bill whittaker, cbs news, san jose. >> alfonsi: and that is the cbs evening news.elley, i'm sharyn alfonsi. >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> the teenaged stowaway speaks out for the first time. kpix 5 was the only station to talk to him about his journey in the wheel well of a jet. good evening, i'm ken bastida. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. betty yu has been in communication with him for weeks. he is finally opening up, right, betty? >> reporter: that's right. i have been talking to him for a couple of weeks now and he really is surprised by the worldwide attention. he gets it, though, but more than that he is understandably frightened. he wanted his story out there after reading so many people writing things about him appear his family that he says just aren't true. in fact, he was nervous to just do the google chat with me seeing our big news camera behind me. but i have been talking to him as i mentioned for some time now. he says he feels misunderstood. what do you want to tell people? >> that i'm not a stupid person for the thing i did. >> re

who knew, how high up did that knowledge go in terms of mary barra's predecessors, dan ackerson, whittaker, rick wagoner, henderson, the ceo that is preceded her. very difficult to believe that they didn't have some sense of this liability hanging out. >> david, from what you know about how companies like this work is there a place where the feedback starts to pool up? you know, there was anecdotal information coming back from dealers, coming back from maintenance shops, coming back from consumers themselves who said these kinds of things were happening. if you get a letter from carol in illinois and hollywood, florida, does it start to accumulate somewhere, where somebody reasonbly high up the food chain knew they had a problem of a similar sort with vehicles up the product range? >> there are plenty of opportunities for information like that to pool up. you have to understand the proper handling of that information and the tracking of it has to do with the tread act that was passed, you know, in the early 2000. in the aftermath of the ford explorer firestone tire recall and all of those

it's bill whittaker. >> reporter: it's natural to see california gulls by san francisco bay, but noters seen today. >> it's just an absolutely amazing increase, from 20 to over 53,000. >> reporter: and that's still growing. >> it is still growing, absolutely. >> reporter: catherine burns of the san francisco bay bird observe sore cites all the available food in the bay area. like people moving to california. the gulls are now moving to california? >> the word is out. they've discovered the bay area, yes. >> reporter: and pilots are discovering the gulls. >> reporter: at san jose airport there were 95 plane-bird collisions last year, often with gulls. at san francisco's at&t park, huge flocks scavenge for food, disgusting fans with their droppings. the gulls eat just about anything. rick king runs newbie island resource recovery park, commonly called a garbage dump. he sees gulls as a sanitation threat. >> the seagulls are incredibly smart and well organized, believe it or not. >> reporter: using flares, they frighten the gulls away. on the ground, they unleash the dogs. in the air, t

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he was the best director for it because he did that jazz biography of charlie porker with forest whittakera really good fit. >> any intimidation onset? here walks dirty harry, here comes clint eastwood. scary at all? >> yeah, a little bit, but he's sort of an instantly disarming kind of guy. he creates a relaxed vibe on set. so it makes it fun to go to work and get your hands dirty. >> you played this role on broadway. not all of you had singing and dancing experience, right? >> just me. sorry, vincent, let me single you out. we know you from "boardwalk empire." so when they came to you with this role, do you feel like i can do this? >> there was a little bit of fear right at the top of it whether i'd be able to live up to it, but luckily i had these guys' support and the team that "jersey boys" sicked on me. just trying to fit in. >> without giving away too much, a little bit of the story, erich. i think people know the music but they don't always know the back story, where these guys came from and what the struggle was like. >> absolutely. unlike a lot of the bands of today, one directio