scott pelley reports on hard times in a small midwestern town, and later, bob simon's story on a yonkers, new york, bakery that became a role model for social activism and small business success. we begin with the plight of wilmington, ohio. when president spoke of "the winter of our hardship" in his inaugural address of 2009, no one understood it better than the people in wilmington. they were in the grip of a brutal series of layoffs at dhl, the air shipping company, at a time when claims for unemployment benefits in the u.s. were the highest in nearly 30 years. in december 2008, just before all the speeches and parties of inauguration day, scott pelley headed to ohio to find out what questions the families in wilmington were asking. >> are we going to lose our home? you know, are we going to be able to pay our property taxes? what are we're gonna do for insurance? what are we're gonna do for food? you know, and these are questions that you'd never think that you'd ask yourself, you know. and now they're discussions in the home. >> bear hug, big. >> [grunting] i love you, buddy. >> mik

as a main suspect in the murder of former security officer in yonkers had nothing to do with his death little boy passed a polygraph test conducted by specialists from the u.k. as part of a new documentary lottie's or smith looks at how this revelation might affect a case that's long been a stumbling block in russian that british relations. did you do anything that led to the death of alexander litvinenko you know. you were you involved in alexander litvinenko is that you know. have you ever had any dealings with polonium know another step towards proving his innocence in a test administered by british experts and passes the lie detector polygraph science says he didn't kill alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six give a result i am certain in my mind the right result if or not i don't give a result it's inconclusive i want my guns one hundred percent and if it was admissible in court i would be very pleased the good thing called a skeptic might say that as a former security services agent might have had training to cheat the test but alexander cut out the core a documen

. >> stephen is watching us in yonkers, new york. that's close to home for you. stephen, you're on. welcome. >> hi, tracy. i can't wait to buy your book in the day. i want to ask you if there's been a lot of stuff in the news recently about the whole pink slime in. but i am a parent tonight to kids in the public schools. i don't understand why with all the signs coming out about how dangerous beef is, why are we still serving in schools? why are we serving any kind of decent schools? i think parents are uneducated not to subject their kids to beat, let them do it at home. in school they should eat healthy food. this is outrageous. and that's because farmers and politicians inside. what can we do about this? >> there's obviously a strong movement right now with parents organizing to get better and healthier food in school cafeterias and something i think it's really promising not just because it makes for better meals for people schools, but also because it creates an infrastructure and institutional purchase for better food and will ship your agriculture and how to reshaping institu

san diego along with detroit, yonkers, scranton, providence. so this is a growing problem.o, will, my question is, we've got the economy improving, and yet we're seeing more and more states at the brink. is this a sign that the stimulus bill, to some extent, was a band-aid on local budgets? >> yeah, the stimulus bill delayed many cities from dealing with the core problem. one of core problems are these lavish pension benefits from -- for their employees. and the stimulus put off the day of reckoning to deal with that. you see, when the good times were here, in the boom days, these cities didn't just build minor league ballparks, they gave away big, big contracts to the pensions and you can't maintain that in an economic downturn. >> mayor, and both of y'all, as will just said, the pension obligations, it's true. and salaries for private sector unions -- >> but also property taxes. >> exactly right. you've got property taxes eroding, decreased funding from state and federal governments. >> that train's broken down. >> so what do we do about it? how do we solve this problem,

. >> host: next is a call from cal in yonkers, new york. you're on, carl. >> caller: okay. ms.ey? >> host: yes, go ahead. >> caller: okay. yes, i had a question for ms. foley, if she believed there was a salient moment in the genesis of the tea party movement, or did she feel that there was an underground that goes farther back than the single event or a single ramification in the twist between left and right, old politics and new politics? it seems as if they've drawn much of their spirit from, as you say, from earlier constitutional precedents, earlier constitutional movements, but i also feel that there must have been an event perhaps in the last 10 or 15 years that really struck the verve to create the movement as you've written or as it expresses itself today. any comment, ms. foley, on that question? .. and he started ranch and raving about how we are bailing out the losers mortgages. and all the traitors behind him arrested and chairs and a couple behind that we had our first tax day tea party at rallies. so i don't think it was one thing, but i think is concerned about

joseph cunningham, yonkers, new york, 100 years old today. lifelong musician and has a great habit.dalton, ohio. she loves to dance the hula and teach others. the hula! we have marvin and ethel wily from sac city, iowa. they've been married for 75 years and they love to hold hands and kiss good night and good morning and noon. i like that. rosalie voorhies from omaha, nebraska, says keep moving and everything will be great. now back to that great city on the hudson. >> all right, willard, thank you so much. >>> have you seen king's arcade? a viral video of a 9-year-old boy who made an entire arcade out of cardboard boxes has racked up more than a million hits and made this little boy's dream come true. here's nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: in this rough section of east l.a., wedged between these piles of scrap and rundown cars, a 9-year-old boy built his dream. how'd you come up with all these ideas? >> i started with a basketball net that i threw into a box, and it kept getting bigger. >> reporter: last year he set up shop in front of his dad's shop. >> he's got a big imaginat