >> the virgin mary as the princess leia of her day, defending the rebels against the evil empire? perhaps. until the 13-year-old mary, who was not yet married to joseph, got some news from an angel that she was pregnant. and the father was god. >> imagine a jewish girl in this era going to their mother and father and saying, well, i've got good news and i've got bad news. i'm going to be the mother of the messiah. and, no, my fiance is not the father. i mean, this doesn't work

. >> reporter: the performances given through lesley's peter pan foundation have raised for local charity. >> if i had an army of them, we could really change the world. >> reporter: that's what people think of karin and trisha. the pair smashes the myth of the self-centered teenager at ski resorts and distributes to homeless shelters. >> i like to walk down the street wearing the things we gave them. it's wonderful to see their eyes light up when they get their clothes. >> sometimes, the service project takes off in ways the founders never imagine. >> it grew into something beyond my wildest dreams. >> kathy's tutor program blossomed in the alliance pairing hundreds of students with adult volunteer mentors and sometimes the simplest ideas do enormous good. >> i love cooking. my passion is cooking and it's kind of therapeutic for me. >> there's no better place for cynthia to share her kitchen skills than at this san francisco senior center where she's been feeding dozens of people every week for more than ten years. >> when i see seniors be happy, when they're served and they come and hea

but as lesley stahl reported in 2010, iran is having no problems getting high tech materials and components through under-the-radar middlemen who run small trading companies around the world, some based in cities right here in the united states. >> are you a procurement agent for iran? >> [chortles] no, that's ridiculous. no. >> but of course that's sort of the implication of the case against you. >> i'm nothing to do with iranian government or things like that at all. >> mohammad vaghari, mitch to his friends, an iranian who's lived in the united states for 15 years, is facing up to 85 years in prison. he and his lawyers are preparing for his trial on charges that he conspired to send u.s. technology to iran through a trading company he set up in his basement apartment in philadelphia. you are charged with trying to buy a centrifuge that could be used to make biological weapons, like anthrax. >> i don't know about that. i'm not a biological expert to tell, you know-- >> that's in the affidavit and is part of... >> sure. >> the charges against you? >> yes. that's what they say. >> he says h

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for lesley, everything about life has now changed. and you do not have to go far to see where the violence is happening. the village, or what is left of it, is just a few miles north. cooking in a burned out shell. seleka gunman heard a rumor that this was an opposition village. they came, looted, shot the place up. and burned much of it to the ground. hundreds are still out there in the bush, they say, too terrified to come home. so what security do you have here now? who can protect you? >> we don't have any security here. >> no police, no army? >> no police, no army, only seleka people that come here. >> every week more and more villages like this are appearing across this country. and the united nations is already speaking of the potential for genocide here. if nothing is done, it seems pretty plain, this country will become another disaster zone like congo, like sudan or like somalia. but on this occasion, for once, just possibly, they have the chance to intervene if it takes decisive action and takes it fast. this week could mar

cracks about how the whole thing was going, and that, i would say, was a joint development of me and lesley working together and the same is true of all of them, really, they develop their own characters and then you write to that. which is part of the fun. >> rose: so you have just been renewed for your fifth season? >> i have. >> rose:. >> we have. >> rose: when will that go into production? >> it starts filming in february, which of course is -- >> rose: so you have literally two months. >> well i started already. >> rose: when it is time to shut down, will you know or will the audience tell you? >> ? will the characters come to a place and you say, well, this is where -- >> yes. >> rose: we should say good-bye? >> i don't think we are ready to stop now. >> rose: yes, of course not. >> because our audience is still increasing, in fact the audience for series four was greater than the previous ones, where it has played and so i don't think we are ready to go now. but, no, i don't think we are going to be there, oh you must take them through the next war. >> rose: right, right. >> the sixt

i don't know if you saw "60 minutes," she was confrontational with lesley stahl, rich, when she was askedpends on what edward snowden has and what he benefit to the u.s. government is. remember this is as much a public negotiation as administration position, fine, we'll not give you amnesty on this. what is it that you left? what intelligence can you give us? remember where he ended up, who he has given information to and whether the documents he still has are in fact documents he has yet to share with the russians and chinese, things like that. really how much can the u.s. improve its situation by granting amnesty. if it can't, why bother? cheryl: liz, the question of he had word snowed enhas been what else does he have -- is it we don't know. who does he give the information to? the chinese? that is not what we need. >> is there secondary move to get snowden back here. cheryl: should we give him amnesty and get the documents out of foreign hand especially away from government that is want to take us down. >> that was the secondary report i'm getting to. i'm just a journalist. i'm only r