bill whitaker on the failed promise of mortgage modifications. our correspondent in libya, allen pizzey, tells us today was unlike any other day in the bombardment of tripoli. and a new definition of love thy neighbor after a murderer moved in next door. a killer who struck so close to home. >> yes, he murdered my son. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

bill whitaker is on the frontlines of arizona wildfire is that threatening to spread into new mexico. facing growing calls to resign congressman anthony weiner is asking for a leave of absence in order to seek treatment. nancy has the latest on that. and every one of these students is college bound. cynthia bowers tells us how they beat the odds. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >>>> mitchell: good evening, the white house tonight is accused of syrian government of creating a humanitarian crisis after yet another bloody, tense day of fighting. troops loyal to bashar assad are cracking down on antigovernment demonstrators and others try to escape to turkey. we have the latest. a warning now: some of the pictures burr to see are graphic >> reporter: video gradually

now, bill whitaker tells us, it's their personal budgets that are taking a hit. and meet the magic chef. a former restaurant star who now cooks up smiles for youngsters with cancer. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. we begin tonight with the ongoing drama of the battle against the rivers in minot, north dakota. today, residents and city officials braced for another bad day as record crests were expected. a second evacuation has been issued in a nearby town, and tonight, while there is some good news to report, the fight to save the area is far from over. jamey yuccas, is in minot tonight. >> reporter: as the mouse river begins to crest at its highest and most historic levels it's come time for drastic decisions to save another neighborhood in minot, north dakota. the river is flowing more than 50 times its normal speed and has expanded to 10 times its size. as it passes through the city, dragging debris downstream from miles away. with manmade levees threatening to fail in the heart of downto

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> mitchell: and that is the "cbs evening news."r on cbs, "60 minutes." thanks for joining us this sunday evening. i'm russ mitchell, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night and happy father's day. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org singes some bay area homes ... >>> this father's day, hundreds of volunteers help a father search for a missing daughter. nursing student michelle lay. >> a fire singes some bay area homes. four weeks after his arrest, a hearing that could free the chief suspect in the beating of brian stow. cbs 5 eyewitness news is next. he el, watch this! hey marcel, watch this! [ buzzer sounds ] [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hey marcel, watch this! yeah, marcel! -marcel! -hey marcel! are you listening to me? marcel! [ male announcer ] only at&t u-verse lets you follow your favorite channels on one screen. just $29 a month for the first six months -- dvr included.

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richard insel and scott whitaker. if you would like to get involved in the conversation, by all means, give us a call. dixperienc fifth we're talkinabg about peoe who are our actually afflicted with diabetes. if you are a health cares, w provider for someone like that, if there's someone in your famly to has type i diabetes we would like to get you you invold in conversation as involved in matter of fact, ourt call comes from someone who has experience with diabetes. from kansas, on our line of the folks dealing with diabetes. hello? caller: yes. i have had diabetes for 43 years. my comments it might sound a bit cynical, but they said wait until your previous gues -- segue onto your previous guest and lobbyists. i don't think there is strong enough effort to find a cure for diabetes, because the pharmacy lobby is way too strong in this country. i think about it -- stop and think about it -- if there were secure prevention created, think of the money they would lose. diabetes, we kind of joke about, is not just a disea

bill whibill whitaker has more. >> reporter: looking for summer employment has become a full-time job for 19-year-old ana galindo. >> i'm worrying all the time because i have bills to pay. >> reporter: faced with mounting school bills, anna has filled out countless applications, but so the far the answer has been the same -- >> at the moment we're not hiring. we're just taking applications and we'll give you a call. >> reporter: but the phone never rings. college sophomore john reed-torres has been job hunting since last november. he says he's often competing with older workers and college grads for entry-level positions. >> people with master's trying to work in mcdonald's. they're going to get hired before i do. >> reporter: the latest figures show california's unemployment rate among teenagers is more than 34%, nearly triple the state's overall unemployment rate. in cities such as irvine, california, job fairs have been canceled because few companies have agreed to participate. meanwhile, in los angeles, it's not just the private sector turning young applicants away. in the past, m

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bill whitaker reports. >> reporter: in four tours in iraq, sergeant freddy cordova saw friends blown ieds and learned to kill or be killed. >> what keeps you warm in iraq during the winter is your hate. >> reporter: back home in 2008, he was diagnosed with severe depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. >> being very angry. very ill-tempered. very short-tempered. >> reporter: after intensive va counseling he keeps his rage under control and channels the negatives into positives. >> freddy. >> reporter: he helps vets with even worse ptsd like vietnam vet john aldridge who can't hold a job and lives by a freeway in l.a. l.a. is the homeless vet capital of the u.s., with more than 8,000 on city streets. it makes cordova angry again, especially since just blocks away sits almost 400 acres, half the size of central park, donated to the u.s. government after the civil war, expressly to provide housing for disabled veterans. while today there is a large va hospital there, and an old-age home for veterans, most of the land and buildings that once housed homeless vets have been vacant

whitaker? >> yes. as ambassador benjamin noted, there is evidence in the past eln and farc members having been present in cuba. there are continuing allegations of cuban government involvement in narco trafficking, but nothing that we've been able to act upon. again, as ambassador benjamin noted, must much of this is in w enforcement channels. i would note that we have tried to reach out to the cuban government, and we have a coast guard attache who tries to work with the cuban government in order to identify and interdict -- >> before my last few seconds, just let me say in my next round i want to follow up with this because it seems as though we're placing sanctions on venezuela which is not on the terrorist list, but more recently we're lifting sanctions on cuba, and i'll get into that in the next round, which is on the terrorist list and, in fact, is harboring a cop killer from this country. so i'll go into that in the next round. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i will now recognize the gent

bill whitaker reports on some homeowners who are trying to buck the tide. >> reporter: you're lookinggn of the times. people lined up, some overnight, thousands filling l.a.'s massive shrine auditorium desperate to hold on to their houses. >> so you're 30 days behind, right? >> reporter: they're hoping to convince banks to modify mortgages they can no longer afford. the nonprofit neighborhood assistance corporation of america has been bringing lenders and borrowers together like this all over the country. >> i don't know what to do at this point. you feel like just walking away. >> reporter: julietta manuken never thought she'd need help like this. her glendale flower shop is barely surviving. she filed for bankruptcy. she and daughter sofia have cut back on everything yet barely manage to scrap together the $3,400 a month mortgage for the house they've call home for six years. when the variable rate jumps next year -- >> mostly like we won't keep the house. we'll have to move on because there's no way we could handle what we're doing. >> it's real people, real family, real communitie

richard insel and scott whitaker. if you would like to get involved in the conversation, by all means, give us a call. my experience with the type 1 diabetes, we're talking about people -- by experience with type 1 diabetes, we are talking about people afflicted with type 1 diabetes. if you are provider or if there is someone in your family, we would like to get you involved in conversation as well. as a matter of fact, our first call comes from someone who has experience with diabetes. from kansas, on our line of the folks dealing with diabetes. hello? caller: yes. i have had diabetes for 43 years. my comments it might sound a bit cynical, but they said wait until your previous gues -- segue onto your previous guest and lobbyists. i don't think there is strong enough effort to find a cure for diabetes, because the pharmacy lobby is way too strong in this country. i think about it -- stop and think about it -- if there were secure prevention created, think of the money they would lose. diabetes, we kind of joke about,

bill whitaker tells us that in southern california, more of those homes are being built now, but they don't create as many construction jobs as single- family houses do. >> reporter: put on life support by the recession, housing construction in california is beginning to show a pulse. but the lifeblood is no longer single-family houses. there's a new driving force-- apartment and condo construction. >> there's a paradigm shift. >> reporter: builder kyle donovan used to focus almost exclusively on single-family houses in the once-booming santa clarita valley in suburban los angeles. but with many houses underwater and new construction ground to a halt, apartments and condos now make up to 60% of his business. >> in order to stay alive and stay working, we had to go where the money was. and the money right now is in multifamily and apartment buildings. >> reporter: this is good news for some, but not all. california lost 370,000 construction jobs in the recession, and since it takes fewer workers to build an apartment like this than a whole development of single-family homes, it's likel

bill whitaker has a look back. ( gunshot ) >> reporter: to generations of t.v.ans... >> "gunsmoke". >> reporter: ...james arness was matt dillon. the brave upstanding marshal of dodge city on the hit t.v. series "gunsmoke." it ran from 1955 to 1975, one of the longest-running prime time dramas in t.v. history. john wayne was offered the role, but recommended his young friend arness. >> he said "i have a young man here under contract who i think would maybe fit the bill." >> and now i'm proud to present my friend jim arness in "gunsmoke." >> reporter: raised in minneapolis, the older brother of actor peter graves, he made his way to hollywood where within four months the 6'7" arness was sharing the screen with academy award winner loretta young. he made more than 30 movies, including sci-fi classics "them," and "the thing." but it was on t.v. where he made his name as the fast-drawing marshal who only shot when he had to. >> he's a gunman, doc. he has to be eliminated. >> reporter: number one for many years, "gunsmoke" was almost always in the top ten, with james

bill whitaker on the failed promise of mortgage modifications. our correspondent in libya, allen pizzey, tells us today was unlike any other day in the bombardment of tripoli. and a new definition of love thy neighbor after a murderer moved in next door. a killer who struck so close to home. >> yes, he murdered my son. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you are one of the americans growing increasingly frustrated about the economy, the president and the chairman of the federal reserve joins you today. at the white house, president obama said the economy had run into some head winds but he added this. >> i'm not concerned about a double-dip recession, i am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we're on is not producing jobs as quickly as i want it to happen. >> pelley: and not as quickly as the chairman of the fed wants it. ben bernanke said late today that the job market has lost some momentum. here's what he means. take a look at this. this is how jobs recovered dur

we asked bill whitaker go to the neighborhood to see what he could find out about the mobster next door. >> reporter: people in this beautiful seaside city lived beside james "whitey" bulger and his girlfriend for almost 15 years, but most never suspected a thing. barbara gluck lived on their floor and did see flashes of anger. >> we would start to chat and he would sort of scream "stop talking to her!" or "don't talk to me!" and there was a kind of a... what i'd call a rage-a- holic response. >> reporter: others will tell you the 81-year-old bulger and 60-year-old catherine grieg lived nondescript lives in a nondescript rent-control apartment. in a neighborhood full of retirees, claire osowswky says they were hiding in plain sight. >> a famous notorious guy, a criminal, would you think he'd be living in a rent-controlled building? perhaps not, but maybe it's a good strategy. >> reporter: to their neighbors, bulger and grieg were unremarkable, almost unnoticed. but when it comes to public records, they were almost non- existent. there's no public record of an address, no record that any

bill whitaker kbs news, tucson. >> pelley: a priceless piece of world war ii history went up in flamesrestored b-17 bomber caught fire and crash landed in a cornfield west of chicago. none of the seven people on board was seriously hurt. the plane was on a cross country tour offering flights to the public, but the crash leaves just 13 flying fortresses still flight worthy. long before wikileaks, there were the pentagon papers, and tonight all the secrets are out. that's coming up next. hard it can be to breathe if you haw and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms... by keeping my airways open a full 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. and it's steroid-free. spiriva does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and call y

bill whitaker investigated. >> reporter: in four tours in iraq, sergeant freddie cordova saw friends up by i.e.d.s and learned to kill or be killed. >> what keeps you warm in iraq during the winter is that. your hate. >> reporter: in 2008, he was diagnosed with severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. >> it made me very angry. very ill-tempered, very short- tempered. >> reporter: after intensive v.a. counseling, he keeps his rage under control and channel it is negative into positive. >> freddie. >> reporter: he helps vets with even worse p.t.s.d., like vietnam vet john aldridge who can't hold a job and lives by a freeway in l.a. l.a. is the homeless vet capital of the u.s., with more than 8,000 on city streets. it makes cordova angry again, especially since just blocks away sits almost 400 acres, half the size of central park donated to the u.s. government after the civil war expressly to provide housing for disabled veterans. while today there is a large v.a. hospital there and an old age home for veterans, most of the land and buildings that once housed homeless vets

bill whitaker has more on what's become an all-too common danger for pilots and their passengers. >> reporter: as chief pilot of the burbank and glendale police departments in southern california, it's sergeant steve robertson's job to fly into danger. but increasingly, he's facing a danger many fear could cause a crash. powerful handheld green laser lights, blasted into cockpits from the ground. >> i'm very thankful. >> reporter: one laser beam nearly blinded roberts. his co-pilot had to take control. >> it felt like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. it actually burned both my corneas to the point where they had to scrape the top layers of my eyes off. >> reporter: it's not just small craft but airliners, too. this cockpit records from a southwest flight taking off from san jose. >> i just saw a big flash out the window, and the captain saw green light inside the cockpit. >> reporter: the faa announced it would slap fines up to $11,000 on anyone caught flashing a laser at an aircraft. >> it's every bit as serious as a physical action on board the airplane. it jeopardizes

>> smith: bill whitaker in los angeles. thank you.also in california today, some justice for jaycee dugard. phillip garrido was sentenced to life in prison. he kidnapped dugard when she was 11 years old, held her captive for 18 years and fathered her two children. his wife nancy was given 36 years to life in prison. dugard refused to appear in the same room as her former captors, but in a statement read in court she said "i hated every second of every day for 18 years. you stole my life." just ahead, she spends thousands on courses at an online university. would she have been better off at a community college? e hospitl with heart-related chest pain or a heart attack known as acs, you may not want to face the fact that you're at greater risk of a heart attack or stroke. plavix helps protect people with acs against heart attack or stroke: people like you. it's one of the most researched prescription medicines. goes beyond what they do alone by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking and forming dangerous clots. plavix. protection

bill whitaker in arizona finds out what it's like to fight the spreading wildfire. the u.s. may be heading toward a disastrous default, so nancy cordes wondered where has your congressman gone? and that miracle plane. we watched it come and watched it go, but we found the real story is in the lives that were changed forever. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. w3 >> pelley: good evening. tonight, the syrian dictator is slaughtering his own people to keep a grip on the power his family has held for 40 years. a slow but persistent rebellion started back in march and now there is a new surge in violence near the turkish border. american reporters can't get into syria, but the associated press quotes activists as saying that today at least 32 people were killed. elizabeth palmer has reached the syrian refugees in turkey and she heard their stories today. >> reporter: it's a short but traumatic bus ride to safety for these frightened syrian families. more than 3,000 of them have now crossed the border and are facing an uncertain future in

whitaker? >> yes. as ambassador benjamin noted, there is evidence in the past eln and farc members having been present in cuba. there are continuing allegations of cuban government involvement in narco trafficking, but nothing that we've been able to act upon. again, as ambassador benjamin noted, must much of this is in w enforcement channels. i would note that we have tried to reach out to the cuban government, and we have a coast guard attache who tries to work with the cuban government in order to identify and interdict -- >> before my last few seconds, just let me say in my next round i want to follow up with this because it seems as though we're placing sanctions on venezuela which is not on the terrorist list, but more recently we're lifting sanctions on cuba, and i'll get into that in the next round, which is on the terrorist list and, in fact, is harboring a cop killer from this country. so i'll go into that in the next round. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i will now recognize the gent

whitaker. mr. chairman, let me be clear from the outset. with respect to global efforts to counterterrorism, developments in venezuela over the last decade have been deeply troubling. instead of meeting his international obligations, hugo chavez has chosen to develop close relationships with iran and syria. senior members of his government are directly implicated in providing support to u.s.-designatessed foreign terrorist organizations, particularly the farc and eln. the administration has significant concerns about connections between members of the venezuelan government and eta as well. all of these issues have been reported on this press. and as we have report inside the past, hezbollah has a presence in venezuela, and the department of treasury has done much to reveal these connections. i do, however, want to emphasize that the information available to us indicates that hezbollah activity in venezuela is limited to fund raising. we remain alert to indicationings of other activities, partic

bill whitaker, cbs news, pasadena. >> that's cool stuff, right?nd it's amazing what technology, looking backwards in time, what the technologies of today can tell us about that. >> and how much more we'll find out, probably, in the few years to come here. >> as we move forward. maybe it will even create some jobs. >> there you go. >> we'll be right back. this is the "early show" on cbs. vo: meet erika. she hasn't shopped for a new pc because... erika: ... my computer is the same as a new computer. vo: so to show her what she's missing, we built a pc store in her house. erika: (gasp) employee: come on in. make yourself at home! erika: this is my home! employee: let's take a look! erika: (lifting laptop) it's really light. honey, help me shop! employee: you can get up to seven hours on this battery. jesse: the color really pops out. employee: everything's wireless. wireless keyboard. jesse: that's impressive. i like this one better. erika: and i like this one... vo: new pc. what's it gonna be? erika: i'm a pc, and i got what i wanted. jesse: as usua

. >> up next, cbs news correspondent bill whitaker will >> up next, cbs news correspondent bill whitaker will have a liv[ man ] i got this new citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. you got a weather balloon with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. ♪ ♪ there it is. [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. ♪ [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. >>> welcome back. margaret hoover and john avlon have agreed to hang out with us. met on the giuliani campaign, different ends of the political spectrum. >> he's an independent, and i'm a republican. a lot of people think they don't really show what independent means, does it mean he's a liberal, not republican enough? >> we know the answer now. >> did you get into spirited discussions working together on the campaign? >> we did. we may or may not have broken up once over sarah palin. >> oh, my. how did all of that turn into love? >> a lot of creative tension right there. >> i think we liked each other from the beginning. we did ha

kissick's role in a $3 billion fraud scheme led to colonial's demise, as well as taylor bean and whitaker-- one of the nation's largest private mortgage companies. taylor bean's former chairman and owner lee farkas is due to be sentenced later this month. >> tom: here's what we're watching for next week. our friday market monitor guest is alan lancz editor of the "lancz letter." the federal reserve will be in the spotlight as it begins a two-day meeting on tuesday. chairman ben bernake holds a news conference wednesday. monday, creating jobs during challenging economic times. we talk to state leaders about what the role of government should be. >> susie: some encouraging news the group's fear that higher food prices will hurt the world's poor who already spend as much as 80% of their income on food. >> tom: the fight against medicare and medicaid fraud goes high tech next month. that's when the federal government begins using new software aimed at flagging would-be criminals before they get a check from uncle sam. medicare has awarded a $77 million contract for the new system to defense g

bill whitaker has the latest tonight from northeast arizona. >> reporter: in the midst of this hellish devastation, good news. the winds depick up as predicted. instead of fanning the flames, neblew the fire back on itself over areas already burned. >> we don't like to say this stuff but we turned a corner. >> reporter: more good news. >> residents who were evacuated because of the massive wall of fire have been allowed to return to their homes. >> words they've been waiting to hear. >> it was ambers coming down on our house. >> today, she found her house just as she had left it 6 days ago. >> good. i'm happy. >> we're home. >> reporter: the family had to evacuate their ranch and move i in with a daughter. we met them about to return to sprucedale, the family's working guest ranch of 7 years. they took -- 70 years. they took pictures around dread what they're going to see. on the drive in ... >> we saw what had been a green and yellow wonderland turned into a devastateed wasteland. >> at the ranch, good news. the 50 horses they had to leave behind all safe. the ranch, itself ... >> pro

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we asked bill whitaker in los angeles to look into that and he tells us that mortgage modification isn't working as planned. >> reporter: this house in compton is not just home to donnie hines, for 16 years it's been her pride and joy. >> a lot of memories. a lot of good memories here. the kids have their birthday parties, they put the jumper in the back. >> reporter: she never missed a mortgage payment until she lost her job as a manager of a medical company two years ago. she first sought help at one of these events run by naca, the neighborhood assistance corporation of america. with so many americans struggling to make home payments, the nonprofit is staging events like this in miami, los angeles, all around the country. people so desperate many line up all night for naca's help putting borrowers with lenders to work out loan modifications. >> i do not want to lose my home so i've done everything within my power. >> reporter: hines originally did get a modified loan under the home affordable modification program established by the obama administration. but after two years of her bank

we check in first with bill whitaker on the fire line. >> reporter: this giant fire has scorched an area larger than phoenix and forced nearly 7,000 people from their homes. including sherry counts. she's taking shelter in her friend's r.v. and staying in touch with her family by cell phone and text. >> when you can see the plume of smoke from a distance it looks like a big-headed monster and it's just sitting there. so, yeah, we ran. >> reporter: counts moved here from oklahoma a little more than a year ago. >> i've seen tornados and this is the scariest thing i've ever seen. it's like it's a living, breathing thing. >> pelley: and you can do is run. >> run and sit and weight and hope for the best. >> reporter: what do you have here? >> um, checkbooks, house and truck titles, insurance papers. >> reporter: she grabbed what she could. >> there was embers coming down on our house on tuesday and we knew that the fire was still at least five to six miles away. so it was nothing to mess with. >> reporter: along the fire line, a small army of firefighters-- more than 3,000-- are doing everyth

bill whitaker with the sunday profile. >> reporter: we all know hugh hefner.till running wild at age 85. living large at his storied l.a. playground, the famous or depending on your point of view infamous playboy mansion. >> it's my home. >> i wouldn't want to live anywhere else. it's shangri-la. like the original shangri-la the rumor is you don't get old here. >> reporter: there could be something to that. hugh hefner is hot. a whole new generation thinks he's cool. his trademark playboy club, his cotton tailed bunnies first hopped into pop culture 50 years ago and once served the hippest crowd in town are bouncing back after decades of decline with new clubs in las vegas, london, mexico,. >> yes, the bunny is back. you know how bunnies are. they do proliferate. >> reporter: you are like hip and happening again. >> hot again. glad i hung around to see it. >> reporter: and what a sight. a worldwide empire that exploded from hefner's fertile imagination, deepest desires, and $1,000 from his mother. playboy magazine hit the stands in 1953 with marilyn monroe wea

bill whitaker on the failed promise of mortgage modifications. our correspondent in libya, allen pizzey, tells us today was unlike any other day in the bombardment of tripoli. and a new definition of love thy neighbor after a murderer moved in next door. a killer who struck so close to home. >> yes, he murdered my son. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. if you are one of the americans growing increasingly frustrated about the economy, the president and the chairman of the federal reserve joins you today. at the white house, president obama said the economy had run into some head winds but he added this. >> i'm not concerned about a double r

his wife was really nice. >> that was denise whitaker of komo.he eighth time in the past two years there have been planned attacks or carried-out attacks on domestic u.s. facilities. >>> a 20-year-old man from louisiana is expected to make a full recovery following a vicious shark attack along the florida gulf coast. tyler mcconnell was thrown off a jet ski not far from shore. that's when he felt something chewing up his right leg. he got back on the jet ski and raced for the beach. >> if i wouldn't have gone back to the jet ski, if it came back, it would have pulled me right under and i wouldn't be able to go anywhere. whenever i looked down there was like gallons of blood. >> can you imagine? mcconnell says the wound feels numb but he can still move his toes. he will need surgery in houston over the next few months and then he'll need extensive rehab. >>> he wore scrubs and doled out medical advice but it all turned out to be a big lie. an oregon man is accused of pretending to be a doctor and he managed to dupe at least one patient. katu's bob

bill whitaker is in springerville, arizona with the latest on the situation for us.ing. >> good morning, chris. this wildfire now is about 10% contained. the fact that i'm standing here in the center of springerville, arizona is a good sign. this is one of several towns that were right in the path of the fire. thousands of people were evacuated, now many of them are starting to come home. >> that's great. >> no fire? >> no fire, no smoke. >> reporter: sherri had been forced out of her house for a week. >> i've seen tornadoes and this is the scariest thing i've ever seen, like it's a living, breathing thing. >> reporter: so the relief in knowing all is well. >> oh, yes. >> reporter: is palpable. fire officials feel it, too. >> we feel a lot more confident than we did two days ago. >> reporter: it's now been 16 days since the wallow fire first exploded into the monster that's become arizona's second worst fire ever. the winds picked up again this past weekend as feared but instead of spreading the flames, the winds pushed the fire back onto itself. >> we don't like to

as bill whitaker reports its biggest battle is to win back audiences already tired of all of the 3-d it's loud, and now it's in 3-d, "transformers: dark of the film" is the first into movieland's third dimension. he's hoping the excitement on the screen spills over onto a jaded moviegoing public. >> a lot of movies have done it quickly, cheaply as an afterthought. this is a forethought, shots designed for the technology to the best of its ability. >> fly. >> fly? >> reporter: the oscar winning "avatar" set an extremely high bar for movies two years ago. >> release the cracken. >> reporter: since then, dozens of critical disappointments like "clash of the titans" and "green lantern" commercial flop. that makes moviegoers think twice about paying the higher prices for the three-2 tickets. >> paying an extra $10 for a 3-d ticket not really what i'm wanting to do. >> sometimes it's worth it. most of the time it's not. >> they're going with the trend right now. eventually people will stop watching 3-d. >> the future of 3-d is shaky at this moment in time because frankly at lo lly a lot of

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> one of the great showmen and the nba will definitely miss.different network and shaq -- had to do a lot of west coast games and he was always the best go-to sound bite guy. >> the good news for most folks is he may not be playing on the court but i have a feeling this is far from the last we've heard from him. >> he'll be rivalling charles barkley with the sound bite. we wish shaq up. >> so much more to come here on "the early show." stay with us. [ male announcer ] at quicken loans, we're obsessed with finding a better way for our clients to get a mortgage. maybe that's why j.d. power and associates ranked us "highest in customer satisfaction in the united states." so, we thought we'd take a little time to celebrate. ♪ ♪ all right, then, back to work helping clients. individual attention from our highly-trained mortgage professionals. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me

cbs news correspondent bill whitaker takes a look at a legendary big man with a big [ bleep ]. >> do force this kiss, do i need to ram my [ bleep ] down her throat? i think ashley will be open to it. >> barack obama has [ bleep ] america. >> and the miami heat got [ bleep ] up last night. >> faib gabe is not addicted to [ bleep ]. he just salivates -- sorry. just a second. >> you want those horns detachable? they'll slide on and off the head so you can get it in and out of your [ bleep ] easier. >> unusual assignment for police in chula vista this memorial day, [ bleep ] sheep. >> shaq is leaving the game. i still remember him putting that big [ bleep ] in my [ bleep ] when i was a rookie. >> game one of the stanley cup finals was a battle. one player even tried to bite another player's [ bleep ] off. >> what are you going to do for us this evening? >> we are going to [ bleep ] each other. >> jimmy: well. we have a good show for you tonight. from cnn and "america's got talent," piers morgan is here, we have music from lykke ly. and we'll be right back with jason sudeikis, so stick ar

bill whitaker, cbs news, los angeles. >> joining us is medical correspondent dr.ning, rebecca. >> we've so many conflicting reports along this analysis i should say that the world health organization has done. what does it mean? >> this is the latest chapter, at this point there remain more unanswered questions than real answers at this point. basically the world health organization has evaluated the existing evidence on cell phones and they're erring on the side of caution. they're saying we just don't know so we are going to be overly cautious. there could be a link when they put this in the category of possibly carcinogenic or cancer causing they're saying there is limited evidence existing in human beings, the animal studies might be limited or insufficient to make a judgment and therefore they're erring on the side of caution. >> they're showing this possible link with brain cancer. >> correct. >> what does the connection mean between phones and brain cancer? >> we have to remember that cell phones emit radio frequency energy. it's like a microwave basically.

national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> and scott whitaker of the biotechnology industry. it begins live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. it used to be that we did not release transcripts of argument. now we release them within an hour. it used to be they were released at the end of the term. now it is the end of every week. we are moving in a particular direction. these prison all sorts of challenges. >> right now, watch the chief justice and his latest comments. also, american history television from our local television. >> they have a diplomatic security said today that they are engaged in marathon planning. they will be responsible for protecting roughly 70,000 diplomats and others. then eric boswell is joining to with the committee hearing. this is just under two hours. >> i called this hearing in federal work force. i will call this to order. i want to say a lot -- say aloha and welcome pawlenty and thank you so much for being here today with us. this protects employees worldwide. this will build on the hearing. there is a government ac

richard insel and scott whitaker, thank you for being on the program. we are going to go live to the senate homeland security subcommittee hearing on afghanistan reconstruction contracts. this being chaired by senator claire mccaskill, democrat of missouri. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> there were decisions made that were made with a myopic look at the mission, not a realistic look at security and sustainability and competency in terms of available personnel to continue whatever money we were spending on reconstruction. i always point out that the contract is probably -- if you read the initial log kept contract, if you look at everything wrong with contrasting, that would be the poster child. people may not remember that the estimates for that contract for the first year were supposed to be under $1 billion. the first year that contract cost us $20 billion. that is just one example. i'm going to try to focus today on reconstruction contracts. the sad thing about this hearing is i have been hopeful, back in 2007 that by this

juvenile diabetes research with richard insel of the juvenile diabetes research foundation and scott whitaker. "washington journal" begins live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> every saturday in july hear historic supreme court oral arguments on c-span radio, about 14th amendment cases on equal protection, including sexual orientation and gender and race discrimination. this saturday single sex admissions policy in the 1982 case, mississippi university for women vs. hogan. tune into c-span radio at 90.8 f.m. on washington, d.c. and online at c-spanradio.org. >> it used to be we didn't release transcripts of arguments. now we release them i think within a half hour. used to be the audio recordings of the court's arguments were released at the end of the term and now they're released at the end of every week. so we are moving in a particular direction. cameras present all sorts of challenges that these other areas don't. >> right now on c-span's youtube channel, watch chief justice john roberts' latest comments on cameras in the courtroom. also american history tv and book tv from o

whitaker may have more to add on that. >> if i could just add on with a coup of points here. u.s. of folks want u.s. national security and counternarcotics and counterterrorism, all of those are very important to us. we would need to weigh, it seems to me, the effect of sanctions we take on issues like that. the ambassador mentioned the effect it would haveof a sanction against venezuela when venezuela views colombia as a close ally of the united states, how would venezuela then react with respect to its dip diplomac efforts in colombia? that's unknown to me, but it's out there. again, that might be an avenue or a place whe the venezuelan government would seek to identify that group and take some action in response to an action that we took. finally, we have many u.s. companies in venezuela, and it's our goal as the department of state to understand eir interests,efend their interests. and we would need to take into account as well any impact in that regard withespect to those companies that continue to do business inveneel >> thank you. if secretary's just decided to throw the bo

trini whitaker. [ringing bells] [applause] >> nice. trinny whitaker, ladies and gentlemen. our sixth contestant is qualifieding for the -- qualifying for the very first time today. he's a conductor. he's been with muni 15 years, with the cable car division nine years. please welcome joseph hsu. mr. hsu, how's it going? if you weren't driving a cable car, what would you be doing? >> watching tv? >> so you can play the drums and watch perry mason at noon at the same time. sounds good to me. ladies and gentlemen, mr. joseph hsu. [ringing bells] [applause] >> joseph hsu, ladies and gentlemen. joseph hsu. now, all those six men are competing against this man, ladies and gentlemen. we left him for last simply because he was the 46th annual cable car bell ringing champion. ladies and gentlemen, he's been with muni for nine years, eight years on the cable car. let's hear it for two-time winner mr. leonard oates. [applause] go -- good to see you, leonard. up got the gloves on. i see you are ready. you and i have a city in common. where were you born? >> new orleans, louisiana. >> ne