it's as if wheeler is now lost. soon his life literally would be. a little more than 13 hours later, at 9:56 a.m. on new year's eve, a worker at this landfill sees wheeler's body fall out of a garbage truck to the ground. it turns out the garbage truck held the first key to the case. ten miles away in newark they found disturbing clues. police traced the pickup to ten dumpsters in a one-mile area. wheeler's body was stuffed in one of them. from there, the trail grows cold. and the case gets harder. they still have no idea where wheeler was murdered. >> you would love to have a crime scene because obviously that gives you some forensics to work with, what actually caused his death possibly. >> reporter: police are checking surveillance cameras, atm machines and nearby businesses. >> you've got to figure out who he has communicated with and what his movements are. >> reporter: and small town new castle residents are shocked and afraid. "nightline" went to a local diner and bar where wheeler was a regular. >> this is a man who sat here next to me, who

robert dill, a neighbor who had seen wheeler christmas eve was shocked at wheeler's condition on thee. >> i have never seen him like that in my life, i have no idea. >> reporter: wheeler, a veteran, was working in washington for a defense contractor. he was recently interviewed on cbs news "sunday morning." >> that brutal close fight is the same war to war to war. >> reporter: but law enforcement sources say the murder was apparently not related to his government work. >> it's got us totally confused. i mean, at this point i couldn't even give you a theory. >> reporter: now police haven't said how wheeler died or even where he was actually killed. they're looking into a legal dispute with a neighbor but friends say they can't imagine that dispute would have led to his death. jan crawford, cbs news, washington. >> couric: and coming up next, a lot of talk about reforming the filibuster. a completely blocked artery, another heart attack could be lurking, waiting to strike. a heart attack that's caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix, taken with o

wheeler had a lawsuit pending against his neighbors.eir new home was blocking his view of a park and the delaware river. police are looking into whether there's any connection two wheeler's death. >> such a puzzling story. karen travers, thanks to that. >>> and now, time for the other headlines. and we go to ron claiborne. >> good morning, everyone. in the news, the radical iraqi cleric, muqtada al sadr, has given his first speech this morning since returning from four years of self-imposed exile in iran. he urged assistance against, quote, our common enemies, the u.s. and britain. >>> and wikileaks says the u.s. government has subpoenaed its twitter account. demanding private details and messages and personal details about founder, julian assange. wikileaks says it plans to fight that order. >>> and heavy rains in australia have renewed fears of flooding there. ten people have already died in heavy flooding since november. about 200,000 people have been affected. the waters are expected to crest some time tomorrow. >>> and the iphone i

he was a man who had a lot of pain, but he took his pain and he put it to good use. >> reporter: wheeler was involved in a recent controversy in court trying to block construction of a house across the street from his, that he claimed would block his view of the delaware river. tonight, police are declining to speculate on a possible motive or the cause of death. they're hoping that public tips will help them come up with some of the answers to that. >> pete williams in our washington newsroom tonight. pete, thanks. >>> there is health news tonight that's getting a lot of attention. it concerns a new blood test for cancer and the big question, of course, can it revolutionize both the detection and treatment of several different kinds of cancer. our chief science correspondent robert bazell has more on why this new test may or may not become a game changer. >> reporter: it is an impressive feat, extracting a few cancer cells out of a solid cancer tumor out of the billions of healthy cells in a simple blood sample. it's already working in early tests. the goal is to see how the cancer trea

wheeler was not reported missing. john wheeler was 66 years old. >>> a 10-year-old ohio boy has been charged in the murder of his mother. the boy was charged as a juvenile monday. 46-year-old deborah mcveigh was found dead sunday night. she was lying on the floor of her home with a single gunshot wound to the head. a neighbor called 911 after her son told her he had just shot his mother. >> i shot her with a gun. >> you shot your mom? >> yeah. >> okay. the little boy shot his mom. >> she's dead. >> relatives say the boy had gotten into an argument with his mother about collecting firewood. neighbors who know the boy say he isn't a bad kid. >> it's shocking. i mean, you never expect a, you know, a child of that age to do anything like that. >> the 10-year-old boy remains in custody. he's entered the juvenile equivalent of not guilty. prosecutors say he won't be tried as an adult. >>> president obama returns to washington today. he's been on a family vacation in hawaii. the president left honolulu early this morning. mr

police say somehow, wheeler's body ended up in a dumpster 15 miles away.had seen wheeler christmas eve has no idea what might have happened and was shocked at wheeler's condition on the tape. >> i have never seen him like that in my life. i have no idea. at this point, i couldn't even give author. >> wheeler's car was found parked at a train station. his death has been ruled a homicide and police are looking at a legal battle wheeler was having with a neighbor whose home is under construction. in a new development that's raising even more questions, a local tv station is reporting that wheeler's cell phone was found inside that home. but, friends say they can't imagine that dispute would have led to his death. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> joining us for a closer look at the case criminologist casey jordan. good morning. >> good morning, rebecca. >> this case is so confusing and perplexing at this point. you have the criminal medical examiner in delaware saying it is a homicide. what do you think? >> well, they said that within the first 24 hours

but they still don't know who exactly killed john wheeler.mer aide to president reagan and both president bushes. here now is pierre thomas. >> reporter: by all accounts, john p. wheeler iii was a man of stature. west point grad. military man. vietnam veteran who helped spearhead efforts to build the memorial wall in washington. the nature of his recent untimely death feels completely at odds with his life. wheeler was murdered, his body discovered dumped at a landfill. not far from his newcastle, delaware, home. >> very prominent gentleman. and why anyone would kill him would be beyond me. >> reporter: monday, police were back at the landfill desperately hunting for leads. >> there are no suspects. again, we are still looking to determine where the crime scene actually occurred. >> reporter: wheeler has homes in delaware, washington, and new york city. he was believed to have been in washington prior to being found dead on new year's eve. he was a white house aide to president reagan and worked in the administrations of both bush presidencie

wheeler is seen.nd he appears confused. >> reporter: he was last seen alive in this wilmington office building. 12 hours later, his body was discovered in a landfill. some time after the video was taken, he was murdered and stuffed in a dumpster. >> our ultimate hope would be we would possibly catch a killer or somebody that may be involved in his death on one of those videos. >> reporter: before his death, wheeler had been wandering the streets after arriving from washington by train. clearly, something was wrong. but who would want to kill one of washington's brightest minds? the former presidential aide and pentagon official once had top secret clearance. and was recently working on cyber warfare. a story that has conspiracy theorists buzzing. this murder reads like a spy novel. one wrote, was he threatening to blow a whistle on a government experiment? thomas mcinerney believes it could be a professional hit. >> someone made an attempt to get him out of the area where the homicide was committed. a

the way we used to do is have a four-wheeler.down in the sled and the four-wheeler would take you back up the hill. >> you don't have the dog running. >> that's the only difference. don't recommend this at home but like to see what other parts of the country do for let's take a look what's going on up at heavenly. nothing right now but light snow is headed their way. that will be a nice powder to ski on tomorrow and the next couple days. back here at home looking from emeryville back to the west, trying to find those thicker clouds and i have on live doppler 7 hd. you can see some yellows and oranges, stronger stormings heading to the santa cruz mountains. over the last hour or so making a northeasterly beeline. that's across the santa cruz mountains into the south bay and possibly over into the trivalley if it holds together. that may be the first area where we see some of the rain finally reach the ground. 54 half moon bay, the rest of us mid to upper 40s as we head towards the noon hour. around the monterey bay, low to mid-50s

john wheeler the 3rd was a military expert. he served in three republican administrations. he also led the efforts to build the vietnam veterans memorial wall in washington d.c. his death was ruled a homicide. right now investigators say they have no idea who killed wheeler or why. >>> a navy captain at the center of a scandal involving lewd videos could be relieved of his command as early as today. ktvu's carol hon is live in our washington d.c. newsroom with more on the story and the investigation. good morning, carol. >> reporter: good morning, pam. what i'm hearing is that the captain could be suspended as early as today. let's take a look at what got him into such hot water in the first place. >> something foreign to the gay kid over there, chicks in the shower. >> reporter: a virginia newspaper first broke the story of captain honors starring in several lewd videos complete with gay slurs, simulated sex acts and even a shower scene. the video was made about five years ago when he was second in command of the aircraft carrier u.s.s. enterprise. navy top brass are now i

john wheeler the third was a military expert who served in three republican administrations. he also led efforts to build a vietnam veterans memorial wall in washington d.c. his death has been ruled a homicide. but at this point investigators say they have no idea who killed wheeler or why. >>> time now 5:14. a navy captain is right at the center of a scandal involving lewd videos, could be relieved of his command as early as today. captain owen honors created and starred in several videos that mocked gays when he was the number two officer on the u.s.s. enterprise. carol hon is live in our washington d.c. newsroom with the latest on the navy's investigation. good morning, carol. >> reporter: good morning, dave. what i'm hearing is that the captain could be suspended as early as today. let's take a look at what got him into hot water. >> let's get to my favorite topic. and something foreign to the gay kid over there, chicks in the shower. >> reporter: a virginia newspaper first broke the story of captain honors starring in several lewd videos complete with gay slurs, simulate

wheeler's body was stuffed in one of them. grows cold and the case gets harder. they still have no idea where wheeler was murdered. >> you'd love to have a crime scene because obviously that gives you forensics to work with, possibly what actually caused his death. >> reporter: authorities are also focusing on a dispute between wheeler and one of his neighbors about the construction in front of his house in nearby newcastle. but for his neighbors -- >> very well liked. >> a lot of people are shook up. >> reporter: -- there's only shock and pain. pierre thomas, abc news, newcastle, delaware. >>> a popular assistant principal is dead after a student opened fire at an omaha high school. vicki caspar passed away last night at the hospital. the gunman who had been at the school only a few weeks killed himself after the shooting. 17-year-old robert butler had warned in a facebook posting people would hear evil things about him. he also claimed the school had driven him to violence. >>> the final day of michael jackson's life was rel

the way we used to do is have a four-wheeler.down in the sled and the four-wheeler would take you back up the hill. >> you don't have the dog running. >> that's the only difference. don't recommend this at home but like to see what other parts of the country do for fun. let's take a look what's going on up at heavenly. nothing right now but light snow is headed their way. that will be a nice powder to ski on tomorrow and the next couple days. back here at home looking from emeryville back to the west, trying to find those thicker clouds and i have on live doppler 7 hd. you can see some yellows and oranges, stronger stormings heading to the santa cruz mountains. over the last hour or so making a northeasterly beeline. that's across the santa cruz mountains into the south bay and possibly over into the trivalley if it holds together. that may be the first area where we see some of the rain finally reach the ground. 54 half moon bay, the rest of us mid to upper 40s as we head towards the noon hour. around the monterey bay, low to mi

wheeler iii was a man of stature. west point grad. military man. vietnam veteran that helped spearhead efforts to build the memorial wall in washington. the nature of his recent untimely death feels completely at odds with his life. wheeler was murdered, found in a landfill not far from his delaware home. >> very prominent gentleman. why anyone would kill him would be beyond me. >> reporter: monday, police were back at the landfill, desperately hunting for leads. >> there are no suspects. we're trying to determine where the cream scene occurred. >> reporter: wheeler has homes in delaware, washington and new york city. he was believed to have been in washington prior to being found dead on new year's eve. he was a white house aide to president reagan. and worked in the administrations of both bush presidencies. he pushed hard as chair of fund-raising for the vietnam veterans memorial, seen by 4 million annually. >> do our lives reflect the best that is in the lives of those whose names are on the wall of this memorial? >> jack wheeler's life was cen

they have yet to figure out who killed john wheeler.here he was last seen alive. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: police in delaware are working feverishly to fill in a critical 18-hour gap in the life and death of john wheeler iii. the word mystery is overused sometimes. but this feels like a mystery. >> it does. it does. we don't have the answers yet. >> reporter: wheeler was last seen in wilmington on december 30th at 3:30 p.m., on the corner of tenth avenue and orange street. a day earlier, just a couple blocks away, wheeler had an odd encounter with a parking attendant. >> it was cold out this evening. he had one shoe on. he was wandering around. >> reporter: police don't know yet who killed him. but they do know his body was dumped at 9:56 a.m. in this landfill. ten miles away, they found disturbing clues. the garbage truck held the first key to the case. police traced the garbage pick-up to ten dumpsters in a one-mile area. wheeler's body was stuffed in one of them. in fact, this could be the dumpster. from there, the trail gro

investigators have ruled wheeler's death a homicide. but so far, they have no leads. >>> a long judge begins hearing testimony in a manslaughter kags against michael jackson's doctor, dr. conrad murray. he is accused of gross negligence in jackson's death. murray insists he did nothing wrong. his attorneys may even argue that jackson injected himself with the drug, committing suicide. >>> jerry brown has been sworn in as governor of california, returning to the job he held 28 years ago. the inauguration was a low-key affair. brown's speech lasted less than 15 minutes. the governor did have a bit of humor during his swearing in. >> without any mental reservation. >> without any mental reservation. or -- >> really. >> as for the larger than life outgoing governor, arnold schwarzenegger says he may write a book about his life. he's been a bodybuilder, action hero and political animal. so, he has an interesting story to tell. >>> two massage therapists have filed a sexual harassment suit against brett favre. they say they lost their jobs wi

wheeler was then seen on video in an office video, apparently a little disoriented.k-to-back losses for the first time this season. >>> how about the college game? duke hosting uab. first half, duke up 21-4. kyle zingler, stepback three. he eclipsed the 2,000-point mark. over a minute left in the first half. duke leading by 15. nolan smith, driving. difficult bucket. but he gets it to go. duke leads, 51-34. second half, duke up by 17. mason bumly with the steal. the other way for the deal. duke leads 70-51. later in the second, smith driving again. the hole. he throws it down. he had 33 points. duke wins, 85-64. >>> that is all for your espn news update. i'm don bell. now, back to you in new york. >>> speaking of sports, there's a world series of just about everything these days, including, of all things, beer pong. >> one of my favorites. a team from the st. louis area beat out more than 500 teams to take ohm the $50,000 prize in the latest world series of beer pong. >> they say they are going to party with the winnings. and one claims he is going to buy his girlfri

and now to the investigation surrounding the death of john wheeler. a former moog official and one of the founders of the vietnam war memorial, his body was found in a landfill nearly a week ago, and now new surveillance video of him the night before his death has only deepened this mystery. >> reporter: in the days leading up to his apparent murder, john wheeler was seen in several plays around wilmington, apairing confused and dishevelled. surveillance video shows him walking into a parking garage last wednesday night, wearing no overcoat, despite the cold, and carrying one of his shoes. his car was not even parked there. garage employees thought he was homeless. >> he had a suit on, but the suit looked like he had it on for two or three days. i can see like dust marks throughout, you know, maybe on his pants. >> reporter: a security guard says wheeler claimed someone stole his briefcase, and offered a rambling explanation for what he was doing. >> he said that his brother dropped him off. he said two days ago, to visit his mother. >> reporter: but

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. >> reporter: this is where police say john wheeler was probably last seen at the amtrak station in wilmington, a week ago they believe he got off a train from washington, d.c., a regular commute, but sometime after that, investigators say he was murdered. police in northern delaware now know the answer to one mystery, who's body was discovered at a landfill last friday morning. they have identified the victim as a delaware resident, john wheeler, former pentagon official and defense consultant and a driving force behind the vietnam memorial, visited by more than 4 million people a year. investigators assume he made that train trip last week because they know he bought a ticket. >> we do know that he traveled daily from his home in newcastle to washington, d.c. where he was employed. we know that he had purchased a ticket to travel from washington, d.c. to wilmington. >> reporter: but then what? police say his body was apparently placed into one of ten trash receptacles enter along this collection route in newark. they're checking locations of where the trash truck stopped before go

wheeler also have the planning code consideration and whether or not it meets the obstructions and thatome of the process concerns. we have not sent out the neighborhood notification yet. we still have the permit. revisions could be submitted for what we have on file. i would imagine that if the board was to choose that the trees should be removed, they need to come up with an alternative. we have the permit and we have not sent out a notification. sut the board of vote -- the board is aware of where the processes. >> thank you. >> what about the historic facades? >> in the staff reviewed the current proposal and felt that that wasn't adequate proposal. i have not reviewed any alternative proposal. >> thank you. bédj >> the matter is submitte. >> it appears that neither party is against the construction, it might be the location and maybe the trees. from a technical point of view, there is greater safety in aligning the foundation and the wall that will be constructed with the major structure of the building. in these kind of instances, there is always the potential for settlement. >>

maryanne wheeler says the davis's stayed true to their calling. >> they have had run ins and been chased and heard there was a roadblock, flefr was a consideration for them to leave. >> nancy's home state was indian and she was a registered nurse. >> she has unconditionally loved, reached out to the mexican people. >> people whose company turned upside down by drug cartels and gangs. 35,000 people have died in 4 years since mexican president fleeb felipe calderon declared offensive to the drug cartels. jumping 60 percent to more than 15,000 deaths. yet missionaries continue to cross the border. church leader mark rotramel says church mission work is down but not out. >> they have to be careful and committed to what god has called them to do. >> after the death of nancy davis, rotramel says his not abandon the people of mexico, but be extra cautious. >> we are not encouraging wholesale like we have. >> bob kracht is a missionary to mexico. >> they stick wg it because of their commitment to help people and share the gospel. >> kracht doesn't want to stay out of mexico but feelings safer tr

john wheeler the third was last seen on december 30th. his body was discovered in a delaware landfill the next day. surveillance video shows wellanear a -- shows wheeler in a parking garage before his death. the states medical examiner says he was assaulted and died of force blunt track. >>> a california man forming to blow up one of the largest mosques was arrested last monday. authorities say he had a large amount of fire works in his car. someone called police the night before after they overheard stockham making threats against muslims. >> we are supposed to live in peace. one respect the other. i don't understand how someone can think of something like that. it's unbelievable. >> investigators believe stockham was acting alone. they say he has a history of antigovernment activities. >>> in washington state new concerns about prison safety are being raised after a correction officer was found strangled to death. 34-year-old jamie bendell was found choked to death. he lead religious programs at the prison and raised concerns about bein

this is where police found wheeler's cell phone.ay wheeler may have set off smoke bombs there as part of a dispute. floorboards in wheeler's kitchen are being examined for footprints. >>> we have a clarification, now. earlier this week, when she appeared on "good morning america," to discuss her new book, ricki lake used the term juvenile diabetes, when she meant type 2 diabetes in children. her statement said, i commented that juvenile diabetes is preventable, when i meant type 2 diabetes. this was a mistake on my part. and in no way was meant to offend anyone dealing with the very serious issue of juvenile diabetes. >>> and now, some extraordinary news about a brave, young man. in october, rutgers football player, eric legrand, was paralyzed from his shoulders down. now, he's regaining feeling throughout his body and can move his shoulders once again. that's truly remarkable, considering he thought he might die on the football field that day. he told espn he has a whole, new outlook on life. >> i believe that i'll walk one day. i

the body of john wheeler found falling off a truck into a trash pile at land fill in delaware on newe. he worked for 3 president but he was best remembered for working tirelessly to raise money for the vietnam veterans memorial in dc. 66-year-old wheeler was a vietnam vet himself decorated officer and military consultant murdered for some reason. >>> if you get arrested be ready to give up the cell phone without seeing a warrant. california supreme court ruled today that police do not need a warrant to search text messages on the cell phone of those they arrest. one just says the cell phone is personal property like clothing which therefore can be searched but legal analyst dean johnson says the court decision is disturbing. >> when you look at the internal contents of somebody's cell phone and in effect you are looking not only at the phone messages but at their computer records. their web record and so on. it's a massive invasion of privacy. >>reporter: the court upheld the conviction of gregory diaz who was arrested for helping sell ecstacy. detectives used his text message to get

wheeler also putting together instructional design teams made up of our best price -- we are also putting together instructional design teams made up of the best people to talk about the survey topics, -- about specific topics, so we are trying to get input, and there is certainly opportunity to continue to do more of that. >> i have given a few teachers surveys, so we can see what kind of things are important to the teachers. >> colleagues, any additional questions? we will open this item to public comment. opportunity to bring forward a lot of the positive work we're doing together. i just want to thank you supervisor dusty because oftentimes when we are dragging our feet and don't feel like we're prepared to have these meetings you have reminded us how valuable and important these meetings are and your leadership has been tremendous. we have managed to meet at least once a month. and i think sharing of information like this really builds on the partnership that we have. and we will continue to strengthen the relationship between the city and the school district. so thank you so much fo

according to those who knew him, 66-year-old john wheeler who served in three republican administrations, seemed an unlikely person to meet such a gruesome end. >>> a new 60-minute/vanity fair poll finds the majority, 61% of americans, think the u.s. should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget. the second most favored method? cutting the defense budget. >>> sky watchers across europe and the middle east this morning reveet treated to the first partial solar eclipse of 2011. a small bite of the sun. the first of four partial solar eclipses of the year. >>> and it may be a few days late, but italial mount etna put on its own fireworks display to bring in the new year, spewing out spectacular ash and fire. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,690. the s&p rose points and the nasdaq shot up 38. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei climbed 169 points while in hong kong, the hang seng added 232. stocks started off the year with a big lift on monday, and that could be a promising sign for the rest

a film on the story was screened as parts of the event at wheeler auditorium and jesse jackson was the key note speaker there. >>> san francisco police are said to start enforcing the controversial sit lie ordinance this week. the law was approved by 54% of voters in november and makes it illegal to resit or lion public sidewalks. it went into effect officially in december but police decided to not enforce it until this tuesday. they wanted to send officers through a training program to make sure they understood the law and enforce it fairly. >>> coming up next at 5:00. a new device changing the way some patients are treated. showing us a wild catheter to treat blocked leg arteries. >>> the royal wedding in april. >>> a rummage sale is under weft to benefit orhisty. we'll explain when the news continues. hi shift your weight forward onto the left foot. take the right leg up, holding the inner arch of the foot... introducing instant action alerts, only from chase. left arm up... manage your account and help avoid overdrafts with a click of a button. just reply to the alert with how much

we wanted to keep this two- wheelers off there. it is one of the first places they can part because it is flat. that is what we are concerned about. how is the city going to keep non-student buses out of that area? we want to work to find some other solutions so that we can keep other trailers -- it is not about keeping the kids and the students away from the exploratory and. it is about working to find other >> good afternoon. >> patricia voy. jan said a lot. this was a group of meetings with everybody except for the neighbors for two and a half years. we never knew anything until approximately october 1. we made everything for the changes here at this light. it was our suggestions. we made several other alternative suggestions as well . excuse me, i just got out of the hospital. with the turn-arounds for the buses further, instead of going to scott, why not go the commercial routt that was voted in in 1985? you go down lombard, take a right on steiner.

john wheeler iii was last scene on december 30th, the body discovered in a delaware landfill the next day. surveillance video shows him in a parking garage days before his death looking disoriented. last week, the state medical examiner's office said he was assaulted and died of blunt force trauma. >>> and the astronaut husband of congresswoman gabrielle giffords will decide in the coming weeks if he will join's nasa shuttle mission as scheduled. mark kel, the commander of april's endeavour motion, has been on leave to tend to his wife since the january 8th shooting in tucson that killed six people and injuring 13 others. giffords was transferred to a rehabilitation facility in houston 10 days ago after undergoing hospital treatment. nasa said that kelly is expected to make his decision by mid-february. >>> a scottish man has quite the story to tell after surviving a 1,000-foot fall off of a mountain and when rescuers in a royal naval helicopter found adam potter, he was standing up and reading a map. the 35-year-old was with several other climbers on saturday when he lost his footing

we wanted to keep this two- wheelers off there. it is one of the first places they can part because it is flat. that is what we are concerned about. how is the city going to keep non-student buses out of that area? we want to work to

we wanted to keep this two- wheelers off there. it is one of the first places they can part because it is flat. that is what we are concerned about. how is the city going to keep non-student buses out of that area? we want to work to find some other solutions so that we can keep other trailers -- it is not about keeping the kids and the students away from the exploratory and. it is about working to find other >> good afternoon. >> patricia voy. jan said a lot. this was a group of meetings with everybody except for the neighbors for two and a half years. we never knew anything until approximately october 1.

a program in honor of the day will be held at wheeler auditorium at uc berkeley at 2:00 in the afternoon on sunday. coramatsu died in 2005 at the age of 86. >>> we'll check in on the weekend forecast and christina. good morning. >> yes, the weekend has arrived. we have really dense fog in the east bay. that's going to make your friday morning commute a little more difficult than normal. we do have about five miles of visibility in oakland. less than a quarter mile in fairfield and concord. more reduced visibilities heading out from the east bay to the north bay this morning. take it easy. we have fog developing along the peninsula this morning as well as the onshore flow kicking back in. for us that means temperatures are already cooler this morning than this time yesterday. widespread cool temperatures, 39 degrees in concord. 35 in livermore. 38 degrees in fairfield. you'll need that jacket this morning and probably this afternoon you will notice the difference. we are going to see more cloud cover throughout the day today. the low pressure tries to push onshore here. it will bring us s

last year alone 9 million two wheelers were sold in india and nearly 2 million cars. >>many motorcyclists also want to upgrade to a car as it's a much safer way to travel on the country's treacherous roads. >>the barrier has always been cost. >>reporter: but industrial giant tata has opened up a whole new market with its small car, the nano, costing around 3300 us dollars. >>but some question the logic of what india is doing. >>sauven: india is a country where you've got 1.2 / 1.4 billion people or whatever it is. you'veot huge megacities, you are not really going to be able to transport people around those cities in private carsit's just physically not possible i mean apart from the environmental consequences of it. so what you really want to do is to design and put in place a really good infrastructure for mass transit systems and i think that would be actually a much better investment and a much better industry for india to develop than go down the route of the private car. >>reporter: the plans for the new car attracted immediate media criticism in the west which

you know, or "i can't bring my ten-wheeler through with a load of gravel."achusetts, it was one of the new covered bridges -- it was built in the 1950s. new sheffield covered bridge. and there were interests in the town who were involved in trucking. in fact, one of them sat on the board of selectmen, and so the bridge disappeared. there's now a steel-and-concrete bridge there. oregon lost so many of its covered bridges due to the pressure put on the counties by the timber and logging industry to provide bridges that could carry the heavy truck traffic that carried the logs to the mills. at the beginning of that program, typically, the covered bridge was just removed and replaced with a new concrete bridge. after some negative reaction by the local residents around the covered bridges, they started building new concrete bridges immediately adjacent to the historic covered bridge, which essentially destroyed the setting and the aesthetic of the covered bridge. now, you know, everyone wants to be able to drive their vehicle, whatever the size it is, you know,

. >> reporter: 63-year-old bertha wheeler-snyder started a chapter and brought along her 41-year- oldce. women under 50 wear pink hats. >> it keeps me young, it keeps her younger. >> reporter: and that's a neat hat trick at any age. bill whitaker, cbs news, fullerton, california. >> couric: rock on, girls! and that is the "cbs evening news." i'm katie couric in new york. thanks for watching this week. russ mitchell will be here this weekend. i'll see you again on monday. and for the latest news online, you can check out cbsnews.com. have a great weekend. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> you're watching cbs5 eyewitness news. >>> just after 4:00 p.m. a lot of you felt it. the latest details on the afternoon shaker. >> you accused the mayor of cocaine use use. >> another sad day for folks who prefer to keep it local. the latest bay area supermarket to close its doors. >>> good evening i'm dane king. >> i'm allen martin. the magnitude 4.1 quake hit 11 miles north of morgan hill and east of allen rock. that was 10 minutes a

quarter of a million people flocked to the riverside to watch the london light up at midnight two wheelers going across the atlantic as well new york festivities centered is always around the slow descent of the six time for school board with thirty two thousand lights and moscow mr snowstorm thousands of people running in twenty eleven with the midnight chimes of the crumbling clock but as exotic poet who reports most for many russians they hold just the coming of a new year. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because cynthia family was marking their six years together with all of finishing the cooking and p.t.a. entertaining the guests. but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody paused. they rode out wishes and napkins burned them and soaked the ashes in the champagne according to the time honored to russian ritual drinking it should be grand even the most on a team that will wish all of the ok i can tell you what i have asked for because this way it won't come true let's wait and see if i'm like you with my wish you will know about

they're not as strong as they were yesterday. 18-wheelers were tossed around like toys, as winds gusted up to 90-mile-per-hour from san diego to l.a. >>> in other news, congresswoman gabby giffords is expected to be transferred to a texas rehab facility today. but before leaving the tucson hospital, giffords and her husband took one last look at the surrounding mountains. >> it's been less than two weeks since the assassination attempt. but giffords continues to make a remarkable recovery. emily schmidt reports. >> reporter: for the first time since congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot, doctors wheeled her outside to see sunshine. and they say she smiled when they did. >> she is a strong person. a fighter. i mean, she is a fighter like nobody that i know. so, i am extremely confident that she's going to be back here and back at work soon. >> reporter: giffords husband, mark kelly, says he expects a full recovery for the representative from arizona. but that means leaving arizona. today, giffords will be discharged from university hospital in tucson, and flown to a houston rehabilit

zones is a new practice that we're going to start seeing more of joining me to discuss it is marcy wheeler blogger for firedoglake marci thank you so much for joining us now first of all let's talk about do we this character he's seventy eight years old i believe but what intentions do you think that he has because on one hand he sells it like he's trying to root out corruption in afghanistan and he's doing this for america's own good so that we don't get sold out but he's doing this despite what the military or the president necessarily want him to do and he believes that american intervention is always ok whenever we feel like it he's a war hawk. i mean i wouldn't have as big of a problem with prince as i do if it weren't for his around concord history because of course back then he was doing what congress said specifically said not to do and he's old style he's one of those old style intelligence guys he says are you know everything's ok we you know we're kind of cowboys out here in the middle of nowhere who can do a lot and so between that past iran contra one of the journalists that h

investigators have ruled wheeler's death a homicide.eads. >>> it could soon be business as usual in the gulf of mexico for the first time since that disastrous bp oil spill back last april. the obama administration says 13 companies whose operations were suspended could resume deepwater drilling as early as next week. they may go to work without rigorous environmental reviews. however, they will have to comply with some new policies and regulations set up since that oil spill. >>> in other news, wildlife experts are starting to zero in on why thousands of dead birds fell from the sky onto a small town in arkansas just before the clock struck midnight on new year's eve. but for all those doomsday conspiracy theorists out there, it was a sign from above, literally. erin hayes is tracking the investigation from beebe, arkansas. >> reporter: it was a bizarre way, one resident here said, to start the new year. they walked outside their house when they heard what they thought were baseballs hitting the house, to see hundreds, probably they sa

john wheeler the third was last seen -- surveillance video shows him in a parking lot. >>> san francisco'smal control office may follow the lead of many sports stadiums it's considering adding corporate sponsors to raise money. the animal control offices among the many city agencies dealing with a big budget crisis. it may now put corporate names on the city vehicles that respond to the estimated 35 animals every day. >>> we will go back over to sal for a look at the toll plaza again. there he is. >> all right craig and pam traffic is doing well. no major problems on 880 north and southbound. the traffic is looking good if you are driving out to 580 as well. until major problem -- no major problems here. if you are driving to the toll plaza the commute looks pretty nice getting into san francisco. this is a time when it starts to change. you will see more and more people. this is about the hour if you don't like slow traffic you should leave the house realtively soon. >>> in san francisco northbound 101 traffic looking good coming up to the 80 split. that traffic is fine so far. and if you

last year alone 9 million two wheelers were sold in india and nearly 2 million cars.rcyclists also want to upgrade to a car as it's a much safer way to travel on the country's treacherous roads. >>the barrier has always been cost. >>reporter: but industrial giant tata has opened up a whole new market with its small car, the nano, costing around 3300 us dollars. >>but some question the logic of what india is doing. >>sauven: india is a country where you've got 1.2 / 1.4 billion people or whatever it is. you've got huge megacities, you are not really going to be able to transport people around those cities in private carsit's just physically not possible i mean apart from the environmental consequences of it. so what you really want to do is to design and put in place a really good infrastructure for mass transit systems and i think that would be actually a much better investment and a much better industry for india to develop than go down the route of the private car. >>reporter: the plans for the new car attracted immediate media criticism in the west which questioned