captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. with medicare already on the evenly critical list, the government says con artists are drank the life blood out of it by filing millions of dollars in phony claims. today, the justice department announced the biggest crackdown ever. 91 people were arrested in eight u.s. cities coast to coast, charged with defrauding taxpayers of nearly $295 million. our chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian tells us that the accused include doctors, nurses, and other health care workers. >> reporter: as part of the coordinated strike by federal law enforcement, the government charged this miami mental health clinic was set up for the sole purpose of committing medicare fraud. 20 people were indicted here alone as part of the record nationwide bust, charged with bilking u.s. taxpayers out of more than $50 million in the last four years. >> this massive fraud includes doctors and nurses who had a sworn duty to their patients but yet they chose to breach that duty to line their own pockets. >

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. with unemployment stuck above 9%, there was some hope that congress and the president might return from vacation and put aside political bickering, but it appears they are picking up right where they left off. today, just choosing a date for the president to address congress turned political. more on that in just a moment. but first, let us show you los angeles, where the lines of the unemployed continue to grow today. you're looking live at a jobs fair where folks told us they are desperate for leadership in washington. today, the president asked to address a rare joint session of congress next week so he could lay out a jobs plan. we have three reports tonight on the jobs crisis. first, norah o'donnell at the white house. >> reporter: scott, tonight, we don't know when the president's major jobs speech is going to occur. president obama had asked to speak on wednesday evening, but the speaker of the house, john boehner, said no and suggested the president delay his speech by a day.

"cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. see you at 6:00. >> pelley: tonight, the job creation engine stalls. anthony mason tells us why, for the first time in nearly a year, the economy has failed to add any jobs. and michelle miller reports job seekers are turning to their rich uncle-- their uncle sam. new york's police commissioner says the city's on guard in case of a plot targeting the upcoming 9/11 memorial ceremony. particularly because bin laden spoke about it twice. >> pelley: and historic drought in texas, tropical storm in vermont. turns out, there's something behind our extreme weather. ben tracy on the strange return of la nina. >> continuing la nina is definitely not good news. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the economy is stuck in neutral. the government reported today that every time a job was created in august, another job was lost, the first time that's happened in 66 years. the result? no job growth at all last month and the jobless rat

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. for a president hoping to be re-elected, barack obama got a lot of bad news today. a bloomberg news national poll asked voters about the direction of the country, and 72% said it's on the wrong track. in a field poll, california voters were asked about the president's job performance. only 46% approved, 44% disapproved. and that is the first time his approval rating has fallen below 50% in that critical state that we won in 2008. perhaps the biggest wake-up call came in a special election in new york city for a congressional seat. one thing you should know about the seat in the ninth congressional district it's democrat always wins it. but that ended with a republican here's jim axelrod. >> how's he doing, bob turner? turner is celebrating his upset victory in a district where democrats outnumber republicans three to one. a district president obama carried 55/45 three years ago. a republican won the seat for the first time in more than 90 years but for many voters in the district, th

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the f.b.i. says that it's been running a sting operation against an aspiring terrorist who intended to fly model planes with explosives into washington landmarks. an attack like that would likely not do a great deal of damage, but federal prosecutors say that the man, an american from massachusetts, was determined to wage war on american soil. bob orr has been talking to his sources and has learned details of the plot and the sting. bob. >> reporter: scott, u.s. officials tell us the suspect was deadly serious about his plans to attack the u.s. capitol and the pentagon with remote- controlled airplanes filled with explosives, but the plot had no chance of succeeding. 26-year-old rezwan ferdaus went by the name of bollywood when he played in a massachusetts band. but u.s. officials say the drummer is also a self- radicalized jihaddist, intent on attacking americans in the u.s. and overseas. ferdaus was arrested this morning and now faces charges of plotting attacks and supporting a fo

and scott pelley on the toxic legacy of ground zero ten years after 9/11. >> people are still dying. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> mitchell: good evening, scott is on assignment. some parts of the south are burning up tonight, others are underwater. in a perfect world, tropical storm lee would have brought much-needed rain to parts of texas, fighting through its worst drought in half a century. but it didn't work out that way, instead, its rains overwhelmed sections of the gulf coast including louisiana and mississippi. what texas got from lee was wind-- lots of it. and that whipped up wildfires that killed at least two people. several are burning near the capital city of austin and the only way to battle the quick-moving fires is from the air. >> i never did get to get to the house, see anything, get anything. this is... what i have on is all i was able to leave the his with yesterday. >> mitchell: chris coffee from our atill i can't tell in texas, chris, what's the latest in bastrop? >> reporter: you'll see smoke like a panoramic s

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: where the twin towers once stood there are now reflecting pools, part of the national september 11 memorial. good evening. we're beginning tonight with the the anniversary and the legacy of the deadliest terror attack on u.s. soil. because, as america prepares to mark the 10th anniversary on sunday, law enforcement is concerned that terrorists may be planning to do the same. police are on heightened alert tonight in new york city and in washington, d.c., both considered potential targets. but security has been tightened all over the country as well. from san francisco's golden gate bridge to the rail system in chicago. homeland security correspondent bob orr has the latest on what's called a credible but unconfirmed threat. bob, how much do we know? >> reporter: well, scott, the threat, it turns out, traces back to core al qaeda inside pakistan. an intelligence source overseas has told u.s. officials that he had heard of a plot to attack the u.s. this weekend to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. h

( screaming ) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the shooting is all but over, no americans have been killed or wounded but the enemy sure made it presence felt in the afghan capital today. the u.s. embassy in kabul-- perhaps the most heavily fortified compound in the country-- came under a day-long attack as a small unit of taliban insurgents rained down grenades and machine gun fire from a nearby tower. the military headquarters of nato was also in range and under fire. mandy clark has been covering the battle. >> reporter: afghan forces wildly sprayed bullets at the building where taliban fighters were holed up. >> reporter: the afghan counterattack was joined by u.s. forces and other troops returning fire from nato military headquarters. these were the sights and sounds of combat today. ( gun shots ) >> r.p.g.s, get down! >> reporter: the taliban assault on the capital began at 1:15 in the afternoon with insurgents storming a 14-story building still under construction that had a commanding view over the u.s. embas

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama called today for $1.5 trillion in new taxes to reduce the deficit, but the republican leadership said in effect read their lips and, well, you know the rest. with that the campaign 2012 battle over taxes has begun. our latest cbs news/"new york times" poll finds that most americans agree with the president on one thing. when we asked whether budget deficit reduction should include both tax increases and spending cuts, overall 71% said yes. and among republicans, 57% agreed. we have reports from norah o'donnell and nancy cordes. first, norah who is here in new york because the president will be visiting the u.n. later this week. norah? >> reporter: scott, we saw very different president obama in the rose garden, doubling down on his plan to cut the deficit by raising taxes on the wealthiest american, and he vehemently rejected republican charges that his proposal fuels class warfare. >> we can't just cut our way out of this hole. it's going to take a balanced approach.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. some experts believe that before the battered housing market can get better it has to get worse-- and it just did. a report out today shows the number of initial default notices banks sent to homeowners in august was 78,880. that is a leap of 33% from the previous month-- more people at risk of losing their homes. anthony mason is here to tell us how we get from worse to better. >> reporter: well, in the short term, scott, this may push house prices down some more. they've been falling again recently. but ultimately, analysts say, it is a healthy sign for the housing market. foreclosures had been slowing sharply this year, but the decline was artificial. >> as odd as it seems, the 33% increase in new foreclosures indicates that the market is getting back to normal. >> reporter: realtytrac's rick sharga says paperwork problems, legal challenges and a glut of foreclosed properties already on the market had forced banks to stall foreclosure proceedings, until now. in effect, is this act

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, alabama's tough new immigration law went into effect today, surviving for now a challenge from the obama administration and others. the law will allow officials to check the immigration status of students in public schools and give the police new powers to determine whether someone is in the country illegally. a federal judge yesterday upheld those key provisions of the law. mark strassmann is in alabama with more about this new law and its impact. >> reporter: under alabama's new immigration law, police can detain suspected illegal immigrants and hold them without bond. the law's supporters complain the 60,000 people here illegally cost alabama taxpayers a quarter billion dollars a year in schools and social services and governor robert bentley promises enforcement will begin right away. >> we have just passed a law that conforms with federal law and we will see what happens. we expect them to do their job now. and we'll see if they're going to do it. >> reporter: but when only five

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we have those dramatic pictures this evening of two americans released today after 26 months in an iranian prison. these are the families waiting as shane bauer on the left and joshua fattal bounded into freedom. they landed in the persian gulf country of oman. president obama said today, "we're thrilled. they shouldn't have been held in the first place." seth doane has our story, beginning with that remarkable reunion. ( cheers ) >> reporter: dashing from the plane and right into the arms of waiting family, shane bauer and josh fattal finally tasted freedom. ( cheers ) bauer fell into sarah shourd's embrace. shourd had been hiking with the two men in july 2009. bauer and shroud got engaged while in prison. the two men then briefly spoke to the media gather on the tarmac in muscat, oman. >> we are so happy we are free and relieved we are free. >> two years in prison is too long and we sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we like to think that when we're seriously ill and there's a drug to treat that illness that that drug will be available. but today we learned that we can't always depend on that. a new report tells us that there is a shortage of more than 200 prescription drugs in the country. some of them critical for cancer and heart patients. 82% of hospitals say they have delayed treatment because of short supplies. the food and drug administration talked today about what to do about it and we asked our medical correspondent, dr. jon lapook, to bring us up to date. >> reporter: today an f.d.a. panel heard just how frustrated doctors are about the shortage of drugs. >> pharmaceutical representatives spend bazillions of dollars trying to influence me to buy their drugs. on most of these drugs, i'm sold. i'll buy them, you know? i'll use them, okay? just make them! >> reporter: drugs used by hospitals make up the bulk of the more than 200 medications in critical short supply. 87% are generic, not b

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. more than 2,700 people were killed at world trade center on 9/11. more than 2,000 were injured. but the casualties did not end that day. more than 40,000 people worked for months at the site amid toxic air and debris. a new report out today in the medical journal "lancet" followed the health of new york city firefighters and tried to answer a question that has haunted all ground zero workers since: did their heroism after 9/11 lead to a higher risk of cancer? dr. jon lapook has the story. >> reporter: right after the towers fell, fireman ray pfeifer arrived with engine 40. he joined the search for his fallen buddies. >> what we saw down there, no human should ever have to see. >> reporter: he worked in a choking dust cloud, a brew of pulverized cement and known carcinogens such as asbestos, benzene, p.c.b.s and dioxin. >> we were in toxic soup. who knows what we were breathing in because it was so thick. >> reporter: pfeifer worked on the pile for seven months. nine years later... >>

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. acre by acre, home by home, wildfires are destroying more and more of the lone star state. at least 57 fires are burning tonight in texas, helped by strong winds and a record drought. more than a thousand homes have been destroyed. more than half of them by a single wildfire in bastrop county near austin. the most destructive wildfire in state history is now blamed for at least two deaths. since december in texas, an area the size of connecticut has gone up in flames. dean reynolds is at the scene of a so far losing battle to get the bastrop fire under control. >> reporter: scott, the fire and heat are so intense in some places that firemen are describing trees literally exploding into flames. it's just too dangerous for them to get very close so there's been a heavy reliance on air power to try to douse the fire. the year-long drought, though, has turned the area into a tinderbox and that's one reason why they can not say they're close to containing this blaze. a firefighter told us

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley.'ll see you sunday on "60 minutes." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group a being described as a mass casualty situation. "...we're dealing with a very bold individual, a very violent individual" armed and dangerous, and on the loose. the hunt underway right now, for the suspect behind a one man crime wave in the south bay. one of the bay area's biggest reservoirs, on shaky ground. now, the first dig, in a major makeover. good evening, i'm dana king i'm allen martin. we're following breaking news just outside reno. a plane plunged into the ground near a grandstand, where hundreds of people were watching air races. it happened during the national championship air races at the reno-stead airport. ken bastida is following the story for us. allen, reno t-v stations are reporting as many as 12 people dead in this crash. but that is still unconfirmed. as many as 75 are injured -- 25 of those are in critical condition. it is being called a mass casualty situa

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: and this is a special western edition. good evening. there is late-breaking news tonight. there is a major power outage in the west. there will be more about that in just a moment but first another important story. law enforcement is telling us about a possible terror threat in connection with the tenth anniversary of 9/11 coming this sunday. homeland security correspondent bob orr has been checking into this and, bob, what have you learned so far? >> reporter: well, scott, u.s. officials are concerned. as you say, they're checking out a potential terror threat which they describe as "credible and specific but unconfirmed." sources have been telling us the intelligence community developed information today, in fact, in the last several hours, that a terror group from pakistan, possibly al qaeda, possibly the pakistani taliban, was planning to strike at around the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this weekend. sources say there are enough specifics in the raw data to raise some re

for all of us at cbs news all around the world, i'm scott pelley.mier of "60 minutes." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access g >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> solyndra executives get a tongue lashing on capitol hill. how the scandal has put much of the solar industry on ice. >>> is it art or hate? grownups upset over a children's exhibit at a bay area museum. now we have learned that the show will go on, with a twist. >>> good for the environment and better for the bad guys? the change on the block that some residents say is providing cover for criminals. >>> good evening, i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. >>> they are accused of ripping off taxpayers in a high-profile bankruptcy. today two solyndra executives were called to the carpet. but as ken bastida tells us, solyndra's ceo and chief financial officer refused to testify. >> reporter: they are not answering any questions taking the fifth in front of this congressional committee who really wants answers now. they want to know if the company

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. for americans worried about their jobs and retirement savings, the news today was not reassuring. the country's biggest bank-- bank of america-- went public with plans to cut 30,000 jobs. and new fears that greece might default ignited an early selloff on wall street where the dow had already lost 13% over the past seven weeks. the dow was down as much as 167 points today. it rallied to close up more than 68 points, but it's a sign this could be another volatile week for your money, which is anthony mason's beat. >> reporter: scott, europe's debt crisis just won't go away and frerz growing that it could take the global banking system and the u.s. economy down with it. european stocks tumbled nearly 4% overnight as a new wave of worries swept through the market. >> europe is going through their lehman brothers 2008 moment. >> reporter: the failure of lehman brothers here in 2008 caused a seizure in the global financial system. this time it's europe's financial giants that are confront

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, wall street hasn't seen two days this bad since the meltdown nearly three years ago. at one point today, the dow was down more than 500 points. it recovered some, but still closed with a loss of 391 points and have a look at this, over the past two days the dow is off nearly 6%, the biggest two-day percentage drop since december of '08. anthony mason is on the floor of the new york stock exchange tonight to tell us why investors are dumping stock. anthony? >> reporter: scott, nearly 700 points has been knocked off the dow over the last two days, but this has been a global blood bath. the sentiment here and everywhere just seems to be "sell." around the world, investors headed for the exits amid rising fears of a global recession. >> you know, it's bad news after bad news. we're not getting any good news. >> reporter: on wall street, the markets were still reeling from the federal reserve's gloomy prognosis yesterday, when it warned of significant down side risks to the economy. to tr

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there's news tonight in the war on cancer. a landmark report says that there has been remarkable progress on some cancers but nearly no improvement in others. the report by the american association for cancer research is a milestone. 40 years after the nixon administration declared a national campaign against the disease. after those four decades, here is the toll now. cancer in america in 2010 claimed more than 571,000 lives. that comes to about one person every minute. one in two men and one in three women can expect to get cancer in their lifetimes. so we asked dr. jon lapook to tell us what we've accomplished in fighting cancer and where this war is headed. >> reporter: are we winning the war on cancer? >> we've made tremendous progress in the war against cancer, but we haven't won yet. >> reporter: dr. judy garber heads the american association for cancer research which published today's progress report. over the last 30 years, death rates for all cancer dropped by 22% for men a

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, scott's on assignment, i'm bob schieffer. well our military and intelligence forces have been tracking him for years and today they found him and killed him. anwar al-awlaki who apparently inspired the fort hood major who killed 13 service members and whose ties to al qaeda may go back as far as the 9/11 hijackers was tracked down leaving a funeral in yemen and killed by a rocket fired from a u.s. drone aircraft. we have reports tonight from david martin and bob orr. first to david at the pentagon. david? >> reporter: bob, the hunt for al-awlaki was code named "objective troy" and has been in high gear for months. a c.i.a. drone finally got him, but that was just the tip of a much larger operation. missiles fired by the drone took out al-awlaki's vehicle, making the american-born cleric the first u.s. citizen to be targeted and killed as as a terrorist. a senior defense official said "a vary bad man just had a very bad day." the president seemed to have no qualms about al-awlaki's am

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. >> you can see scott pelley's entire interview with commissioner kelly on cbsnews.com. >>> those two american hikers who were imprisoned in iran are waking up in this country for the first time in more than two years. josh fattal and shane bauer released five days ago, flew to new york yesterday. they say the only reason they were detained is because they are americans. drew levinson reports. >> reporter: josh fattal and shane bauer are back on u.s. soil and revealing what two years inside an iranian prison was like. >> many times, too many times, we heard the screams of other prisoners being beaten and there was nothing we could do to help them. >> reporter: also at the new york press conference, sarah shourd. the three friends were hiking along the iraq/iran border in 2009 when iranian authorities arrested them. while in prison, bauer and shourd were engaged. she was let go last year. but bauer and fattal were found and, in august, convicted of being spies. >> we were convicted of espionage because we are american. it's that simple. no evidence was ever presented against us. >> rep

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in a interview, ray kelly tells scott pelley the nypd has the fire power to shoot down a plane. >> those revelations getting a lot of attention this morning. >>> we begin this morning with president obama who is ramping up the rhetoric. last night he started a west coast trip with a blast of republicans telling big money supporters at a fund-raiser that the gop's idea of government would, quote, fundamentally cripple america. cbs senior white house correspondent bill plante has more on the president's efforts to rally the democratic base. bill, good morning. >> good morning to you, erica. >> reporter: it's no more mr. nice guise but the president is responded to liberals who think he is not willing to compromise. he offered tough love also to the black caucus. >> take off your bedroom slippers and put on your marching shoes and shake it off. stop complaining and stop grumbling and stop crying. we are going to press on. we have work to do. >> reporter: a program to shore up support and turnout among targeted minorities and age groups. a recent poll shows his recent approval rating in the

. >> pelley: you're worth $2 billion. >> jones: yeah, but scott, unlike a professional, there's no doctor'segree to fall back on. there... there's no job to fall back on. what's out there is to keep your voice from breaking, grab a briefcase, jump in a car, and go try to sell somebody. i don't want to go back that far. and so, yeah, i run scared. >> pelley: there is always this season. an owner who's already won three super bowls wants only one thing, and when its america's team, there's only one authority he can negotiate with. >> jones: i made a deal with the guy above-- if he'd give me that third one, i'd never ask again. i've been trying to figure out how to make another trade. >> pelley: the guy above may be telling you a deal's a deal. >> jones: well, as long as i know where he is, and i do, then maybe we can re-craft the deal a little bit. we need another super bowl. >> welcome to the cbs sports update. i'm james brown in new york with the scores from around the nfl. the jets, patriots and bills undefight-- undefeated and tied. the lions and packers share the nfc north and surprising

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scotts worry that another recession could knock even more value off their home. robert shiller says that rather than a recovery in house prices, the best to hope for would be just stability. >> pelley: anthony, there are a lot of people out there like the scotts and i wonder if they're waiting to see home prices increase before they put their house on the market. what should they do? >> reporter: they're going to wait a long time, probably, that's the problem. foreclosures are putting an enormous amount of downward pressure. shiller's point is that even after housing prices stabilize, history shows us we shouldn't expect much of an increase. as you pointed out, this may very well be the new normal. >> pelley: anthony. thank you. we were curious in the newsroom today how the falling home prices today compares with the great depression. as we mentioned, the current collapse from 2006 to 2011 comes to a drop of 30.9%. while the fallen home prices from 1925 to 1933 was 30%, so what we're seeing today is slightly worse than the depression. while the value of homes has been falling, the cost of health care has been rising. a report on health insurance costs today says the average annual

you still have brian williams and diane sawyer and scott pelley on cbs evening news but the network news broadcast is third at most if not a quarter of the audience they had in the great days of the pyramid but that is just the beginning of what changed. i will go through quickly what has changed based on my experience in all me and having lived through a lot of this history. i have identified and i am old media because i don't have a video to show you but here are the changes as i see them. we now live in a news community that is not one way any more. it is on the directional with everyone speaking to everyone else. mark knoller is inundated with responses. i can assure you walter cronkite would be tweeting today but in those days the idea was walter cronkite with a huge cbs news machine behind him and all the collected wisdom of the new york times of that day and the consensus that there was would tell you what the news was and was unshakable in his belief in his duty to have a 1-way conversation with america about what the news was. it was one way. it is no longer one way. is a news c

he's a hillary clinton supporter, but here is what he told scott pelley from cbs. >> how do you createil both parties agree that the goal is to rebuild the american economy to reflect the 21st century and a goal and environment, we're going to be stuck and it's a little bit frightening from the standpoint of a business person and particularly an african-american business person. >> steve: he goes on to say, and it's a great interview, he said what we need in washington is leadership and we need people in congress and a president who are willing to say, i'm going to make the tough choices and i'm willing to be a one termer to make the really tough choices. >> eric: he's mentioned we need -- what washington needs to understand is how to rebuild the economy to make it a global powerhouse. but hopefully he meant through the private sector. >> steve: absolutely. >> eric: and not through dc. >> steve: that's how he did it. >> gretchen: let's take a look at also a quote from charles schwab. you recognize that word. he wrote an editorial. he said the simple fact is that every business in ameri