mandy clark in kabul has the latest. sky-high tuition at public colleges is forcing students to scale back their plans. ben tracy looks at the impact in california. and the comeback cardinals cap their miracle season with their 11th world series championship. mark strassmann talks to the series mvp, and his mom. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. l: aitchell: and good evening. aay, the calendar may say that it's still only october, but up middle the east coast today, y ac a look outside your window, ningit might convince you that it is the middle of winter. trav an early snowstorm is blasting out in across the region this itning, downing power lines, and snarling air and ground travel for thousands. noine quijano has been out in the thick of it. >> reporter: fall fell away quickly today in the northeast. in its place: an unwelcome, storming dose of winter. t> this is crazy. this is absolutely crazy. and it's so wet. it's just-- and it's not stopping. >> reporter: 12 states at o

mandy clark reports from the scene. >> reporter: it's not the size of the attack but the location that makes this bombing shocking. it happened in the safest province in afghanistan, panjshir valley, 60 miles north of kabul. the target-- an american base, focused primarily on development projects. the attack happened at 5:00 a.m. this morning. a car bomb exploded outside these gates, punching a hole in them, and then four suicide bombers entered the base. one was shot dead and three detonated, but they only killed themselves. a quick reaction force arrived to help secure the base and investigate the scene. they also fingerprinted one of the bodies to find out if the attacker was a known insurgent. army lieutenant colonel jason fry says this attack was a failure. >> they didn't accomplish their mission. they were all killed, every one of them, and they didn't breach our security, so i don't know what they were trying to accomplish, other than to lower their numbers. >> reporter: security in the valley was handed over to the afghan forces in july. they admit the bombing here took them by

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we asked mandy clark to try to help us understand more about this country that america is fighting fornd she found a story in a battle that most afghans face at the very beginning of their lives. ( baby crying ) >> reporter: this is the sound of afghanistan's future. in larger cities, maternity care is improving. more beds are being added, modern equipment coming online. but this kind of care is a world away for most afghans. we visited the province of badahkshan earlier this year this area once recorded the world's highest maternal mortality rate. 6,500 mothers died per 100,000 births. in america it's just 13. for a pregnant woman, traveling this terrain to a clinic is nearly impossible. only one in four births here take place under professional care so even the smallest medical issue can be fatal. >> reporter: in this case, the mother got to the clinic just in time. her baby's heart rate was very accelerated. doctors and midwives quickly stabilized her and safely delivered her new baby daughter. >> reporter: many girls here are married off before they're even 16. and infants born to

mandy clark, cbs news, kabul. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight.to thank the 3rd infantry brigade combat team for its hospitality. for our team here in afghanistan and for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> good evening, tonight in your only local news at 7:00, culture crash. two very different lifestyles collide if many southern maryland -- in southern maryland with deadly consequences. a verdict, the sensation murder appeal of amanda knox. and plus, not guilty, the accused pentagon and capitol bomber is in court. hello, i'm derek mcginty. we'll begin our newscast with the tragic story from southern maryland. that is where people who lead a totally different life for most of us are tonight mourning the loss of a 12-year-old girl. an amish girl killed when the horse and buggy she was riding in collided with the pickup truck in st. mary's county. kristin fisher

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cbs news correspondent mandy clark is in kabul with the very latest. mandy, good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: the attack happened around 11:00 in the morning as it was traveling -- u.s. convoy was traveling near the afghan parliament. a car bomb struck the side of an armored bus that was carrying u.s. troops and it burst into flames. cbs news has been told six americans were killed and six others were injured. the nato forces have not confirmed those numbers. helicopters landed near the scene to pick up many of those casualties according to eyewitnesses. afghan police also say that at least four civilians were also caught up in the bombing, killing one school child. the taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack. they say the bomber was driving with 1,500 pounds of explosives when he hit the convoy. now, u.s. convoys are often targeted, but rarely are these bombings so deadly. the taliban said they will continue to target u.s. forces until all foreign forces leave afghanistan. >> mandy clark in kabul with the latest on this breaking st

mandy clark, cbs news, kabul. >>> iris krasnow joins us. to stay married. iris joins us this morning. some relelg things in the 200 interviews. >> oh, yeah. although there's sex and all of those good things in this book, the central secret of the "secret lives of wives," is the happiest women i interviewed had a clear sense of purpose and passion and self-identity outside of their marriages. so that really, you know, the expression go get a life? i love -- i'm a journalist and professor at the american university and young women come to me all the time and they say, how do he know when it's right to get married? and i say, do you have your own sense of self? are you expecting marriage to make you happy? because if you're expecting marriage to make you happy, that's a ticket to divorce. >> that's the reason not to get married. >> is it about not lowering your expectations but everyone goes into a marriage thinking it's going to be bliss and it's going to be great but it's not bliss 24/7. >> happily ever after is a myth. you don't get to be h

mandy clark was there. area of the world. >> reporter: in a quiet kabul neighborhood, a conspiracy is afoot. >> you got a color coded system, right. >> reporter: that night, shadowy figures come and go from a lock safe house basement. this is rock 'n' roll afghan style. underground gigs in hidden locations all around kabul. ♪ >> reporter: but the secrecy isn't about street crud. it's about security. the taliban prohibited all nonislamic music and there are still religious conservatives bent on disrupting the shows. ♪ >> reporter: kabul band district unknown shielded their identities after a series of threats. now they have decided to put it all on the line. >> if anyone is going to [ bleep ] just say it to my face. >> reporter: you're willing to put your life at risk for this freedom of expression? >> yeah, well, if you're not talking about who we are and if we are not expressing ourselves, then we're dead. >> reporter: it's been nearly 40 years since mick jagger first sang "it's only rock 'n' roll." but in

mandy clark let one brave woman explain why she's risking her life to do it. >> when maria's husbandban, he took his son with him. left with two young daughters, the 26-year-old went on the offensive. she signed up to join the police force. >> i want to arrest him myself, she says. choosing to become a cop wasn't easy for miram a long with the badge comes death threats. working outside the home and with men goes against the taliban's accept knowledge views of behavior. i know the dangers, but if you're afraid, then the taliban wins, she says. there are only around 1,200 female officers. the afghan government wants at least 5,000 women cops by 204. miriam graduated after an intensive 2 1/2 months of training and went to work right away. at the police gender rights branch, she deals with cases of domestic abuse, child kidnapping and forced marriage, issues she understands well. not only did her husband kidnap her son, but she was also married off at age 13. >> do you see yourself in a lot of these cases? absolute absolutely, i can feel their pain. it makes it easier for them to talk to