>> not yet. >> pelley: really?narrowed it down but, you know, i like a little bit of each of... well, i wouldn't say each of them. but there's things that i've seen in some of them that i wish i could combine all into one. (laughs) bu but we can't do that, so it's just going to be, okay, who i think is more aligned with what means the most to me. >> >> pelley: audrey, how do you decide? >> mine's going to be pretty much throwing a dart. >> pelley: throwing a dart? >> well, i mean no that not literally.... >> couric: well, it might work as well as anything else. >> it just might be the best route to go. >> pelley: mike, what do you want to hear that you're not hearing? >> i think the government needs to get out of our way. the backbone of the country is small businesses and we need to just get the government out of our hair. >> well, i know they're talking a lot about overseas and foreign relations and gay marriage and that... all that stuff is also important, but i know for what means the most to me is economics. i

>> pelley: jan, thanks very much. texas congressman ron paul is in the top tier in part because of support from voters that you might not expect. wyatt andrews is the paul campaign. wyatt. >> scott, tonight ron paul's campaign is counting on a strong turnout and especially strong support from iowa's younger voters. today we asked several students to explain the ron paul appeal. >> out in the crowd, cheering ron paul was 18-year-old mary tobin who trusts that paul will reduce the deficit. at 18 years old you're worried about the national debt. >> absolutely. i think it's going to impact me a lot more than it will impact a lot of the people who are making the laws right now. >> reporter: another high school senior likes that paul is a libertarian and anti-war. >> he believes in liberty and the non-intervention. i think that's very important. >> reporter: it may seem unlikely, scott, but tonight those younger voters are a big part of the ron paul base. >> pelley: wyatt, thank you very much. of all the proposals the repub

>> pelley: lee, thanks very much. in new york city today, the police said a man confessed to a series of firebombings there. se suspect throwing a firebomb at a hindu temple, one of at least five attacks on new year's day that also targeted an islamic cultural center. the police used video from another security camera to identify the suspect's car and track him down. much of the eastern half of the country in a deep freeze tonight. arctic air from canada has brought the coldest weather most of america has seen so far this winter. along with the cold came the snow in michigan and other places around the great lakes. and in florida, it's been a race to get the strawberry crop harvested before it's damaged by frost. oil prices jumped today after iran made a new threat against the u.s. navy. that story is next. >> pelley: iran issued a warning to the u.s. navy operating in the persian gulf. the white house said need iran's just lashing out because its economy is suffering under sanctions aimed at its nuclear program. we a

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is pelley: jan, thank you very much. jan mentioned president obama and when we asked republican voters which g.o.p. candidate has the best chance of beating him, 49% chose romney. newt gingrich came in a distant second at 1%. second at 13%. that's a big drop for gingrich. just four weeks ago, 31% said he had the best chance against the president. ent.ier today here in manchester we asked the former speaker of the house and former front- runner why his support is slipping. >> i think largely the negative ad which is got picked up by the media and replayed and i've got to go back and rebuild. coming out of iowa where 45% of we ads literally were directed at me, they did a lot of damage and now we're undoing that damage. >> pelley: what's going to happen in two weeks? dama >> i think we'll win south carolina. in the end it will come down to cmney and me and i think that choice that this is not a party which is going to pick a massachusetts moderate to go up against barack obama. >> pelley: do you have to win in south caroli

>> pelley: tonight, showdown in the south. a surging newt gingrich and a sinking mitt romney in what could be a turning point in the battle for the g.o.p. presidential nomination. >> i'm moderately optimistic, though, we'll win. >> pelley: snow finally comes to the northeast while wet weather continues to drench much of the pacific northwest. alan pizzey reports another victim has been recovered from the con. the"costa concordia." and elaine quijano with a piece of south carolina history on view for the first time, nearly 150 years after going down during the civil war. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> pelley: good evening. the polls will be closing in just half an hour in the first republican presidential primary in the south. and what happens in south carolina tonight could shake up the race for the g.o.p. nomination. here's why. a poll that came out just before the voting began today showed newt gingrich had opened a 14-point lead in south carolina over the national front-runner, mitt romney. g

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ap >> pelley: good evening. >> pelley: good evening. as we watch the president greet the audience at the state of the union address last night, it caught our eyes when he stopped to speak to the secretary of defense. listen carefully to what he said to leon panetta. >> good job tonight. good job tonight. >> pelley: it turns out that "good job" was a daring mission which was, at that moment, still wrapping up. u.s. navy seals had rescued an american woman and a danish man who had been kidnapped in somalia. it was the same special operations unit that killed osama bin laden. bob orr is in washington with details. bob. >> reporter: scott, for navy seal team six it was yet another daring raid in the dark with commandos parachuting into a remote region of central somalia. sources say about two dozen seals jumped from an airforce transport plane near the desert town of djibouti. moving quickly and quietly, the commandos crept about a mile and a half to a nearby camp where u.s. intelligence had determined american aid worker jessica buchanan,

>> pelley: thank you, anthony. bob schieffer, as always, is joining us now, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." bob, it's going to be a surprise if romney doesn't win here. what do you see? >> well, i think that's right. i think he has to win by a substantial margin. he's not going to win like 50% like newt gingrich is saying he has to. he hasn't shown up that high in any poll i've ever heard of. but on the other hand, you heard jan talking about how the romney people are playing down ex expectations. the fact is, behind the scenes they're trying for a knockout. they bought a half million dollars worth of ads to play over the last two days. they really want to win and win decisively here. the question, again, as you say, who finishes second and i'm telling you, i think jon huntsman is coming on here. we are seeing a little surge here. i think he's going to do very well. if he doesn't, i think he's done. i don't think he goes beyond this. but if he can finish a respectable second i th

let's find some common ground to work together. >> pelley: you're open for business. >> always. >> pelley: both speaker boehner and the president seemed confident that they will get an agreement on extending the payroll tax cut and extending long-term unemployment benefits for another year. both are due to expire next month. joining me now, as always, is our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation" bob schieffer. bob, speaker boehner said that he can control the members of his party. can he? >> schieffer: well, i don't know if he can or not. i think he'd have a really hard time. but it goes beyond that, scott. you talk to republicans on the hill. i mean, this gap is so wide. they will tell you... i mean, i was told today when they were trying to negotiate this summer over the budget and all of that they said it was like trying to negotiate with people who'd never negotiated over at the white house. so this gap is so wide i don't think we're going to see much of anything happen this year. >> pelley: bob, thank you very much. bob will be joining us right here tonight a

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the race for the republican presidential nomination has changed course with every caucus and primary. tonight here in florida it appears the winds are shifting again and filling the sails of mitt romney. in a suffolk university poll out today, romney leads newt gingrich by 20 points-- 47% to 27%. a new quinnipiac poll shows a somewhat tighter race with romney 14 points ahead 43% to 29%. it's a long way from just one week ago when both men were essentially tied in florida after a decisive win by to prim. first, jan crawford with the romney campaign. jan? >> reporter: well, good evening, scott. as you said, it was just a week ago that romney was fighting to get back his momentum after that crashing defeat in south carolina. what a difference a week can make. >> with a turnout like this, i'm beginning to feel we might win tomorrow, what do you think? >> reporter: campaign advisors say for romney south carolina was a gut check. florida would be different. he brought in a new debate coach

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we are hours away from the first primary there the south, south carolina, and it's turning out to be a more critical battle for the g.o.p. nomination than anyone might have imagined. have a look at what just happened. in the latest preprimary poll out today, newt gingrich has passed longtime front-runner mitt romney. gingrich now holds a six-point lead, 32% to 26%. we have a team of campaign 2012 correspondents covering the south carolina primary. first, dean reynolds is in orangeburg with the gingrich campaign. dean. >> reporter: scott, the performance by newt gingrich at last night's debate was the talk of the state today, and his campaign officials would love to keep that conversation going. ( cheers and applause ) lifted by positive polls and what his aides say is a nervous opponent in mitt romney, the former speaker appealed to south carolina's conservatives to line up behind him. >> if every conservative in the state decides to vote for newt gingrich, we would win a shockingly

scott. >> pelley: bob, thanks very much. in an interview for "60 minutes" we sat down with the defense secretary to talk about the many places in the world where america is take action. in how many countries are we currently engaged in a shooting war? >> that's a good question. you know, it's-- >> pelley: you have to stop and count. >> i'll have to stop and think about that because, you know, obviously, we're going after al qaeda wherever they're at. and, clearly, we're confronting al qaeda in pakistan. we're confronting the nodes of al qaedaa in yemen, in somalia, in north africa, and, obviously, whatever al qaeda links are involved in afghanistan. >> pelley: have we defeated al qaeda? >> not yet. they're still a real threat. there's still al qaeda out there and we have to continue to put pressure on them wherever they're at. >> pelley: sunday on "60 minutes," we'll have a profile of secretary leon panetta who led the effort to get osama bin laden. today, the federal reserve looked at the economy and decided that growth is

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the captain in the italian inuise ship disaster now says he did not leave the ship intentionally. he is quoted tonight as telling investigators that with the ship listing to one side, he tripped and fell into a life boat. francesco schettino remains under house arrest this evening. the "costa concordia" lies off the west coast of italy, and in this new satellite photo, she lies beside the island of giglio where she hit the rocks. 11 people are confirmed dead. 21 others are missing, including a retired american couple. alan pizzey is at the scene. >> reporter: rescuers are still looking but with no signs of life or noise coming from the hip, they're saying quietly that short of a miracle, there's little chance of finding survivors in the wreck. to add to the woes, the ship shifted a few inches today. its precarious position forced a temporary halt in the operations. the strain is showing on rescuers. one had to be brought back from the wreck on a stretcher after he collapsed. those un

a >> pelley: back now from new >> pelley: back now from new hampshire.here's a new book out today that looks at the role michelle obama has played since moving into the white house. he wthis morning co-anchor gayle king was there today, and she asked the first lady about claims the book makes about friction between her and the president's top advisors, including the president's first chief of staff rahm emanuel. t> well, i do care deeply about nu husband. i am his biggest ally. >> pelley: biggest confidante? >> i am one of his biggest henfidantes but he has dozens of really smart people who surround him and i am not an expert on most of the issues tha most of the issues that he's dealing with on a daily basis. so i want him and he wants to be talking to the people with the best information. n't 's not to say that we don't have discussions and onnversations, that's not to say that my husband doesn't know how i feel. i mean, one thing is true that i talk very candidly to my husband about how i feel, but that's the kind of relationship we have. i wouldn't g

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the latest report on the economy today looks like welcome news. it shows that the economy was growing in the final three months of last year at an annual rate of 2.%. that's the best showing for any quarter in nearly two years. but it's not enough to make a big dent in unemployment, and it's not the best we've done since the great recession. the left side of this graph is 2007 and you see how far economic growth fell by 2008. the best showing that we've had was the beginning of 2010. after that growth tanked again. 2011 was all about a slow struggle to get back. where are the strengths and the weaknesses going forward? we asked anthony mason to show us. >> oh yeah, full reclining seats. >> reporter: much of the growth at the end of the year was due to strong auto sales. terry d'arcy, a g.m. dealer in joliet, illinois, just had his best fourth quarter in five years. >> i can really feel the momentum coming. >> reporter: do you feel like we're out of the woods finally? >> i wouldn't sa

very ominous. >> pelley: elizabeth, thank you very much. in pakistan, there is a power struggle brewing that you should know about between the powerful military and the civilian government. the prime minister has fired the the secretary of defense, who is an ally of pakistan's top general. how this turns out is important for a number of reasons. pakistan has nuclear weapons. the u.s. is engaged in a drone with terrorists there, and pakistan is key to u.s. success in afghanistan. so this will bear watching in the days ahead. tough times for a snack food maker. the company that makes twinkies files for chapter 11 next. >> pelley: on his last day in office yesterday, mississippi governor haley barbour pardoned 200 criminals, including more than two dozen convicted of manslaughter and homicide. he gave no reason. today, the state attorney general, a democrat said smother pardons may be unsizingal. may expect crime to go up in a bad economy but crime rates have dropped following the great recession, and today the centers for disease control said

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the cold war is long over. the hot war in iraq just ended and america's future in afghanistan is uncertain. now the commander-in-chief has decided it is time for a major overhaul of the u.s. military. at the pentagon today, president obama announced plans for a itaner fighting force while maintaining american military superiority. republican criticism came quickly. house arms services chairman buck mckeon called it a lead- from-behind strategy for a left- behind america. we asked david martin to tell us what the president has in mind. >> reporter: the president came everhe pentagon to make sure everybody understands this is his strategy. a strategy he will run for umelection on. if you reduced it to a bumper sticker, it would say: no more wars like iraq and afghanistan. >> as we look beyond the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the end of long-term nation building with large military footprints, we'll be able to ensure our security with smaller ronventional ground forces. a reporter:

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is a special western edition. good evening. newt gingrich has shaken up the race for the republican presidential nomination. cbs news projects tonight that he has won the g.o.p. primary in south carolina, defeating the man who was once the front- runner, mitt romney. here are the votes as we have them so far. 43% of the vote in, and counting. here is the key to the gingrich victory. he got more than 40% of three important voting groups-- the tea party movement, conservatives, and evangelicals. we hav we have a team of correspondents covering the south carolina primary. first, dean reynolds with the gingrich campaign. dean. we're expecting the former speaker to be taking that platform any moment now. you know, his campaign sort of saw this thing shifting right after the debate on monday when they detected a tonal shift in their opponent. mitt romney began attacking them, and not president obama. and that told them that they had a nervous opponent. then, of course, there were those debates when-- th

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. divers pulled five bodies from the partially sunken "costa concordia" today, bringing the dead in the italian ship disaster to at least 11. the captain has been placed under house arrest with dramatic few evidence tonight that he left the ship before his passengers. we now have these remarkable pictures of the friday night evacuation. this is black and white infrared video taken from a helicopter and those dark figures are hundreds of passengers standing on the side of the ship and lowering themselves in a long line down a rope ladder into the sea. 24 are still missing, including jerry and barbara heil of white bear lake, minnesota. the "costa concordia" nearly a thousand feet long with 14 decks lies on the rocky shore of the island of giglio off italy's west coast. that's where allen pizzey is tonight with details about the bodies found today. allen? >> reporter: good evening, scott. well, the four men and one woman were found all wearing their life jackets near an evacuation point

. >> pelley: good evening. the voting ends shortly in florida's republican presidential primary. preelection polls suggest it may be a big night for mitt romney. as you already know, florida's important. it's the biggest state to vote yet. a state that has suffered terribly since the great recession. and it's the most diverse state to vote so far. in the previous three contests, at least 98% of republican voters were white. here in florida about 15% are hispanic. we've been talking to voters as they left the polls today and 45% told us what they were looking for most in a candidate is the ability to defeat president obama. 62% said the issue that matters most to them is the economy. our team of campaign 2012 correspondents is covering. first, we'll go to jan crawford with the romney campaign. jan? >> reporter: scott, romney sveum out swinging in florida. he said today he thought it made a difference and he is not going to let up as this campaign heads west. >> but if we're successful here it will be pretty clea

learn more at chase.com/ink >> pelley: good evening. i'm scott pelley. welcome to "60 minutes presents." over the last several years, we've had some great adventures into the wild. and tonight, we're going to bring you along on some of our favorite trips. we begin with "the great migration." if you could go just one place, anywhere on the planet, to see the most spectacular wildlife, you'd want to head east to catch a sight that comes around every year, but for only a short time. millions of animals on an endless march of life and death and rebirth. we'll save most of the superlatives for the pictures, because you might agree this is one of the greatest shows on earth, and we thought you should see it again now because there is no guarantee it'll be around forever. there was a time when epic migrations were common-- millions of buffalo in north america, for example. but today, to see what that must have been like, you have to travel to east africa. here, in late summer, more than a million wildebeest cross the volcanic plain of the masai mara in kenya, p

nsaptioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the gs. is scrambling tonight to condemn a video that appears to show marines desecrating bodies in afghanistan, possibly the bodies of taliban fighters. the video was shot months ago, but it was posted on the nternet yesterday and now word of it is spreading in istaanistan. secretary of defense leon panetta said the behavior depicted in the video is "utterly deplorable." here is david martin at the thntagon. didn'orter: it didn't take long to identify the marines in the e deo. it could take forever to undo dhe damage. thcretary of defense panetta called afghan president karzai this morning to promise a full investigation and other senior officials including the chairman of the joint chiefs, secretary of the navy, commandant of the marine corps, even the secretary of state joined in a chorus of denunciation. >> i join him in condemning the deplorable behavior that is reflected in this video. .t is absolutely inconsistent with american values. >> reporter: the four marines who appear

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're beginning tonight with that picture that has caused quite a stir. it shows the governor of arizona, jan brewer, pointing her finger at president obama as they met on the tarmac yesterday in mesa, arizona. the president and the republican governor have disagreements over many things, including immigration policy, and their debate continued on the tarmac. the president took issue with the governor's new book in which she claims that the president lectured her and was condescending to her in an oval office meeting. we spoke to governor brewer today about the meeting on the tarmac. chief cbs white house correspondent norah o'donnell has that. she's traveling with the president in colorado tonight. norah? >> reporter: scott, immigration is always a hot-button political issue, but it got personal when the president met with the republican governor of arizona. it's this picture, with the republican governor's finger in the president's face, that has jan brewer on the defensive today.

>> pelley: tonight, desert storm. norah o'donnell on what's behind this confrontation in arizona between the president and the governor. dean reynolds on the republican establishment out to stop newt gingrich. >> do you think he has any chance to be president? >> i hope not. >> pelley: an american hostage arrives in italy for medical treatment. we'll look at the u.s. special forces who rescued her from somali pirates. bob orr has the story. and caught on tape-- staged car accidents and the fake injuries that are driving up the cost of insurance. armen keteyian with a cbs news investigation. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're beginning tonight with that picture that has caused quite a stir. it shows the governor of arizona, jan brewer, pointing her finger at president obama as they met on the tarmac yesterday in mesa, arizona. the president, and the republican governor, have disagreements over many things, including immigration policy, and their

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: there f there's one number the presidential candidates are watching as closely as the polls it's the unemployment rate. today the labor department reported the rate fell two-tenths of a point last month to 8.5%. that's the lowest level since n three years. job creation picked up as well. the economy cranked out 200,000 new jobs in december bringing the total for the year to 1.64 million new jobs. we asked anthony mason to tell us where all those new jobs are. >> reporter: december's hiring surge was led by the transportation sector which added 50,000 jobs. most were messenger or currier positions and may only be seasonal. but the economy's overall grow growth-- 200,000 new jobs-- was the best since september. what do you make of this number? >> it's a pretty solid number. >> reporter: economist julia coronado liked the gain in manufacturing jobs-- 23,000 of them. >> those are good jobs, good high-quality jobs. >> reporter: manufacturing has been an unexpected bright spot in the recovery. after sheddi

reporting tonight from des with scott pelley. reporting tonight from des >> pelley: good evening from the starting line of the race for the republican presidential nomination. we're in the library under the dome of the skate capital building in des moines. that dome soars 275 feet above ground and is covered with 23-carat gold. but more precious than gold to the republican presidential candidates tonight are votes and one day before the caucuses they were trying to win over the nearly half of voters who say they haven't settled on a candidate. the latest polling shows mitt romney in the lead with 24% followed by ron paul at 22%, rick santorum 15 and newt gingrich 12%. santorum is on the rise. in the past month his numbers have more than doubled while one time front-runner gingrich has seen more than half of his support evaporate. we asked santorum today if iowa is make or break for him. >> we have to do well here, i don't think there's any question we have to do well. i've said from the beginning that there's three primaries now

. >> pelley: jan, thanks very much. but at a rally in jacksonville today, gingrich claimed he's closing the gap, dean reynolds is following his campaign. dean? >> reporter: scott, newt gingrich is talking tough here in florida but running out of time. >> i am real change, and that's why the establishment in both parties is really terrified because we will change things! (cheers and applause) >> reporter: that message worked well in south carolina, but it's been a hard sell here in florida where a small crowd greeted him today in tampa. ever since he set foot in this state, gingrich has been under attack from romney and from the republican estab republican establishment. john mccain, bob dole and chris christie all republican headliners have given romney their full-throated support. gingrich has a republican b list of backers including herman cain michael reagan and todd palin. this reality has all but forced going trich adopt an ill-fitting approach that can sound contradictory. he suggests, for example, that romney is

scott, he told me he'll consider it. >> pelley: thank you, jan. that's a big difference between romney and ron paul who is polling a close second here. wyatt andrews has the texas congressman's plans to shrink the federal government. wyatt? >> reporter: scott, ron paul's plan to reduce the federal deficit is the largest of all the candidates and his spending cuts would happen fast. $900 billion during his first year in office. reducing the federal deficit the signature issue for ron paul in iowa. his plan calls for reducing the federal work force by 10%, slashing the pay of congress and eliminating the federal departments of education, energy housing, commerce, and interior. >> what we're talking about are real cuts in the shrinking of the size of the federal government. (cheers and applause) >> reporter: the largest cut he proposes would end all spending on u.s. troops overseas, starting with iraq and afghanistan, then possibly japan and korea. foreign aid spending would go to zero, including the $3 billion in aid to israel. >> we don't need fore

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> pelley: good evening. >> pelley: good evening. mitt romney has just found out that you can't count on anything in politics, not even the elections you win. today iowa republicans took away his victory in the caucuses, and his lead heading into saturday's disary in south carolina has thinenly disappeared. look at how quickly things have changed. in a poll taken the day after se iowa caucuses, romney was far ahead in south carolina, 31% to newt gingrich's 24%. but in that same poll today, gingrich leads by one point, a statistical tie. gingrich picked up the endorsement of texas governor rick perry. perry ended his campaign today after polling in single digits. dean reynolds is following the hast-changing race in north dearleston. dean? >> reporter: scott, aides to the ourmer speaker say that without ng dtion his rebound in the polls is due to a strong debate s anormance last monday night, ton he gets another chance here in north charleston tonight. decood morning. >> reporter: the decision by governor perry to withdraw from the pre

. >> pelley: tonight, the battle for iowa. on the eve of the caucuses, romney niece the lead, but santorum is moving up. >> you're running on a shoestring. >> well, shoestring this is? that's an insult to shoestrings. >> pelley: lee cowan reports police have made an arrest in the arsons that have terrorized los angeles. ben tracy on the man hunt on mount rainier after the shooting death of a national park ranger. and barry petersen on the real estate boom. yes, there is one-- down on the farm. >> black gold is what you're holding in your hand. it's not oil, it's dirt. and it's worth more than ever before. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from des moines, iowa. >> pelley: good evening from the starting line of the race for the republican presidential nomination. we're in the library under the dome of the skate capital building in des moines. that dome soars 275 feet above ground and is covered with 23- carat gold. but more precious than gold to the republican presid