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have been burned? >> it is something we're not happy about, frankly. and before the sun went down that day, scott, i issued an order from my headquarters that called for the retraining of the entire force, to assist us in understanding the significance of the koran and of the other religious materials to the afghan people. that's my obligation as a commander. that's our obligation as a people. >> pelley: ambassador crocker, the united states has been building a relationship in the afghanistan for more than a decade now, and i wonder how much has that relationship been set back by this incident with the korans? >> 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 cit

governors and the country rick scott doesn't have the best reputation with his fellow floridians and about local news outlets were genuinely surprised when his approval rating went up from twenty six percent to thirty eight percent in january now of the many reasons that his approval so low is because he signed a man they last year to require all welfare recipients to submit to regular drug tests to cure magine that was that would allow private to make matters even worse for scott it turns out that only two percent of those who submitted the drugs actually came back positive ninety six percent of those on welfare came back clean and there was two percent for which they couldn't exactly that result now looks like that effort backfired and didn't help that the media dug up this interesting little tidbit that's not actually co-founded an urgent care chain which specializes in drug testing conflict of interest anybody or surely a thought of this measure would at least help them benefit his bottom line but like rick some reason pointed out to us last year the testing policy ended up costing the state quite a bit of money. if you think roughly between five and ten per

scott wilson would have lived. he had superficial injuries when he went into that canal an drowned.t was impaired, the defendant was speeding, the defendant ran a stop sign, the defendant probably unintentionally had too much to drink that night. megyn: kimberly i heard someone say the definition of a tragedy is the difference between what is and what might have been. a tragic accident might not have been deadly if that defendant had not left the scene. >> he exercise poor judgment. the prosecution has consistently said this is not a bad person, did he do something wrong. he has tried to make amend. megyn: it was great when he adopted his girlfriend in the civil case. >> he did apologize to the family. he did pay them. he didn't try to argue to compensate them for something you could never pay back. if you are looking at 30 years, there isn't a shot or chance he will get that. megyn: that's two separate questions. a good guy because he paid out in a civil case? >> no, not a good guy. horrible guy. he paid out in a civil case because he wanted to get a lesser sentence. he should get

alan reaches for another knife which he wouldn't have been carrying that day if it hadn't been for his friend brian scott. >> the day before i wente pro shop and bought him a metal hook knife and i think alan had a knife that was already in his rig. it was kind of like on his harness right here. but it was plastic. i bought him a better knife. it was just a present to my buddy the day before. >> with his new knife, alan finally frees himself of both chutes. now in free fall, he has less than ten seconds until impact. >> that was it. he pulled out of that at about 700 feet. >> with little time to spare, he coasts to a landing completely unscathed. luckily his reserve chute deployed even though he was so close to the ground. >> we all gathered at the ground and he was just laughing and carrying on. he was back up in the air that day. i mean, alan is just my hero. he never gave up for one second. >> the very next day, the team beats the world record for canopy formation. one of those skydivers? alan. >>> coming up, rescuers spot a man whose time was running out. >> he was in the midst of it and i knew he want doing well. >> when "ca

have grandchildren is it going to be one in two? >> naidona's son, brock, went through extensive therapy in specialized schools before he saw improvement, and, scott, next next year, new guidelines are expected to change the definition of autism. that could drastically reduce the number of children given the diagnosis, particularly those kids with mild autistic traits like brock. >> pelley: thanks, michelle. ca captain clayton osbon remains in a texas hospital tonight. he's he's been there since tuesday when husband midair mental breakdown terrified passengers aboard a jetblue flight. bob orr has been learning more today about the copilot who took over. >> reporter: raymond dower was the man in the man in the copilot's seat of jetblue 191 when it took off orom new york tuesday bound for las vegas. when the flight made an emergency landi emergency landing three and a half hours later in amarillo, texas, dowd was being hailed as a hero. the cool-thinking first officer, who seized command when captain clayton osbon suffered a midair meltdown. dowd's father-in-law, said the family was proud but not surprised. >> he's a great guy. i think he's probably

scott broom, 9news now. >> six other states including arkansas and california have passed similar bans. >>> another mild day in nation's capital has people thinking spring. another sign of spring, nationals baseball single-game tickets wentn sale at the ballpark today. with the return of pitcher stephen strasburg and the possible play of bryce harper there's a lot of excitement. opening day is april 12th against the cincinnati reds. >>> in massachusetts a man is facing criminal charges for pointing a laser beam into the eyes of a high school hockey goalie would was guarding the net of the team his daughter was opposing. it happened at a critical time in the game. >> kind of like when you look at the sun, then you look away. you see that spot and you can't see for a couple of seconds. so you shake your head and try to get it out of your system and just keep focusing, but it's difficult. >> it looked like she had a hitch for seajtd i asked her later, why didn't you make that lateral move. she said, i stood up, and i was blinded. >> the laser pointer, 42-year- old joseph cortes, is charged with using it and he's charged with disturbing the peace. his daughter's team did win the game, and despite that laser incident, the sch

. >> as long as i have a uniform on my back, there's always the thought could i play well enough or somebody goes down. >> mike: that someone went down, scott sizemore blew out his knee and is out for the season. this might be wes' shot at the long-haired kid from westticed virginia. >> i didn't expect him to look like that. and looks likely has some gamer in him. going to get plenty of playing time. we don't have that many infielders here. >> the reality is i'm here to play. whether it's at the big-league level or aaa. i'm going going to give 100%. >> you're an old guy on this team. >> ion also -- i'm an old guy everywhere. and maybe that's where all the energy comes from, trying to keep up with the young kid. >> wes has been called up in september but never made the opening day roster. maybe this is the year his dream comes true. >> mike: baseball is the only game you can hang on. >> a 33-year-old ol' guy. >> and a family, too. >> i said, you've got to be single he says he has a wife ask two children and she is also a teacher and encourages him and hopefully its will happen. >> the a's finalized a four year deal with yoenis cespedes. he w

went for romney. we have a team of campaign 2012 correspondents covering the primary. first we'll go to jan crawford with the romney campaign in illinois. jan? >> reporter: well, scott, here at romney's election night party the band is playing, the crowd you can hear is cheering, they're expecting some very good results from illinois. now, romney not only wanted to win illinois but win it decisively to try to erase any doubt about whether or not he can clinch the nomination. >> i need you to go vote! >> earlier this month polls had romney with a slight lead. he expanded it in the past week with an aggressive campaign. >> how are you this morning? >> reporter: he and the outside groups supporting him poured more than $3 million into television ads, most of them targeting rick santorum. >> santorum co-sponsored 51 bills to increase spending. >> reporter: they outspent santorum and his supporters 18-1. romney campaigned across the state, shaking hands in rockford and today in chicago talking in an online chat about the rigors of campaign life. >> i had to wash my shirt out in the sink and then i thought how am i going to get this thing dried fast enough? >> reporter: h

have been two that hit norway twn the past six years. >> she thought there was something strange about a huge rock that went through her roof. speaking of science, scottw says one of the most valuable scientists is leaving public service to do work for google. >> regina dugan, ahead of advanced research agency. darpa researches state of the art weapons and other ideas like the self-driving cars that race. google also maekz self-driving cars. wired reporting that dugan will take a senior position at google. >>> we told you this would happen a few weeks ago, yahoo! made it official. it is suing facebook, of stealing several ideas, mostly related to internet advertising. now critics of the move point out it's not clear what yahoo! ever did with its ideas and speculate yahoo! is trying to make money off the facebook ipo. yahoo! indicates it had a network called 360 long before facebook and some of the ideas belonged to yahoo!. if you don't do something with your idea or it doesn't succeed and someone else does, is that really their fault? >> the war of the major websites. good question. >> the time is 5:56. we'll get you information on a car port fire in

>> as long as i have a uniform on my back there is always that thought that i guess i could play well enough or somebody goes down. >> well, that someone went down. third baseman scottew out his knee and he is out for the season. >> i didn't expect him to look like that and looks like he has some gamer in him. he will get plenty of playing time. we don't have all that many infielders here. >> the reality is i'm here to play whether at the big league level or back in triple-a. i'm going to give 100% regardless of level. >> you are and old guy on this team. >> i'm an old guy everywhere. and maybe that is where the energy comes from trying to keep up with the young kids. >> he has been called up in september but never made an opening day roster. maybe this is the year his dream comes true. mike shumann, abc 7 sports. >> there aren't too many professions where you are 33 years old and you are the old guy. this is one of them. also it is good that he can play all over the infield so he has got a greater opportunity to actually make the team. hopefully it will work out. >> that would be a great story. nice for him to get what he wants. root for him. >> that is this editio

went negative. it's come back a little bit. only up 0.25%. courtney reagan joins us, scott stein joins us. courtney, what's the latest headline you have?we're still waiting for the name, sue. that's one thing we're still missing. they keep referring to it as the new ipad. i think the battery life is impressive considering the new color resolution we're getting and battery life. 10 hours, nine hours if you're 4g lte. 16-gigs $629. >> scott, let me turn to you. impressed or not? >> i'm impressed on the price and the battery life claim. even the tv reviewers at cnet were saying for that display they didn't know if the battery life would live up to it. sounds like a pretty good deal if the battery life lives up. >> john carney. >> i'm very impressed. wicked fast streaming movies, high resolution screen, this is an amazing product. >> thank you all. we appreciate it very much. we mentioned that some of the apple suppliers were higher. well, with the ability to redownload movies, netflix has been taking a hit in today's trading session as the details on apple's new product come out. it's now down almost 2% on the trading session at 105.01. t

have reaction. >>> game on in wisconsin. the recall dates are set. now scott walker is complaining he doesn't get paid enough. >> my wife in some ways would love it if i went back to the private sector and made real money. >> john nichols has the latest. >> tonight, another "ed show" exclusive. >> professor ogletree took great pains to hide that. >> the man at the bogus theory, charles ogletree will tell us why he hid the tape of barack obama. >>> good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. there is only one thing keeping newt gingrich in the republican presidential race, it's ego. rick santorum pull off a six point win in alabama, a closer race in mississippi, but santorum, he won but never led in any mississippi polls. it was not a good night for mitt romney, who came in third in both states but it was a disaster for newt gingrich. gingrich was selling voters on $2.50 a gallon gas and on his ability to "hey i can win the southern states" so far he has won georgia and south carolina. there is no reason for gingrich to stay in the race. but last night, he was defiant. >> we will continue to run a people's campaign. i believe after the primaries

scott, i take the train every day, so i almost never drive my car. but i did have to fill up the other day and i got to tell you, i was stunned when i went to the -- id and oh, my lord almighty. so talk to us about the impact of gas prices. >> well, gas prices obviously a huge factor in consumer confidence and right now, seven out of ten americans say that the nation is not doing enough to develop its gas and oil resources right here in this country. only 20% think enough is being done. huge gap here, bit way, between the political class and main stream. 54% of political class voters say we're doing plenty to find oil and gas. 77% in the main stream say no, we're not. >> heather: no doubt, this issue is going to play in big time with the political -- the 2012 election for president. so what should be done? what do people think needs to be done in terms of bringing these gas prices down? >> they like the slogan the president is using about all of the above. they'd like to see anything done because americans want to see more energy sources developed rather than focusing more on conservation. but when you ask about specifics, 67% now favor offshore oil