. >> pelley: good evening. i'm scott pelley. welcome to "60 minutes presents." tonight, you will hear from one of the men who shot osama bin laden. mark owen recently left the navy's elite counter-terrorism unit, seal team six. "mark owen" is not his real name, but it's the name that he used to write his book "no easy day" about the assault on bin laden's compound. we first brought you his story in september. owen was on the helicopter that crashed into the compound. he was the second man in bin laden's bedroom. and he took the pictures of the body that the world has never seen. owen received a silver star for valor and a purple heart for a wound suffered in the raid. but despite all that, owen told us, in his only interview, that "no easy day" is not about him. he says it's a tribute to the hundreds of americans who gathered intelligence, planned and trained in the ten-year pursuit of the world's most wanted man. seal team six, he told us, just took care of the last 40 minutes. was this a mission... was the plan to kill osama bin laden or capture him, before yo

>> owen: fired. >> pelley: you shot him? >> owen: yeah. >> pelley: he's still moving?ttle... a little bit. but you couldn't see his arms, couldn't see his hands. so, he could've had something. could've had a hand grenade or something underneath his chest. >> pelley: so, after osama bin laden is wounded, he's still moving. you shot him twice? >> owen: a handful of times. >> pelley: a handful of times, and the seal in the stack behind you also shot osama bin laden. and at that point, his body was still? >> owen: yes. >> pelley: did you recognize him? >> owen: nope. you know, everybody thinks it was, like, you know it's him. no. to us, at that time, it could have been anybody. maybe this was another brother. maybe this is a bodyguard. maybe... it doesn't matter. the point is to just continue clearing. >> pelley: by now, 20 minutes had passed. every single thing the woman with the c.i.a. had told them on the plane had been right, but time was running out. throughout the raid, the remaining helicopter was in the air. it only had enough gas to stay for 30 minutes or so. paki

voice. >> pelley: ...it is the journey of a lifetime. >> talk to us. >> pelley: you know that there are some people saying to themselves, "i could never do what she does. those poor people are terribly disfigured. i can't look at them." >> people have been saying that to these people their whole lives. someone has to look at them. someone has to look them in the eye and tell them that "you're human and i recognize that in you." ( laughs ) >> kroft: you seem to have no interest in celebrity. >> absolutely none. >> kroft: do you accept the fact that you're a star? >> if you say so. that is entirely due to the television set. >> kroft: she's talking about "downton abbey," the highbrow british soap opera that follows the intrigues of an aristocratic family and their servants at the turn of the last century. it's drawn critical acclaim and record audiences due, in large part, to maggie smith's portrayal of violet, the imperious, sharp-tongued dowager countless of grantham. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm leslie stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm scott pell

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.eporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: good evening, detention cells are opening in several states tonight. hundreds of illegal immigrants awaiting deportation are instead being releasedded because the obama administration says it can't afford to hold them. it's a response to automatic across-the-board cuts in federal spending that are due to begin on friday. these cuts were never intended to happen. they were designed by both parties to be so harmful that they would force the president and congress to compromise on a better way. but they haven't. a short while ago, we spoke to the republican speaker of the house, john boehner. you know this place better than anyone. it can't be done before friday. this is going to happen, isn't it? >> the house has done its work. it's time for the president and senate democrats to do their work. they've known for 16 months that this date was coming. that's why the house acted twice last year. but yet senate democrats and the president have never

. >> pelley: good evening. the most-wanted man in california, fired los angeles cop christopher dorner, appears to be surrounded tonight. he's holed up in a house in san bernardino county, east of l.a. dorner was discovered by fish and game officers a little after noon local time today. there have been gun battles and two officers have been wounded. their condition is unknown. this is the sound of one of those gun battles recorded by our correspondent, carter evans. (gunshots) >> reporter: i hear some screaming. you heard all that gun fire. i see a team of sheriffs deputies in full-on fatigues with weapons drawn running towards us right now. we are down on the ground behind the fields of our car right now with the doors open. i'm talking to you on speakerphone. we are right, right in the center of the action here. we are right where this is happening. >> pelley: christopher dorner attracted a dragnet and a $1 million bounty on his head after three murders. officials say he was targeting cops and their families

>> pelley: tonight, dow 14k. wall street reaches a milestone on its way back from the great recession. anthony mason has the jobs numbers that touched off the rally. the president proposes a compromise on birth control coverage, trying to avoid a new supreme court battle. major garrett has details. the big easy and the big game. we'll get a super bowl preview from james brown and talk to the mayor about how to turn around failing public schools. what was the new orleans school system the day after katrina? >> it was gone. >> pelley: and steve hartman "on the road" with one man's odyssey to new orleans to honor its biggest fan. >> he was my hero. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from jackson square in new orleans. >> pelley: good evening. we are here to cover the super bowl this sunday, but we start tonight with the economy. it took nearly five years but the dow is back above 14,000, a symbolic end to the worst economic crisis since the great depressio

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. hard to imagine what was going through the mind of jimmy lee dykes, but we are told tonight he had stored home-made bombs in his underground bunker where he held a five-year-old boy hostage. dykes was killed outside midland city alabama late yesterday when an f.b.i. assault team attacked the bunker on dykes' property and rescued the hostage. the boy, whose first name is ethan, was taken last tuesday after dykes attacked a school bus in search of hostages and killed the bus driver. our coverage tonight starts with mark strassman in midland city for us. mark? >> reporter: scott, over the course of a week of negotiations, the f.b.i. and dykes developed a routine. he would ask for supplies. they would leave them at the entrance of his underground bunker. the f.b.i.'s hostage rescue team exploited that routine to end the stand-off. this video is our first glimpse of the dykes' property, the scene of the seven-day stand-off. sources tell us when dykes climbed the eight-foot ladder to get s

>> pelley: tonight, the blizzard bears down. governors declare emergencies has nor'easter overwhelms new england. meteorologist david bernard on the forecast and our team of correspondents on the rest of the story. the search expands for the former los angeles cop accused in a series of revenge killings. ben tracy on the man hunt. one of the greatest spectacles on earth happens only once every 12 years. holly williams dives into the biggest religious festival in the world. and "on the road", steve hartman finds these folks are more than happy to wait in line because this postman delivers a lesson in happiness. >> it was honestly his example that kind of caught -- taught me it's not what you do in life, it's how you do it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the director of the national weather service calls it a very dangerous situation. two storm systems-- one from the west, the other from the south-- are colliding right now over the northeast. it is a classic n

with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the director of the national weather service calls it a very dangerous situation. two storm systems-- one from the west, the other from the south-- are colliding right now over the northeast. it is a classic nor'easter carrying three feet of snow and wind gusts as high as 70 miles an hour. major transportation hubs are closing. widespread power outages are expected. we have a team of correspondents on this breaking story but first we'll go to our weather consultant david bernard. david, where's the storm headed? >> reporter: well let's take a look at the radar scott. when we do that, we can see those two pieces of the storm that we're referring to, the main low is here south of long island but here comes that second piece and that's getting trained into the low and that's going to cause the storm to continue to strengthen during the overnight hour. here's the storm track. as we go overnight and by saturday 7:00 a.m. the worst of the blizzard will be in southeast new england things will begin improving in new jersey and also the new york metropo

>> yes. >> pelley: why so? >> well because i think that my attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does. in every institution and walk of life. and, you know, the scouts are a great institution that are promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives. i think nobody should be barred for that. >> pelley: the scouts decide by wednesday. one of the oldest missing persons cases in history has been solved. how did a murderer with a history of mental illness get permits to buy guns? and the girl who was shot for defying the taliban speaks out when the "cbs evening news" continues. it's not what you think. it's a phoenix with 4 wheels. it's a hawk with night vision goggles. it's marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it's big ideas with smaller footprints. and knowing there's always more in the world to see. it's the all-new lincoln mkz. we believe natu

. >> pelley: but the reality is that this is going to happen on friday. the president and the senate are not going to get a bill passed and to you and have your chamber approve that bill before friday. i mean the sequester is going to happen. >> at this point i would agree. it looks that way. but hope springs eternal. >> pelley: but they weren't counting on hope at u.s. immigration and customs enforcement today. with more on that release of illegal immigrants, we turn now to elaine quijano. elaine? >> reporter: scott, the jail behind me is one of the facilities were a number of detainees are believed to have been released. an immigration official describes the detainees as noncriminals. homeland security secretary janet napolitano suggested yesterday that drastic action might be necessary. >> all i can say is, you know look we're doing our very best to minimize the impacts of sequester, but there's only so much i can do. i'm supposed to have 34,000 detention beds for immigration. how do i pay for those? >> reporter: a statement a spokesman for u.s. immigr

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. many of lance armstrong's victories were painted red, white, and blue. his team sponsor was the u.s. postal service and, in the late 1990s, the agency could hardly believe its luck, that it had put its money on a man who became arguably the greatest endurance athlete of all time. well, today color the pofl service embarrassed. the u.s. justice department announced this afternoon that it will join a civil lawsuit that claims armstrong defrauded the federal government. here's bob orr. >> reporter: the lawsuit as lance armstrong broke his sponsorship contract with the u.s. postal service by using performance-enhancing drugs while winning multiple tour de france titles. the postal service paid at least $31 million to sponsor armstrong's cycling team and now the justice department wants that money back and could seek total damages approaching $100 million. the lawsuit, first filed by armstrong's former teammate floyd landis in 2010, claims the team knowingly caused the united states posta

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. >> pelley: for the first time, l.a. police officers targeted by christopher dorner tell their stories. john miller has the interviews. what drove the newtown shooter to kill? bob orr has the latest clues. as his girlfriend is laid to rest, south africa runner oscar pistorius tells the court he can't imagine why he's been charged with her murder. and women revolt against a culture of rape. holy williams in india with the protests rocking the world's largest democracy. >> how did you have the courage to speak out? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we could only imagine what los angeles police officers and their families were going through as they were being targeted by a fired cop out for revenge. well, today we found out as they told their stories. the former officer, christopher dorner, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound one week tonight, his body recovered from the ruins of a burned-out cabin in san bernadino where he holed up. over ten days dorne

>> pelley: what's next? this hasn't happened in nearly six hundred years. >> this hasn't happened in six centuries, has it? now we know what happens when the pope dies. whether the same protocol will click in, i don't know. i'll be waiting to see. i would presume what would happen is that the cardinal colleges will be summoned to rome to be there for march 1 because once the chair is vacant, by church law the college of cardinals would be -- would oversee the day in/day out pastoral leadership and governance of the church universal. >> pelley: the pope was very conservative. when a lot of american catholics are looking for a pope to lead into a new era maybe for women in the church, for example. >> yeah, they have to realize scott, that the job description of the pope is to conserve. (laughs) you know to conserve the pat ramonny of the faith. so it shouldn't surprise us that a pope could be conservative in the best sense of the world. >> pelley: would you expect that college of cardinals to give us a pope ve

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. to the syrian dictator bashar al-assad, it must feel like damascus is shrinking. today, three massive bombs tore through the heart of the city near the soul of his reign. the largest detonated outside the headquarters of assad's ruling political party papt least 53 were found dead, mangled bodies amid blazing wreckage. the other two bombs exploded outside offices of assad's feared intelligence agency, killing another 22. rebels also claimed today that their mortar rounds hit the army's central command building. damascus, the capital, was the last city to mostly hold the vicious war at bay. the rebellion began nearly two years ago, a popular uprising against the 42-year dictatorship of the assad family. neighborhoods have turned to rubble. 70,000 people are dead, and refugees are pouring over the borders. some of the leaders of the opposition groups fighting in syria are not in syria tonight. they're in cairo for talks, and that's where we find our correspondent clarissa ward tonight.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. 4,000 people who have been adrift at sea for four days are finally nearing shore tonight. this is a live image of the carnival cruise ship "triumph" as she is towed in to mobile bay, alabama, this evening. she is expected to dock in just a few hours. she left galveston, texas, a week ago, loaded with her maximum 3,143 passengers and a crew of 1100. the brochure described a four-day cruise in the caribbean, but an engine room fire left her adrift and powerless. all aboard have suffered in squalid conditions, stranded as carnival slowly brought the ship in. we sent ana werner out today for an early look. >> reporter: when we flew over the carnival "triumph" it was within sight of shore but still seven hours away from the dock. from up here, we can can see a lot of people waving. we can see what appeared to be signs made out of bed sheets. one of them down there on one of the balconies says, "s.o.s.-- save our ship." at this point, it's the passengers that need saving. the shape has bee

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. two ill winds are blowing tonight, a low-pressure storm system rolling out of the midwest will soon collide with another system coming out of the southeast. where they meet will be a classic nor'easter with blizzard conditions. blizzard warnings are up from northern new jersey to maine. and in some of the nation's most important transportation hubs, 1600 flights have been canceled so far. david bernard is our weather consultant. david, what can we expect tonight? >> all the ingredients are coming together for that powerhouse area of low pressure. what i want to do is show you where we expect the storm to be tomorrow morning. those two systems are going to come together right here on the outer banks of north carolina. snow will be breaking out across most of new england tomorrow, maybe even the coastal areas, and during the day tomorrow, by tomorrow evening, heavy snow over the entire region, maybe right along the coast and in new york, we might be mixing a little bit, and during the

the unemployment rate might tick up again. >> pelley: mr. obama wants more tax revenue. the republicans say no and each side said it's up to the other to give in. major garrett is at the white house for us tonight. major, what next? >> well, the continued effort by the white house scott to apply public pressure on republicans to relent. this will be done in public to events like we saw today. it's already been done privately. top government officials are warning businesses they could be harmed by these looming spending cuts. here's one example we've learned. last friday top officials at the agriculture department warned meat and poultry producers that there might not be enough federal inspectors to keep their processing plants open and operating. these are designed to motivate businesses to plead with republicans to find another way. for now republicans appear prepared to take these spending cuts because they say they will argue to the public they're more serious about deficit reduction than president obama. >> pelley: is there any reason to believe that there's progress

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. to be honest, we were his tent at first to begin this broadcast with yet another scientific study about what we should or should not eat. but our dr. jon lapook brought us what he says is the most definitive study yet that the so-called mediterranean diet-- including olive oil and nuts, wine, and fish can prevent the leading cause of death in america: heart disease. and it does it much better than the low-fat diet can. jon has more on why we should pay attention to this study and what it found. >> reporter: today's study compared the mediterranean diet to a low-fat diet among nearly 7,500 patients at high risk for heart disease. after five years, those on the mediterranean diet had 30% fewer heart attacks, strokes, or deaths from heart disease. dr. tara narula is a preventative cardiologist at lenox hill hospital. >> the study is significant because diet is one of the most underestimated and easy way to change your cardiovascular risk profile. >> reporter: the mediterranean diet incl

>> pelley: tonight, motive for the massacre. for the first time we've learned what motivated the attack on sandy hook elementary school. bob orr reports adam lanza believed he was competing with another infamous murderer. oscar pistorius will appear in court tomorrow, the same day his girlfriend is laid to rest. emma hurd reports from south africa. remembering the man who brought us magic, shaq, and kobe. bill whitaker in los angeles on the life and times of jerry buss. and we'll go to africa where a ship called "mercy" brings american compassion to the most desperate people on earth you know that there are some people watching this interview who are saying to themselves "i could never do what she does. those poor people are terribly disfigured. i can't look at them." >> people have been saying that to these people their whole lives. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the one remaining mystery in the tragedy in newtown, connecticut, is the question of why. why d

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the corner's office is working to make a positive identification on remains recovered from the ruins of a cabin in san bernardino county, the scene of a ferocious shoot-out yesterday between christopher dorner and sheriffs deputies. the remains are believed to be those of dorner. his firing by the l.a. pd allegedly sent him on a killing spree that began 10 days ago and left four people dead. he was targeting police officers and their families. when the manhunt came to a sudden, violent end, correspondent carter evans was there. >> reporter: we were on the side of road when we decided to follow this unmarked police truck less than a mile away, we came to a dead stop right in the middle of a firefight. >> i see a lot of these authorities moving to take cover themselves. ( gunfire ) the man believed to be christopher dorner was cornered in this cabin. he was shooting at police with a high-powered sniper rifle. >> guys down! >> reporter: police scanner made it clear-- two sheriff's deput

when the cbs evening news continues. >> pelley: back now from new orleans. jesse jackson is calling on president obama to come to chicago to confront the gun crisis. today, jackson led mar cherz to the park where a 15-year-old girl was shot to death this week a mile from mr. obama's chicago home. the police say that it is likely she was the victim of a gang war. dean reynolds has discovered why gang relates murders have become so difficult to solve. for almost seven years, pam and tom bosley have been hoping for a measure of justice. >> my son was murdered april 4th, 2006. >> but no one has paid a price except terrell's family. >> the first year when this happened to terrell, it was real hard for me, and i tried to save my life twice. >> a suspect was arrested and tried, but then acquitted, the evidence was sparse, the witnesses willing to testify, few, even though terrell was shot in a church parking lot on a busy street. >> people were out there, but nobody said anything, yes, people coming home from work, they were driving back you had to see somebody run

>> pelley: good evening. the one remaining mystery in the tragedy in newtown connecticut is the question of why. why did adam lanza the 20-year-old gunman shoot his way into sandy hook elementary school and murder 20 first graders and six members of the school staff? well tonight multiple sources in law enforcement tell us that one motivation was an obsession with a mass murder committed the year before. bob orr is breaking this story for us tonight. >> reporter: law enforcement sources say adam lanza saw himself as being in direct competition with anders breivik a norwegian man who killed 77 people in july 2011. breivik killed eight with a bombing in downtown oslo he then moved to a nearby island where he hunted down and fatally shot 69 people mostly teenagers attending a summer camp. two officials who have been briefed on the newtown connecticut, investigation say lanza want to top breivik's death toll and targeted nearby sandy hook elementary school because it was the easiest target with the largest cluste

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds-- unless it's saturday. the u.s. postal service added that qualification to its legendary motto today. the service is broke and it will drop saturday mail delivery in august. the troubles of the postal service are as big as the agency itself. the u.s.p.s. delivers 40% of all of the mail on earth and it has more than 522,000 full-time workers, which makes it among the top civilian employers in america. but the age of e-mail has turned out to be a much bigger challenge than snow or rain or gloom of night and here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: saturday mail delivery dates back to the inception of the postal service itself in 1863. but today the postmaster general said times have changed and his agency must, too. >> when you lose the first class volume that we've seen, you can't make ends meet from a financial standpoint. the choice is either change some of the servic

we first met what loose in 2011 when he spoke with scott pelley. >> pelley: in those 3:00 a.m.moments you ask yourself what? >> why can't i get a job? i still have those 3:00 a.m. moments. this morning it was a 2:30 moment. >> reporter: he has been living off of savings and worked at a costco for two months over the holidays. he is now 61 years old. at this point, what are you willing to do for a full-time job? >> quite frankly, the seasonal job i had i was hoping turned into a full-time job. that's what's out there, that's what i will take right now. be professional from the moment you get out of the car. >> reporter: he says volunteering keeps him sane and gets him out of the house. there are people who are gainfully employed who will say wow, after three and a half years if you can't find a job, you must not be trying hard enough. people make those judgments themselves. >> i'm aware of that. >> reporter: what do you say to them? >> you just have to walk a mile in my shoes. i hope it never happens to you. >> reporter: he had his first in-person job interview in four months. h

that's what they were talking about for those days. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. the u.s. justice department said today that it is suing standard and poor's rating service, accusing it of a massive fraud when it gave high ratings to mortgage investments that later plunged in value. that helped fuel the 2008 financial meltdown. investors, including pension funds, lost billions on what s&p told them were the safest bets money could buy. anthony mason has more. >> reporter: as the housing bubble was beginning to burst in 2007, standard and poor's was still giving glowing ratings to mortgage-backed securities that some of its own analysts feared would go bad. attorney general eric holder said today the nation's largest rating agency was knowingly executing a scheme to defraud investors and pump up its profits. >> put simply, this alleged conduct is egregious, and it goes to the very heart of the recent financial crisis. >> reporter: the government's 124-page complaint cites internal documents, like this instant message exchange between two s&p analysts. "that deal is ridiculou

today, our commitment to the gulf, and to america has never been stronger. >> pelley: >> pelley: if our were a movie the the kid who'd never played before would come off the bench and win the game. but this story doesn't have a hollywood ending-- it has something better a steve hartman ending "on the road." >> i know you guys get tired of me. it's little things. >> reporter: coach peter morales of the coronado high school in el paso texas, makes no qualms about it. he has a favorite. >> mitchell, i need you to help me out with my coaching tips. >> reporter: team manager mitchell marcus has a developmental disability and he far surpasses everyone here when it comes to love of the game. >> he's an amazing person and our basketball team loves being around him. >> reporter: mitchell's mom amy says he's always been that way. >> mitchell always had av basketball, that was always what he wanted for his birthday. >> reporter: and because basketball is that important to him, on the last game of the regular season the coach told mitchell to suit up. what was it like to put on the uniform? >> i wa

. >> pelley: major, thank you. on that afghanistan announcement, there are 66,000 americans fighting there tonight. mr. obama intends to bring home 34,000 of them by this time next. year. most u.s. combat troops are due home by the end of 2014. charlie d'agata is at our afghan bureau in the capital, kabul and, charlie, i wonder, what is this going to mean to the troops on the ground? >> reporter: well, the key question, scott, is the time frame. any commanders here will tell you that they want as many boots on the ground for as long asg they can, certainly through the summer and the fall, when thethe fighting picks up against the taliban. and there's a lot of work to be done, especially along eastern afghanistan, where insurgents have been infiltrating from safeee havens in pakistan. they're holding territory there. they're launching attacks heretack in kabul. u.s. troops are also focused on the south around kandahar, the birthplace of the taliban. now, it's been announced that the afghans will be taking then lead

>> pelley: tonight, a political star falls to earth. jesse jackson, jr., pleads guilty to corruption. dean reynolds on how the congressman looted the funds of his donors. beware the first of march. that's when hundreds of thousands of workers will see their paychecks cut if the president and congress can't make a deal. >> this is one of the least -- or the most distasteful tasks i have faced in my four years in this job. >> pelley: reports from david martin and chip reid. a bail hearing for olympic runner oscar pistorius turns into a preview of his murder trial. emma hurd on how the defense tried to tear apart the prosecution's case. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. good evening. under the law, donations to a political campaign must be spent on the campaign. but today jesse jackson, jr., pleaded guilty to spending $750,000 of his donors' money on a lavish life-style. federal prosecutors say the looting began seven years ago, nearly half the time jackson has represented his chicago district in

. >> pelley: a long odyssey. anne ayou thank you very much. that budget dispute in washington is about to have a very real effect on the people who build and repair our military ships. that industry says 100,000 jobs in several state are on the line because the navy is planning on delay the repair of nearly two dozen ships. the official announcement is coming tomorrow. wyatt andrews has more. >> reporter: tens of thousands of workers just in the shipyards of virginia are at risk of losing their jobs because of the budget cuts. one of them is mike patterson, a pipe fitter at b.a.e. systems. >> the major concern is the layoffs pap these jobs going out, there won't be any coming in behind them. >> reporter: so when these sheps leave the work runs out? >> the work runs out. >> reporter: the navy's budget cuts of $10.3 billion will fall hardest in the shipyards and involving the cancellation of maintenance and modernizations on 22 warships this year. bill clifford is friday of b.a.e. systems ship repair. what does that mean? >> it's catastrophic to

see. >> pelley: there is a huge merger in the works tonight in the airline industry.merican airlines is expected to join forces with u.s. airways. so, we asked sharyl attkisson to tell us what that will mean for air travelers. >> reporter: it's the third airline mega-merger in five years. the country's third largest, american airlines, will combine with number four, u.s. airways. the result will outsize united which merged with continental in 2010, and delta, which merged with northwest in 2008. rick seaney is founder of the air traveler advice web site farecompare.com. >> in airline mergers, the people that benefit the most are wall street, to be honest. consumers end up paying more for airline tickets in general. they have less convenience because typically during mergers, there's cutbacks in flights and schedules. >> reporter: after delta bought northwest, the decreased competition sent ticket prices up more than 20% between detroit and atlanta. the united-continental deal resulted in 30% price increases between chicago's o'hare in houston and newark and san franci

. >> pelley: nancy, thank you very much. well, gun violence a major issue in an illinois congressional race overnight. it was a primary to fill the seat resigned by disgraced congressman jesse jackson jr. one of the candidates was buried by antigun advertising. here's dean reynolds. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: former state legislator robin kelly beat 13 other democrats in a primary she said sent a pointed message to the national rifle association. >> a message that tells the nra that their days of holding our country hostage are coming to an end. >> reporter: the second congressional district has rural stretches but also chicago neighborhoods besieged by gun violence. kelly's support for tougher gun controls is why new york mayor michael bloomberg's political action committee endorsed her and poured $2.2 million into the race. >> they were running i think every seven minutes. >> reporter: most of the money went for adds attacking kelly's chief rival. what did you think when you saw the ads? >> i was shocked. i was sho

. >> pelley: so jon wine fish nuts olive oil. what is in these things that causes a protective effect. >> nobody really knows. one of the theories, scott, is that the oil in the virgin olive oil and also the oil in the nuts can somehow stabilize a tiny clot that's in a blood vessel and stop it from progressing and totally cutting off the blood supply, causing a heart attack or a stroke. whatever the cause scott this study was very very well done and it's a big deal. >> pelley: an important study. jon, thank you. for the second time in a week a major winter storm is pounding the great plains whiteout conditions were reported in amarillo texas which could get a foot and a half of snow. tonight the storm is heading east through oklahoma and kansas and michael shwankee is with our cbs affiliate in wichita. michael, what's happening there? >> reporter: scott the snow has let up but we're told do not expect that to last. more snow expected to come in tonight. forecasters saying right now they're expecting eight to ten inches. that is o

. >> pelley: almost $25 million. bob, thank you very much. this is a big turnabout for the government. it was a year ago the justice department dropped a criminal investigation of armstrong. the evidence against him now first came out in secret testimony in that criminal case. but the department of justice dropped the case without explanation before a grand jury even had a chance to vote on indictments. that's when the head of the u.s. anti-doping agency, travis tygart, pressed ahead and brought armstrong down. in his only interview, we spoke to tygart for "60 minutes." when you first heard that the u.s. department of justice was going to investigate whether criminal charges were appropriate in this case, what did you think of that? >> i thought it was absolutely appropriate. it was the right thing to do. federal taxpayers... close to $40 million were paid to this team to run what we now know was the most sophisticated and professionalized drug program the world has ever seen. >> pelley: after the criminal investigation was dropped, travis ty

and the turkish military. >> pelley: holly williams outside the u.s. embassy in ankara. holly, thanks very much. u.s. embassies, of course, are run by the state department and this attack came on hillary clinton's last day as secretary of state. (cheers and applause) staff members filled the department's lobby to say farewell. clinton has not talked about her future plans but as she left some shouted "2016" the next year we will elect a president. john kerry was sworn in as her successor in a private ceremony. ed koch, the poor kid from the bronx who grew up to be mayor of new york, died today. >> how am i doing? how am i doing? thank you. >> reporter: from 1978 to 1989 koch was the public face and brash voice of america's largest city. >> i talk like a new yorker, i walk like a new yorker, and i think like a new yorker. and i eat like a new yorker. (laughter). >> reporter: koch inherited a city in crisis, but he turned its finances around and lifted its spirits. >> what a great city. >> reporter: koch never minced words. he called his critics whackos but after 12 years

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley.n "60 minutes." good night. captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >>> >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. the fbi says a would-be bay area bank bomber was trying to trigger' civil war with help from the taliban. his target, a bank of america building in oakland. but kpix reporter linda yee tells us it didn't work because it was actually the feds who helped him build the bomb. >> reporter: the target was this bank of america branch near the oakland airport. domestic terrorist suspect matthew llaneza who lives in san jose told the fbi he wanted to blow it up an act of violent jihad he hope would create a government crackdown leading to civil war. so he met with a man that he thought was connected to the taliban and the mujahideen in afghanistan. it turned out he was an undercover fbi agent. the suspect brought the undercover agent here where they could do a little surveillance. the suspect point

. >> pelley: david, what are the dangers here? >> well, the big danger is the blizzard conditions. what does a blizzard exactly mean? we showed you how much snow we're going to expect but when you're talking about a blizzard, you're talking about powerful winds. in this case we would see gusts up to 60 miles per hour. that means power outages will be likely, and near-zero visibility at times scott. so people are going to have to be prepared to shelter in place where they are and they might be stuck there for a while if they're in the hardest hittizings. >> pelley: david thanks very much. in massachusetts, the governor is urging schools to close and he's ordered nonessential state workers to stay home tomorrow. the airports with the most cancellations tonight are newark, boston, and laguardia. it is the first big storm after a fairly mild winter so far and here is more from terrell brown. >> reporter: many new england towns spent the day preparing for the storm. it could be as brutal as the blizzard that slammed into the region in 1978. back then, about 100 people were killed, and t

. >> pelley: ben, thank you very much. senior correspondent john miller is a former assistant director of the f.b.i., and also a former commanding officer for the l.a.p.d. john, this is a real challenge for them. this man was trained by the lapd and not just trained-- i mean, he has certifications in intelligence and counter- intelligence. that's the tradecraft for being a spy, for someone who wants to fly under the radar or disappear or change their identity. he has been trained in heavy weapons. he has been deployed in war zones. he has been trained in urban warfare tactics, and after that, going through the l.a.p.d.ctic academy, he was certainly trained in all the tactics training and procedure of the l.a.p.d., so he knows how they work, too., it makes him formidable.akes >> pelley: how do they go after him, then? >> reporter: this is a very interesting case. essentially, he's turned their role inside out. he has taken the hunters and made them part of the hunted. there are special assets, some of which used to come und

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. >> pelley: dean, thank you very much. well, a different kind of corruption is being investigated tonight by the securities and exchange commission. the agency is looking into possible insider trading before the $23 billion purchase of heinz last week by warren buffett's berkshire hathaway and brazil's 3g capital. senior business correspondent anthony mason is with us and following the investigation. anthony? i. >> scott we've learned the s.e.c. is looking into a number of trades surrounding the heinz sale, but one trade in particular investigators are calling highly suspicious. the day before the takeover of heinz was announced, an unknown investor bought more than 250,000 options, granting the right to buy heinz stock at $65 a share through june. when the deal was unveiled, the stock jumped to $72 a share and that $90,000 investment made from a swiss-based account soared in value to more than $1.8 million. >> this was substantial trading in a very large block by an account that the s.e.c. alleges had never traded heinz b