okay how does frances scott key get involved?nteresting, not only do we see a picture of his mother-in-law, he was born in 1779 which seems to be a year of publication. in england. it says poems of the late frances scott key. he certainly was a poet, he was gentleman poet. if you go through this biography written just after his death, you'll read lots of poems about friends and family, domestic poet poetry, but something got him going in 1805. in 1805 he went to a dinner. the tripolitan wars. a big dinner was being thrown for sfooechb-either someone asked frances scott key or he came up with the idea that everyone's singing, adams and liberty. i'll write one for deindicator, and that's what he did. i draw your attention to the third verse. ♪ and pale beams the crescent it's splendor obscured by the star spangled flag of our nation ♪ ♪ 1805, nine years before ft. mchenry. ♪ the ter binned heads bowed to its terrible glare and now mixed with the olive the laurel shall wave and form a bright wreath for the prows of the brave ♪ >> so

timed perfectly scott broke in to jcr. the owner of jc arms is a business he runs between shifts as a firefighter. >> it started a three-year nightmare that i couldn't wake up from. >> reporter: scott didn't just take silencer. he pilfered about 30 specialty high powered guns. a burglary so well executed police originally thought it looked like an inside job and considered -- >> it went downhill. it started with the loss of the inventory. then in the loss of the security. and i started looking at possibly the loss of my freedom. >> reporter: until agents get a tip he was selling the stolen guns out of the back of his car. scott seems to know the risk and explains it to the confidential informant who was wearing a wire. >> reporter: but atf can still trace them and did back to jc arms which leads to a warrant and evidence of a far darker crime spree. >> that led us from a gun store burglary to home invasions to murders to carjackings. >> reporter: in addition to the guns atf found the tools to scott's trade. the burglary ki

>> reporter: scott, u.s. officials are cautiously optimistic about a letter that they have received from iran. today secretary of state hillary clinton said that iran did not insist on any pre-conditions but they want to make sure that iran is serious about ending its enrichment program and not just stalling for time. >> we think this is an important step and we welcome the letter. >> reporter: the letter from iran's chief nuclear negotiator doctor saeed jalili proposed talks at the earliest possible time. it was received tuesday in response from a letter from lady catherine ashton, the european union's foreign policy chief and point person for negotiations between the major world powers and iran. secretary clinton met with lady ashton at the state department today. >> this response from the iranian government is one we've been waiting for. and, if we do proceed, it will have to be a sustained effort that can produce results. >> reporter: secretary clinton said the iranian letter seemed to embrace a basic pre

scott joins us from denver. scott, thank you for sharing your story. i'm a dad now. think i approach the stories from a different perspective. you are clean now. you are running a non-profit in colorado and helping addicts. first, help parents understand, parents like me how kids got access and started using these drugs. >> yeah, i did start my use very young sanjay. i was first introduced to alcohol from seeing it in my own family. there was alcoholism in my family. witnessing it at a young age drew me to it more than other kids. once i was out drinking at a young age, i started to get into a circle of people that led me to, you know, marijuana and eventually cocaine. >> i have been talking a fair amount this weekend on how addiction is truly a brain disease. i'm preaching to the choir. you work in this area now. like you are describing, you wanted to quit at times. you tried, had relapses. what was the stage for you when you realized maybe it was starting to turn around, it was getting better for you? >> i think it took me about a year or so to actually get clean.

scott? >> pelley: thanks, dean. for his part, president obama took the occasion of the michigan primary to address a friendly audience of auto workers in washington d.c., and attack the republican candidates for opposing the bailout of g. m. and chrysler. >> you folks say well the real problem is what we real need was the workers, they made out like bandits. saving the auto industry was just about paying back the unions. really? even by the standards of this town that's a load of you know what. >> pelley: the white house later denied that the president's remarks were political, saying that he was addressing policy issues. bob schieffer is our chief washington correspondent, and the anchor of "face the nation," and back to the republicans, what if mitt romney loses his home state of michigan? >> you know, scott, this whole thing, i mean if he wins arizona tonight and gets 90% of the vote, all people are going to want to know about is what did he do in his home state. i think his home state comes down to this. can he

scott, you ready for this? okay, good. jennifer? have you ever dumped on scott before?> nope. [ laughter ] je all right. on the count of -- three, two, one. go ahead and dump it. here we go. oh! wow. that was pretty good. she really got you, scott. >> that's cold. >> jimmy: like a pterodactyl was flying overhead. what flavor is it, scott? >> you know -- smells like chocolate. >> jimmy: now it's your turn. we're going to send you up to the roof. he has redeveloping on his mind now. that's how to celebrate valentine's day. [ applause ] this is funny. in college basketball this weekend, texas beat kansas state but that wasn't the funny part. nba hall of famer david robinson was in the crowd at the game. look at this. >> basketball, what a groebl game it is. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i don't know where she came from. let's watch that again. there's david robinson and -- hello. it's like whack a mole or something. [ laughter ] here's the flip side of that. you know sometimes on the news the reporters are working in the newsroom behind the anchor so the anchor's reporting and pe

>> scott, clearly, it's been a bad week. but i'm quite confident that, you know, we'll get through this. the pace of the protests has dropped dramatically. a decade's worth of relationships doesn't go away in a single week. so we'll-- we'll move forward. >> pelley: there's more of the interview with ambassador crocker and general allen on our web site cbsnews.com. the situation in syria took another turn for the worse today. the dictator, bashar al-assad, has sent ground forces into the city of homs to "cleanse" a neighborhood controlled by rebels. homs has been blasted by rockets and mortars for three and a half weeks. the regime seems determined to wipe out the year-old freedom movement and homs is the front line. a member of the murdoch family steps down as the british tabloid scandal grows. a federal judge snuffs out the graphic labels for cigarette packs. and remembering davy jones of the monkees. ade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel

>> reporter: well, good evening, scott. in the roller coaster ride that's been this republican race, the latest poll suggests rick santorum may be on the way up. he's expected to do very well in the three states that are voting today. but who knows how long that will last? >> are we going to win tonight here in colorado? (cheers and applause) >> reporter: santorum is expected to finish strong in all three states voting today after campaigning hard as the true conservative alternative to mitt romney. >> rick santorum for president. he doesn't just talk a good conservative game, he lives it. >> reporter: that message appears to be resonating with voters as his opponents... romney's to ponts continue to portray him as too moderate. but in the all-important issue of electability, romney still holds an advantage over the g.o.p. field. the latest "u.s.a. today"/gallup poll shows romney would do best in a head-to-head matchup with the president. they are tied at 48%. but mr. obama would beat ron paul by 3%, santorum by 8%, and new

"cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. remember, the latest news and weather are always on cbssf.com. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, new signs of an economic turnaround. a key measure of unemployment falls to a four-year low, and home sales are picking up. >> this was the best january we had since the-- things started going bad. >> pelley: reports from ben tracey and anthony mason. g.m. goes from bankruptcy to record profits. dean reynolds has the question of the day for the man in the driver's seat: >> reporter: when you took over, did you look at the place and go, "gee whiz, how screwed up is this?" >> pelley: armen keteyian investigates the second biggest cancer drug. and norah o'donnell on a surprise at the white house. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. you've been telling us in poll after poll that the economy is the biggest problem facing the country. so we start tonight with new evidence that it's getting

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the mortgage meltdown cost millions of americans their homes. millions more are still struggling to avoid foreclosure. for months now, the states have been negotiating with many of the banks over the price that the bank should pay for their role in this national disaster. today, they struck a deal. it will cost the banks as much as $25 billion, provide at least some compensation to some americans who lost their homes, and help others avoid foreclosure. people in all. wyatt andrews has more about what's in the deal, who it will help, and who it won't. >> we have reached a landmark settlement. >> reporter: the president calls it a great deal for homeowners-- $25 billion will come from the nation's largest mortgage banks. $10 billion goes to loan reductions for homeowners facing foreclosure. $3 billion will help refinance loans at lower interest rates and there will be payments of roughly $1500 each to 750,000 people who lost their homes to foreclosure. >> this isn't just good for these

scott spear taught at richard montgomery high school.jummy olabanji has more at the allegations -- about the allegations. >> i cannot believe it. >> the accusations are shocking to many. 47-year-old scott spear a teacher and high school coach are arrested and charged with having sex with a student. >> there are all these young kids, all these teachers, and you do not know what could happen. >> police say last spring scott spear formed an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old girl on the track team he coached and eventually had sex with her two times. >> when the trust is broken it is really not a good thing. >> scott spear was arrested thursday morning. word quickly spread. >> i cannot believe he did that with somebody at our school somebody that is my age. that is crazy. >> police say scott spear constantly spoke to the girl on the phone and on the weekend but some parents still have questions. >> you can not believe what you hear. >> there is a basketball at the highest college basketball game -- there is a high-school basketba

scott walker has raised 12 million or month. he spent more than 10 million in the last couple of months, and there has been no counter advertising by big unions. you will not find it on wisconsin tv. it's not there. >> john nicholls, good to have you with us tonight. we continue to follow the story. coming up, the woman at the center of the controversy surrounding the sue zam g. komen foundation resigns. what was her role to cut off funding to planned parenthood? find out next f. rz >>> coming up in the big finish, karen handel is out at the susan g. komen foundation but does her right wing resume keep her in politics. i'll ask teri o'neal what this all means next. >>> ed, look five dwreerz from now. my prediction is the susan g. komen will not exist or it will be reduced to say between 10 and 20% of its current size. >> that was teri o'neal chairman of the national organization for women on this program last week speak being the susan g. komen foundation's initial decision to cut off funding to planned parenthood. in a moment t

>> reporter: well, good evening, scott. with that landslide victory in nevada, romney's got all the momentum but newt gingrich, the former front-runner, says he is coming back. supporters at a campaign stop today in colorado may want gingrich, but republican voters many the last two states have not. instead of consistently delivering a strong conservative message, gingrich has been complaining about romney, even calling him a liar. >> he decides to lie about my career? i mean, there's something about the hypocrisy that should make every american angry. >> reporter: voters didn't like it. gingrich was blown out in florida and lost badly in nevada to romney and his campaign organization. and the next six states in february aren't any more favorable. that's led supporters like judson phillips, founder of the tea party nation, to hit the panic button. today phillips called gingrich's campaign a disaster. former house majority leader dick armey, who has not endorsed a candidate, is equally blunt. >> i think he's digressed into a

>> reporter: absolutely, scott. for them, if they are caught or known to be taking care of international journalists it is certain death for them. but they're so committed to their cause, they're so committed to getting their voice heard by the international community with the very potent hope that there may be some international support to grow out of this whole thing. >> pelley: clarissa ward, cbs news correspondent now reporting from istanbul, turkey. thank you, clarissa. norah o'donnell is at the white house tonight and, norah, last year the obama administration led nato to launch an air campaign in support of the rebels in libya to overthrow qaddafi. is anything like that being considered there with regard to syria? >> reporter: there's no talk of a military intervention just increased diplomatic events. secretary of state hillary clinton saying today they would convene a "friend of syria" meeting. in tunisia later this month. and the difference between libya and syria is this: on libya, there was a lot more in

under scott walker tax collections down, $140 million hole in the state budget.eopardizing his main claim for why he shouldn't be recalled from office which is that he wants to be able to say he balanced the state budget. which he didn't. here is where the magic happens. a robbery told in three headlines. this is better than surveillance camera footage. watch this burglary. headline one, journal sentinel thursday night, state faces $143 million shortfall. headline one. headline two, this goes up associated press at 3:00 in the morning friday morning. that mortgage settlement with the big banks? wisconsin homeowners are getting $140 million from that. those are the first two, right? $140 million hole in scott walker's budget and $140 million coming to the state for wisconsin homeowners. what is the third headline? you guessed it. walker and his attorney general say that mortgage settlement that is supposed to go to wisconsin families, they're taking it. they're taking at least a chunk of it for their budget hole. tada! wisconsin's share of that mortgage settlement

>> reporter: well, good evening, scott.itt romney has spent a lot of time in recent days arguing that he's more conservative than rick santorum but today on the final full day of campaigning here in michigan he returned to his read-and-butter, creating jobs. >> well, this sure has been fun these last ten days or so. we started off about, what, 15 points down in the polls, now we're leading in the polls. thanks, you guys! appreciate the support! >> reporter: mitt romney today sounded increasingly confident that he will win in michigan. he's trying to keep this battle on his own turf, the economy, where he believes rick santorum is most vulnerable. >> senator santorum is a nice guy but he's never had a job in the private sector. he's worked as a lobbyist and an elected official, that's fine. but if the issue of the day is the economy, i think to create jobs it helps to have a guy as president who's had a job. and i have. (cheers and applause) >> reporter: romney was incorrect when he said santorum never had a job in the priva

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>> reporter: you know, it was so striking, scott. almost every single person had a story they were so desperate to tell. many people were carrying photographs of people in their family who have been killed. other people telling us stories of husbands and brothers who have gone missing, who have been sent to prisons. they haven't heard from them in weeks. and they were just so desperate to get their message out there, and also so grateful for the opportunity to finally do so. so many people saying to us thank you so much for being here, we want the world to know about what is going on in syria and to see how we're suffering. >> pelley: cbs news correspondent clarissa ward reporting independently with the rebels in syria. clarissa, thank you very much. we thought you'd like to know a little bit more about the syrian dictator, bashar al-assad. he took over 11 years ago on the death of his father. hafez al-assad ran syria for 29 years and was behind an atrocity in 1982, when 10,000 protesters were killed in the town of hama. bashar al-as

scott? >> pelley: but, anthony, we have been watching gasoline prices rising. what does that mean to the recovery? >> reporter: well, scott it depends on how high they go and how long they stay. it could certainly take momentum out of the recovery and it... think of it as a tax hike, in effect, that hurts most the people who can afford it least. >> pelley: anthony, thanks very much. the last time the dow hit 13,000, gas was selling for a nationwide average of $3.79 a gallon. the recession sent the price plunging, but tonight it's $3.57 and heading up. since mid-december, gas has been rising more than three cents a week. we wondered why, and when the white house weighed in today, we turned to norah o'donnell who's at the white house tonight. norah? >> reporter: and scott, the big worry here at the white house is that those rising gas prices could cripple the current recovery and also hurt president obama's reelection hopes. still, the president's advisors admit there are no quick fixes and today they pushed back against the criticism that it's the president's fa

>> reporter: it's simply no match, scott. they're fighting with kalashnikovs. they have no military training. they are not particularly physically fit. they are up against a pretty sophisticated army that has artillery, that has tanks and, of course, their greatest fear here on the ground is that soon the syrian army will begin to use its air power as well. >> pelley: why are they fighting against those odds? >> reporter: the men that we've spoken to here say at this point there is simply no turning back. too much damage has been done. too much blood has been shed and they have been living under this repression for 40 years now. they are really saying enough is enough, we want to be able to speak our minds with freedom and we want to be able to choose our own government. we want a democracy and we are willing to die to get there. >> pelley: cbs news correspondent clarissa ward reporting independently with the rebels inside syria. clarissa, thank you very much. here at home another election night, another surprise in the race for the republican presidential nomi

scott paul and jim coeberl, gentlemen, good to have you with us. scott, you first. president obama wants more success stories like masterlock. do you think he's put out a blue print that can do that? >> i think it starts to get us where we need to go. you covered the high points there, ed. we have a change in the tax code. we have a more of an emphasis on a level playing field for american workers and businesses. we have investing in a new generation of manufacturing workers, something that has been eviscerated over the last generation. we have more investment in infrastructure, help get some investment in plant and equipment. a good plan and the fact that both the president is talking about this in a way, inviting companies to bring work back, that is something we haven't seen since the early 1980's and indicates we can make progress if congress will do something. >> let's talk about that the best numbers in 25 years for manufacturing. how? >> well, it does it in a couple of ways. first in the tax code, he would try to expand a deduction for domestic manufacturing,

they've doubled since this crisis began, scott. and suicide help lines that used to get an average of 10 calls a day are now reporting more than 100. >> pelley: liz, thank you very much. world trade can create jobs and that was the main topic today as china's vice president met with congressional leaders in washington. xi jinping, who will be the chinese president, said u.s.-chinese relations are at a new starting point but president obama, touring a factory in milwaukee today, took aim at china's trade policies. >> i'm going anywhere in the world to open up new markets for american products, and i'm not going to stand by when our-- our competitors don't play by the same rules. it's not fair when foreign manufacturers have a leg up on ours just because they're getting heavy subs dees from their government. >> pelley: and to get an idea on what american companies are up against, take a look at the u.s. solar panel industry. bill whitaker shows us why it's take, such a beating from chinese competition. >> reporter: business is heatin

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and, scott, one red flag. there have been many approaches to fighting alzheimer's that seemed to work in mice but didn't translate to humans. clearly, much more research is needed, but that's not dim anything hope of the scientists tonight. >> pelley: jim, thank you very much. a political note-- last weekend, on "face the nation" donald trump told bob schieffer he was thinking about running for president, but on second thought, he's not. today, the real estate developer and reality tv host fired off an endorsement of mitt romney. trump called romney tough, smart, and sharp. the new eruption of violence in egypt as protesters blame the police for a deadly so, riot. the mona lisa may have a twin sister. and a break in the ice at the bottom of the world when the cbs evening news continues. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it reli

and, scott, he looked me in the eye and he said, "what are you waiting for?" >> pelley: clarissa, when you were inside syria reporting for us recently a lot of people were asking you that question, "what are you waiting for?" i wonder, after all this bombardment, has the tone of that question changed? >> reporter: well, scot, i think there has been a shift in the tone. before people were questioning why is the world not helping us? why is the international community not doing more? now there is anger. there is indigence. the tone is more how can the world stand by and watch us die? >> pelley: clarissa ward reporting tonight from beirut. thank you, clarissa. today, president obama personally apologized to afghanistan for the burning of the islamic holy book, the koran, at a u.s. military base there. two u.s. soldiers were killed in apparent retaliation for the book burning. mandy clark is in kabul tonight. >> reporter: furious protests raged for a third day over the burning of the muslim holy book. in eastern afghanistan, an afghan soldier opened fire and kille

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley.y on "60 minutes." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is 9news now. >> the bitterly cold air is heading our way for the weekend and for some of us, that combined with the presip could mean some snow. topper, who is going to see the white stuff and when is it coming? >> tonight, primarily north and west of town up near frederick and points north and west of that. let's start with the advisory. most of the advisories for tonight are right along the maryland, pa border. it includes washington county and a panhandle. the white that you see on the far left hand corner, especially if you're watching in hd, these are winter storm warnings west of the divide. no real surprise there. i will say that by this time tomorrow, we could seize advisories lowered south that might include the district and prince georges county. a litt