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quote, it's very difficult watching them lose their identity. >> that was maggie rodriguez reporting. >>> time now for a quick look at the stories you'll find in the baltimore sun. >>> why within one baltimore spot is planning a 1980s party. for all will of these stories and a whole lot more, read tomorrow's baltimore sun. >>> he's made guitars for many other big names in the business. and again, this year, he's helping to raise money for cancer research in baltimore. ron matz has more on a man and his mission to help others. >> reporter: in stevensville, paul reed smith makes some of the best guitars. on sunday night, they joined forces for a major fundraiser at ram's head lot. >> this sunday, october 4th, after the ravens game, one night, one shope, one cause, hosted by paul reed smith. >> this beautiful baltimore ravens guitar will be one of 10 up for auction. >> reporter: it's signed by the ravens' haloti ngata. >> literally, you know, i walk in the room. and this thing will be just there. and it was not there the day before, right? and you just go wow. the team is going to love i
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i'm maggie rodriguez with mary hart.resh off the emmy awards and what a night it was. >> and there is so much to talk about. by the way, welcome to the couch. >> love the digs. it's a lot like our sofa back home in new york. very nice. i feel at home. i think that this is a good time to give major props to our makeup artists because we look pretty decent this morning despite the fact that it was like 90 plus degrees out there on the red carpet. >> it was sizzling. and everybody came up and as much as you put a little extra glitter on so there's that nice shine, everybody was really dewy yesterday all afternoon. but it did not shorten the enthusiasm. >> right, or the glamour. >> and the evening went off in style. >> we'll bring you all the action and behind the scenes highlights. harry, over to you. >>> an important jury decision last week has still got people in one kentucky town talking. after a football coach was acquitted last week in the death of one of his teenaged players. >> reporter: 37-year-old jason stinson was
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. >>> maggie rodriguez reports for wjz, he tried to get his children back from his ex-wife but failed. >> christopher savoy's desperate attempt to take back his kids took place as his wife took them to school. it was here at the consulate, japanese police were at the road. 8-year-old isaac froze in the street. >> a little girl. was there. >> it's horrible. >> savoy has been without 8- year-old isaac and 6-year-old rebecca since august. he later realized they were missing when they failed to show up at school. he blames a tennessee judge for -- allowing his ex-wife to take the kids out of the country. >> he had the power to keep those kids in my care, and he didn't. >> savoy said that she continued to threaten to take hem out. she worried about them losing their japanese identity. >> it's horrible not having them here. >> reporter: the mother was given primary custody of the children while the father was granted limited time with them. >>> conviction of a baltimore county man. police say the 24-year-old fatally shot jason bats in may 2008. johnson, the only one of the three convicted o
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i'm hear smith along with maggie rodriguez about. julie chen is on assignment. >> remember yesterday how we talked about how a lot of people thought the date 9-09-09 was a lucky number? at least one thought it was unlucky, he thought it was 666 turned us down that he hijacked a plane. luckily it landed safely. they ushed all those to safely including a couple newly married. what a story they have to tell. we will hear from them ahead this morning. >>> first, though, president obama is looking to turn the tide with his address to a joints session of conditioning last night. he's been facing growing opposition to his health care reform plans. here's cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante with more. good morning, bill. >> reporter: good morning. it was kind of a light a state of the union address, a lot 6 pomp and say money as the president reintroduced his plan. he wants universal coverage, everybody required to carry health insurance, and he also wants insurance companies not to be able to drop or deny coverage. >> now
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i'm maggie rodriguez here we harry smith and we have mackenzie phillips on the program this morning. of course by now you have heard her explosive claims that she had long lasting sexual relation relationship with her father, buff not heard her defend against claims that she is lying. this morning she is here to respond to the criticism and controversy. >>> dock up, so much work has been done to get the h1n1 vaccine forward distribution. now the cdc says there will be unprecedented test h. testing after the vaccine is administered. we'll tell you what that's all about and what it might mean to you. >>> but first, we begin with the ongoing faceoff with iran. the rogue nation remines defiant now testing long range missiles an ignoring international pressure to fully disclose its once secret underground facility. liz palm ser in london to bring us up-to-date. >> reporter: yes, iran has spent a lot of time and money developing sophisticated missile technology and then this weekend with very provocative timing, the elite revolution their guard began to test short you can medium and long-r
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captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everyone, i'm maggie rodriguez, here with harry smith, julie chen is on assignment this morning. >> more than dozen fires burning in california. and finally a degree of optimism about getting some control about its future voiced yesterday. dave price is on the scene. we'll get to him in a minute. >>> also this morning, we'll be speaking with two people who have a lot to say about the two people accused of kidnapping jaycee dugard raping her and keeping her captive for 18 years. you will hear from one of the attorneys of one of the suspects. and on the right is katie callaway who was raped by phillip garrido and or horrified to find out that he went on to do this again. we will get to that this morning. but first, we have a glimmer of hope to report on those california wildfires. >>> firefighters say they're making progress against the biggest of those dangerous fires. the station fire just north of l.a. has destroyed at least 62 homes. but some evacuation orders have finally been lifted as of this morning. let's get to our own dave price out th
captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everyone, i'm maggie rodriguez, here with harry smith, julie chen is on assignment this morning. >> more than dozen fires burning in california. and finally a degree of optimism about getting some control about its future voiced yesterday. dave price is on the scene. we'll get to him in a minute. >>> also this morning, we'll be speaking with two people who have a lot to say about the two people accused of kidnapping jaycee...
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i'm maggie rodriguez with jeff glor, dave price and all our friends on the plaza.y is home with the flu and they're so excited because they get to meet not only us not only that treat but they get to meet juan mar ten del potro, the new u.s. open champ. it was unbelievable last night to watch him dethrown the one and only roger federer. he seems to still be in shock himself. >> i think he is. >> he hasn't slept. he has not slept since he won. so he's going to have some afternoon. >> we'll chat with him soon. also we'll switch gears a little bit here and talk to you about five ways to save on prescription drugs. and this is no matter what kind of health plan you're on. >>> but first let's go inside and say hello torous mitch she will at the news desk. >>> good morning. actor pat rick swayze is being remembered this morning for his grace as a dancer and warmth as a leading man. he died yesterday after a two year battle with pancreatic cancer. ♪ it was this sleeper hit movie dirty"dirty dancing" that vaulted swayze on to hollywood's a-list. he died yesterday at his lo
i'm maggie rodriguez with jeff glor, dave price and all our friends on the plaza.y is home with the flu and they're so excited because they get to meet not only us not only that treat but they get to meet juan mar ten del potro, the new u.s. open champ. it was unbelievable last night to watch him dethrown the one and only roger federer. he seems to still be in shock himself. >> i think he is. >> he hasn't slept. he has not slept since he won. so he's going to have some afternoon....
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captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. julie is on assignment. >> and yes, he is back. we're so glad, how are you feeling? >> i feel pretty good. i feel really good as a matter of fact. here's what happens when you realize you might have h1n1 or have the flu, suddenly you are hypoaware of how you spread germs. i'm walking around all day today wiping off all kinds of surfaces and trying to be a good citizen. >> let me tell you, it was a learning experience for me. number one, if you think -- even think you might have it, you should stay home so you can get better and not infect other people. number two, if you think you have it, don't necessarily run to the hospital to get tested unless symptoms are severe. we're going to talk to jennifer ashton about what to do, what not to do, and bring you new information coming up. >> there you go. >>> breaking news this morning. in the search for the killer of the yale student annie le. late last night police took away a man who worked in the same lab. raymond clark iii. at this time,
captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. julie is on assignment. >> and yes, he is back. we're so glad, how are you feeling? >> i feel pretty good. i feel really good as a matter of fact. here's what happens when you realize you might have h1n1 or have the flu, suddenly you are hypoaware of how you spread germs. i'm walking around all day today wiping off all kinds of surfaces and trying to be a good citizen. >> let me...
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from new york i'm maggie rodriguez with harry smith. >> we saw so many pictures yesterday and the day before those floods down in georgia. people stuck in their cars. we had that very draw matt tick audiotape from a 911 call this woman is stuck. we'll show you this morning, we'll take you to this lab up in connecticut, we'll show you what you need to do if you are ever in a situation like that. what you need to do how you need to respond, what you need to keep in mind in order to make sure that you get out safely. you and your family. >> everyone need this is information if you live near a lake or a canal, you never know when you might need this so we'll have that. >>> also this morning, mckenzie phillips is giving even more details about her sexual relationship with her late father while her stepmother michelle phillips, is speaking out saying this is absolutely not true calling her stepdaughter takeoday solution al. we'll delusional. >>> first, though there is breaking news in medical news. a new aids vaccine has been developed. this is the first one that seems to actually prevent t
from new york i'm maggie rodriguez with harry smith. >> we saw so many pictures yesterday and the day before those floods down in georgia. people stuck in their cars. we had that very draw matt tick audiotape from a 911 call this woman is stuck. we'll show you this morning, we'll take you to this lab up in connecticut, we'll show you what you need to do if you are ever in a situation like that. what you need to do how you need to respond, what you need to keep in mind in order to make...
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i'm maggie rodriguez with harry smith. there has been another earthquake in the south pacific region and it was a significant earthquake a magnitude 7.9. we're hearing it was felt in indonesia and we'll bring you the latestnformation on that in a moment. it follows yesterday's earthquake, which trigger several tsunamis. there is significant damage there reported this morning. and on samoa and american samoa and dave is going to bring us up to date in a minute. >>> also this morning, we want you to meet jay michael dowling. this is najibullah zazi's attorney. he entered a not guilty plea here yesterday in new york. we'll ask him all about that in a little while. >>> first, though no reported tsunamis from this morning's earthquake yet. but the one yesterday triggered a series of deadly tsunamis. the towering waves roared across the samoan islands in between australia and hawaii. at least 99 people have been killed and dozens more are missing. president obama has declared american samoa that major disaster area. our own dave
i'm maggie rodriguez with harry smith. there has been another earthquake in the south pacific region and it was a significant earthquake a magnitude 7.9. we're hearing it was felt in indonesia and we'll bring you the latestnformation on that in a moment. it follows yesterday's earthquake, which trigger several tsunamis. there is significant damage there reported this morning. and on samoa and american samoa and dave is going to bring us up to date in a minute. >>> also this morning, we...
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i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. >> good morning. i want to tell all the ladies right off the bat that initially when you hear this shoe health story, you might think thmw is horribleable neww for all tle women out there who wear high heels, which most of us do. but our dr. jennifer ashton is here to tell us if you absolutely do not want to give up your heels, there's something else you can do to save your feet. right? >> okay. >> and men don't have this problem. you'll be happy to hear. >> thank goodness. >>> right now we want to get right to our top story. the unpress tented decision by president obama who$mw$lotmng$to copenhagen to help chicago snag the 2016 summer olympics. but his decision is not without political risk. cbs news national correspondent jeff glor is in chicago this movnmng$wmtl$move. good morning, jeff. >> reporter: maggie good morning to you. that's exactly right, the president has you know already has plenty on his plate and chicago winning these games is by no means a sure thin. this has been a controversial bi
i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. >> good morning. i want to tell all the ladies right off the bat that initially when you hear this shoe health story, you might think thmw is horribleable neww for all tle women out there who wear high heels, which most of us do. but our dr. jennifer ashton is here to tell us if you absolutely do not want to give up your heels, there's something else you can do to save your feet. right? >> okay. >> and men don't have this problem....
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harry smith, maggie rodriguez and dave price are in new york. it's not so chilly. >> ridiculously chilly. >> it's below 75. >> no, really, what is it? like 50. >> no, it's not 50. it's in the 60s. >> first let's go to chris wragge with the news. >> we'll bring those heaters on ultimate in a moment of moments for you out there. good morning. an arrest is expected anytime now in the murder of yale university student annie le. randall pinkston is in new haven with details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. we're waiting word. arrest is imminent but no arrest yet of raymond clark, a pen of interest until now. a dna match we're said was done with respect to evidence collected at the crime scene where 24-year-old annie le was killed in a yale laboratory. clark spent the night at a motel about 20 miles from here. unmarked police squad cars are surrounding that motel now. presumably waiting for word to you've in and arrest him. annie le was studying at yale university working in the same lab where clark was employed as an animal technician
harry smith, maggie rodriguez and dave price are in new york. it's not so chilly. >> ridiculously chilly. >> it's below 75. >> no, really, what is it? like 50. >> no, it's not 50. it's in the 60s. >> first let's go to chris wragge with the news. >> we'll bring those heaters on ultimate in a moment of moments for you out there. good morning. an arrest is expected anytime now in the murder of yale university student annie le. randall pinkston is in new haven...
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i'm maggie rodriguez.to the cast, we'll give you a tour of this awesome set from southern california. harry is back in new york. good morning, harry. >>> good morning. dave's here, too. looking good out there. it's good show. >> i love that show. >> mark harmon's attitude in the show is just the best. he plays kind of a cranky guy. >> and rocky is terrific, too. that whole -- i love it. >> ll cool j who is in the spinoff will be with us live here in new york. >> do you know what that stands for is this. >> i did know that. tell me. >> ladies love cool james.? is >> i did know that. tell me. >> ladies love cool james.i did. tell me. >> ladies love cool james.i did. tell me. >> ladies love cool james.i did. tell me. >> ladies love cool james.i did. tell me. >> ladies love cool james. >>>rous might be chel is back at the news desk. good morning. >>> good morning. the deep south is living up to its name this week. floodwaters in many places are deep and deadly. all because of a soggy air mass that's stuck over
i'm maggie rodriguez.to the cast, we'll give you a tour of this awesome set from southern california. harry is back in new york. good morning, harry. >>> good morning. dave's here, too. looking good out there. it's good show. >> i love that show. >> mark harmon's attitude in the show is just the best. he plays kind of a cranky guy. >> and rocky is terrific, too. that whole -- i love it. >> ll cool j who is in the spinoff will be with us live here in new york....
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i'm maggie rodriguez along with jeff glor. you can stay if you have no kanye tsh like outburst this morning. >> i would never steal the microphone from you. outrageous. >> we'll talk more about what happened at the vmas when kanye west interrupted taylor swift's speech. >> and also how beyonce saved the day. good for her. >> we should tell that you julie is on assignment and harry is off because he may, he likely has h1n1 flu. he has spoken with doctors, including our own dr. jennifer ashton, he's got a fever, he has other symptomses that point in that direction. >> we should say he is okay now with a low grade fever and i fully disinfected his office this morning, but we'll check in with harry in just a little bit. >> and i think he is setting a really, really good example. >> absolutely. also we'll be joined live in studio by former new york governor eliot spitzer, formerly called the sheriff of wall street. he has a lot to say about what's happening on wall street right now and i imagine, maggie we'll be talking to him abou
i'm maggie rodriguez along with jeff glor. you can stay if you have no kanye tsh like outburst this morning. >> i would never steal the microphone from you. outrageous. >> we'll talk more about what happened at the vmas when kanye west interrupted taylor swift's speech. >> and also how beyonce saved the day. good for her. >> we should tell that you julie is on assignment and harry is off because he may, he likely has h1n1 flu. he has spoken with doctors, including our...
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. >>> at the top of the hour on the cbs "early show," maggie rodriguez gets a look at the stars followingmmy awards. >>> and how you can go walking with dinosaurs. >>> get news around the clock by visiting wusa9.com and weather, too. >> we are one big team here. we are getting you going early on this monday morning. thanks for joining us, everybody. bye-bye. >> see you coming up at 9:00. bye-bye.
. >>> at the top of the hour on the cbs "early show," maggie rodriguez gets a look at the stars followingmmy awards. >>> and how you can go walking with dinosaurs. >>> get news around the clock by visiting wusa9.com and weather, too. >> we are one big team here. we are getting you going early on this monday morning. thanks for joining us, everybody. bye-bye. >> see you coming up at 9:00. bye-bye.
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maggie rodriguez here with harry smith. and we should warn you right after the bat that our beatles rock band is going to feature harry smith and russ mitchell on guitar and yours truly on vocal. i don't think it's going to be exactly the fab four. it'll be four. that's all. >> we don't know how fab it'll be. >>> also coming up this morning. i don't know if you've heard about this. big new trend in france. the government there has encouraged people to stop kissing. >> why? they invented it. french kissing. >> and even just the littl on both cheeks, right? no more because of you know what. >> h1n1. >> that's right. do you have the h1n1? is that why you were out sick yesterday? >> i thought i might, but i didn't have a fever, so you're okay. >> no kissing. >> no kissing just in case. >>> we're going to revisit a story about a missing boy who was found alive. he had been kept captive in a tiny room in his grandmother's house for two years. this morning we have his father who has now seen his son unexclusively with new developm
maggie rodriguez here with harry smith. and we should warn you right after the bat that our beatles rock band is going to feature harry smith and russ mitchell on guitar and yours truly on vocal. i don't think it's going to be exactly the fab four. it'll be four. that's all. >> we don't know how fab it'll be. >>> also coming up this morning. i don't know if you've heard about this. big new trend in france. the government there has encouraged people to stop kissing. >> why?...
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captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, i'm harry smith, and welcome back to maggie rodriguez. >> thanks, harry. good morning, everybody. >>> boy, it is not a pretty picture in the southeast and in georgia where the flooding there has really, really taken a toll. nine people have died in the aftermath of those storms. there have been millions and millions of dollars in damage. this is georgia where it looks literally like a river running through the middle of town. we're going to check in with dave price there in a minute. >>> and it seems like there isn't a day that goes by that we don't talk about h1n1. they're talking about it in austin, texas, where the emergency room of the big hospital there is being slammed. we're going to talk to the director of emergency services there of what kind of influx of patients they've got going on there. >>> it seems maybe relief may be on the horizon in the southeast. the downpours for now that killed at least nine people have stopped, but the devastation is so bad that the governor of georgia is asking the federal government to declare a state
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harry smith and maggie rodriguez is in new york. >> good morning. we're watching the fires out some your neck of the woods very closely and we want to bring you up to date right off the top, at least 12 are burning throughout the state of california this morning. more than 100 homes have been destroyed and thousands of others are threatened as we speak. and nearly 3700 firefighters now are battling the massive so-called station fire which is searches ever closer to los angeles. sandra hughes will bring us up-to-date. >> reporter: good morning. well that so-called station fire in the los angeles foothills is the largest fire burning this morning. so tar 165 square miles is burning. and 53 homes have burned so far this morning -- so far in the fire including this home behind me where all you can see really are the charred remains of these cars and a few walls from someone's dream home. >> these are not -- >> reporter: this is a massive fire that won't quit showing little signses of slowing. overnight a sea of insatiable flames churned through the brus
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i'm harry smith along maggie rodriguez. the iranians always full of surprises announce overnight they have a second secret nuclear development site. more on that in just a couple minutes. >> and we should say julie is not here because she had her baby. yes, she had her baby yesterday. we want to congratulate julie and her husband. they had a little boy as you all know. we now know his name, charlie. i love it. you know what i think? i'm not sure, but knowing jewels, i bet she took chen and leslie and made charlie. >> what's our part? >> we'll have to ask her. >> we're so happy for them. it feels so much love from out there. talk about a development deal. >>> all right. first, we're learning more about a number of on going terror investigations across the country. stunning new charges have been announced against 24-year-old najibullah zazi. armen keteyian is here with details this morning. about. >> reporter: good morning. when it comes to fighting terror in this country, the plot has definitely thickened. and the biggest ca
i'm harry smith along maggie rodriguez. the iranians always full of surprises announce overnight they have a second secret nuclear development site. more on that in just a couple minutes. >> and we should say julie is not here because she had her baby. yes, she had her baby yesterday. we want to congratulate julie and her husband. they had a little boy as you all know. we now know his name, charlie. i love it. you know what i think? i'm not sure, but knowing jewels, i bet she took chen...
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maggie. >>> hispanic heritage month kicks off next tuesday, and i thought that we would get an early start this morning by celebrating my own cuban heritage. so i gave the rodriguez and i'm not a prfgs al, so she spiced it up a bit and did her thing with it. thank you so much. >> it's a pleasure. i'm rodriguez, too, on my mom's side. maybe we're kissing cousins. >> i bet we are. i'm rodriguez on all sides. but that's another story. but this recipe is really my mom's, probably her mom's before that. whenever we get together as a family, we have to have bl pe beans and rice. christmas, thanks give, but even regul ar family get togethers. and i gave you how i make it which is i start with the sofrito. >> yours was a little more basic than mine. i like to punch up the flavors. i'm coulddying for you to taste. sofrito is the cornerstone of latin american cooking. it's a puree and there's defining points that will tell you where it is from. like you were mentioning cilantro in cuba. you probably won't find -- have you smelled this? it's amazing about. this is like cilanto times ten. this we love in puerto rico. >> we use a basic, onion, green peppers and garlic. >> and
maggie. >>> hispanic heritage month kicks off next tuesday, and i thought that we would get an early start this morning by celebrating my own cuban heritage. so i gave the rodriguez and i'm not a prfgs al, so she spiced it up a bit and did her thing with it. thank you so much. >> it's a pleasure. i'm rodriguez, too, on my mom's side. maybe we're kissing cousins. >> i bet we are. i'm rodriguez on all sides. but that's another story. but this recipe is really my mom's,...