susan candiotti, cnn. new york. >>> you can play a great game and still not win. that's what president obama said after learning that chicago will not host the 2016 olympics. yesterday, he and the first lady made personal pitches for having the games in their hometown. chicago is actually the first of the four finalists to be eliminated for consideration. but rio won. thousands of people celebrated at the copacabana beach yesterday. they beat out tokyo and madrid. >>> the top commander in afghanistan and president obama picked up where they were on wednesday. the meeting on strategy took place on air force one. the president was on the way back from denmark and officials say it was a continuation of the three-hour meeting they had at the white house on wednesday. mcchrystal says a significant number of combat forces are needed in afghanistan. and sources say it's far more than the 21,000 the president has decided to send. >> there's clearly a sharp division and it's a rift that i think -- it could be the sharpest break we've seen in years between a president and h

susan candiotti dug deeper and found out more about him. >> reporter: veteran cbs news producer robert joe halderman is making headlines in a tawdry blackmail case. prosecutors say he tried to shake down david letterman for $2 million to keep letterman's sex life quiet. letterman beat him to it. surprising his audience by announcing he had affairs with co-workers and told the grand jury about it. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. >> reporter: his production company says the affairs happened before letterman's marriage to his long-time companion last spring. prosecutors say halderman gave letterman a rude awakening about 6:00 a.m. three weeks ago, leaving a package in letterman's car outside his manhattan home. the package contained a letter and a one-page screen play idea threatening to reveal letterman's affairs. >> halderman wrote he needed to make "a large chunk of money" by selling letterman a so-called "screen play treatment." the one-page screen play treatment attached to the letter referred to mr. letterman's great professional

susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >>> it is taken scientists many years to solve the puzzle of some bones recovered in africa. what they have found raises new and profound questions about where human beings come from. we'll give you some of the answers on hln news and views. >>> a 70-year-old denver woman remains on life-support after a vicious attack by a pair of dogs. mary garcia was watching her great grandson at her home friday night. she apparently went outside to lock her car when the dogs attacked her, just 40 feet from her front door. the animals bit her in the face, leg, and arm. neighbors quickly came to garcia's aid, but the stress of the attack caused her to have a heart attack. >> when we got there last night, she told us she was on life-support. they worked on her and performed a couple different procedures on her. she's still not out of the woods. >> animal control officers say the mother dog and her offspring escaped through a hole in a neighbor's fence. their owner was ticketed on two counts of having vicious animals and faces the possibility of a fine, even jail time. an

susan candiotti, cnn, new york. >>> one doctor is on a mission to help people see more clearly. >> if not for dr. anthone, i probably would have lost my sight in the future. >>> two suicide car bombings in baghdad have killed at least 74 people and wounded 265. look at the damage here. 265 people were wounded. the blast happened 1,600 feet apart. >>> and two trains collided. one train stopped to prevent hitting a water buffalo. >>> and global warming protesters took to the streets in major cities across the world yesterday. they were organized by a group called 350.org, which is looking to reduce global carbon emissions to 350 parts per million. >>> those are some of the stories we're following on this sunday. thanks for joining us. >>> president obama hopes his declaration of a national emergency, will help to deal with all the h1n1 cases that are popping up. he says the rates of illness are rising in many communities throughout the u.s. and elaine quijano reports that it's a preventive husband. but it shows how dangerous the virus is. >> reporter: president obama declared a national

susan candiotti has more on the shooting death on the woman who was an outspoken advocate for gun rights: melanie hoehn first made headlines wearing a loaded gun on her waist band to her daughter's soccer game. she said -- >> a lot of people think i'm looking for attention. i want the attention on the issue. >> reporter: at issue in pennsylvania and 41 other states, it's legal to openly carry a gun. >> people were asking me initially, is she crazy? contrary to what the facts sound like, she was just a normal, friendly, and nice. >> reporter: but wearing a gun to a soccer game made some people nervous. the sheriff took away hoehn's concealed weapons license. in court she won it back. >> it's not just the second amendment. i tell people this all the time. you know, it's not just about gun rights but about every right that we have. >> reporter: mrs. hain sued the sheriff for violation of her constitutional and civil rights to the tune of $1 million. a few months ago mrs. hain told her lawyer she and her husband were separating and that she wanted a protective order but a court tells us she

and in this case, susan candiotti reports that things went terribly wrong. >> reporter: when kids areassengers in a car -- >> she was going a little fast, so it was like, kind of scary. >> reporter: it can be especially scary if the driver had too much to drink. these two girls are among six who survived a crash at the hands of an accused drunk mom. a seventh child, 11-year-old leander resotto was thrown out of the car and died. carl carl c she's indicted, will be arraigned next month, and could not be reached for comment. mothers against drunk driving says it's bad enough that mothers are driving drunk, but what's worse is they're taking children with them. >> they're doing a form of child abuse if they drive equally as horrific is what she put seventh children through. >> repeatedly engaged in a guessing game, asking the children to raise their hands if they thought you'd make it hope without crashing. >> she said you're scared, raise your hand. she was cutting cars off and pulled over to the right like we were passing up to the thing and we hit the one tree. >> all i remember is sh

susan candiotti is live with the latest on the newest extortion scheme. very candid and very uncomfortable confession from david letterman. susan, a suspect is under arrest and he has just been formerly charged. >> that's right. he stepped up to the plate. when the judge asked him, how do you plea, he said in a loud, clear voice, not guilty. prosecutors say they will present what they call compelling evidence to say, that isn't so. in fact, it was david letterman himself on his show last night, and to the surprise of his audience, confessed to them that, in fact, he had had sexual affairs with members -- certain members of his staff. he didn't say exactly when that happened, but the audience, in fact, not knowing how to react, at first started laughing, because they thought he was kidding around, but he was being very serious. and in fact, the district attorney here in new york confirmed that they set up a sting operation, that david letterman, they said, was approached back on september the 9th when a cbs news producer by the name of joe halderman left mi

happy hunting, susan candiotti, new york. >>> one of madonna's neighbors says that she's making too much noise in her apartment. they say that the performer blares her music and stomps around for hours a day. they have already threatened to evict the singer. madonna's reps have not commented. >>> a surprise turn around in the balloon boy incident. now we are expecting criminal charges. details ahead. >>> ever since i can remember, i've been fascinated by money, making it, saving it, studying it. by the time i was 31, i had earned enough to retire. so i embarked on a new mission, helping you take care of your money. so you can save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. >> announcer: now from his radio studio, money expert, clark howard. >> recently, people in several southern states suffered enormous heartbreaking damage from floods. the media coverage has been all about the flooded houses. but you know what else got flooded? people's cars. we don't even know how many hundreds of thousands of cars are flooded. and just as what happens after any hurricane, a lot of those flooded c