there's much more ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley. including trouble ahead as the president weighs in are we headed for a recession? the man who killed her son moves in next door. a new definition of love thy neighbor. we're going to take,, >> pelley: tonight, we have fresh evidence of difficult days ahead for the economy. the president weighed in on whether we're headed for another recession. these people aren't sleeping on the sidewalk because they're homeless-- they're trying to keep their homes. bill whitaker on the failed promise of mortgage modifications. our correspondent in libya, allen pizzey, tells us today was unlike any other day in the bombardment of tripoli. and a new definition of love thy neighbor after a murderer moved in next door. a killer who struck so close to home. >> yes, he murdered my son. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

scott? >> pelley: thanks, chip. one of the president's economic programs was supposed to save homeowners facing foreclosure. we asked bill whitaker in los angeles to look into that, and he tells us that mortgage modification isn't working as planned. >> reporter: this house in compton is not just home to donnie hines. for 16 years, it's been her pride and joy. >> a lot of memories. a lot of good memories here. the kids have their birthday parties, they put the jumper in the back. >> reporter: she never missed a mortgage payment until she lost her job as a manager of a medical company two years ago. she first sought help at one of these events run by naca, the neighborhood assistance corporation of america. with so many americans struggling to make home payments, the nonprofit is staging events like this in miami, los angeles, all around the country. people so desperate, many line up all night for naca's help putting borrowers with lenders to work out loan modifications. >> i do not want to lose my home so i've done

the cbs evening news will welcome scott pelley to the news desk. scott and i had a long conversation about his historic aappointment appointment and what you will see when he takes charge. >> pelley comes to the anchor chair with 22 years with cbs and 35 years as a reporter. his career began before he was old enough to drive. >> you see wonderful stories on 60 minutes and your appearances on the evening news, but now we get to spend a little more time with you. what would you want the viewers of baltimore know about scott pelley. >> i hope they don't hold it against me but i'm from texas. and i've had a job in journalism all my life. i've been a reporter all my life. i haven't been an anchor man, you have more experience than i do at being an anchor man. >> the anchor chair for him will be a natural progression. >> i have to admit, being a reporter was very exciting for me. how are you going to make a balance. >> we're going to take the broadcast on the road quite a bit. when there are breaking stories, cbs evening news is going to go there. we're g

i'm scott pelley. all around the world, good night. >> pelley delivered the news without addressing the audience at all. joining us to talk about pelley's debut and katie's new career, adam buckman, a former tv critic for "the new york post." so explain to me now a new anchor takes over "the evening news" and doesn't say hi, folks, i'll be delivering your news. >> wasn't that refreshing to have a tv personality come on and not announce him initially or not at all. after i thought about it, i thought, this is nice. he's not coming on and making any big promises that critics like me will look at him in a couple weeks and figure out that they weren't fulfilled at all. he didn't promise what his newscast would be come on with the scott pelley era would be like. nor did they book him any high-profile interviews like president obama to open his week. >> nor was his face on buses in new york city like his predecessor. i know that he's a reporter. he doesn't view himself as a star. he's told me he didn't even

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. wherever you are, chances are it's a scorcher. and we wondered what's behind it all. have a look at this. for the second day in more than half of the country the temperature reached 90 degrees or higher. baltimore and newark, new jersey set records when the mercury hit triple digits. in texas, more than 80% of the state is in a drought. in arizona, firefighters are in a losing battle against a huge wildfire. we check in first with bill whitaker on the fire line. >> reporter: this giant fire has scorched an area larger than phoenix and forced nearly 7,000 people from their homes. including sherry counts. she's taking shelter in her friend's r.v. and staying in touch with her family by cell phone and text. >> when you can see the plume of smoke from a distance it looks like a big-headed monster and it's just sitting there. so, yeah, we ran. >> reporter: counts moved here from oklahoma a little more than a year ago. >> i've seen tornados and this is the scariest thing i've ever seen. it

draw down strategy. >> here is scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it is the beginning of the end of u.s. involvement in the war in afghanistan, but just the beginning. president obama is about to tell the american people why he believes now is the time to start bringing the troops home. the plan he will announce is not what his generals wanted, but with the u.s. economy struggling, the government deep in debt, and an election coming next year, the president is under pressure to start wrapping up the nation's longest war since vietnam. our chip reed is at the white house, where the president will be speaking tonight from the east room. chip. >> reporter: well other scott, the generals wanted as slows a withdrawal as possible, but in fact the president is going to announce that he's going to pull troops out quicker than most people had thought. he's going to try to get all it 33,000 surge troops out of afghanistan by next summer instead of the end of next year. that cuts off an entire fighting season for the paerg. the big victor might be joe biden wh

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: and this is a special western edition. good evening. 1,632 americans, $433 billion. that's what 10 years in afghanistan has cost. it has purchased a decade without another attack on american soil from al qaeda in afghanistan. tonight, president obama told the nation the time has come to wind down the war. as with everything in afghanistan, his decision is troarl. we have four reports tonight on this turning point for america. first, chip reed at the white house. chip. >> reporter: scott, the president said 10,000 troops will be withdrawn by the end of this year, and all 33,000 surge troops will be withdrawn by september 2012. >> after this initial reduction, our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace as afghan security forces move in to the lead. our mission will change from combat to support. by 2014, this process of transition will be complete, and the afghan people will be responsible for their own security. >> pelley: he said the expedited withdrawal is made possible by success on

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we start tonight with the wars in afghanistan and iraq. this has been a day of u.s. casualties in iraq and it is also a day that president obama met with his advisors about the future of u.s. involvement in afghanistan. he's facing a tough decision on whether to pick up the pace of u.s. withdrawals or stay the course. we'll go first to the battlefield. cbs news correspondent mandy clark is with the 101st airborne in paktika province, afghanistan it's right on the border and this is what the fight is like for u.s. troops trying to stop the enemy from crossing into afghanistan from their hideouts in pakistan. >> reporter: fox company headed out at dawn on saturday. their mission: to cut the enemy off at the source. along the border with pakistan, the razor's edge of the war. the pilots struggled to land the helicopters on the rugged mountain top. soldiers rushed out and took up defensive positions. >> they're moving by themselves. >> reporter: in these harsh mountains, the air is thin

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we begin tonight with remarkable news about arizona congresswoman gabriel giffords. late today, we got word that giffords has been released from a texas rehabilitation hospital and is moving into her husband's home near houston. it was in january that she nearly lost her life in that assassination attempt in tucson, a shooting that killed six others. congressional correspondent nancy cordes has the late- breaking details. >> reporter: scott, this is really a great development for the giffords family. what it means is that she will be able to live at home with her husband and commute to the hospital every day to continue her rehabilitation, something that her doctors call a major milestone. congresswoman giffords left her houston hospital today after spending nearly five months there undergoing intensive rehabilitation-- learning how to speak again, working on her motor skills, after being shot at pointblank range while meeting with constituents in tucson, arizona. in a statement toda

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we're beginning tonight with what is, for women with breast cancer, a matter of life and death. the f.d.a. opened a hearing today to decide whether to end its approval of the drug avastin as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. the drug costs nearly $100,000 a year and there's serious doubt about how well it works. we asked dr. jon lapook to introduce us to the people whose lives are in the balance. >> reporter: liz cleary and her husband bob were newlyweds nine years ago when they got devastating news. liz had breast cancer and then, 18 months later, the chemotherapy stopped working. >> the cancer had metastasized to my lungs. you could make me cry right at this very moment just for thinking about how i felt at that moment. >> reporter: so, as a last-ditch effort, doctors decided to try avastin which kills cancer cells by choking off their blood supply. cleary credits the drug with keeping her alive for the past five years. >> within two and a half months of treatment scans showe

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, al qaeda has a new leader. he is the man who taught terror to osama bin laden. ayman al-zawahiri, a 59-year-old egyptian, was bin laden's number two in al qaeda. today an islamist web site announced he has taken over and u.s. intelligence sources are telling us that it's true. david martin says this marks the rise of a physician turned terrorist who is determined to do violence in the united states. >> reporter: the king is dead. how long will the new king live? ayman al-zawahiri, osama bin laden's right hand man for over a decade, is the new leader of al qaeda. and with that comes the title of world's most-wanted man. >> well, i'm not sure it's a position anybody should aspire to under the circumstances. >> reporter: to that mind, defense secretary gates, joint chiefs chairman admiral mullen added this at a pentagon press conference today. >> as we did both seek and succeed in killing bin laden, we certainly will do the same with al-zawahiri. >> reporter: al-zawahiri doesn't have bi

i'm scott pelley.of us at cbs news all around the world, good night and happy father's day. captioning sponsored by cbs >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> a massive snowpack on top of unsurpassed natural beauty for anybody ready to hit yosemite, the effort it took to clear the road for you and the epic season that's waiting when you get there. >> they were served to dogs, only the meatballs were poisoned. the neighborhood dispute that has killed two pets. >>> amid more bad unemployment news for california, a bright spot. and it is right here in the bay area. >>> good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm dana king. it may be mid-june, but only now is it finally cleared of snow. tioga road in yosemite national park will open to traffic tomorrow. the road is

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mayors know their cities and today the u.s. conference of mayors told us there are 48 metropolitan areas-- 48-- that won't get back the jobs they've lost until 2020-- nine years away. the mayors meeting in baltimore voted today to ask the president to end the war in afghanistan and to spend that money on jobs. have a look at how unemployment has spread across the country since the beginnin recession in 2007. this is a county-by-county map. brown is unemployment over 6%. the purple, that's unemployment of 7%. but now look at the black growing across the country. that is unemployment over 10% as it stood in february of this year. we have two reports tonight, first john blackstone with the

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you are one of the americans growing increasingly frustrated about the economy, the president and the chairman of the federal reserve joins you today. at the white house, president obama said the economy had run into some head winds, but he added this. >> i'm not concerned about a double-dip recession, i am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we're on is not producing jobs as quickly as i want it to happen. >> pelley: and not as quickly as the chairman of the fed wants it. ben bernanke said late today that the job market has lost some momentum. here's what he means. take a look at this. this is how jobs recovered during past recessions. the dip and then the recovery. now look at what's happened since 2007. never since the great depression have so many jobs been lost and

today run only half as many races per year as they did in the 1950s. >> pelley: jim, why are they acting now? >> reporter: scotte feeling is the industry would rather police itself than have congress do it for them. >> pelley: nice day at belmont park. thanks, jim. they boarded a plane in new york and their lives took a detour they never could have imagined. that story is next. because my d. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free. with just a few dabs, it's clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. so it's not about keeping my dentures in, it's about keeping the food particles out. [ charlie ] try zinc free super poligrip. we don't just make a taillight... ..we make a sculpture. we don't just make a sunroof... ..we make the heavens wide. we don't just make a crossover... ..we make a statement. the cadillac srx. we don't just make luxury cars, we make cadillacs. with heart-related chest pain or a heart attack known

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama stepped into the east room of the white house today and said what no president has ever had to say: >> nobody wants to see the united states default. so we've got to seize this moment and we have to seize it soon. >> pelley: speaking there at a news conference, the president warned the country will default on its debts on august 2 unless congress raises the government's borrowing limit. default, he said, would hurt an already-struggling economy. in a cbs news/"new york times" poll out tonight, only 8% of americans say mr. obama is to blame for the condition of the economy, but 52% disapprove of the way he is dealing with it. chip reed was with the president at the white house today. >> reporter: more than a month before the deadline, the president said the situation is already urgent, and the consequences for the economy of not raising the debt limit would be significant and unpredictable. >> we're going in a position now where we're having to do a whole bunch of thin

(laughter) scott pelley led the news with this. >> good evening. tart tonight with the wars in afghanistan and iraq. >> stephen: what? (laughter) did you go to journalism school, pelley? remember the five ws-- who, what, when, where, and wang! (laughter) afghanistan and iraq, really? it's called the news because it's supposed to be new. (laughter) you've got the rest of your career to cover those wars. they're not going anywhere. (laughter) other than out of the public's consciousness. take a page from your established colleagues who, unlike you, know how to lead a news broadcast. >> good evening, the age of oversharing has claimed another victim. >> first, congressman anthony weiner implodes. >> leading off tonight, you got it, it gets worse, much worse. >> i'm eliot spitzer, welcome to the program. (laughter) today congressman anthony weiner held a press conference. >> stephen: for the love of god! (cheers and applause) the one person, the one person in the world who doesn't want to remind anyone about politicians' penises led with weiner. which i

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. whitey bulger returned to boston today. the former mob boss, now 81 years old, is charged with murdering 19 people. he'd been hiding in plain sight for 16 years, but today the feds made sure he was out of sight. bulger was flown from california on a government jet and before u.s. marshals took him off the plane, the hangar doors were closed. later, bulger and his girlfriend were driven unseen into the courthouse garage. we have two reports tonight. first, bob orr with bulger's day in court. bob? >> reporter: scott, whitey bulger's being held tonight in boston in jail without bail for two brief court hearings there. the alleged mob boss-- who appeared wearing jeans and an unbuttoned white shirt-- faces multiple charges including racketeering and 19 counts of murder. the courtroom, we're told, was packed but quiet as bulger's family and relatives of some of his alleged victims looked on. now, bulger's return to the city he's accused of terrorizing came after the f.b.i. finally got a br

"cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. see you at 6:00. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelley: tonight, scra of the most wanted. >> he stabbed people, he beat people with bats, shot people, strangled people, run them over with cars. >> pelley: bob orr on the end of a 16-year manhunt for mobster whitey bulger. the white house pulls an emergency lever to steady the economy. anthony mason says it's a rare move that will reach every american family. the day after the president's afghanistan decision, mandy clark talks to the troops headed home. and, in a country with so much unemployment, we found a place in texas where they have more jobs than they can fill. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. he is an avid reader with an interest in history, spends a lot of time at libraries and historic sites, and loves animals. and one more thing: according to his f.b.i. file, james j. "whitey" bulger is a cold- blooded killer-- the kind they make

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. after ten years of war, the obama administration has told the afghan people how it really feels. in a carefully worded speech, america's top diplomat in afghanistan scolded the afghan leadership and said, in effect, how dare you complain when america's sons and daughters have died for your country. the speech happened over the weekend, but we only got a hold of the pictures today. this is also the day that president obama made up his mind on a reduction of u.s. forces. we have two reports. chip reid is at the white house, and first, david martin at the pentagon with that rebuke to afghanistan. >> reporter: carl eikenberry, the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, has finally had enough of president karzai's public denunciations of the american war effort. >> i must tell you that i find occasional comments from some of your leaders hurtful and inappropriate. when we hear ourselves being called "occupiers" and worse, and our generous aid programs are being dismissed as totally ineffective a

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it's not very often that we can't show you pictures of what we're reporting on, but today the supreme court ruled that violent images-- many too grotesque to put on television-- may be sold to children. back in 2005, california made it a crime for retail stores to sell violent video games to anyone under 18. today, the nation's highest court in a 7-2 decision ruled that law is unconstitutional. the games are protected by the first amendment. nancy cordes is at the supreme court. >> reporter: violent or not, video games are free speech. that was the majority's conclusion today. this country has no tradition of specially restricting children's access to depictions of violence wrote justice antonin scalia. he and four other justices called research linking video games like this to increased violence in children not compelling and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media like books or saturday morning cartoons. >> this decision was not in the best interest of parents, no qu

ensign only resigned last month, scott, when an ethics investigation report was about to be made public. >> pelleyy, help us understand why congressman weiner matters. >> scott, he holds kind of a unique position in the democratic caucus. the president has a lot of critics on the right but wynner is one of his most outspoken critics on the left. wherever liberals feel that the president is straying too far from their principles in the pursuit of compromise. it's unclear how well he's going to be able to perform that role now, a role even the president has said is very important. >> pelley: nancy, thank you. dominique strauss-kahn got quite a reception outside of court in new york today. (chanting "shame on you") >> pelley: the former head of the international monetary fund listened to chants of "shame on you" from more than 100 hotel workers. strauss-kahn had just pleaded not guilty to charges he sexually assaulted a hotel maid last month. the lawyer for the alleged victim said today that she plans to testify. with the economy struggling, many are looking to the housing industry to build the found

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you are one of the americans growing increasingly frustrated about the economy, the president and the chairman of the federal reserve joins you today. at the white house, president obama said the economy had run into some head winds but he added this. >> i'm not concerned about a double r

beginning monday, the new anchor of the evening news takes over and if you haven't heard, it's scott pelleyhe has been a regular fixture on "60 minutes" on sunday night covering stories, interviewing world leaders of course and viewers have asked, what are we to expect with scott at the helm? and his answer, original reporting, fairness and unique insight. >> we are going to couple that with great storytelling and we are going to deliver a broadcast each and every night that the audience watches and says to themselves, wow. i got something out of that. that was really worth my time. >> there you go. scott pelley begins anchoring the evening news monday at 5:30 right here after cbs 5 eyewitness news at 5:00. we're looking forward that. >> it's going to be great. >>> we'll be right back. after we make a dingy floor look brand new, it's not uncommon for the term "hero" to be bandied about. but does bringing a floor back to life really make us heroes? yes. yes it does. ♪call 1-800-steemer. i know you're worried about making your savings last and having enough income when you retire. that's why

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call her abc's own. >> scott pelley taking over for her. icloud announcement from apple.irst, the most gut-wrenching week of congressman weiner's life ends with a rare bit of good news. >> yeah, how about this? a new poll conducted in the congressman's district shows most of his constituents are on his side. 56% say he should not resign. 33% want him to go. 12% are undecided. >> unfortunately the same is not true among the congressman's capitol hill colleagues. karen travers is in washington with details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, peggy. good morning, daniel. weiner's colleagues may be calling for his resignation. but so far the most important constituencies are sticking by him, his voters and his wife. anthony weiner is digging in his heels. the new york democrat insists he will not resign from congress. but there is a growing drum beat from his colleagues in washington. >> as a woman, as a member of congress, as his colleague, i think the right thing to do for congress, for his constituents and for the american people is to resign his position. >> reporte

less than four months since they forced them to give up power, scott pelley joins us.re going to look at egypt. just under four months since mubarak stepped down. there was something about the muslim brotherhood seeing renewed support. is it ultimately going to be the muslim brotherhood who could, in fact, lead this country? >> even though the muslim brotherhood was banned, as you know, erica, it was tolerated by the government and therefore it became one of the best organized opposition groups in egypt. now the reason some people are concerned about the muslim brotherhood is because since its founding pack in 1928, it has been all about establishing what is known in islam as the bringing back of islamic government, bringing back islamic hegeminy in that part of the region. people are concerned about that. the vast majority of people in egypt say they're not concerned. the polling that you read, the most reputable polling we've seen, most folks in egypt believe they're going to have a secular government not involved in islamic radicalism. >> elizabeth palmer has a leng

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. >>> and before we go, we'd like to remind you that veteran 60 minutes correspondent scott pelley debutsight as anchor of the "cbs evening news." be sure to tune in on this cbs station 6:30 eastern, 5:30 central. coming up later on "the early show," potential breakthroughs against melanoma, plus a cbs investigation on the sex assault case against dominique strauss-kahn. he's due in court today. and something new from apple. will the icloud be another game changer? all that and more later on "the early show." that's it for this monday morning edition of the "cbs morning news". morning edition of the "cbs morning news". take care, everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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scott pelley becomes the anchor of the "cbs evening news." not many people have had the job. and scott is a good man for it. i sort of watched him grow up here. actually, i watched most of the people here grow up. no one who was in the washington bureau when i came here in 1969 is still here. so they're all newcomers to me. but here's the part i like. scott was telling somebody the other day that since coming here in 1989, he has never had an anchor job. so he was a little nervous about taking this one. well, i think that makes him more qualified. too many people in tv these days get their suntans from the studio lights. not scott. he hasn't spent much time in the studio. he stayed out there where the news was and still is. whether it was asking tough questions at the white house or in the trenches with the troops in iraq, or traveling to god knows where, if there was a news story, you would usually find scott there. which is probably why, since he joined "60 minutes" in 2004, half of all the awards won by that prestigious broadcast were stories that he reported. so i won't be