with walter cronkite so to be in the studio where walters matt hangs is very special to me you know my big regret is my dad died when i was a freshman in college so he never got to see this he would get the biggest kick out of knowing you know that i am now working at c.b.s. you know when i was little. i used to think the news is so boring why do we have to watch the news and my dad said the news is the one thing that changes every day you should always know what's going on in the world and walter cronkite was that for your role is everything and one of the other roles was so you know it's we're on from seven to nine i join the newscast at eight o'clock and the first you know we always say the news is back in the morning and that's true you know i keep track of what other guys are doing like one year they were doing snooki and we were doing the fortieth anniversary of watergate i mean so when you look at what we do and how we do it differently that's a perfect example but when you come on it eight the thinking is it doesn't get lighter it's just that i'm an added to the equation is the

looks like you threw one of walter cronkite's bones into the arrest tick in a for tres of newsitude fromhe ice. soon you'll be taking orders from a giant head. my son, you must go live amongst the people of fox though you are never fully one of them because your show is on in the afternoon when you are marginally less idea logical. shep smith one of those people at fox i like very much. i think he is very good. i think i should give him the benefit of the doubt even if it he is spawning most ridiculously large ipad. do you know how mad the giant you took those from is going to be? first his credit card -- [cheers and applause] that guy is losing all his stuff today. what marvels does the news-atarium boost beyond touch screens. this is what remains of tropical storm karen. >> jon: wow. that's a big map. you do know that no matter how huge you blow up your maps and monitors for us our televisions are the same size because we still have the same tvs we had last week. you could be stand in front of an imax but i vil a 32 inch samsung. >> our hope is over the days and weeks of months and yea

. - so sorry, andy, but for 20 years, the most trusted man in america: walter cronkite. - cronkite was in time, i'd take that moustache ride. - does erin have any experience? has she taken any journalism classes, maybe? - has she done the pageant circuit? - no, i watch the news-- - she's gonna be amazing. look at her. she's gonna light up the screen. - this is a first for me, and i don't get a lot of chances, so i have to take them really seriously. i will do whatever it takes to get the job. - whatever it takes. - yeah, i know, i heard. - this is it. any questions? - is it gonna be numb? - no, it's gonna be over before you know it. - mm-hmm. - afghan president hamid karzai declared a new policy of dollar days throughout the country, promising low, low prices on all 2012 kia sentras and sonatas. "aren't you glad you waited?" karzai commented. - um, where did you get that story? - a little bit here, a little bit there. i bet you didn't think i knew current events. - i love it. it's fantastic. now, tag it with your name. - for channel 11 news, i'm erin hannon. - pause after news. - for c

the host of cbs's "face the nation" was presented with the walter cronkite award for excellence in journalismona tuesday. it recognizies leading journalists, and that he is. >> that's the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. i'm anne-marie green. thanks for watching. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and i'm frank mallicoat time is 4- >>> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald. >>> good morning, it's wednesday, october 30. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 4:30 on your "hump day" and we're going to get you out the door with traffic and weather. good morning, sir. >> good morning. "hump day" already this week flying by. but yeah, out the door we have some chilly temperatures early on this morning. numbers dropping down into the 30s in the north bay valleys. some mostly clear skies, just a couple of patches of. we'll talk about that coming up. >> quiet on the road coming up. we have overnight roadwork traveling eastbound 580 approaching north livermore avenue. we'll show you your latest travel times plus check mass transit for

the first word of it for many of us came from walter cronkite. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago. >> schieffer: the nation was plunged into shock. noct like this had ever happened. was it the beginning of world war iii? we were terrified. then came the news that an angry exmarine who had once defected to the soviet union had been arrested. >> lee h. oswald, the 24-year-old man who dallas police say is a prime suspect in the assassination of president kennedy, was questioned for six hours at the dallas police station this evening. >> here is oswald. at the police station. he is saying there, "i did not do it it. i did not do it." >> reporter: vice president lyndon johnson was sworn in as president and brought kennedy's body and his widow back to washington on air force one. >> i will do my best. that is all i can do. i ask for your help and god's. >> schieffer: two days later a grieving nationwide was shocked once more as an unbelievable scene unfolded in the baseme

area 51. >> walter cronkite one of the greatest news people of all time talking about it.hose people that are out there. >> you don't blink a lot in a cornfield? >> you know who saw a ufo, ronald reagan. you know who else? >> jimmy carter. >> jimmy carty. we want to not just tell you the stories but give you the evidence. what we do in the book you get to actually see the real evidence. this is how the book works. it's actually fortunate see. each chapter has its own secret compartment. you pull out -- this is actually the redacted first press release that the government had. and you can examine it. you can read it for yourself. you can see what did this person see when they said that they saw an unidentified flying object. to me that's the amazing part. the american people get to look and say, oh my gosh what really did happen that day. and it's an amazing story. >> these people don't say they saw unidentified flying objects. they basically say, i saw something, i don't know what it was. >> that's what an unidentified flying object is. >> right. >> they see something they

walter cronkite lied about the back alleyo-called abortions. he perpetuated that myth.hey made it sound as if it was just a blob of tissue. i have been to pro-life gatherings where someone strange would be in the room. i remember sitting next to a person like that. all of the national media cameras came to that person and they were focused on that person. they did not capture any mom and dad in the room. no children. that was the face of the pro- life movement. the 1980s, it was just anathema to be pro-life for a politician. the republican party decided it needed a we tend. -- it needed a big tent. conservatives continue to talk about what was true. eventually, the facts caught up with what the reality was. with the advent of ultrasound and the debate over partial- birth abortion and the whole about the horrible abortion clinics, mines have been changed. most of the republican congressman servant -- congressman -- congressmen serving our pro-life. homosexuality where we were on abortion in the 1980s. all we know is what we hear from television in the media and in hollyw

> president lyndon johnson is said to have once lamented during the vietnam war, if i've lost walter cronkite, i've lost the country. which brings us to obama care and how the mainstream media has turned against president obama during the recent days. here's a look. >> you know the president's health care law is in trouble when it becomes a punchline for the man who usually mocks republicans, jon stewart. >> glitches. >> glitches. >> glitches. >> snafu. >> the bugs, the kinks. >> whatever you want to call it. >> glitches. apparently the healthcare.gov website has 99 problems but a glitch is all of them. >> but the mounting media criticism is no laughing matter. on msnbc which usually supports president obama, there have been accusations that the administration is withholding information, even lying and comparisons to war and natural disasters. >> just like on katrina when the big problem president bush had was diminishing tefrts. >> the problem is the administration could get into sort of a credibility death spiral. >> reporter: conservative commentators have been predicting doom for months.

walter cronkite lied about the number of so-called back alley abortions. he perpetuated that myth. they made it sound as if it was just a blob of tissue. i have been to pro-life gatherings where someone strange would be in the room. i remember sitting next to a person like that. all of the national media cameras came to that person and they were focused on that person. they did not capture any mom and dad in the room. no children. that was the face of the pro- life movement. by the 1980's, it was just anathema to be pro-life for a politician. the republican party decided it needed a big tent. christian conservatives continued to talk about what was true. eventually, the facts caught up with what the reality was. with the advent of 4-d ultrasound and the debate over partial-birth abortion and the whole business about the horrible abortion clinics, mines -- minds have been changed. most of the republican congressman serving are pro- life. we are on homosexuality where we were on abortion in the 1980's. all we know is what we hear from television in the media and in hollywood. we see

night -- 17 years as executive editor, the paper 125 pulitzer prizes and now is professor at the walter cronkitechool of journalism at arizona state university. leonard downie, welcome to democracy now! talk about your findings, this conference of, first-time report of the committee to protect journalists on press freedom here in the united states. ask a program called the insider threat program instituted since the bradley manning leaks, that requires government employees to monitor each other to make sure they're not leaking information to anyone, including journalists, to really have frightened government officials. many reporters i interviewed here in washington say government officials are afraid to talk to them. they are afraid their telephone conversations in their e-mail exchanges would be monitored. that is to say investigators could come in later, as they did in several leaks investigations, and use their telephone and e- mail records in order to find the contacts between government officials and reporters. they are scared to talk to reporters. this is not good because i just heard the

unimaginable john and jacqueline would go to walter cronkite and say as in "60 minutes," which meanss brother worked to keep that private life out of public sphere. on that his presidency would have rested. had it been exposed, i don't see and historians i talk to can't imagine how he would survive that. that's what my alternate history goes into at some length. >> we appreciate you visiting and sharing some of those stories. thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> in other headlines making news today, two americans who have been kidnapped by pirates after their ship was attacked off the coast of nigeria, u.s. flagged oil supply ship was targeted in the gulf of guinea early wednesday. american officials said the working assumption was that the pair were kidnapped for ransom. sources telling nbc news no warships, no plans for a hostage rescue attempt. >>> coming up crucial period in america's history will soon have a new home. the story behind the first state funded civil rights museum. that is next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" right here on msnbc. huh...fifteen minutes could

. >> this is walter cronkite in our newsroom. f. kennedy. >> from the moment the shots rang out on dealey plaza, it was elusive. >> was he acting alone or was he a member of a conspiracy. >> the 888-page warren report issued in 1964 shows there's no evidence of lee harvey oswald planning or carrying out the assassination. dozens of documentaries and films, most notably oliver stone's 1991 'cadmy award-winning film "jfk." but the strongest official information for security came in 1979 when they concluded that president kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. a key piece of evidence was an audio recording that the committee believed captured the sound of four shots fired. one came from a so-called grassy knoll. a patch of grass ahead of the president's limousine. this year political scientist larry sabato used state-of-the-art technology. he said they do not capture gunshots at all but a moster to cycle and the rattling of a microphone. he said analysis of the recordings which shown were of police radio tran

walter cronkite reports in 1996. >>> cbs reports "ufo, friend, foe, or family. >> good evening, reportsg of recorded time men are seeing unexplainable things in the sky. they are seeing something but the question is what they say really there and what was it they really saw. >> brad investigates mysteries and conspiracy theories like the infamous 51. he's put together the greatest of all time for his new book "history reported. let's start with area 51. >> this is not someone who's blinking a lot in the cornfield. to me that's opz important. you know who saw it? ronald reagan and jimmy carter what we wasn't to do many the book is not just tell you the stories but give you the evidence. you get to actually see the real evidence. this is how the book works. each chapter has a pullout. you can examine it. you can read it for yourself and you can see what did this person see when they said that they saw an unidentified flying object. the american people get to look and say, oh, my gosh, what really did happen that day and it's an amazing story. >> these people don't say i saw an unfeed flyi

. >> bob schieffer received the 2013 walter cronkite award. >> journalism is not about scratching the surface. it is about going beneath the surface and finding the truth. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> krispy kreme will give you a free pumpkin cheesecake doughnut if you dress up in a costume. >> if you take the time to dress up just to get a free doughnut, then, yes r. you've hit rock bottom. >>> west coast to "cbs this morning." good morning to you. >> good morning to you, charlie. >> we begin today with the troubled website. cbs confirms that there was a memo sent warning that the site had not been sufficiently tested. >> now, the lack of testing is one of the many issues expected to come up this morning when health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius testifies at a house committee hearing. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. good morning to you. >> good morning. she was asked to testify last week but she said she did not have time. the questions have only piled up since then. republican lawmakers want to know why she and other officials appeared to be so surprised with pr

. >> bob schieffer received the 2013 walter cronkite award. >> journalism is not about scratching the surface. it is about going beneath the surface and finding the truth. >> -- on "cbs this morning." >> krispy kreme will give you a free pumpkin cheesecake doughnut if you dress up in a costume. >> if you take the time to dress up just to get a free doughnut then, yes rks. you've hit rock bottom. >>> west coast to "cbs this morning." good morning to you. >> good morning to you, charlie. >> we begin today with the troubled website. cbs confirms that there was a memo sent warning that the site had not been sufficiently tested. >> now, the lack of testing is one of the many issues expected to come up this morning when health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius testifies at a house committee hearing. nancy cordes is on capitol hill. good morning to you. >> good morning. she was asked to testify last week but she said she did not have time. the questions have only piled up since then. republican lawmakers want to know why she and other officials appeared to be so surprised with p

. >> this is walter cronkite in our news room.ent the shots range out were the information has proved illusive. >> was oswald acts alone or a member of a conspiracy? >> the report issued in 1946 found no evidence that anyone assisted as walled in planning or carrying out the assassinati assassination. hundreds of books have been published about the case and dozens of documentaries and films, most note by "j.f.k." but the strongest official confirmation came in 1979 when the house select committee on assassinations concluded that president kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. a key piece of evidence was a an audio recording that the committee believed captured the sound of four gun shots being fired. one of the gun shots coming from a second no las vegas, the so-called grassy knoll, a patch of land that was ahead of the president's limousine. sab ba to says analysis of the recordings showed the sounds which were a police radio transmissions were not from the plaza but from a location more than two miles aw

that night, the award went to walter cronkite. as the great cbs news man was delivering his or marx, word began spreading through the ballroom of what nixon had done people began running in another room and poor walter was trying to figure out what was going on the chairman of the event that evening finally announced to the entire crowd what was happening it was a momentous event. now it is my great honor to , introduce the panelists in tonight's historic program. first, the deputy attorney general in the nixon administration that served as head of the environmental protection agency and acting director of the fbi. house.lliam rickles house second, associate special prosecutor to archibald cox that served as deputy attorney general in the clinton administration and taught for 32 years at harvard law school. professor philip coleman. [applause] an iconic figure in american journalism that covered the third, watergate drama for the "washington post" has co- authored numerous books including all the presidents men, the final days, and

sudden, actually they were watching a five minutes before 6:00 erogenous cbs evening news with walter cronkite there was an. an outcome you don't do that. the producers in new york agreed because this is such towering significance. people watching channel five in nashville all of a sudden solve this. adding imac [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> amazing how much hair people had, it met? and the outfits, brings back the memories of that night. kerr, one that you read us a little bit from your book? been that i will read a little bit. i'm happy to. i also want to say, genocide tv reporter hank allison that you saw with the microphone reporters face at the end. hank allison's sister is here. we just not outside. i also want to pay my respects -- i forgot to do this earlier. michael attains a mercer hand. michael is director of the band about press. thank you. i thought they would reach his two quick sel

walter cronkite was part of that. he lied about the number of so-called backyard abortions.ated the myth. they talked about, they made it sound as if it was just a blob of tissue. i've been a pro-life -- at pro-life gatherings were some strange would be in the room, and by strange behaving strangely and i've been sitting, i remember sitting right next a person like that at all the national media cameras came to that person and you're focused on that person. they didn't catch any mom and dad in the room, no children. and then the strange person then was plai playing to the camera d doing very strange things. that was the face of the pro-life movement and that's how by the 1980s it was just anathema to be pro-life for a politician. so the republican party decided they needed a big tent because you know, we have to be able to disagree about this. but i would say that christian conservatives continued to talk about what was true. and eventually the facts caught up with what the reality was. with the advent of 40 ultrasounds, the debate over partial-birth abortion, and more recen

told walter cronkite who was broadcasting live that the priest had administered the last rites to the president's cronkite would then say i guess it does not get any more official then that. the mexican-american men pulled up the letting knock with this send to deliver live this dollars car. many of us saw president johnson ghostly pale surrounded by airing of suits trundling him into that. memories of jackie kennedy are and many americans are received and they reflect a primal sympathy for her everything and the sec chief said this, as she circled and circled, noticed her hands were cuffed in front of her as if she were cradling something. as she passed, she nice to me with her elbow and handed me what she had been nursing with hands. a large chunk of brain tissue. one of the most touching memories of the first lady is from adelle, a surgery resident who witnessed jackie move toward the dead president, remove the wedding ring from his finger, place it on her hand and kiss him. then there was the historic confrontation in trauma of room one between county medical examiner boroughs and