. >> logan: right there? >> right there. >> logan: when bob ballard discovered the "titanic" two miles down, there was a lot he couldn't talk about because it was top secret. but he's since opened up, and he opened up his film vault to us. >> and all that's left of human signature are their shoes. and all around the "titanic" are pairs of shoes. okay, on the rise. welcome aboard. >> logan: thank you, dr. ballard. he is, by any measure, the greatest explorer of our time. he's taken deep-sea exploration to a new level, designing equipment that allows him to go deeper and see more detail than ever before. in just the time we spent with him, he made a discovery even he didn't expect. >> i think we just hit a home run here, folks. got it-- that's an ancient shipwreck. i love it! ( laughter ) >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories and andy rooney tonight on "60 minutes." ♪ yes, you're lovely... ♪ what do you think? hey, w

>> purple: yes. >> logan: what kind of smell?rple: the smell of another beast. >> jake adelstein: when you join the yakuza, they become your family. >> logan: no american knows more about the inner workings of the yakuza than jake adelstein. he spent the last 15 years in tokyo investigating and writing about the mob. >> adelstein: generally speaking, yakuza get rid of bodies by dumping them in the foundations of buildings. they own lots of construction companies. so, you know, you're pouring a new building, you throw the body in, like, the cement, and nobody ever finds it. >> logan: so, when you look around at all these tall buildings in tokyo... >> adelstein: you could be looking at graveyards. >> logan: it's impossible to miss the mark of a yakuza. severed fingers-- tradition demands, when a mistake is made, they chop off their own finger to atone, and present the severed part to their boss. many have ornate tattoos that often cover their entire body, marking them for life. but unlike the mafia in america, yakuza don't hide the

he also spoke a logan. he has written personal notes to the family. he was really an amazing support. >> host: matthew shepard was attacked on october 6, 1998, and died on october 12, 1998. bar, al on nebraska, it just a comment and question. i'm an agnostic, but i think it is fantastic because of the total acceptance of all people. i was really, i thought it was great that you're a member of the church and between that and the unitary churches, i'm really glad that they exist. for the acceptance of anyone. but my question to you is, if you could and feel comfortable, i don't know the circumstances of the murder of the night of the murder, and if you're comfortable explaining what happened that evening, maybe there's other people listening to also don't know how he was murdered that evening. could you explain what happened? thank you. >> guest: i will do my best. he was at a local tavern and laramie, wyoming. having a drink by himself. he was befriended by two young men who we later found transpired to pretend themselves to be gay and briefer and that

logan is in a ground stop, the airport in boston. you can see the rain overhead.at dpets out of here, you're looking at 15 to 30-minute delays because of that rain. that what's going on in the northeast. then you get down toward the southwest and texas. look at the heavy rain around dallas. that's going to be there for the entire morning. we'll see delays pop up there, houston, another batch of heavy rain mainly offshore. some of that is coming in today, too. there's an area of low pressure developing here tapping into the gulf moisture. the heavy rain is out here. it's going to stretch all the way into dallas. ultimately getting into louisiana. then we go to the northwest. more storms coming in. like a train, we had one go through a couple of days ago, one is overhead now, the 1 for saturday is still out there. the 1 for this morning is provideding a lot of heavy rain for northern california all the way into the puget sound. it turns into snow for the higher elevations. i'll show you how much snow in just about a half hour, rob. it's going to be impressive, no do

about a half hour delay boston logan, new york metros because of the wind, atlanta so far nothing and clouds have not developed around the airport, good news there, l.a.x. they have, denver as well, minneapolis looking at showers but that's it. good day to travel. more in about a half hour. >> bob, thanks. >>> lawmakers want to ban using laptops in cockpits. you may remember last month pilots of that northwest airlines plane that overshot minneapolis by 150 miles. they said they were on their laptops when the whole thing happened. the chairman of the aviation subcommittee said a bill could be introduced in a week of devices like dvd players and mp3 players would also be included. >>> birds hit a delta plane. more on that coming up. >>> a 20-year-old woman whose father allegedly ran her down with his jeep has died. her family says that her father thought she had become too westernized. the mother of her boyfriend was hit as well being but she is expected to recover. both women were walking in a parking lot together when had they were attacked. >>> a california appeals court will hear o

really, i mean if we were to talk here in d.c., it would have dewpoint and logan, and some of the corridors. if we were in talk to new york, it might be from flat iron down to the northern -- >> -- >> host: i'd rather be audiotape by the bankers than the politics. >> exactly, exactly. they are sizable piece of terrain. al qaeda had so much freedom of movement. because it was not challenged enough by u.s. forces and because the iraqi security forces couldn't stay there. that they had four to five of the areas with deep buried id such that think had a multilayer bunker system extending out in concentric reign, so that it was very difficult for any u.s. or iraqi forces to get in and penetrate the neighborhood. that became a challenge when it became time. >> and casualties went up at beginning of the surge. we only have three or four minutes. as we pushed into those neighborhoods, violence did increase. a lot of u.s. casualties, especially in the book, i think almost 15% of u.s. casualties were in dora. >> precisely. because our troops had to go into neighborhood such as dora that had been held

now, a spokesperson for boston's logan airport says the man was arrested for interfering with a flightpolice officers in idaho are wearing tiny cameras now. the sheriff says that they are a lot cheaper than dash cams and they're already paying off. he says that someone accused a cop of something illegal. they went back to the video and the officer was cleared. >>> what word do you think sums up 2009? well, it's a word that you use to boot somebody off of your facebook page. it's called unfriend. this word is unfriend. it is the 2009 word of the year. i've never once used it. well, the oxford american dictionary says it's going to be the new word of the year. it chooses a word that best reflects the mood of the year. the word sexting was runner up, sending racy text and photos through your cell phone. >> but you're just so friendly, that's why you don't know unfriending. >> you mean i can unfriend someone? in my world i call it purging. it's like when you go to your day book and you go okay, not you, not you, not you. you do it too. >>> a young boxer made history when he became a world

700 coal miners had been charged with murder and treason following their armed attempt to unionize logan county in what had become known as the battle of blair mountain. those cases were transferred to jefferson county and all the files that were had including the trial in which equated bill blizzard were held in this very courtroom. unlike some venerated holdings, which in symbolism and history, the jefferson county courthouse is not a museum, there remains a working courthouse. it still houses the circuit court and many offices of county government. births, deaths, taxes, land transactions are all recorded here. people are married and divorced your. petit juries, grand jury, stilted regular sessions. but a jury still resolved double and criminal controversies. elections are held in the results tabulated and announced here. this famous building is at the very heart of our civic lives. a lot has happened here and is still happening here. however, the lynch ten story and the entire history of this old building, this old courthouse is the trial of john brown. here to tell us that story ton

logan burnett spoke with sanjay group at a about what happened. >> stood up and screamed and then startedod is great? >> yeah. it was like he had been in the room for a while preparing. nobody was really paying attention. he stood up and began firing on all of us. >> burnett said he somehow managed to crawl outside where another soldier pulled him to safety. 13 people died in the shooting. >>> country music fans witnessed history. ♪ where we said forever and always ♪ >> 19-year-old taylor swift became the youngest ever to win entertainer of the year. >> i'll never forget this moment, because in this moment, everything that i have ever wanted has just happened to me. >> and fortunately nobody interrupted her when it happened last night of the yeah, don't think that anybody forgot about the kanye west interruption. they were plenty of spoofs and you'll see those coming up. >> and the crowd loved that. >> good for her. real heartfelt. >> i think she was up there like four times. >> wow. >> some was heartfelt, some was cute. this is her band i think she called up there by name. >> awesome. >>

at logan circle, people were avoiding that like they did on election day. 80% of that constituency bloated democratic or for obama. they say that they support this. it seems to be low on how much they are excited about it. in light of that, how do you see this passing? >> their protests all over the country. if there was indications that whole foods lost some business over the protests. for those who do not know, the ceo wrote an op-ed in the wall street journal saying that health care should not be a human right. a lot of people were very upset about it. there were facebook web sites that sprung up spontaneously, and we did call for a boycott. a lot of people participated in protest all around the country. i think it was a successful protest. how do we trigger mass action on single payer? i do not let obama off the hook on the spirit of lot of people in the single payer movement say that we have to push obama so that we can get him cover. but obama started in the middle. he started with a dirty deal with the pharmaceutical and health insurance industry. had he started with single payer, t

i went to the one in logan circle. that is constituency that at least 80% of people voted democratic. you say to support this, it seems to be low on their -- as far as how they are excited about this. in light of that, how you see this passing? this passing if people aren't fired up about it? the first of all the whole foods protests, there were protest all over the country, indications that whole foods lost some business over the protests and people were very upset about it. for those who don't know the ceo road in op-eds in "the wall street journal" basically saying health care should not be a human rights and a lot of people were very upset about it. there were facebook web sites. we did call for a boycott and a lot of people participated in protest of round the country, so i think it was a successful protest. how do weech rigor mass action on single-payer? i don't led obama off the hook on this. a lot of people in the single-payer would say we have to push obama, we have to give him cover but obama, obama started i