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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the senate judiciary committee had assembled for the first congressional gun control hearing since the sandy hook tragedy when the surprise witness appeared. former congresswoman gabrielle giffords of arizona was led by the hand by her husband, mark kelly. it was two years ago this month that giffords was shot through the head during a meeting in tucson. 18 others were shot and six died. a day of testimony began with this: >> speaking is difficult, but i need to say something important. violence is a big problem. too many children are dying. too many children. we must do something. it will be hard, but the time is now. you must act. be bold. be courageous. americans are counting on you. thank you. >> pelley: giffords, who is partially blind, resigned from congress last year. the rest of today's hearing featured gun control advocates and opponents, and our nancy cordes was there. >> reporter: at one end of the witness table was gabrielle giffords' husband. at the other was the c.e.o.s

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. they've never seen anything like it. government scientists said today that they're surprised by a jump in temperature that made 2012 the warmest year on record in the lower 48 states. changes in temperature usually come in tiny fractions of a degree. but the average for 2012, 55.3 degrees, beat the old 1998 record by one full degree. 2012 was also a near-record for weather disasters, including-r drought, wild fires, and storms. there were 11 disasters lastms year that topped $1 billion in damage each. only 1998 was worse. every state from coast to coast was affected. the west had devastating wild fires. in colorado, the most expensive wild fire in state history destroyed more than 650 homes. new mexico's largest wild firer on record burned more than a quarter of a million acres. in march, tornadoes that tore across indiana, ohio, west virginia, and kentucky left 42 people dead. in late august, hurricane isaac came ashore near the mouth of the mississippi. nine deaths, 4,700 homes were

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the senate judiciary committee had assembled for the first congressional gun control hearing since the sandy hook tragedy when the surprise witness appeared. former congresswoman gabrielle giffords of arizona was led by the hand by her husband, mark

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. veteran prosecutor mark hasse was on his way to work this morning. he parked where he usually did for a short walk to the courthouse in kaufman county, just southeast of dallas. witnesses say that masked men intercepted hasse and shot him to death. the motive is unknown but investigators are looking at hasse's cases which have included drug dealers and organized crime. murders of prosecutors in this country are extremely rare, so we sent ana werner to learn more. >> kaufman county assistant district attorney mark hasse was shot multiple times in the parking lot a block from the courthouse. police are looking for one or possibly two suspects witnesses say were dresse dressed in black. police say there was a very short confrontation between gunmen and haas just before the attack. county judge bruce wood. >> just an outstanding person individually, but he was also just a very well-known and very well-respected prosecutor for the district attorney's office. this is just a horrible situat

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. five years after the financial meltdown, money is pouring back into the stock market. have a look at what's happened: the benchmark s&p 500 closed above 1500 today for the first time since december of 2007. and the dow, which topped 14,000 in october of that same year before dropping to 6,500 in 2009, closed today at 13,895-- just 268 points short of an all-time high. so far this year the dow is up 6%, the best start to a year in a quarter century. it is a remarkable recovery. anthony mason is at the davos meeting of world bankers in switzerland and, anthony, what's behind the surge? >> reporter: well, scott, it's been fueled by the improving economic picture. new numbers out today show that new home sales jumped 20% last year. unemployment claims have been falling steadily. all that has ordinary investors who fled the market in fear five years ago now jumping back in. look what's happened. in the past two weeks, nearly $15 billion has poured into stock mutual funds. that's the large

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this economic recovery has been stingy with jobs and today we saw that is still true. the unemployment rate was stuck at 7.8% last month even though the economy creating 155,00,000w jobs. that rate of job creation has been fairly steady in recent months. the problem is that many jobs only covers the growth in the u.s. population, it doesn't put a dent in this number: 12 million, the number of americans still out of work. we have two reports tonight. ben tracy on the state that is creating the most jobs. but first, anthony mason on the hidden bright spots in today's jobs report. >> reporter: the u.s. economy shook off concerns about the fiscal cliff, tax hikes, and spending cuts as employers continued to hire in december. the strongest job growth coming in construction and manufacturing. and some employers, like neil gloger are surprisingly optimistic. >> i think business is going to be exceptionally strong this year for many reasons. >> reporter: he runs intergroup international, a c

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it was not a close call for us today. the most amazing story that we saw, hands down, involves a courageous young u.s. army sergeant severely wounded in

scott >> pelley: nancy, thank you very much.re to say good-bye to you this morning let's have one more look at the swearing-in of the president in the blue room of the white house that took place just moments before noon today. the president sworn in by the chief justice of the united states john roberts, jr this is one of the oval rooms in the white house. it is usually used for receptions. and the only wedding of a president that ever occurred in the history of the united states in the white house grover cleveland was wedded in the blue room of the white house where we just saw the president sworn in. so president obama has been sworn in for a second term. here's what's coming up on inauguration day tomorrow. the president and mrs. obama attend services at st. john's episcopal church across from the white house at 8:45 in the morning. at 10:45 they will leave the white house for the capitol. the inaugural ceremonies there begin at 11:0 and include the ceremonial swearing-in of vice president biden and then at 11:55 president o

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it was not a close call for us today. the most amazing story that we saw hands down involves a courageous young u.s. army sergeant severely wounded in iraq and the amazing surgery that gave him arms-- two real human arms. the operation on 26-year-old sergeant brendan marrocco of new york was performed in december but today we got our first look at the results. david martin has the story. >> reporter: when brendan marrocco moved his arms today he made medical history. >> i feel like i'm getting a second chance to start over after i got hurt. >> reporter: he was gesturing with transplanted arms-- not prosthetic arms but real arms from an anonymous donor who died. >> it feels amazing. it's something that i was waiting for for a long time and now that it finally happened i -- i really don't know what to say because it's just such a big thing for my life and it's -- it's just fantastic. >> reporter: amazing and fantastic because brendan marrocco was the first quadruple amputee from americ

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good eveningricans find it galling that the people who caused a world financial calamity didn't go to jail. they pushed mortgages onto people who couldn't afford them, bundled the doomed mortgages into investments, rated them

. >> the captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: for three weeks, everyone in newtown, connecticut, has longed to return to normal. today, many of them caught a bus to get there. more than 400 students, kindergarten through fourth grade, returned to class for the first time since a gunman killed 20 of their classmates and six educators. they traveled to the nearby town of monroe where a closed school was reopened for them and renamed sandy hook elementary. we don't know whether this boy was sininalling peace or victory, but both seemed about right. jim axel sod in newtown for us tonight. >> reporter: one police lieutenant here called the new school th the safest school in america. i.d. checks on every adult who got anywhere near the place. police sat down with the superintendent. >> the thing that had been missing at the new sandy hook location were the voices and the laughter of children. and that was there today. >> reporter: did you have any parents not able to just let the hand go? >> that's very hard. i-- there were parents who wan

>> captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. scott is off tonight, i'm anthony mason. america went over the fiscal cliff at midnight, but we are still waiting to see if it will be a hard fall or a soft landing early this morning, the senate passed a compromise bill that raises income taxes for individuals earning $400,000 a year and families earning $450,000. everyone else would be spared. it would also delay spending cuts for at least two months, and that does not sit well with many house republicans. so where do we go from here? we have two reports beginning with nancy cordes at the capitol. >> reporter: anthony, house republicans do not like this deal. they say it needs serious spending cuts. so tonight house republican leaders are counting votes, trying to figure out if they have enough republican votes and republican votes alone the pass a bill that puts some spending cuts into the deal-- a move they acknowledge is risky. house speaker john boehner met with house republicans for an hour and a half today. he didn't share hi

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scott? >> pelley: and we should mention that jared loughner is serving multiple life terms now. nancy, thanks very much. the state of connecticut, where newtown is located, is also holding hearings about whether to change its gun laws. one of the witnesses at the hearing tonight will be nichole hockley. her six-year-old son, dylan, was killed at sandy hook elementary school. she spoke with michelle miller today at the offices of sandy hook promise, the antiviolence group formed by newtown residents. >> reporter: why is now the time for you to stand up and speak? >> now is the time because it's the only way i can... start to make any sense of this for myself. dylan was just pure love, when you get right down to it. i am not being fair to his legacy and memory if i sit back and do nothing. >> reporter: what do you want to happen? >> all i've seen, in all honesty, so far, are people immediately jumping on agendas. i find that disgusting. i would rather see more conversation and listening taking place. >> reporter: the hockleys lived just yards away from the home of the gunman. she

on "60 minutes" scott pelley asked him what effect drugs had on armstrong's performance. >> would there have been a lance armstrong without doping? >> doping definitely helped him. a lot of people said, okay everybody's doping so it's a level playing field, but that's not true. that's not true. doping took a lot of money, took a risk taker, took a lot of having connections, and a lot of people weren't willing to take all those risks. >> scott pelley with tyler hamilton on "60 minute sport." by the way, you can see it on the own network. check your local listings. >>> coming up on this wednesday, a runaway train. train slams into an apartment building, and you will not"cbs morning news." driving it. this is the "cbs morning news." the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin and made a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but not anymore. bob's doctor recommended a

"cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next.aptions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com >> pelle , the parents of newtown speak out. families of some of the 20 murdered children organized to take action. seth doane speaks with the barden family. >> still look at the clock and it's time for the bus and you think, "oh." it's as if it were yesterday. >> pelley: lance armstrong confesses. we'll talk to the investigator who proved the case of illegal doping. los angeles stockpiles flu vaccine in anticipation of an epidemic. ben tracy is there. and the pilot responsible for this friendly fire disaster is up for promotion to admiral. david martin talks to the airman that he shot down. >> what was your reaction? >> it was almost visceral. almost got sick. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> p

ecklund, i'm scott pelley with 60 minutes. >> oh, great. >> how are you today?i am, uh...surprised. >> we've been working with the sussers on a story, and i want you to know that we're being recorded. and i wanted to ask you about the treatment that you propose for adam. what would that be? >> the treatment that he asked about was for stem cells, human stem cells. >> and you think they're applicable for cerebral palsy? >> yes. i have seen them be effective in cases of cerebral palsy. >> how does that work exactly? >> well, stem cells contain... uh... excuse me, here. no one knows exactly, okay? but stem cells do contain and give off chemicals which cause other cells to repair themselves. >> in the letter that you sent the sussers, you described possible effects for adam, which could include improved ability to see, improved ability to speak, improved ability to move arms and legs. you believe those things are possible? >> i do. >> what is your training in stem cells? >> my training in stem cells was, i studied for about six years going over the literature. and t

as scott pelley reported in december 2011, vacant homes become so ruinous in some neighborhoods that one city, cleveland, decided it had to find a solution. >> perfectly good homes... worth $75,000, $100,000 or more a couple of years ago... are being ripped to splinters in cleveland, cuyahoga county, ohio. here, the great recession left 1/5 of all houses vacant. the owners walked away because they couldn't or wouldn't keep paying on a mortgage debt that can be twice the value of the home. cleveland waited four years for home values to recover, but in 2011, they decided to face facts and bury the dead. why destroy them? jim rokakis, a former county treasurer, showed us. >> we're looking at a neighborhood that has almost as many vacant houses awaiting demolition as there are houses with people living in them. we have one here. one here. one there. >> rokakis is leading the effort to tear down thousands of abandoned homes because they're rotting their neighborhoods from the inside out. it often starts, he told us, when a vacant house becomes an open house to thieves. it's a nice house f

scott pelley and hamill tin. he talked about how he used backed substances including epo and testosterone and he talked about armstrong telling him he failed a test in 2001. after it was on the air, armstrong supporters complained bitterly and demanded an on-air apolo apology. scott pelley, good morning. >> good morning. >> you saw the interview last night. he didn't come completely clean. what was it? >> it wasn't a tell-all but it was a tell-a lot. one thing that struck me, norah, was the way he described doping as air in our tires and water in our bottles. these substances in many cases are controlled substances. this is not air and water we're talking about. one thing that the u.s. anti-doping agency was talking about is how were these drugs obtained, how were they distributed, how were they carried across state lines and inter national borders. y usada describes it as drug trafficking, and one of the things he didn't talk about very much was how elaborate and complex this all was. >> you just heard someone s

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, when republicans and democrats say they have found agreement on a major controversy, that's news. and that's where we begin tonight. influential members of the senate-- four from each party-- said today they have a breakthrough on comprehensive immigration reform. which would include a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants and tough enforcement of the borders. immigration is also one of the president's highest priorities for his second term. there are a lot of ways this could fail, but many on capitol hill agree tonight it's the best chance in years. nancy cordes is at the capitol with details. nancy? >> reporter: scott, these eight senators say they sense an opening on the issue now and a new willingness among republicans to compromise on immigration after president obama won the latino vote by 71% in the november election. the senators behind the plan are a bipartisan group of heavy hitters. new york democrat charles schumer is their unofficial leader. >> we beli

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. one american has been killed in that hostage standoff in algeria. frederick butaccio was an employee of the oil company b.p. we don't know how he died but u.s. got sources tell us his body has been recovered. a top official says tonight that at least six americans have survived but others have still being held. u.s. military transport planes landed near the scene and evacuated survivors. some of them described as lightly wounded. all of this is playing out at a natural gas plant in the sahara desert. it began three days ago when terrorists who claim a link to al qaeda attacked buses carrying employees and then took over the residential section of the complex. algerian forces then attacked the terrorists. there have been many casualties, but the facts remain unclear. mark phillips has the latest. >> reporter: these were some of the lucky ones: freed hostages who managed to get away from the desert gas plant where they'd been held. they told of how they fled in the confusion as the alg

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this national flu epidemic is getting worse by the day and today boston's, population 600,000 plus, declared a public health emergency after the virus killed more than a dozen people. at least three more states-- montana, south dakota, and arizona-- are now reporting widespread flu, bringing the total to 44 states. and the c.d.c. said the percentage of people going to the hospital for treatment has doubled in the past month. we asked dr. jon lapook to give us the latest. >> reporter: the emergency in boston was declared after confirmed cases of tphrur reached 700. there were just 70 at this time last year. across the state, 18 patients have died. dr. barbara ferrer is the executive director of the boston public health commission. >> in the last two weeks alone we've doubled our number. so if we continue at this rate to see new cases we'll have an explosion of flu in the city of boston. so we really need to get ahead of this at this point in time. >> reporter: to do that, officials ar

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is a developing situation but one high-ranking source in the u.s. government is telling us at this hour that four americans have been freed, one of them injured, after an airborne military assault on terrorists in algeria. we want to empsiels assault is still ongoing and the information is fluid. the americans were taken hostage yesterday, along with dozens of others, at a plant in a remote oil and gas field near the libyan border. a group that claims to be affiliated with al qaeda seizedly the plant. they said it was in retaliation for the french military attacks on islamic extremists in nearby mali. the situation is not entirely clear. we do not have definitive information on the number of00s or casualties. algerian authorities say tonight a number of hostage hostages and terrorists have been killed. traveling in london, defense secretary leon panetta said either seven or eight americans were taken in the original terrorist attack. mark phillips picks up the story. >> reporter

jersey had an answer for sandy captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. junior seau was one of the fiercest linebackers in the nfl. he had nearly 2,000 tackles on his way to 12 pro bowls and a super bowl. but retirement was even more punishing. saw au had emotional problems late in life that ended in suicide. and today researchers say that they found that seau who was only 43 years old was suffering from degenerative brain disease as the result of his career in america's favorite game. the findings add to a growing body of evidence that has the attention of players, parents and the nfl. seth doa ne has the seau report. >> reporter: junior seau was a star nfl linebacker for 20 years. last may, two years after retiring, he shot himself. this was his mother louisa. >> but i pray to god, please, take me! take me, leave my son! but it's too late, too late. >> reporter: seau's family donated his brain for analysis because they suspected his suicide was linked to head injuries suffered on the field. today's report identifies brain abnor

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. a lot of americans find it galling that the people who caused a world financial calamity didn't go to jail. they pushed mortgages on to people who couldn't afford them, bundled the doomed mortgages into investments, rated them aaa, aad then sold the worthless packages to investors, including pension funds. remember when the bubble burst? the dow lost more than 5,000 point, 40% of its value. retirement nest eggs were wiped out. nearly 7.5 million americans lost their jobs, and 1.3 million homes were lost to foreclosure. well, today, a woman known for prosecuting terrorists and mobsters was appointed to head the securities and exchange commission. the federal agency that will be enforcing new financial regulations. major garrett is at the white house for us tonight with more. major. >> reporter: scott, mary jo white's closest friends say she dislikes washington and disdains office politics and bureaucracy. they say her dream job would be commissioner of major league baseball or f.b.i.

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ade it captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: goodears after the financial meltdown, money is pouring back into the stock market. have a look at what's happened: the benchmark s&p 500 closed above 1500 today for the first

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♪ ♪ >>> we want to check in again with scott pelley.ny is about to get under way. >> a beautiful day in washington. could not be better for the president's second inaugural and cbs news will be covering all day long. we have an all-star cast. we have president obama, but we also have beyonce, who will be singing, james taylor kelly clarkson. the president will be sworn in at about 11:55 this morning. and then immediately after he is sworn in by the chief justice, he will present his second inaugural address, which is something he's been working on for weeks now. writing it rewriting it. we don't have any details yet, but i imagine it will be like others in history and will talk about bringing the country together. we'll be covering it all for you here live all day long on cbs. >> scott pelley thank you. it's an historic day. the live coverage of the presidential inauguration begins at the top of the hour. 10:00 a.m. eastern time. >>> good morning and welcome to our special inaugural day coverage. >> we are on the roof in downtown with a

from capitol hill, here is scott pelley. >> good morning.n's capital is beginning a day-long celebration of american freedom and democracy. for the 57th time in our hist

i wonder if there were any threats against you. >> tygart: there were, scott. >> pelley: these threatsre? >> tygart: e-mails, letters. >> pelley: anonymous? >> tygart: yeah. >> pelley: can you remember any of the lines from the e-mails or the letters? >> tygart: the worst was probably putting a bullet in my head. >> pelley: did you take that seriously? >> tygart: absolutely. turned it over to the f.b.i. to investigate it, which they are doing. >> pelley: tygart's agency was also threatened. the c.e.o. of the livestrong foundation, armstrong's cancer charity, lobbied against usada before congress. members of congress and 23 california state representatives called for an investigation of the agency's practices and its taxpayer funding. and yet, you chose to go ahead? you were gambling the fate of usada itself on this one case. >> tygart: if we're unwilling to take this case and help this sport move forward, that we're here for naught. we should shut down. and if they want to shut us down for doing our job on behalf of clean athletes, and the integrity of competition, then shut us down. >

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as scott pelley first reported in 2008, greg carr thinks he's found something special in a wildlife park that could be mozambique's salvation. >> greg carr wanted our first experience of gorongosa to be just like his was in 2004: a helicopter ride to see the park's vast size and breathtaking diversity. >> when we flew over this, i said, "this is it," you know, because, i mean, it's beautiful. it's magnificent. >> it's almost 1,500 square miles of african wilderness: lakes, plains, even a rain forest. gorongosa spreads across the heart of mozambique, a country that lies along the east coast of southern africa on the indian ocean. >> oh, wow. >> carr can't fly over it without sounding like a kid. >> okay, look at this. this is great. >> here he goes. we saw hippo, antelope, and elephant, but not many. gorongosa is a tragedy in two parts, with the loss of its animals and the suffering of its people, whose lives haven't improved much in a few hundred years. i wonder why you chose this place. of all the places in the world, why here? >> gorongosa was, most people consider, the most popular na

scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org and.. the rush to buy >>> freezing temperatures and frost. the bay area can not kick the cold. >>> tonight, we will turn out to be the collest night of the current -- coldest night of the current cold snap. but we still have ways to go. >>> and the rush to buy gun as congress considering drastic measures we're caught in the middle of it.. freeze warnings and frost have bay area natives grabbing warmer >>> good evening. >>> it is the california cold snap. we are caught in the middle of it. freeze warnings and frost have natives grabbing warmer jackets but, not everyone hates the cold. >> reporter: