susan smith is now serving a life sentence. as for this case, the duley boys, there will be an autopsy on these two young boys performed today. chris? >> cbs's kelly cobiella. thank you. >>> in orangeburg is the share of orangeburg county, larry williams, who you saw in the piece a second ago. mr. williams, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> you said that you don't think this was an accident from what you have seen and heard so far. what can you tell us about your feelings at this point? >> from person responding from the location where the alleged accident occurred, i found no physical evidence there to support what she had reported, leaving the road and going into a boat ramp where the children was found. so causes a lack of evidence and the -- in her statement. and in her verbal and written statement initially. i found there were issues that need to be unravelled and we began an in-depth investigation into what really happened with these two minor children. >> what were some of the issues, though, from what you heard f

this is surely after the susan smith case in south carolina. this is the woman that drowned her children in the car. this little girl comes missing. the mother has a press conference and says she is no susan smith. she says her daughter has been kidnapped. there begins an intensive manhunt for this child. it tore out of heart and soul out of our dayton, ohio community. there were men hunt and fire departments putting teams together. for weeks on and, it came to light that there was something wrong there was collaboration between the investigators, between my staff, between the hospital staff, between the staff c ourac. in what was being said did not make sense. they found out that something else happened to that child. there is something wrong here. it does not add up. they finally found a neighbor, june bug, there's always someone like that. as soon as you see a june bug, you know everything has gone to hell out the [laughter] her real vernell. june bug comes forward after being pressured and tells us how this little girl's mother had sex that

the drownings are eerily similar to the 1994 case of another south carolina mother ,susan smith, who's serving life in prison for killing her young sons by rolling her car into the lake. >>> well, a texas man seemingly bent on mass murder is dead after opening fire on a suburban police station yesterday. investigators say 29-year-old patrick gray sharp drove his pickup truck and a trailer full of explosives into the building's parking lot before setting it on fire in an apparent attempt to lure people outside to kill them. the heavily armed gray died after a shoot-out with police, although, it's still unclear whether he was killed by an officer's bullet or one of his own. no one else was hurt during yesterday's clash. >>> and now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. a teenager girl is recovering after falling over the side of a cliff in washington state. tape of the amazing rescue shows just how close the blades of a navy helicopter came to a 450 foot-tall bridge. the girl is being treated for hypothermia and some minor injuries. >>> in connecticut, a

susan smith, a woman you just saw there, claimed a car jacker stole her car with two children in it.smith confessed to murder after her car was found at the bottom of the lake with the children inside. >> former governor rod blagojevich found guilty of just one of the 24 counts against him. a grand jury in chicago said he was guilty of lying to federal agents but jurors deadlocked over other 23 charges. a conviction carries a punishment of five years. prosecutors say they'll retry with a new jury. >> this is a persecution. there are police officers being gunned down on the streets and children can't play in front of their homes in the summer time. we have a prosecutor who is wasted and wants to spend tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money to keep persecuting me. >> the jury deliberated 4 days and found blagojevich's brother, robert not guilty on charges facing him. >>> a close call in the water off the san mateo coastline. >> mentally i'm thinking we're going to have to pull them out of the water. >>> a fisherman's great white encount year i'm sandhya patel. there is a brief w

. >> reporter: the incident brings back memories of the susan smith case 16 years ago.at south carolina mother eventually confessed to rolling her car into a lake with her boys buckled in their car seats so she could start a new life. smith is currently serving a life sentence. dooley will be formally charged with murder tomorrow. manuel gallegus, cbs news, orangeburg, south carolina. >>> other news this afternoon, uc-berkeley maintains the top ranking in the nation for public universities. that's according to the latest edition of the best colleges list put together by u.s. news & world report. cal ranks 22nd overall. harvard is number one followed by princeton. yale number 3 and then columbia, stanford, penn tied at number 5. the u.s. news ranking by the way widely considered the most influential of all those college lists. >>> lake tahoe just as year as 10 years ago. in 2009, the lake's waters were clear to an average depth of about 68 feet. that number remains steady for the entire decade. the apparent stabilization of the lake's clarity suggests restoration project

back in 1994, susan smith made headlines after she claimed she was car jacked by a man who drove away with her sons. >> and this black guy came up and just opened the door and jumped in the car. >> reporter: smith made countless pleas on tv for the kidnapper to return her sons. she eventually confessed to rolling her car into a nearby lake, her young children still inside. whether or not this new case is a repeat of the smith saga is yet to be determined. the coroner says she will not speculate on a cause of death until autopsies are completed tuesday when the sheriff says more charges could be coming. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >>> shrimping season is under way in the gulf of mexico and so far shrimpers report good catches and clean looking shrimp. but a new report on the bp oil spill is worrisome. on the surface, gulf waters seem clear and federal officials say only about a quarter of the spilled oil remains. but a study by scientists at the university of georgia says that's wrong, up to 80% of the oil still lurks under water. >>> in a sharp break with president obama, harry

. >> the boy's deaths are similar to the susan smith case also out of south carolina. in 1994, smith's two toddler boys were found in a car strapped in their seats submerged in a lake. she is now serving a life sentence. >>> let's check in now with meteorologist mark tamayo to tell us what's happening outside, mark. >> reporter: hello ken, today we have a different weather picture with more sunshine across most of the bay area. even the coastline enjoying sunny conditions. there's the fog bank way offshore. you can see to the west of san francisco to the west of point ray. we have a few patches moving in, you can see right along point rays, but closer to the marin head lands. mostly clear skies along most portions of the bay area. the inland spots cooled off a few degrees from yesterday's highs. concord right now at 80 degrees, san francisco at 64. and santa rosa in the upper 70s, it's 77 degrees. you can see the clear skies, we are looking out toward san francisco out in the distance. weather story, fog increasing once again overnight, late tonight into early tomorrow

. >> reporter: the incident reminded many of the susan smith case from back in 1994. the car, then rolled it into a lake. she's now serving life in prison. >>> now to that miracle jetliner landing in the caribbean. the injured passengers, including at least two americans, are being moved to hospitals in colombia this morning. they are among the 130 people who survived the crash on san andreas island. sharyn alfonsi has the story. >> reporter: the jet crashed so hard it split into three sections. and somehow, unbelievably, just one person died. that passenger suffered a heart attack after the crash. the 737 was flying from bogota to an island off the colombian coast. the pilot was reportedly attempting to land during severe thunderstorms. as they approached, he says the plane was struck by lightning. the plane hit down short of the runway, sliding on its belly before it shattered. >> it was going down pretty fast when it impacted the ground. it's very hard to break an aircraft into pieces like that. >> reporter: meteorologists say there is evidence of multiple lightning

the deaths brought back memories of 1994 when susan smith strapd her young boys into their seats andto a lake. at first she claimed they were carjacked but essentially she, too, confessed to killing her kids. >> reporter: the arraignment is scheduled for later today. authorities conducted autopsies on the children. the coroner says the 2-year-old had defensive wounds indicating that he put up a fight for his life, natalie. >> such a horrific story. ron mott, thank you. >>> the secret service questioned the piemt of a small plane who flew through restricted air space tuesday during president obama's visit to seattle. the air national guard scrambled two jets. the pilot and passenger were returning from vacation and were clueless and harmless, in their words. >> went from sunny to cloudy like we said it would. >> like al said. here with a check of the weather. >> that's my story and i'm sticking with it. all these folks here in new york. where are you from? >> buffalo. >> shuffling off to buffalo? nice. when do you shuffle off to buffalo? >> tomorrow. >> do you always say everything to

well, we look back at famous cases, susan smith, the south carolina mother who put her two children inar seats and drove the car into a lake to drown the children so she would be more marketable to her new boyfriend. and andrea yates, the texas woman who drowned her five children in the bathtub, believing in her own challenged mind that the children were going to have problems later in life. so in her mind, she thought she was saving them by killing them. so there are various reasons. but we can even go back to, you know, third century greek tragedies where the wife of jason, of jason and the argonauts, killed her two sons to punish her husband because he was having an affair with another princess. so this goes back in antiquity and forward the challenges. but the terrible thing is that innocent children wind up being pawns many times in these terrible battles between biological parents. >> well, clint, if this happens so often, let's talk about what signs we should be looking for. the people who know teresa -- obviously, she's charged. we don't know the outcome of that case. >> yeah.