seth doane asks, are the afghan police ready? and in tough times, our great american universities are cutting back. bill whitaker in california looks at what's happening to some of the best. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting from los angeles >> pelley: good evening. on the day that president said he will redouble his efforts to create jobs, we're reporting from one of the nation's hot spots for unemployment. the jobless rate in california is nearly 12%, but when you add in those people who are forced to settle for part-time work, the number rises to 21.8%. more on that in just a moment. but first, the white house announced that president will go on a listening tour this month to hear people's concerns about unemployment. here's what he had to say today. >> how are we going to put people back to work? how are we going to wage their raises, increase their security? how are we going to make sure that they recover fully as families and as communities from the worst recession we've

seth doane flies with the medics in afghanistan who are saving more wounded americans than ever. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the fasten seat belt sign is on, the stock market has hit turbulence. the stock market has now changed direction seven times in seven days and for the first time ever it has moved 400 points or more four days in a row. today, the dow closed up 423 points, or nearly 4%, since the triple-digit swings began last thursday. the dow has lost 753 points, or 6.5%. an anxious time for everyone watching the value of retirement savings rise and fall dramatically. rebecca jarvis is on the floor of the new york stock exchange. rebecca, what are investors supposed to make of this? >> reporter: well, scott, even veteran floor traders who have been here for years say this is making them seasick. these massive up-and-down moves which have gone on for almost two weeks now, even in the last week we've seen the direction here change every single day. now, wall street has a way of measuring this. it's ca

seth doane joins us from kabul in neighboring afghanistan with the latest on what we know. seth, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, russ. at this time,us officials in pakistan will only confirm the name of the man who hab abducted, warren weinstein. they will not give us any other information on the record which is quite common in a kidnapping case like this. there is a warren weinstein who calls his home lahore, pakistan, on a social networking site which also says he's the country director for a virginia-based consulting firm called j.e. austin associates, which, incidentally, elderlier today removed a list of employees from its witness. it would also not reply to repeated requests for comment from cbs news. according to pack stapy officials, mr. weinstein was removed from his home, abducted around 3:30 early saturday morning by at least six heavily armed assailants. >> mitchell: seth, what can you tell bus the area are this happened? >> this was an area called model town, an affluent suburb of lahore, and lahore is a city actually known as the cultural capital of pa

to see how it's done, correspondent seth doane flew with a medevac chopper crew in kandahar province.porter: all they knew was they were flying toward a mass casualty event. having left the lights of kandahar behind, the shadowy threat this u.s. army medevac team regular face were only further obscured by darkness. 25-year-old staff sergeant kyle clark hopped out of the chopper to survey the scene. >> i jumped out, was on the ground maybe 15 seconds, they took off, and then pretty much you're out there by yourself, you have no idea what you're walking into. >> reporter: a few minutes later they loaded casualties on two helicopters. time was their biggest enemy. these flight medics refer to having a so-called golden hour, just 60 minutes to get the seriously wounded to a hospital. >> blood sweep on the patient, figure out where he's bleeding from, once you figure that out, you fix things as you come across them. >> reporter: little was known about the back story, how five afghan police officers wound up with multiple gunshot wounds. patients come in here, what are you trying to do, jus

our seth doane is in afghanistan, and was embedded for the past week with u.s. troops. he joins us now from kandahar air field. seth, how was news of the chinook crash taken there? >> well, anthony, it is a devastating blow, both emotionally and psychologically. we were at a couple of different bases over the weekend, and where there were television sets, they were on, tuned into news channels. people are looking for any sort of information. and it was, of course, the only thing troops were talking about. also, from an operational perspective, at least from what we could see, there were bits of changes as well. i was riding on one of those ch- 47 chinook helicopters today. i took the very same ride across kandahar in a chinook a week ago, and actually fell asleep while i was on the helicopter. today there was absolutely no sleeping at all. i was sitting next to an army aviator who told me that the pilot was trying to make it a very difficult target to hit. he was flying incredibly low, sometimes just a hundred to 150 feet off of the ground. we were going at about 140 mil

but the fbi has joined the investigation as seth doane reports. >> reporter: the state department said fbi is working with pakistani and u.s. embassy officials investigating warren weinstein's kidnapping. weinstein, a 70-year-old business development consultant, worked in pakistan for the virginia-based firm j.e. austin associates. he had been scheduled to return home to america. law enforcement sources tell cbs news that three hostage takers came to the american's front gate, offering food to weinstein's three guards and driver. after the guards opened the gate, five other hostage takers, who'd climbed over an unguarded rear entrance, showed up, carrying ak-47s and pistols, outgunning the guards. the eight then tied and gagged the guards, and used weinstein's driver to trick the american into opening the door to his top floor residence. the fear with weinstein is that he could have been moved to one of the lawless tribal regions of pakistan, making him very difficult to find. seth doane, cbs news, kabul, afghanistan. >>> now to aruba, where the prime suspect in the disappearance of an

seth doane, cbs news, kandahar, afghanistan. >>> coming up a little later on "the early show," can thebounce back? we'll have the very latest on the economic developments here and around the world. and on the grim possibility of a double-dip recession. >>> also, our ongoing coverage of the famine in east africa. >>> and the rioting in britain. >>> plus, the latest trouble for kanye west. all that and much more coming up on "the early show." that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm randall pinkston. make it a great day. ,,,,,,

seth doane is following the story from afghanistan. >> reporter: today the state department said theg with pakistani and u.s. embassy officials investigating warren weinstein's kidnapping. weinstein, a 70-year-old business development consultant, worked in pakistan for the virginia-based firm j.e. austin associates. he had been scheduled to return home to america today. a clearer picture of the brazen raid is now emerging. law enforcement sources tell cbs news that three hostage takers came to the american's front gate, offering food to weinstein's three guards and driver. after the guards opened the gate, five other hostage takers who'd climbed over an unguarded rear entrance showed up, carrying a.k.-47s and pistols, outgunning the guards. the eight then tied and gagged the guards and used weinstein's driver to trick the american into opening the door to his top-floor residence. jere van dyke, cbs news consultant, was held hostage in pakistan for six weeks in 2008. >> all of a sudden my sense of masculinity, my sense of power, my sense of being in control disappeared. >> reporter: t

strategy, so we asked seth doane to look into it in violent kandahar province. >> reporter: it seemsrk for a dusty, rural road, until you realize where it is. >> when you talk about the front lines of the war in afghanistan, in many ways, this is it. >> we're standing right in it right now. we're cutting a line right through it right now. we're splitting that taliban from that taliban. >> reporter: this road is in the heart of kandahar, the soldiers clearing and fortifying it with a series of checkpoints are members of the army's tenth mountain division task force chosen. lieutenant colonel kenneth mintz is their commander. what's significant about these checkpoints? why to control them? >> we're actually securing the people here, where they live, on the road. when you talk to the local people, they always say, "can you bring a checkpoint here?" >> reporter: of course, building a road in kandahar requires more than just heavy equipment. mortars send a not-so-subtle message, and create a smokescreen for soldiers building the checkpoints. >> the taliban, you know, they're angry that we

seth doane, cbs news, kandahar, afghanistan. >> mason: and the "cbs evening news" continues now with scott pelley in kenya. >> pelley: we've decided to report to you tonight from east africa because the famine emergency here is taking on historic proportions. tonight, the united nations says 3.7 million people face starvation and the u.s. government estimates that 29,000 children under the age of five have died in the last 90 days. this is a camp in kenya where 400,000 somalis are here and 1,500 more throw themselves on the mercy of the camp everyday. these are the new arrivals. you know them by the faces dusted with the desert and by the eyes that have seen too much. medina ali was one of those waiting to be admitted to the camp. she sat with the quiet resignation of a woman who had fought to save her children in an unforgiving land. how long were you walking? >> 17 days. >> reporter: and how many children do you have with you? >> four children. >> reporter: did all of your children survive the journey? >> one boy died on the way. >> reporter: the somalis are farmers and ranchers wh

as seth doane now shows us, these days a lot of people are doing just that. >> reporter: consider in. consider this. today worldwide more than half of us live in cities. by 2015, the united nations projects nearly three quarters of us will. more and more these bustling metropolises are becoming home. >> after a month after i moved into the suburbs. >> reporter: connie curran remembers her years in the 'burbs as dull. >> i bought a house in the suburbs. it had a white picture fence. my sister said you're on wisteria lane. i said what's that? it was a great house. it was very peaceful. it was very homogeneous and it was very boring. >> reporter: so last year at age 61, this nurse turned health care entrepreneur who found a new lease on life after beating stage 4 cancer settled in this spectacular home in san francisco. >> i said, now, this is the city. i'm living life. this is life. this is the luxury of middle age. >> reporter: the luxury.... >> the luxury of middle age. >> reporter: to move to the city. >> to move to the city and enjoy the richness and vastness of it. i can pick up fl

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seth doane is with an army unit in the key southern city of kandahar. >> reporter: army captain michaelommander can get. you lost a guy today. >> yes. terrible. >> reporter: terrible. just 28 years old, it's the first soldier lost on his watch, but there wasn't time for grief. this west point grad has already begun planning a raid to cover the enemy weapon that killed his soldier. his commander, lieutenant colonel kenneth mintz stood by his side. >> it's frustrating they got a good attack in on us but that's the way this game is played. now it's time to get back after him. >> reporter: the soldier killed in an ambush was specialist mark downer, a combat medic. what happens on base after the passing of a soldier in. >> we mourn, and then we continue our mission. he'll never be forgotten. >> reporter: the close-knit battle company, 132 infantry, includes just about 100 soldiers, living under captain blakely's command, on this small combat outpost in the heart of taliban country. in tune, they repainted the mosque where they say taliban leader mullah omar prayed. >> casualty is unfortunate

cbs news correspondent seth doane has been following the store impri fry from afghanista joins us now. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that is right. after what was described as an exhaustive manhunt, coalition forces sent in f-16s launching an air strike to target those taliban insurgents who they say were responsible for downing that chinook helicopter. they say they struck and killed the people responsible for downing that chopper. >> you have been embedded with u.s. troops the last week and a half or so. how important are these retaliatory attacks? >> reporter: for a moral perspective they are very important. the top u.s. general here, general john allen said this will not ease their loss. we were with a group of soldiers, a company of u.s. army soldiers as they learned that they lost one of their men. we saw how important that counterattack could be. a real psychological boost after an emotional blow. >> we have more news this morning of losses in the coalition. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right. nato reported that this morning, five nate tow service member

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