plus, morley safer asks, "can america afford the lincoln penny?" well, we begin with bernanke. after the crash of '08, bernanke invoked emergency powers, and with unprecedented aggressiveness, he's thrown more than $1 trillion at the crisis. the words of any fed chairman cause fortunes to rise and fall, and so by tradition, chairmen of the fed do not do interviews. that is, until march of 2009 when ben bernanke sat down with scott pelley. >> mr. chairman, i'm gonna start with a question that everyone wants me to ask. when does this end? >> it depends a lot on the financial system. the lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. now, we've seen some progress in the financial markets, absolutely, but until we get that stabilized and working normally, we're not gonna see recovery. >> i wonder, do you expect double-digit unemployment? >> well, it's hard to forecast exactly where we're going. unemployment is rising. job losses are still very severe. and, no doubt, the unemployment rate's gonna go higher than it

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as morley safer reported in may 2010, more and more americans who can afford to stay in their homes are simply walking away. >> among them, chris deaner and his wife, dana, of sun city, arizona. west foothill drive has become a street of shattered dreams. >> amazingly, we have-- 16 out of the 44 houses on this street have foreclosed over the last year. >> and yours over here? >> mine will be number 17. >> [squeals] >> when deaner, an auditor for a local university, bought his three bedroom house in 2006 for $262,000, he thought he got a bargain. >> first-time homebuyers, we don't know, you know, houses are overvalued. we just know we need to get in before it keeps going up and up and up. >> and then... >> and then...boom. >> the balloon burst. so how much does he think he could get for that $262,000 house today? >> right now, about $142,000. >> that's a big drop. >> big drop, over 43%. >> deaner and his house were, as they say, underwater. with a mortgage of about $1/4 million on a home worth less than $150,000, he has one very expensive lemon. he says he tried to talk his bank into ren

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last night on "60 minutes" morl morley safer looked at it.the self-professed science geek took the stage and $100,000 in prize money. pure unadulterated add lenlts joy. when you won the intel award, your reaction went viral, correct. >> yes, it did. >> you weren't expecting an award. >> i didn't expect to win. i was flabbergasted. i was like freaking out. what? me? jack's test detected an an unusual high level of mess oh thiel yum. a protein. >> what exactly are you doing now? >> so essentially what this is it's one of my strips and what you do is you first get an original measurement of how the electricity flows across that. >> the paper strip is coated with a carbon substance that attracts it. it's placed in an rap us the that jack built in his parents' garage. a high level of mess ohthelan in a person's blood level may indicate the first stages of pancreatic cancer. >> jack andraka is here along with his mom. it is still one of the best reactions. i love that unbridled joy. you became interested because a close family friend died of pancre

he is acting and morley, immature, and irresponsible.e and the democrats have created a society of freeloaders. the working class is tired of andng for other people bankrupting this country and we need to get together and fix the situation and stop blaming republicans and work together cuz, he's the only one with a brain. what do you want him to do? i guess we lost her. saint augustine, florida, independent caller. caller: i want to thank c-span for the great work you do wringing government right into our living rooms. it is wonderful. my comments are regarding the debt ceiling and the inability of congress to live up to their .onstitutional authority the constitution gives them the right to make the budget and by advocating their authority -- by advocating their authority, and secretary of treasury jack lew who works for the president in the executive branch, would then have to prioritize who gets paid area. congress will have abdicated their constitutional authority back to the executive branch. radicalknow if these congress people rea

last night on "60 minutes" morl morley safer looked at it.lf-professed science geek took the stage and $100,000 in prize money. pure unadulterated add lenlts joy. when you won the intel award, your reaction went viral, correct. >> yes, it did. >> you weren't expecting an award. >> i didn't expect to win. i was flabbergasted. i was like freaking out. what? me? jack's test detected an an unusual high level of mess oh thiel yum. a protein. >> what exactly are you doing now? >> so essentially what this is it's one of my strips and what you do is you first get an original measurement of how the electricity flows across that. >> the paper strip is coated with a carbon substance that attracts it. it's placed in an rap us the that jack built in his parents' garage. a high level of mess ohthelan in a person's blood level may indicate the first stages of pancreatic cancer. >> jack andraka is here along with his mom. it is still one of the best reactions. i love that unbridled joy. you became interested because a close family friend died of pancreatic c

but morley tomorrow -- but more likely tomorrow. here's sal. >>> traffic is gets busier. we've had a couple of minor crashes. we have a had a lot of slow -- we've had a lot of slow traffic. the bay bridge has not filled in as much as we thought. it's backed up for a 20-minute delay. not as bad as it could be. hopefully it will stay this way and not got any worse. we have a feeling it will get more crowded as the day goes on. the 580 commute in the livermore valley has been slow, especially coming in off the alta mant pass but it does -- altamont pass. but it does even out. we've had a few problems near the bernal exit. there's clearing a crash. the traffic has been slow on 680 leaving the stoneridge mall area and toward pleasanton. >>> the clock is ticking with another possible b.a.r.t. strike with time running out. you can see understand nine days about eight and a half days left. the 60-day cooling off period ends next thursday. in a few hours, the two sides in the b.a.r.t. labor dispute head back to the bargaining table. we're learning about a major new development in

the vice president of morley builders issued a statement saying ceo mark benjamin and his son, engineernto flames. >>> two top marine corps generals fired for failing to protect troops from a taliban attack. dressed in american army uniforms, burst in, killing two marines. six aircraft were also destroyed. marine corps commandant says they did not take adequate security measures to protect that base. >>> prenatal yoga dvd assistant. bit of a catch. he was helping his wife, hilaria. so far, the reviews not so hot. seems baldwin seems a little bit out of his comfort zone. his wife, however, is a former yoga teacher. what was the craziest thing you've had to do for your wife? yes, dear, i will -- fill in the blank. >> put on the spot. >> do whatever they say. that's probably why alec baldwin is sitting where he is. he knows nobody wants to look at him doing yoga, pregnant yoga, whatever it is. alec, come on the show right now, do some yoga. it would be great to have him here today. >> it would be. >> he would be doing shutdown yoga, tied in knots. >> there you go. >> maybe more mindful of