palmer's delivery. the statue is well deserved for many reasons. >> when -- what makes me emotional is that we did it all here and people supported me. there were a lot of other great pitchers. i was really happy here. my kids are here. jimmy and killing a to school here. this is a great place to raise children. -- jimmy and kelly went to school here. this is a great place to raise children. >> jim palmer said he was a nervous. >> a local bus the ball -- and local basketball coach was also honored today. the alumni students want to give back. today, they will raise money for his medical treatment for alzheimer's disease. former reagan justice murphy says that the coach changed his life. >> he was the light that we all needed. >> pompeii work as a gym teacher for 37 years before he retired in 2004. >> warmer and more humid air is starting to move into the area. we had some rain this morning. this afternoon has been fairly decent, except for the humidity. down to the south and close to the district of col

in the newscast, the orioles on bailing the statue of jim palmer before today's game. this is the third of the orioles a legend. he played his 19 year career with the orioles. the greatest pitcher and the team's history. >> of course, it is emotional. it is the orioles. the hall of fame, do not get me wrong, it is one of the greatest honors you can have as a player. less than 300 people. this is the orioles. it is the only uniform arei wore. it is very special. >> the summer olympics are less than two weeks away. michael phelps has got to be the most compelling story. already with 14 gold medals, michael is expected to face his stiffest challenge from ryan lolchte. chte. mark spitz used to be the greatest swimmer. when asked who will win, here is what he said. >> i think the first time we will see them will be in the first race, 400 individual. i put my money on michael. i will have to wait around an account like everybody else. i think he will be very successful. >> good prediction. it looks like the statue of joe paterno outside of beaver stadium will stay up for now

as one of six hall of ffmers the orioles can claim, jhim palmer has no shortage of hardware...and nowld be yours...the longtime birds righthander saysshe is pptting 3 of his cy young awards and 2 gold glove sup for auction..palmer sayy he's not havinbg financial money to help with is use the palmer has signed with a company called hunt auctions, who are now taking bids overr the phone... know the events michael phelps - will swim in the upcomiig will not have a chance to see him breek his olympic record... record... phelps' coach, bob bowman revealed today that baltimore's most famous olympian is pulling is pulling out of the 200 meter freestyle, meaning he'll swim in 7 events in london...barring anything unforseen, he wiil ot equal his record 8 gold medals in 2008...phelps says it will enable him to save energy for inddvidual and 3 relay teams... phelps will retire from pondon games...mming after the - pnd another area athlete has punched his ticket for london...distance runner matt centrowitz finished second in the 15 hundred meters in the olympic trials, whicchearned him a spot on

jim palmer remarried. >> classic video. jim palmer corrupt in scotts dale. just amazing. >> he is 19. >> 6:28. >> utility workers from all over the country and canada are in maryland to help restore power to the area. we're live at the staging area for these crews. we have the details in a live report. >> millions of americans are ready to hit the road for the holidays. what impact the economy will have on their plan. >> i am sitting down to some good old barbecue. one local company try to give one local company try to give back >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. welcome back to 11 news today. i am stan stovall. minday has the day off today -- mindy has the day off today. >> it will make it into the low 90's today. we're starting off with some comfortable conditions this morning. it will feel nice. the dew points will go up as we head into the afternoon. a 30 disenchants in the forecast. most of you will not see any rate -- a 30% chance of a shower in the forecast. >> b.g.e. repair crews continue their daunting tas

. >> reporter: number 22 jim palmer becomes the third or quoll honored with a bronze statue at camden yards. >> so me, the theme of all these statues is not about what i did, because i wouldn't have won cy young awards, wouldn't have been in the world series, wouldn't have won all the gold gloves, if i didn't have teammates. >> reporter: palmer started his career with the orioles in 1965. after 19 seasons, he had one of the best pitching records in all of major league baseball, a 2.86 earned run average, 2,212 strikeouts. a huge crowd of fans paid tribute to palmer, snapping pictures of the player and his 7-foot tall likeness. >> i think it's a celebration of all the oriole history and the great things we've got ton grow up with. >> you can feel the magic during the game. we'll have highlights coming up in sports. sculptures of eddie mor youry, cal ripkin, and eddie robinson will be unveiled. >>> here's a new take on a french tradition. ♪ >> dozens of marie antoine et -- antoinette look-alikes sang in a xem race of the bastille day celebration. my friend dorothy is in that crowd. she

or palmer had nicholas. there was a while that they thought tiger and phil might be, you know, they feed off each other. do you need somebody that is very competitive with you so you can feed off that person and have a real competition. >> i think so we have so many great players on the l pga, suzanne, they all very, very good players. so i mean we kind of push each other to get better and better, so i mean we, like when we put on the chus, every player has a different style, i'm aggressive, some people play very smart so you are learning from each other and to get better. and it was so much fun to, when are you on top and are you competing with other players and there is just, it's fun, and so many things. >> can we be aggressive and smart at the tame time. >> that's what mi learning now it that is the way i want to learn so i think i'm still a little more like aggressive but i played a little smart so my caddy helps a lot. >> rose: really? how does he or she help new. >> i mean he is a strategist, sometime

elizabeth palmer is with the refugees pouring into lebanon. mitt romney arrives in israel for a visit that could impact the campaign here at home. jan crawford has the latest on that. ballot battle in pennsylvania. elaine quijano lays out the stakes in the court fight over the state's new voter i.d. law. and meet the new bond girl. >> good evening, mr. bond. >> mark phillips recaps the opening olympic ceremony that put her majesty, the queen, in the middle of the action. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> good evening. i'm nancy cordes. the civil war in syria has moved into the country's largest city. government forces are staging a full-scale attack on rebel fighters in aleppo, the nation's commercial heart and a strategic prize for both sides. elizabeth palmer is on the syrian help lebanese border tonight with more. >> reporter: the opposition fighters in aleppo are, for the most part, lightly armed. and no match for the government's heavy artillery or helicopter gunships. an activist video shows once again, it's t

palmer -- palmer. i think he's brilliant. seven games behind at the all star break and we got the team together in a team meeting and the manager said i thought i brought the 25 best guys north with me. in other words, some of you guys are going back to the minors. they rallied after the all star break and won. buck show walter has let this team know, nothing personal, just business. jake aretta who went on tv after the game and said my bad, my poor performance. you have to give it to hill, give him a round of applause. you produce or you're gone. this is major league baseball. in buck we trust, all others strictly cash. ken navarro. there he is right there. he lives here in maryland. 25 years ago he and his wife got out of la to come here, live in the land of pleasant. his 20th album has dropped. ken joins us on cough pee with and we have a web extra with him. >>> sharon gibala's traffic control will be next as will be first warning weather. >> our summertime symbol in the crab. we wanted to see you crazy crab photos. here a

palmer was hoping to make $100,000. she ended up pulling in more than a million.he thanks in large part her following on twitter. >> it's not just a handy tool. it has become the bedrock upon which i rely, the information that i need to get out, the tour dates, the video release, whatever. >> that's close to what 600,000 twitter followers will get you. last night's show was attended by investors. a $300 kickstarter investment got you a ticket for the show and a chance to meet palmer. tonight at six, a chance to meet some of the investors and how it feels to back an album. >>> america's cup is coming next year, but those competing in it will be racing here much sooner. >> the stars of the sport are scheduled to be in the bay area next month to get things started. >> reporter: the america's cup team, that is america's team and based in san francisco is fresh off a world series title and getting set for racing later this summer when the bay area hosts the next season opener in late august. team oracle and crew taking the latest series title in newport, rhode island s

elizabeth palmer across the border in lebanon. and nasa's mission to mars. >> this mission is the coolest thing i think we've ever done. >> pelley: bill whitaker on why it's being called "seven minutes of terror." >> pelley: good evening, no one saw the movie it out days before thecoul ng suspect james it out days before thecoul ng suspect james d been sent to correspondent john miller detail cted. reporte u.s. p might sent out.they didn't fint know the pa butf's bomb it ives inside. sources say the a pent-up holmes to of his psors. in it he ta psors. in it he ta people andd crude s. days rooday's shooting butbee procesl former profiler mary ellen says we may see more letters from mary ellen says we may see more letters from >> particularly because of differe crime that put them in that mail room and apparently the lead came indirectly from holmes himself. apparently some time after his arrest he mentioned that a letter had gone to the school from him and that's what they were looking for. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. as you

. ♪ >> reporter: fitting for amanda palmer who doesn't just play for her fans, she plays among them.hows, they send her portraits she exhibits at her shows, and they love her accessibility. >> i got into music so i could connect with people. >> and she connects, with 600,000 twitter followers, and a new album completely funded by fans who invested a staggering $1 million through kick starter to back palmer up. >> it feels really good to be able to say to an artist, i love your work and i would love to see what you're going to do and i would love to invest in your art and i can't wait to see what you'll come up with. >> my kick starter would not have worked without twitter. >> reporter: so she tweets and plays and hugs. this guy literally ripped his navy patch off and gave it to her. he like everyone else here invested in palmer's album. >> this is w457s to me. >> he ripped this off and gave it to me. >> i would like to be in a private venue that throughout the entire four years, just to listen to trying to escape the -- well, just being at sea. >> reporter: palmers following would ma

liz palmer is on the island of giglio. and steve hartman "on the road" and on the trail of flag fill. ers. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> mason: good evening, scott is on assignment i'm anthony mason. it's getting nasty in the presidential campaign with each side accusing the other of lying about mitt romney's role of bain capital and romney demanding an apology. with jobs the number-one issue in the election, the obama campaign says romney was running the private equity firm at a time when it was investing in companies that were sending american jobs overseas. romney insists he'd already left bain at the time in question. we'll hear from him in just a moment. first, wyatt andrews look at romney and his role at bain capital. >> reporter: when mitt romney was c.e.o. of bain capital in the '90s, bain invested in a series of companies, including call centers and manufacturers that expanded overseas, sometimes at the expense of american workers. after those investments were fir

as the first athletes arrive for the olympics, elizabeth palmer reports the british are struggling with security. and dean reynolds on the lives left in ruins in a town that put its hope in the man they called the midwest madoff. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we haven't seen anything like this in more than 55 years. across the middle of the country the sun is beating down on dying crop and shrinking lakes. we got word in the newsroom today from the federal government that more than half of the continental united states 55%, is now experiencing moderate to exceptional drought. that is more of america drying out than at any time since 1956. we're going to look at why this is happening and when it might stop and we start with anna werner in texas with the dramatic pictures of how the country is suffering. >> reporter: times are hard on easy street. that's the name of this marine in in jonestown, texas. the falling water level has forced the owner to temporarily move his marina out to deeper water three times in six ye

. >> elizabeth palmer is watching syria's civil war from neighboring lebanon, she is giving insight from well informed syrian source sources. liz good evening to you, does the battle in aleppo indicate that rebel fighters have grown in either strength or organization? >> not really. you can see by the pictures that they are very poorly armed, considering the military might they face. and, in fact, some of the senior strategists inside the free syrian army didn't want them to go into aleppo at all because they felt they were bound to lose not only territory but maybe hundreds of fighters. >> liz i am wondering what your sources are saying about how the assads are holding up right now. >> well, that may, they may see syria as a legacy, family legacy from the current president's father and they will defend it at almost any cost. they are also not running out of money. there have been reports that they are pretty much broke, but i am hearing they have about six months worth of money left to keep the money ticking and to pay salaries not just to civil servants but follows the military, so tha

it's going to be jim palmer and i am imagining it's going to be the high leg kick. it has to be the high leg kick if you remember photos from jim palmer's days. >>> police in british columbia are searching for a monday whotook drive to a new level online. >> the motorcyclist videotaped himself reaching speeds of 186 miles an hour. i didn't know they went that fast. look at this. you can see the man weaving in and out of cars and he may have been going even faster than the clocked 186. police are looking for 25-year- old randy. [audio not understandable] this morning. they put him on the most wanted list and asked he turn himself in. he could face up to five years in prison for this joyride. >> unbelievable video this morning. that's going in british columbia. once again people doing stupid things and putting it on youtube. >> time for a check on the weather with lynette charles. i know you never speed. >> never. i love motorcycles but he's going a little too fast. satellite and radar looking at clouds out there this morning. and they will stick around as we go into

palmer has put his three cy young awards and two of his gold gloves up for auction.told the associated press he wants to use the money from the auction to help his grandkids education. he said he has a 16-year-old grandson with autism who need special care. experts estimate the polymer auction could raise up to $250,000. michael phelps will not go for and eight metal repeat in the london olympics. he decided not to swim the 200 meter freestyle. the event will take place on the same day as the finals of the 400 meter freestyle relay. he has chosen to skip the 200 in hopes to improve the usa plus the chance of winning the four hundred. he only needs three more medals in london to win the most career metals and all time. its 14 gold medals already put him ahead of all other olympic athletes in the history of the games. the dream of making the six olympic team ended tonight in omaha, nebraska. only the top two in the event. she earned her first trip to the olympics 28 years ago in 1984. a year before michael phelps was born. finally a resolution tonight after she concede

elizabeth palmer explains why. >> the 2012 olympic games will be staged in dozens of venues across aarea in and around london. and they'll need an equally vast security operation to keep them safe. key are 13,000 british soldiers and marines. the largest massive mobilization since world war ii. with fighter jets to enforce no fly zone for small planes and missiles set up on apartment buildings. there was supposed to be another army of more than 10,000 civilian security guards too supplied by a private contractor, g4s. suddenly last week the company announced it could not deliver. ceo nick buckles. >> it's a very complex process to recruit and deliver that many people for quite a short period of time. >> the original contract was for 2,000 g4s guards. then last december, after advice from u.s. law enforcement, that figure ballooned to more than 13,000. and g4s simply couldn't keep up. >> down to g4s, we should have -- we're contracted to deliver stuff. we should have done that. >> it's a big blunder on a sensitive issue. >> this month, seven years ago, london won the 2012 games. and t

. >>> now the greatest pitcher has his own statute, at cam done yard, jim palmerrings, davey leonard, dick hall, they're all there, jim's wife stepson and daughters, there is there he is, looking good, palmer is the best weave seen and he will always always think of the orioles. >> managed only in an oriole uniform. brooks played only in an oriole uniform. call played only in an oriole uniform. and i never played in any other uniform but the other yells,. >> it was an emotional day talking ability his close friend -- about his close friend mike flanagan, it was great to see buck, adam jones, jim johnson also in the crowd today. maybe they ought to put a statute up of this man, time to honor pete pom pay for what he's done for the city. the legendary high school coach that led dunbar had a benefit in his honor, it was held at edmondson, left side, he scooted over to edmondson and built the basketball and football programs and all money raised to help him fight alzheimer's right from his home. >> not remembering family, and just remembering day-to-day activities, alzheimer's is a terrib

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daniel palmer greeted by family and friend neighbors.t part of his right leg and suffered an explosion back in 2010. corporal palmer is rehabing in the hospitals are across the nation and he wouldn't have pulled through this without his family i haven't cried since i was two or three years old. he is looking forward to finally spending time with his wife and two children. well, power to the parents and a group of angry moms and dad making history tonight. my mistake. we'll move on here. daniel palmer considered himself blessed by family and friends. many of our nation's vet rans don't have support at all. thousands are homeless their troubles are inspiring them to get back on their feet. anna has more on this story. >> started by two patriotic brotherings. gi go fund back to those who sacrifice for our country. it helps homeless veterans get back on their feet. >> homeless for a decade. gene son son served on a gun ship and couldn't find a job when he returned. >> i was honored and in the service i had a lot of respect. and people turned

elizabeth palmer and clarissa ward. nelson mandela is almost never seen in public now but our mark phillips was invited to his party as mandela turned 94 today. 11 years after 9/11 some u.s. flight schools still don't check the backgrounds of foreign students. bob orr has our story. and taking on a mountain without his legs. spencer west's incredible journey to the top and the message he brought back. >> here's the path. you can overcome it ux too. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, an audacious assassination has blown apart the inner circle of family and enforces that has kept the syrian dictatorship in power during a 17-month rebellion. this evening there are street battles in the capital and the u.s. defense secretary says syria is spinning out of control. it was a bomb planted inside the daily meeting of president bashar al-assad's security chiefs. three are known dead including defense ministerdaoud raja, the president's brother-in-law and the fear

elizabeth palmer is on the syrian help lebanese border tonight with more. >> reporter: the opposition fighters in aleppo are, for the most part, lightly armed. and no match for the government's heavy artillery or helicopter gunships. an activist video shows once again, it's terrified civilians who are dying in the cross-fire. thousands of residents saw this battle coming and fled days ago into the countryside or toward swelling refugee camps in turkey. across the region, whole families have now been stranded by the violence in tents, abandoned buildings, or in this case, forced to camp in a lebanese school, empty for the summer vacation. is one of those mattresses yours? khaled is nine. is there one for each member of your family? >> no. >> reporter: his mother, samira, says they've left their homes behind but not the grisly memories. "we saw people killed by shelling," she says. "and also tortured to death." in all, according to the united nations, over 120,000 refugees have spilled out of syria in every direction-- to turkey, iraq, jordan and lebanon. in northern lebanon, just a sha

elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >>> a jetblue airline pilot who disrupted his own flight leaving and screaming about religion and terrorists has been found not guilty due to mental illness. clayton os ben was charged with interfering with a flight crew after the incident in march. a federal judge in amarillo, texas where the plane made an emergency landing ordered him to a mental health facility. >>> the competitive eating take part in one of the biggest sporting events of the year. the nathan's hot dog eating contest in coney island. our buddy john elliott coming up on the left weatherman from our weather station in new york city up against former nathan's champ. toker owe kobayashi. kobayashi will not be competing in this year's event. cheater, cheater you. this is the "cbs morning news." it's time to live wider awake. only the beautyrest recharge sleep system combines the comfort of aircool memory foam layered on top of beautyrest pocketed coils to promote proper sleeping posture all night long. the revolutionary recharge sleep system... from beautyrest. it's you, fully charge

elizabeth palmer has the report. >> a funeral turns to celebration when mourners learn that the defense minister was dead. across the country in this savage civil war, activists celebrated because it struck inside the syrian regime. the dead men were, like everyone else in the room, masterminding the plan to crush syria's uprising. they were meeting in the national security headquarters near the center of damascus. even though fighting has come uncomfortably close these past four days, it still should have been one of the safest buildings in the country. the operation free syrian army has claimed responsibility for the bombing syria's information minister blames arab and western governments. their intelligence agencies and spies are responsible he said. an official did tell me tonight that the government is horrified how easily it appears the bomber entered the building. almost immediately after the blast, a new defense minister was appointed and for the first time state television broadcast these pictures meant to reassure the public. on the one hand, they do show syrian soldiers takin

to survive and the armed men on both sides are determined to win, not talk. >> pelley: elizabeth palmer is joining us now in beirut. liz, when you talk to the free syrian army people, what are their concerns going forward? >> well, they're concerned this is going to be a long fight in a very costly one. and the people we talked to here also are concerned about what they see as a split in the free syrian army. and they say that the fundamentalist islamic brigades are getting more money, more support, and maybe even the upper hand in this fight and that's not going down well with everybody. >> pelley: elizabeth, thank you. syria rarely allows recorders into that country but our clarissa ward managed to get in and earlier today she sent us a short description of what this war looks like on just one street in just one town. >> reporter: syrian tanks pulled out of this village yesterday and residents here tell us that they are thrilled to have their liberty. but look at the scene that was left behind. people here told us that helicopter gun ships swooped in here on thursday and obliterated t

liz palmer on how the bank rigged interest rates behind student loans, credit cards, and mortgages. armen keteyian on american doctors allegedly buying illegal cancer drugs from overseas. >> reporter: hi, i'm armen keteyian from cbs news. >> pelley: he created one of the most beloved characters in t.v. history. bill whitaker on the death of andy griffith. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, heat in the summer is not news, but this summer is making history. over the last eight days, 2,400 high-temperature records have been tied or broken. on the eve of the fourth of july, americans are looking for independence from the weather. temperatures today climbed into the 90s and the 100s, they're really feeling in the those states hit hard by that fierce weekend storm in the east. nearly 1.5 million homes and business there is still have no electricity-- no power, no air. what's behind the record weather? we asked chip reid to find out. >> reporter: it's not just hot out there, it's record-break

our elizabeth palmer is following events from lebanon. >> reporter: the war has now come to aleppo.aytil a few days ago, syria's biggest city had stayed relatively calm. not anymore. almajor opposition offensive under way to take this vital thmmercial hub. syrian free army colonel abdel sy-akaidi made the call to arms online. "we ordered all our forces," he said, "to move towards aleppo and liberate the city." but so-called liberation comes at a huge cost. mst 30 miles north of aleppo in azaz, rebel fighters are celebrating the hard-won victory after 100 days of intense yighting they finally control this town. but many of the buildings are rubble and most of the residents had to run for their lives. syrians-- both pro and anti- regime-- know this now: wherever the free syrian army digs in it's time to leave, to escape the lethal clashs that follow with government troops. hael al-kaldy is an opposition activists who works with the 30,000 syrians seeking refuge in eebanon, including these arrivals now living in a school. they fled last week from heavy shelling in damascus when rebel f

elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> pelley: there was good news today in the fight against h.i.v..he f.d.a. has approved truvada as the first preventative drug for people at high risk of acquiring h.i.v., the virus that causes aids. it's already being used to treat patients who have h.i.v. but research shows it can cut the infection risk by 42%. like a lot of americans, mark zuckerberg, founder of facebook, has refinanced his home to take advantage of lower mortgage rates. but billionaire that he is, is zuckerberg was able to get a much lower rate than most folks for his $6 million mortgage. he and his new bride are paying just over 1%. that's less than inflation rate which, of course, means he's borrowing essentially for free. a vivid sky show in the north. we'll show you what caused it when we come back. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful blooms... in mississippi we had more good times... in louisiana we had more fun on the water. last season we broke all kinds of records on the gulf. this year we are out to do even better... and now is a great tim