Up to the Minute (CBS) - 2009-05-04

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[0:00] to reach a deal with union workers

[0:02] passed a few hours ago. The impass is

[0:04] over more than $20 million in pay cuts.

[0:07] The owner, the New York Times company,

[0:09] says it will shut down the globe if

[0:11] unions don't agree to the reductions.

[0:14] Italian automaker Fiat is on a shopping

[0:16] spree. The company is forging ahead to

[0:18] take what it can from Chrysler and also

[0:20] eyeing a large part of General Motors.

[0:23] But if the plan falls through, American

[0:25] taxpayers could be left holding the bag

[0:27] again. CBS's Tony Ga reports.

[0:31] >> Under the surgeon's knife, also known as

[0:33] a bankruptcy proceeding, Chrysler

[0:35] sacrificed its few remaining vital

[0:37] organs. It moved to sell substantially

[0:40] all its assets to Fiat. Chrysler's

[0:43] bankruptcy is routinely called surgical.

[0:45] The hope being the operation will be

[0:47] successful and swift, but auto analysts

[0:50] worry.

[0:50] >> Anyone that's ever gone under anesthesia

[0:52] knows that you can always run into

[0:54] complications. And the longer the

[0:56] surgery lasts, the less chance of a

[0:59] successful outcome.

[1:00] >> It's not just Chrysler's future riding

[1:02] on this surgery, but GM's as well. And

[1:05] there's no guarantee the operation will

[1:07] come off without a hitch. The hitch is

[1:09] the creditors at Chrysler, whose

[1:11] objections to the Obama administration's

[1:14] deal could scuttle it. The smaller

[1:17] lenders feel they've gotten short

[1:18] shrift, and they may be right. The

[1:20] bankruptcy court may favor them. Once

[1:22] that gets started, it could go on for

[1:24] months.

[1:25] That could spell disaster. It would mean

[1:27] auto industry experts say that the

[1:29] government, you, the taxpayer, would be

[1:32] on the hook for billions of extra

[1:34] subsidy dollars to keep auto suppliers

[1:36] in business while the court fight rages.

[1:39] If the court ultimately endorses the

[1:41] Obama plan for Chrysler, it will give

[1:44] the president greater leverage with GM.

[1:46] But if the bankruptcy judge throws out

[1:49] that deal or modifies it substantially,

[1:51] then Obama's leverage in the GM

[1:53] negotiations dissipates, and that whole

[1:56] deal may unravel as well. Saving GM is a

[1:59] much heavier lift for President Obama

[2:01] than preserving Chrysler. At minimum,

[2:03] the plan cuts 47,000 jobs worldwide,

[2:07] closes more than a dozen US plants, and

[2:10] puts 2600 dealerships out of business.

[2:13] There are also tens of thousands of

[2:15] creditors of GM as well, including many

[2:18] pension funds. If all these hurdles at

[2:21] Chrysler and GM are successfully jumped,

[2:24] at the end of the day, there is this

[2:26] harsh reality. Chrysler will be run by

[2:28] an established car maker, Fiat. But at

[2:31] General Motors, the board of directors

[2:33] will effectively be the American

[2:35] taxpayer with President Obama as

[2:38] chairman. Tony Ga, CBS News, New York.

[2:42] And Fiat's big plan is to form an

[2:44] entirely new company worth $15 billion.

[2:48] It would include its current brands, the

[2:49] Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and Ferrari, plus

[2:52] whatever it gets from Chrysler and GM.

[2:55] The newest X-Men movie isn't hurting for

[2:57] cash.

[2:59] >> Let's do this.

[3:01] >> X-Men: Origins: Wolverine slashed

[3:03] through the competition at movie

[3:05] theaters this weekend, earning $87

[3:07] million in its debut. Also new this

[3:10] weekend, ghosts of girlfriends past.

[3:12] Romantic comedy came in second place,

[3:14] worth more than 15 million. More news in

[3:17] just 2 minutes.

[3:19] [music]

[3:24] >> I've loved sports all my life, and I

[3:26] learned very early just how important it

[3:28] is to know and respect your opponent.

[3:31] One of the toughest I ever faced was the

[3:34] one I never saw coming. A few years ago,

[3:36] I got a MRSA infection and I was lucky

[3:39] to beat it. The fact is more than 90,000

[3:42] Americans get MRSA infections every

[3:45] year. And not everyone is as lucky as I

[3:48] was. MRSA has begun to spread into

[3:50] community settings like gyms, locker

[3:53] rooms, homes, and even schools. But

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[4:01] your hands and covering your cuts can

[4:03] help. You also need to clean thoroughly.

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[4:07] like bleach to disinfect. I beat Mercer

[4:10] once, but I'll tell you this, I'd hate

[4:12] to face it again. This is one opponent

[4:15] we all need to know and respect. To

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[4:26] >> My name is Andrew. I live in Hillsdale.

[4:28] >> My name is Tim. I live in North

[4:30] Portland.

[4:30] >> Diane, I live in Southwest. What change

[4:32] would I like to see?

[4:33] >> Changes I hope to see in the next year.

[4:35] In the next year,

[4:36] >> world peace.

[4:38] >> I don't know. We hope to start a family.

[4:41] >> I hope to see improvement [music] in the

[4:42] economy.

[4:43] >> Really nice to not worry about losing

[4:46] your job.

[4:46] >> Less unemployment.

[4:48] >> Trying to get my uh own little plot of

[4:49] land in a community garden.

[4:51] >> More support for the arts. Hope Obama

[4:53] really does what he's talking about. I

[4:54] want to say marriage equality.

[4:56] >> Really like to see a little bit more uh

[4:58] bathrooms down here for people to use.

[5:00] Uh, more sunshine would be good.

[5:02] >> I'd like to see the the city clean up

[5:04] its act.

[5:05] >> I hope I I hope I get a job.

[5:06] >> There's plenty of talent here and plenty

[5:08] of youth. That's really all you need.

[5:10] >> And I hope that uh the change really can

[5:12] come.

[5:13] >> I just hope uh things get better. You

[5:15] know, that'd be nice.

[5:22] [music]

[5:27] >> [music]

[5:34] [music]

[5:37] >> There are encouraging signs that the

[5:39] H1N1 or swine flu cases are beginning to

[5:42] taper off worldwide. But while there's

[5:44] hope that the worst is over, many still

[5:47] worry things could take a bad turn.

[5:49] CBS's Martha Tyishner explains why.

[5:53] There it is. The virus known as the

[5:55] swine flu or not.

[5:58] >> It is not correct to refer to it as

[6:00] swine flu because there's really that's

[6:02] not what this is about.

[6:04] >> It's a combination swine bird and human

[6:06] virus. And no, you can't catch it from

[6:09] being around pigs or eating pork.

[6:11] >> I wasn't wearing this until today.

[6:14] >> We're supposed to take precautions.

[6:16] >> Keep your hands washed. Cover your mouth

[6:18] when you cough. Keep your children home

[6:20] from school if they're sick.

[6:22] But not too many precautions. New York

[6:26] Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

[6:28] >> I took the subway here as I take the

[6:30] subway to work every day and I will do

[6:32] so tomorrow as well.

[6:34] >> Look at the map. It's obvious the virus

[6:37] is spreading not just in the United

[6:39] States, worldwide as fast as you can say

[6:43] boarding pass.

[6:45] I have decided to raise the current

[6:48] level of influenza pandemic alert from

[6:52] phase 4 to phase 5.

[6:56] >> The World Health Organization has told

[6:58] us to brace for the worst.

[7:00] >> It really is all of humanity that is

[7:04] under threat during a pandemic.

[7:08] >> Yikes. How do we reconcile the mixed

[7:12] messages? The World Health Organization

[7:14] is entirely justified in raising the

[7:16] alert level.

[7:17] >> Dr. Irwin Redliner is director of the

[7:20] National Center for Disaster

[7:21] Preparedness at Columbia University.

[7:24] >> That message about the emergency is

[7:26] really directed towards public health

[7:28] departments and public health officials.

[7:31] We want them to get ready to put plans

[7:33] in effect. It's not actually a message

[7:36] that's supposed to be for the general

[7:38] public. But why with relatively few

[7:40] people affected so far, alert level five

[7:44] out of a maximum six? Because H1N1 meets

[7:48] these criteria. It's new. Nobody is

[7:51] immune. It does kill people. It's

[7:54] transmitted person to person and it's

[7:57] appeared in multiple countries at the

[7:59] same time. What the alert level doesn't

[8:01] tell us is what will end up happening.

[8:04] how serious it will turn out to be.

[8:08] >> If we had a dozen experts in public

[8:10] health and infectious disease or 20 in

[8:12] this room, it would be hard to find two

[8:14] of them that actually agree how bad is

[8:17] it going to get? Will we see a 1918

[8:19] [music]

[8:20] uh redo?

[8:22] >> 1918 is the benchmark for bad. The 1918

[8:27] flu killed 50 million people or more. In

[8:31] World War I, more soldiers died of the

[8:33] flu than on the battlefield. Living in

[8:36] close quarters, they got the sniffles

[8:38] one day and were often dead the next.

[8:42] >> What we're doing is analyzing uh a virus

[8:45] right out of the lungs of people who who

[8:48] died in the prime of their lives. These

[8:50] soldiers were just in their 20s when

[8:51] they died.

[8:53] >> In 1998, molecular biologist Dr. Jeffrey

[8:56] Tabenberger announced he had decoded the

[9:00] 1918 virus, mapped its genome, which

[9:03] meant lessons could be learned about why

[9:06] it was so deadly with applications for

[9:09] other flu. At the time he worked at the

[9:12] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in

[9:15] Washington. Here he had access to an

[9:18] incredible warehouse filled with tissue

[9:21] samples, millions of them from dead

[9:23] soldiers dating all the way back to the

[9:25] Civil War, including he discovered

[9:28] soldiers from World War I who died of

[9:31] the 1918 flu virus.

[9:33] >> What we have is a fingernail sized piece

[9:36] of lung tissue that has been fixed and

[9:39] then embedded in wax. Since then,

[9:41] microbiologists have been able to

[9:43] compare the genetic signature of the

[9:45] 1918 flu with newer viruses,

[9:49] which is how the week ended with the

[9:51] Centers for Disease Control announcing

[9:54] the first good news about H1N1.

[9:57] >> We do not see the markers for virulence

[10:00] that were seen in the 1918 virus.

[10:04] >> Is this a pandemic non-event? No one

[10:08] knows. Even if it turns out that uh the

[10:11] H1N1

[10:13] uh is relatively mild on the front end,

[10:16] it could come back in a more virulent

[10:18] form during the actual flu season.

[10:21] >> That's exactly what happened in 1918.

[10:24] Viruses mutate unpredictably.

[10:28] >> This is too much of a of a of a gamble

[10:31] over public health to say, well, let's

[10:33] see see if it really becomes severe. So,

[10:36] are the warnings, the school closings,

[10:39] the masks, the stockpiles of Tamlu just

[10:42] overkill, media hype? Or not? What if

[10:47] the H1N1 virus does have an even more

[10:51] vicious second act?

[10:54] >> CBS's Martha Tyer reporting. Some tragic

[10:58] news from that accident at the Dallas

[10:59] Cowboys training camp. The team has

[11:02] announced a scouting assistant was

[11:03] paralyzed from the waist down. The

[11:05] 33-year-old spine was severed Saturday

[11:08] when the team's practice tent collapsed

[11:09] during a severe storm. The special teams

[11:12] coach also suffered a fracture in his

[11:14] back, but was not paralyzed. Former

[11:16] congressman and vice presidential

[11:18] hopeful Jack Kemp died Saturday night at

[11:20] the age of 73 at his home in Bethesda,

[11:23] Maryland from cancer. As CBS's Kimberly

[11:26] Doer reports, Kent's long career took

[11:28] him into battle in the halls of

[11:29] government and on the grid iron.

[11:32] >> He was a star quarterback who became a

[11:34] major player for the Republican party.

[11:38] >> Jack Kemp was a nine-term congressman

[11:40] from Buffalo, New York, a secretary of

[11:43] housing under the first President Bush,

[11:45] and a nominee for vice president

[11:46] alongside candidate Bob Dole.

[11:49] >> We think Dole and Kemp make a great

[11:51] team, don't you?

[11:53] After his four decades plus political

[11:55] career, Kemp left a record of turning

[11:57] setbacks into personal and later party

[12:00] triumph. He was a 17th round draft pick

[12:03] who went on to be voted most valuable

[12:04] player for the Buffalo Bills. After 18

[12:07] years and a dozen concussions, he said

[12:09] all he was fit to do was run for

[12:11] political office.

[12:13] >> A self-proclaimed bleeding heart

[12:14] Republican, his signature issue was

[12:17] lowering taxes, helping shape President

[12:19] Ronald Reagan's 1980 tax cuts. He also

[12:22] aimed to expand the GOP to embrace all

[12:25] races that

[12:26] >> issue. Uh I will not uh rest until my

[12:29] party addresses this issue.

[12:31] >> President Obama saluted Kemp for

[12:34] remembering the lessons on the football

[12:35] field. That bitter divisiveness between

[12:38] race and class and station only stood in

[12:40] the way of the common aim of a team to

[12:42] win. Kemp called Democrats not enemies

[12:45] but opponents and even friends. He was a

[12:48] person who brought the same enthusiasm

[12:50] and energy to politics that he brought

[12:52] to football. Uh, and you could tell

[12:54] whether it was a battle of ideas or

[12:55] battle on the grid iron, Jack Kemp threw

[12:57] himself into it completely.

[12:59] >> That included the fight to turn around

[13:01] the Republican party as part of N.

[13:03] Gingrich's contract with America.

[13:05] >> He saw himself as a in some ways a John

[13:08] F. Kennedy Republican, believing that if

[13:10] the economy grows enough, everybody will

[13:13] have a better future. This weekend, as

[13:15] the GOP reels from election loss and

[13:17] falling membership, some are calling for

[13:19] a return to Kemp's way of doing

[13:21] business, bringing everyone onto his

[13:24] team. Kimberly Doer, CBS News,

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[16:00] >> How bad is this situation right now?

[16:03] >> Face the nation with Bob Schiffer.

[16:05] Sundays on CBS.

[16:09] A special report on the Taliban. This

[16:11] week on the CBS EV News with Katie

[16:13] Kurrick.

[16:14] >> The more than 50 million Americans on

[16:17] social security are in for a financial

[16:19] shock. This year they received a cost of

[16:21] living increase almost 6%. But the

[16:24] government is now forecasting that for

[16:26] the first time since it began in 1975,

[16:29] there will be no cost of living increase

[16:31] next year or the year after. For many,

[16:33] this could also mean higher Medicare and

[16:35] drug coverage premiums. From social

[16:38] security to unemployment, for those who

[16:40] lose a job, a key issue is maintaining

[16:42] health insurance. Joining us from San

[16:44] Francisco with some tips on how to make

[16:46] sure you're covered is Stephanie Aer,

[16:48] contributing editor for smartmoney.com.

[16:50] Good morning, Stephanie.

[16:52] >> Hi, Michelle. Great to see you.

[16:53] >> So, you have some expert advice on what

[16:56] you should do as far as healthcare. And

[16:57] the first thing you say is you should

[16:59] embrace COBRA. Why is that?

[17:02] >> Well, COBRA is a federal law that when

[17:04] abbreviated is called COBRA that allows

[17:06] you to maintain the healthc care

[17:07] coverage from your previous employer for

[17:10] up to 18 months after you lose your job.

[17:12] Now, it's it's you're not able to be

[17:14] denied coverage, but it's not going to

[17:16] be cheap. You're paying both the

[17:18] employee and the employer portion of the

[17:20] tab plus a 2% administrative fee. So,

[17:22] for a family that can easily run $1,000

[17:25] or more per month. Now, a bit of good

[17:27] news on this front is that there was

[17:28] some relief provided in the stimulus

[17:31] package for folks who lose their job.

[17:33] There is a tax subsidy that covers up to

[17:35] 65% of the premium cost for 9 months

[17:39] after you've lost your job.

[17:40] >> Oh, that's pretty good. Um, now what

[17:42] about the second point you say is to

[17:44] consider your spouse's plan. Why can a

[17:46] your spouse's plan help you out?

[17:48] Well, if you are married, this is

[17:50] certainly an option to consider. Um,

[17:53] because you're going from one group plan

[17:54] to another, you can't be denied coverage

[17:56] because of a pre-existing condition.

[17:58] Now, one thing to note is that if your

[18:01] spouse loses his or her job or if you go

[18:03] through a divorce, you likely will turn

[18:05] to COBRA only through your spouse's

[18:07] plan, not your previous employer's plan.

[18:10] So, this is only something to think

[18:11] about if your plan you feel is

[18:13] considerably better and you're worried

[18:15] about one of these scenarios. I had to

[18:17] get health insurance one time and I

[18:18] actually went online and looked at

[18:20] individual plans and I had a lot of luck

[18:21] with that and that's something that you

[18:22] suggest as an option. Why? Well, you

[18:25] absolutely should comparison shop and

[18:27] you never know. You might find a better

[18:29] deal as you did or you might not. The

[18:31] rates that you're going to be quoted are

[18:33] based on the state where you live, uh

[18:35] your overall health and also um the type

[18:38] of coverage that you are looking for. No

[18:40] matter what, you don't want to grip on

[18:42] the quality of the provider. That's a

[18:44] very important thing. But some folks

[18:46] have no choice but to go onto the

[18:47] individual market. And that's because

[18:49] they don't qualify for COBRA. For

[18:51] example, if you are fired from your job,

[18:52] you may not be eligible. And if you work

[18:54] for an employer that has less than 20

[18:56] employees, you also may not be eligible.

[18:58] Although that's going to vary by state.

[19:00] What about health savings accounts? What

[19:02] are those? Well, if you are looking in

[19:05] the individual market and you're trying

[19:06] to keep costs in check, this is one

[19:08] option to consider. Here you basically

[19:10] get coverage for the big health care

[19:13] expenses and you agree to self-insure

[19:15] for the smaller stuff. And the way this

[19:17] works is you buy health insurance that

[19:18] has a high deductible and then you pair

[19:21] it with this tax advantaged account and

[19:23] that's the account that you use to pay

[19:24] for smaller healthcare expenses. It's a

[19:26] confusing idea but not a bad option

[19:29] particularly if you're in good health.

[19:31] Now the last thing you suggest is to

[19:33] contact your state insurance

[19:34] commissioner. Why can that be helpful?

[19:36] Well, if you're really struggling, if

[19:38] you can't find coverage or if you are

[19:40] confused by your options, these folks

[19:41] can help you out. Among other things,

[19:43] they can tell you whether your state has

[19:44] a high-risk pool, which is not

[19:46] necessarily a good option, but it can be

[19:49] an option of last resort. And no matter

[19:51] what, you just want to make sure you

[19:52] don't go without coverage. Um,

[19:55] [clears throat] sorry, I have a cough

[19:56] here. Um, you don't want to go without

[19:58] coverage. It's a major cause of

[20:00] bankruptcy, not having health insurance.

[20:02] So, just make sure that you are covered.

[20:03] >> All right. Smartmoney.com contributing

[20:05] editor Stephanie Aler. Stephanie, thanks

[20:07] for joining us as always.

[20:09] >> Thanks. Thank you.

[20:10] >> And for more on this and links to other

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[21:49] the petition to save the polar bear

[21:51] before it's too late.

[21:55] >> Diane, I live in Southwest.

[21:57] >> My name's Aaron. I live with him.

[21:59] >> Changes I hope to see in the next year.

[22:01] >> Next year.

[22:02] >> We hope to start a family.

[22:04] >> A great recovery from the recession that

[22:05] we're having right now. Less

[22:06] unemployment.

[22:07] >> I'd really like to see a little bit more

[22:10] uh bathrooms down here for people to

[22:12] use.

[22:12] >> Can't wait for the new Max.

[22:14] >> I save up money, go to community

[22:15] college. I'm going to say marriage

[22:17] equality. Start making a change for the

[22:19] better.

[22:22] >> [music]

[22:24] >> We were all inundated last week by

[22:26] analysis of President Obama's first 100

[22:28] days. The benchmark's been used to

[22:30] measure a president's progress since FDR

[22:32] was in office. But unlike the pundits

[22:35] and political analysts, CBS's Andy

[22:37] Rooney kept counting.

[22:40] >> You probably didn't know this, but I

[22:42] have a nervous habit of counting

[22:44] everything. I count small things. For

[22:46] example, I count stairs when I go up or

[22:49] come down them. Because I've been

[22:51] counting, I know that this is President

[22:53] Barack Obama's 104th day in office. Glad

[22:57] no one is reminding me how many days

[22:59] I've spent in this office. A lot of

[23:02] words like office have two meanings, of

[23:04] course. The actual office itself in the

[23:06] White House must be pretty much the way

[23:09] President Obama wants it by now, not the

[23:12] way Ford or Carter or Eisenhower or

[23:14] anybody else wanted it, even though it's

[23:17] the same place. President Obama uses the

[23:20] same desk that President Kennedy used. I

[23:24] made this desk myself from a great piece

[23:26] of walnut that I got off my property.

[23:29] This is something I made to keep my

[23:30] pencils in. Isn't much, but I like it

[23:33] because I made it. It's one of my small

[23:36] things. I bet every president has some

[23:38] small things on his desk that are his

[23:41] and his alone, too. You know, I mean

[23:43] something other than mistakes. The

[23:46] president's office in the White House

[23:48] was redesigned after they had a fire in

[23:51] 1929.

[23:52] Franklin D. Roosevelt had it done over

[23:55] in 1933.

[23:57] I wonder if the president wakes up in

[23:59] the morning these days and thinks about

[24:01] doing the White House over or if he ever

[24:03] thinks about how many days he has left

[24:05] there in it. He has so many problems. He

[24:08] must often think to himself, "Geez, how

[24:11] much longer do I have to do this

[24:12] anyway?" pretty good being president. Of

[24:15] course, he doesn't have to get his own

[24:16] breakfast, for instance. But being

[24:19] president is hard. Obama has chosen the

[24:22] cabinet that helps him, of course, and

[24:24] it's between 15 and 23 members,

[24:27] depending on who you count as a cabinet

[24:29] member. I was thinking maybe he should

[24:32] add one more cabinet member, a member

[24:34] who does nothing but save government

[24:37] money by cutting out things we don't

[24:39] need. He'd be called the Secretary of

[24:42] Savings or SOS for short. 60 Minutes, by

[24:46] the way, is an expensive program, but it

[24:48] is not a government program. It's a

[24:51] program we need, or it's a program I

[24:53] need. Anyway,

[24:56] >> CBS's Andy Rooney. Thanks for joining us

[24:58] this half hour. This is CBS [music] News

[25:00] Up to the Minute.

[25:04] [music]

[25:11] >> [music]

[25:16] [music]

[25:20] >> Carly Canelli honored as Portland's best

[25:22] traffic reporter by the Associated

[25:24] Press.

[25:25] >> On CBS News Up to the Minute,

[25:27] >> we lose our newspaper. It doesn't augur

[25:30] well for other great cities across the

[25:32] country. The owners of the Boston Globe

[25:35] could begin the process of shutting down

[25:37] the paper as early as today. Consider

[25:40] dismissing the students for a period of

[25:43] up to 2 weeks. And hundreds of thousands

[25:46] of American school kids are told to stay

[25:48] home for fears of the [music] H1N1

[25:50] virus.

[25:59] >> [music]

[26:02] >> Good morning from CBS News headquarters

[26:04] in New York. This is Up to the Minute.

[26:05] I'm Michelle Gilim. A midnight deadline

[26:08] came and went. Talks continued and

[26:10] there's still no word on the fate of the

[26:12] Boston Globe. Management has drawn up

[26:14] the paperwork to close the 137year-old

[26:17] Daily and has threatened to file it

[26:19] today. At issue, $20 million in union

[26:23] givebacks. The newspaper guild has

[26:24] agreed to $10 million in concessions,

[26:27] but it's unclear if that'll be enough to

[26:29] keep the presses rolling. CBS's Randall

[26:31] Kingston reports.

[26:33] >> It may be the worst deadline the Boston

[26:35] Globe ever faced with management's

[26:37] demand to cut $20 million, 10 million of

[26:40] that, from the 600 member newspaper

[26:41] Guild, the PAP's largest union. The Gill

[26:44] said it was offering deep cuts in pay

[26:46] and benefits, which should be more than

[26:48] adequate to save the Boston Globe. Last

[26:51] week, employees tried to rally public

[26:53] support while staring down parent

[26:55] company New York Times.

[26:57] >> The New York Times, as you know, has

[26:58] threatened to shut down the Boston

[27:00] Globe. That threat is unacceptable.

[27:03] >> These are tough times for me outlets, ad

[27:05] revenues, and freef fall. Newspapers and

[27:08] magazines losing subscribers at the same

[27:10] time they have to build websites where

[27:12] readers have come to expect free

[27:14] content. While the globe struggles to

[27:16] survive, other papers have succumbed.

[27:19] This year alone, the Rocky Mountain News

[27:21] shut down in Denver. The Seattle Post

[27:23] Intelligencer and the Christian Science

[27:25] Monitor stopped their presses and are

[27:27] now only available on the web.

[27:29] >> This is a great American city, Athens of

[27:32] America, Hub of the Universe.

[27:34] >> For veteran reporter Shawn Murphy, the

[27:36] Globe is part of the city and nation's

[27:38] intellectual capital, as important as

[27:40] Harvard and all the other worldclass

[27:42] institutions that make this city

[27:44] special. If we lose our newspaper, uh, I

[27:46] think we're diminished, uh, here and it

[27:49] doesn't augur well for other great

[27:51] cities across the country.

[27:53] >> If the Globe closes, Boston would be

[27:55] left with one paper, the tabloid Boston

[27:58] Herald.

[27:58] >> The Globe is completely out of touch.

[28:00] It's run by uh, Ivy Leaguers with trust

[28:03] funds, most of whom aren't even from New

[28:05] England. Howie Carr, a conservative talk

[28:08] show host, reports for the Herald, but

[28:10] knows his paper is not immune to the

[28:12] financial problems facing the globe. If

[28:14] we outlast the Globe by one day, we win.

[28:18] >> Even if management in the Globe reach a

[28:20] deal on the $20 million in cuts, the

[28:21] paper will still be in the red. The New

[28:23] York Times, the parent company, says the

[28:25] paper's on track to run an $85 million

[28:28] deficit this year. If the paper does

[28:30] survive, readers will be paying more.

[28:32] The price of a daily edition will go up

[28:34] from 75 cents to a dollar. Randall

[28:37] Kingston, CBS News, Boston.

[28:40] >> 50 million Americans receiving Social

[28:42] Security benefits could be in for a big

[28:44] surprise next January. No cost of living

[28:47] increase. And for some, their benefits

[28:49] will actually go down. This year, the

[28:51] cost of living adjustment was nearly 6%.

[28:54] But with the government forecasting zero

[28:56] inflation, there will be no increase in

[28:58] either 2010 or 2011. And for many,

[29:01] higher Medicare and drug coverage

[29:03] premiums could actually cause their

[29:04] monthly benefit to decline. The Chrysler

[29:07] bankruptcy hits home today as plants

[29:10] close down for up to two months.

[29:12] Chrysler's lawyers will go before a

[29:13] bankruptcy judge trying to use a $4

[29:16] billion government loan to keep

[29:18] operations going. Meanwhile, Chrysler

[29:20] dealerships reported a surge in

[29:22] customers over the weekend. CBS's

[29:24] Michelle Miller reports.

[29:26] In a deal inked down in bankruptcy court

[29:28] Friday, Italian automaker Fiat will buy

[29:31] all but eight Chrysler plants, but it

[29:33] will be forced to share ownership of the

[29:35] troubled company with the United Auto

[29:37] Workers and the governments of Canada

[29:39] and the US.

[29:40] >> We're in a situation right now where

[29:42] we've never had an automaker emerge from

[29:46] bankruptcy successfully in modern times.

[29:49] So, we are in unchartered territory

[29:52] >> and there is no shortage of obstacles.

[29:54] The company must shut down all plans on

[29:56] Monday to save cash. Dealers may fight

[29:59] the reorganization and debt holders may

[30:02] continue to demand the money they're

[30:04] owed. That's why Chrysler wants out of

[30:06] bankruptcy court fast.

[30:07] >> They call this a surgical bankruptcy and

[30:10] anyone that's ever gone under anesthesia

[30:12] knows that you can always run into

[30:14] complications and the longer the surgery

[30:16] lasts, the less chance of a successful

[30:18] outcome.

[30:20] In 1979, Chrysler was on the brink of

[30:23] bankruptcy and came back strong. If they

[30:25] succeed this time, the company could

[30:27] become a model for other troubled car

[30:29] makers to follow. Michelle Miller, CBS

[30:32] News, New York. The H1N1 virus continues

[30:36] to spread across the United States.

[30:38] There nearly 250 confirmed cases in 35

[30:41] states with many more test results due

[30:43] back in the coming days. The good news

[30:45] is the virus appears to be mild. The bad

[30:48] news for many students and parents,

[30:50] hundreds of schools and some entire

[30:52] school districts are closed down because

[30:54] of only one or two positive cases. CBS's

[30:57] Bianca Solarano reports.

[31:00] >> Worshippers at St. Mary's Catholic

[31:02] Church in Detroit, Michigan Sunday

[31:04] didn't give the sign of peace or drink

[31:06] from the communion chalice.

[31:08] >> They asked us uh not to shake hands and

[31:12] also we took communion but not the wine.

[31:16] Churches across the country hoping to

[31:18] slow the spread of the H1N1 influenza

[31:21] virus were preaching a change in habits.

[31:24] >> Washing your hands and sanitizing them.

[31:26] These are all the sort of things I I'm

[31:28] really trusting my parishioners are

[31:30] doing.

[31:30] >> More than 20,000 Detroit school children

[31:32] won't be seeing each other for 2 days.

[31:35] Officials closed all 24 schools in one

[31:38] district west of the city Sunday after a

[31:41] high school girl came down with an

[31:43] apparent flu case. That makes more than

[31:45] 470 schools closed in at least 18

[31:49] states, stranding some 270,000 children

[31:52] at home. Our current guidance for school

[31:55] dismissals um suggests that if there's a

[31:59] case identified in a school population,

[32:02] the authorities consider dismissing the

[32:04] students for a period of up to two

[32:06] weeks.

[32:07] >> In Cibolo, Texas, where schools were

[32:09] closed last week, officials opted to

[32:11] keep them shut.

[32:12] >> We want them to stay home. And when we

[32:14] mean home, we don't mean just not

[32:16] school. We mean home home.

[32:18] >> Medical anthropologist Ron Barrett says

[32:20] officials are right to error on the side

[32:22] of prudence.

[32:23] >> There was a large study done at the

[32:25] University of Michigan uh that showed

[32:27] that in 43 cities in the United States

[32:29] uh that school closures seem to be

[32:31] significantly associated with lesser

[32:34] mortality for that flu. uh in 1918.

[32:38] >> To calm nerves, President Obama's health

[32:40] officials blitz the Sunday talk show,

[32:42] striking a carefully balanced tone.

[32:45] >> The early news seems to be cautiously

[32:48] optimistic about where we are right now.

[32:51] We certainly can't get complacent.

[32:53] >> And that's because much remains unknown

[32:55] about this virus, including why it seems

[32:58] to be attacking an unusual age

[33:00] demographic with a median age of 17. US

[33:04] health officials said while at this

[33:05] point they are not sure why the older

[33:07] population is not being affected as much

[33:10] by the H1N1 virus they are looking into

[33:12] whether they are protected by years of

[33:14] previous flu vaccines. Bianca Solarano

[33:18] CBS News New York.

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[34:55] >> My name's George. I live in Milwaukee.

[34:57] >> Uh my name is Steve. My name is Becky

[34:59] and I live in St. Helens.

[35:00] >> Wow, that's a heavy question.

[35:02] >> I hope to see improvement in the

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[35:04] >> I just hope things get better.

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[35:07] people going to plays and stuff like

[35:09] that. Then I can have a job when I'm

[35:10] older.

[35:11] >> Get my bachelor's degree and become a

[35:12] drug and alcohol counselor.

[35:13] >> And I hope that uh the change really can

[35:16] come.

[35:16] >> Uh world peace.

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[35:27] >> [music]

[35:33] [music]

[35:35] >> Call it a Republican regrouping.

[35:37] Following two serious setbacks in the

[35:39] last two national elections, prominent

[35:41] members of the GOP met in Virginia this

[35:43] weekend to retool their message and plot

[35:46] their comeback. CBS's Kimberly Doer

[35:48] reports. your battery.

[35:50] >> It's no accident this looks like a

[35:52] campaign stop. Leading Republicans came

[35:54] here to figure out why they lost the

[35:56] last election and to try and make sure

[35:58] they don't lose the next one.

[36:00] >> Good morning. How you doing, sir?

[36:02] >> It was standing room only at Arlington's

[36:04] Pit Kansas Pizza on a Saturday morning,

[36:07] but GOP membership is in freef fall. A

[36:09] Pew Research Center survey found that

[36:11] fewer than a quarter of those pled call

[36:13] themselves Republicans. That's down from

[36:16] 30% in 2004. Just this past week, the

[36:19] party lost longtime Senator Arlland

[36:21] Spectre and a congressional seat in New

[36:24] York. This was a message.

[36:27] >> You can't beat something with nothing.

[36:30] And the other side has something. I

[36:32] don't like it, but they have it. And we

[36:34] have to be respectful and mindful of

[36:36] that.

[36:36] >> And they have to come up with

[36:37] alternatives to shake the GOP's current

[36:39] label as the party of no for voting

[36:42] against Democratic policies. I just

[36:44] firmly believe that as Republicans,

[36:46] we've got to give Americans something to

[36:48] say yes to. Let's do it. Let's make it

[36:50] happen. That's how we get that's we take

[36:52] this country back.

[36:53] >> All I can say to that is amen.

[36:54] >> This new movement is the brainchild of

[36:56] Congressman Eric Caner, who admits the

[36:58] party has made mistakes in the past.

[37:01] >> No question. We could have done a lot

[37:02] better. There's no question. We took our

[37:04] lips. Uh and rightfully so, many

[37:07] instances. He says this is about coming

[37:09] up with new ideas on the economy,

[37:11] energy, healthcare, and national

[37:13] security. The trio notably avoided

[37:15] controversial touchston like gun rights

[37:17] or abortion, which are blamed for

[37:19] driving away moderates and independents.

[37:21] These town hall meetings are about

[37:23] bringing them back. It's how the GOP

[37:25] turned its fortunes around when it lost

[37:27] to President Clinton in 1992 and came up

[37:30] with the blueprint for what became N.

[37:32] Gingrich's contract with America.

[37:34] >> Within two years, they recaptured the

[37:35] House and the Senate. Why? because they

[37:37] engaged in this same kind of

[37:39] conversation.

[37:40] >> Their message is they get it. They lost

[37:42] because the people weren't getting what

[37:43] they wanted. The GOP now has to figure

[37:46] out what that is. Kimberly Doer, CBS

[37:48] News, Capitol Hill. Pennsylvania Senator

[37:51] Arlland Spectre stunned almost everyone

[37:53] last week when he defected to the

[37:55] Democratic party. He said he found

[37:57] himself out of line with GOP ideals, but

[37:59] many speculated he switched parties

[38:01] because he knew he couldn't be reelected

[38:03] as a Republican. Sunday, CBS's Bob

[38:06] Schiffer asked him about the

[38:07] repercussions on Face the Nation.

[38:10] >> Bob, it would be my hope that uh as was

[38:14] reported in the New York Times last week

[38:16] that this would be a wakeup call uh and

[38:19] the party would move for a broader big

[38:22] tent like uh we had under under Reagan.

[38:25] The party has changed so much since I

[38:28] was elected in 1980.

[38:30] Uh and now when I cast the vote with the

[38:34] Democrats on the stimulus package, that

[38:37] uh one vote created a precipitous drop.

[38:41] Uh so that uh I was looking at a

[38:43] situation where the prospects were very

[38:46] bleak to win a Republican primary and I

[38:49] simply was not going to put my 20 year

[38:51] 29-year record before the Republican

[38:55] primary electorate. Uh but it would be

[38:58] my hope that uh we can maintain a strong

[39:01] two-party system and we'll uh stop the

[39:04] business of what the Club for Growth has

[39:06] been doing to defeating moderates in the

[39:08] primary and then losing the general

[39:10] elections.

[39:11] >> U you said that you will not be although

[39:14] you've become a Democrat now that you

[39:16] would not be an automatic vote uh for

[39:19] Barack Obama. Uh tell me some of the

[39:22] things where you differ uh with this

[39:24] president and with Democrats. Senator.

[39:26] >> Well, uh, Bob, uh, I, uh, have said that

[39:29] and my record of independence is

[39:31] present, uh, as a Republican and I still

[39:34] intend to represent the people of

[39:37] Pennsylvania. And, uh, what is good for

[39:40] my state uh, and for the country. Uh one

[39:43] illustration uh is the legislation on

[39:47] employees choice which is also known as

[39:49] card check which would eliminate the

[39:52] secret ballot and uh also provide for

[39:55] mandatory arbitration. Now while I feel

[39:57] there's a need for labor law reform. I'm

[40:00] uh I'm not for that legislation. That's

[40:03] a primary item on the president's

[40:05] agenda. And the president the president

[40:08] knows that when the president uh invited

[40:11] me to the White House with Vice

[40:13] President Biden to endorse my candidacy,

[40:16] uh he said that he knew I would uh he

[40:20] said he'd be looking for my advice,

[40:21] especially when I disagreed with him.

[40:24] So, uh it's not a secret. A lot of

[40:28] people, I would assume, voted for you uh

[40:31] in your last Senate race because you

[40:33] were a Republican. Uh do you feel in any

[40:37] way that you let them down or that you

[40:40] had some obligation to them to switch?

[40:42] Now, it's one thing to say, you know,

[40:44] you you come up to the election and say,

[40:46] I want to announce I'm going to run as a

[40:48] Republic, I mean, run as a Democrat the

[40:50] next time out, but to just switch

[40:52] parties in midstream. Uh does that does

[40:55] that bother you, Senator? Well, uh uh I

[40:59] was sorry to disappoint many people.

[41:02] Frankly, I was disappointed that the

[41:04] Republican party didn't want me as their

[41:07] candidate. But as a matter of principle,

[41:09] I'm becoming much more comfortable uh

[41:11] with the Democrats approach.

[41:14] >> Pennsylvania Senator Arlland Spectre

[41:16] with CBS's Bob Sheeper on Face the

[41:18] Nation. Jack Kemp, the former pro

[41:21] quarterback who turned fame on the

[41:23] football field into a career in national

[41:25] politics, died of cancer at his home

[41:27] Saturday. The self-described bleeding

[41:30] hard conservative, represented Western

[41:32] New York for nine terms in Congress,

[41:34] staged an unsuccessful presidential bid

[41:36] in 1988 and ran as Bob Dole's running

[41:39] mate in the 1996 presidential election.

[41:42] He once said, "Pro Football gave me a

[41:44] good perspective. When I entered the

[41:45] political arena, I'd already been booed,

[41:47] cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung an

[41:50] effigy. Jack Kemp was 73 years old.

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[44:06] Coming up on the Early Show.

[44:09] When the questions are just as important

[44:11] as the answers,

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[44:15] >> There's one place where the biggest

[44:16] names in politics face the facts. Face

[44:19] the truth. How bad is this situation

[44:22] right now?

[44:23] >> Face the nation with Bob Sheffer.

[44:25] Sundays on CBS.

[44:29] A special report on the Taliban this

[44:31] week on the CBS Evening News with Katie

[44:33] Kirk.

[44:35] Later this Monday morning, Wall Street

[44:37] opens after a rally last week. The Dow

[44:39] Jones is at 8212. Alexis Christophers

[44:42] has more in this morning's CBS Money

[44:44] Watch.

[44:47] Wall Street will have to wait until

[44:48] Thursday for the results of the

[44:50] government's stress tests on the major

[44:52] US banks. Officials were supposed to

[44:54] release them Monday, but are holding off

[44:56] to give the banks time to digest the

[44:57] findings. The stress tests are expected

[45:00] to show that several banks may need more

[45:02] money in order to continue lending. Some

[45:04] Wall Street firms believe an economic

[45:06] recovery will take hold in the second

[45:08] half of this year. They say gains in

[45:10] consumer confidence and more lending by

[45:12] banks will boost spending and help the

[45:14] housing market. We'll get more clues on

[45:16] the health of the real estate market

[45:17] this week with reports on pending home

[45:19] sales and construction. Record low

[45:22] mortgage rates have Americans

[45:23] refinancing at a record rate. According

[45:25] to Freddy Mack, the average rate on a

[45:27] 30-year mortgage is 4.78%.

[45:30] Investors were hoping to build on last

[45:32] week's rally when the Dow industrials

[45:34] rose 44 points Friday. The NASDAQ

[45:36] Composite inched up about two. We'll see

[45:40] if Americans have been more willing to

[45:41] spend when retailers post their April

[45:44] sales figures this week. The biggest

[45:46] roadblock to spending is unemployment.

[45:48] Friday's April jobs report is expected

[45:50] to show a rise in the unemployment rate

[45:52] to 8.7% in some parts of the country,

[45:55] including Michigan and California.

[45:57] Unemployment has already topped 11%.

[46:00] Track all your business headlines at

[46:02] cbsmoneywatch.com.

[46:04] In New York, I'm Alexis Christopherus.

[46:07] Billionaire Warren Buffett is praising

[46:09] the government's efforts to keep the

[46:11] economy afloat. The legendary investor

[46:13] told 35,000 shareholders of his

[46:16] Berkshire Hathaway investment firm

[46:17] Saturday that US officials, including

[46:20] President Obama, have so far mostly made

[46:22] the right decisions. He also said

[46:24] consumers shouldn't worry about bank

[46:26] failures because of the protections

[46:27] built into the system. Bergkshire

[46:29] Hathaway shares lost almost a third of

[46:31] their value last year. Race fans are

[46:34] still buzzing over Saturday's longot

[46:36] winner in the Kentucky Derby. in last

[46:39] place at one point. Mind that bird

[46:41] stunned the field seemingly coming out

[46:43] of nowhere to win the first jewel of the

[46:45] triple crown by almost seven lengths. At

[46:48] 50 to1 odds, it was the second biggest

[46:50] payout in Kentucky Derby history.

[46:53] >> Players and staffers for the Dallas

[46:55] Cowboys are still recovering after their

[46:57] practice facility collapsed Saturday

[46:59] during a powerful storm. A dozen people

[47:02] were hurt. CBS's Karen Brown has more.

[47:06] Lights shattered and people ran for

[47:08] cover as the roof of the Dallas Cowboys

[47:11] indoor practice facility collapsed

[47:13] around them.

[47:14] >> Oh my god.

[47:14] >> Team employees searched for the missing,

[47:18] [screaming]

[47:19] >> finding some of them stuck in the

[47:20] wreckage.

[47:21] >> He's over there.

[47:23] >> This man crawled out unheard. Others

[47:26] needed help. About a dozen people were

[47:28] hospitalized, including the Cowboys

[47:30] special teams coach. Two were seriously

[47:33] injured, but no one was killed.

[47:35] >> Everyone's pretty lucky that it wasn't

[47:37] worse, cuz based on the pile of wreckage

[47:39] out there, certainly could have been

[47:41] worse.

[47:43] >> The rookie mini camp going on inside was

[47:45] first interrupted when high wind shook

[47:48] the building. Lights on the ceiling

[47:49] swayed and flickered, and the building's

[47:51] canopy started billowing. At first, it

[47:54] didn't seem serious. People were

[47:56] laughing when some of the lights went

[47:57] out and uh then all of a sudden two

[48:00] walls started to buckle in and people

[48:03] screamed and people started swearing and

[48:06] put my head down and ran for the door.

[48:08] >> Even when some of the 70 people inside

[48:10] thought they were safe, parts of the

[48:12] building kept tumbling down.

[48:15] >> The winds that brought down the building

[48:17] were clocked at 64 miles hour. Karen

[48:20] Brown, CBS News, New York. And the team

[48:23] announced Sunday that one of their

[48:25] scouting assistants was permanently

[48:27] paralyzed from the waist down after a

[48:29] spine was severed in the accident. The

[48:32] FDA is warning anyone taking Hydroxy Cut

[48:35] to stop immediately. The manufacturer is

[48:37] recalling 14 Hydroxy Cut products after

[48:40] the popular diet supplement was linked

[48:42] to severe liver problems and at least

[48:44] one death. Some 9 million packages were

[48:47] sold last year. Now a look at your

[48:50] Monday weather. The rain is expected

[48:52] from the southeast coastline to New

[48:54] England as a line of storms make their

[48:56] way east. Skies will remain cloudy

[48:58] across the lower Midwest and Tennessee

[49:00] Valley, though it should stay dry. And

[49:02] more rain for the Pacific Northwest and

[49:04] parts of California is expected.

[49:07] In sports, the heat went cold in their

[49:09] game seven against the Hawks. Joe

[49:11] Johnson led Atlanta with 27 points and

[49:14] Mike Bby tacked on six rebounds as a

[49:16] team knocked off Miami 9178. It's the

[49:19] first time the Hawks have pushed past

[49:21] their first round since 1999. They'll

[49:23] now face the Cavaliers with game one set

[49:26] for Cleveland tomorrow night. On to

[49:28] hockey where it took three overtimes for

[49:31] the Anaheim Ducks and Detroit Red Wings

[49:33] to sort out game two of their playoff

[49:34] matchup. The Ducks finally grab the win

[49:37] with a shot from Todd Marshant. 4-3 was

[49:40] the final. The series is now tied at one

[49:42] game apiece. And a rare feat last night

[49:45] in Tampa Bay as Carl Crawford tied the

[49:48] modern major league record for steals in

[49:50] a single game. Crawford stole six bases

[49:53] in a game against the Red Sox. Only four

[49:56] people have done that since 1900. By the

[49:59] way, the Rays won five to three for

[50:02] Crawford.

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[50:25] >> The pre-teen years are a challenging

[50:27] time, but they're also a good time to

[50:29] think about your child's health. Which

[50:31] is why if you're the parents of an 11 or

[50:34] 12year-old, you need to know about

[50:36] pre-teen [music] vaccines. Vaccines that

[50:38] can help protect your pre-teen from

[50:40] serious diseases like menitis, [music]

[50:43] whooping cough, and for girls, the virus

[50:45] that causes cervical cancer. So,

[50:47] schedule a checkup for your child today

[50:49] [music] and ask specifically about

[50:51] pre-teen vaccines because your pre-teen

[50:54] might think that they're all grown up,

[50:56] but they're counting on you to [music]

[50:57] know better.

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[51:25] >> Hi, my name's Mike and I live in

[51:27] Beaverton.

[51:28] >> My name's Becky and I live [music] in

[51:29] St. Helens. The most impact what events

[51:33] in my lifetime

[51:34] >> could write an essay on that.

[51:35] >> Election of President Obama has been

[51:37] probably the most inspirational. Well,

[51:39] the expansion of the population, [music]

[51:42] >> child birth, [laughter]

[51:44] >> it's a toss up between 9/11 and the

[51:46] assassination of JFK.

[51:48] >> Actually, watching the birth of um my

[51:51] three daughters.

[51:52] >> Um seriously, getting clean and sober.

[51:54] I've been clean and sober for a little

[51:55] over 7 years now.

[51:56] >> We did race down from Washington to get

[51:58] married.

[51:59] >> One time I was going to jump off the

[52:01] bridge. Out of nowhere, here comes this

[52:03] lady and she just sat there and just

[52:05] took time out to talk to me. The day

[52:07] Starbucks went into business, it has

[52:09] sucked $150 away from me every single

[52:12] month.

[52:12] >> I think going to college was my main

[52:14] thing.

[52:15] >> Probably getting married.

[52:21] [music]

[52:25] >> There was a big to-do last week over

[52:31] on hand to document every single one of

[52:34] the president's days. CBS's Thalia

[52:36] Shurus has more.

[52:38] >> Wherever the president goes, whatever

[52:41] Mr. Obama does, almost every moment is

[52:45] captured by that man, scrambling to stay

[52:48] out of view. That's official White House

[52:50] photographer Pete Souza.

[52:52] >> My primary mission is to document his

[52:55] presidency for history. I mean, I take

[52:57] that role seriously.

[53:00] >> Souza has daily behindthecenes access

[53:02] envied by the press. What are your

[53:05] favorite kind of moments?

[53:06] >> The unexpected ones. The ones that can

[53:09] only happen once and they'll never never

[53:11] repeat themselves.

[53:12] >> There's the day the president met with

[53:14] sick kids from across the country and

[53:15] then off-handedly invited them to use

[53:18] his daughter's new swing set. Back in

[53:20] the Oval Office,

[53:21] >> this is him looking out the window and

[53:23] the kids had taken him up on his offer.

[53:26] So then he walked outside to see all the

[53:28] kids. It was quite the scene. Souza

[53:30] caught the president and first lady in a

[53:32] tender moment on inauguration night.

[53:35] >> That's, you know, such a priceless

[53:37] picture and you see the staff and the

[53:39] Secret Service in the background, you

[53:40] know, sort of not wanting to intrude on

[53:43] this little private moment.

[53:45] >> As for those private moments,

[53:47] >> I do try to give them some space and

[53:51] privacy after I've gotten a couple of

[53:53] pictures. Souza says it's the personal

[53:55] encounters the president cherishes,

[53:57] asking for copies for himself, including

[53:59] this one of daughters Malia and Sasha

[54:02] greeting him after an event.

[54:03] >> And it was just, you know, just a

[54:05] genuine moment between a dad and two

[54:08] kids.

[54:08] >> A photo opportunity with the governor of

[54:10] Vermont took a twist.

[54:12] >> As soon as it was over, the president

[54:14] said to the governor, "Hey, let's move

[54:15] the sofa back." You can see the governor

[54:17] doesn't quite know what to do.

[54:19] >> Soua says Mr. Obama is easy to

[54:21] photograph. A lot of politicians are

[54:24] paranoid of the camera and they sort of

[54:27] watch every little thing that they do

[54:29] and I think he just goes about his

[54:31] business as I go about my business.

[54:33] >> The [snorts] two men aren't strangers.

[54:35] Then with the Chicago Tribune, Souza

[54:37] shadowed the new senator from Illinois

[54:39] during his first year in office.

[54:41] Suza already had White House experience.

[54:44] He was one of Ronald Reagan's

[54:45] photographers, but this time he's

[54:48] photog. I get to see the president in

[54:51] all these great situations that other

[54:53] people don't get to see him in.

[54:55] >> Sometimes that means Soua snaps a

[54:57] thousand pictures a day. Later sharing

[55:00] with the rest of us what only his eye is

[55:02] allowed to see. Thalia Ashuras, CBS

[55:05] News, Washington.

[55:07] >> Thanks for keeping your eye on us this

[55:09] half hour. This is CBS News Up to the

[55:11] Minute.

[55:20] Thank you for making Coin Local [music]

[55:22] 6 at 111 the number one late night

[55:24] newscast.

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[55:35] [music]

[55:35] Good morning. It's Monday, May 4th. From

[55:38] CBS News in New York City, I'm Michelle

[55:40] Gilim. The spread of the H1N1 virus

[55:43] appears to be slowing in some parts of

[55:45] the world, but the fight against it is

[55:47] not. As CBS's Hari Shinashan shows us,

[55:50] scientists are working on a vaccine with

[55:52] an autumn deadline.

[55:55] Detroit closed 24 schools in one

[55:57] district west of the city today after a

[56:00] high school girl came down with an

[56:01] apparent flu case. That makes more than

[56:04] 470 closed schools across 18 states,

[56:08] meaning some 270,000 children will stay

[56:10] at home.

[56:11] >> We want them to stay home. And when we

[56:13] mean home, we don't mean just not

[56:15] school. We mean home.

[56:17] >> Mexican authorities say there are fewer

[56:18] new cases of H1N1 in their country, but

[56:21] that's not the case in the US where the

[56:23] virus continues to spread. At least 226

[56:27] cases are confirmed across dozens of

[56:29] states. And around the world, nearly 800

[56:32] cases are confirmed in 19 countries.

[56:34] Some of those countries are taking

[56:36] extraordinary precautions. In Egypt,

[56:38] police clashed with farmers who were

[56:40] trying to protect their pigs from

[56:42] governmentordered slaughter. It's a move

[56:44] the World Health Organization says is

[56:46] unnecessary. In Hong Kong, some 350

[56:49] guests and employees have been

[56:51] quarantined in a hotel where one Mexican

[56:54] guest fell sick with the flu. And in

[56:56] another part of China, according to the

[56:58] Mexican ambassador, more than 70

[57:00] Mexicans are being unfairly quarantined.

[57:02] >> That Mexicans are being targeted in

[57:04] China just because they have a Mexican

[57:06] passport.

[57:07] >> US leaders expect many of the suspected

[57:09] cases to be confirmed soon, but they

[57:11] fear the real challenges may come in the

[57:13] fall when flu season returns.

[57:16] >> It could come back in a in a more

[57:17] virulent form.

[57:19] >> By then, they may have a vaccine to

[57:21] combat this deadly virus. Haris Srassan,

[57:24] CBS News, New York.

[57:26] But that new vaccine might not be as

[57:28] effective as it should be because so

[57:30] many people are panicking now. Sales of

[57:32] Tamlu have spiked, which means many

[57:34] don't really need the treatment and yet

[57:36] they might take it. CBS's Haddie Kaufman

[57:39] explains why that could lead to an even

[57:40] bigger health crisis.

[57:44] >> At pediatricians offices, parents are

[57:47] worried.

[57:48] >> We wanted to make sure that our young

[57:50] ones are safe. Doctors like Nicole

[57:52] Normand in Los Angeles say patients are

[57:55] asking for one thing.

[57:56] >> Well, a lot of families are calling and

[57:58] wanting a prescription for Tammy flu,

[58:00] even if their kids are perfectly well

[58:02] cuz they want to have it just in case.

[58:04] >> The antiviral drugs Tamlu and Renza are

[58:07] the only known treatments for swine flu.

[58:09] The Centers for Disease Control says

[58:11] only patients who were exposed to the

[58:13] flu need medication. Dr. Dr. Martin

[58:15] Blazer of New York University says

[58:17] taking Tamathlu unnecessarily creates a

[58:20] public health danger.

[58:21] >> It's not a good idea to have it at home

[58:23] just in case because the more people who

[58:26] have it, the more people who use it, the

[58:28] sooner resistance will emerge.

[58:30] >> But some who can't get the drugs from a

[58:32] doctor are turning to the internet.

[58:34] Online pharmacy direct response

[58:36] marketing says sales of Tamlu have

[58:38] spiked 800% in the last week. Access RX

[58:42] reports a 62% increase in sales. To buy

[58:45] Tamlu in a pharmacy, you need a

[58:47] prescription. Online, you may not. My

[58:50] producer ordered this Tamlu with just a

[58:52] few clicks of a mouse and a $160 charge

[58:55] on a credit card. We just typed in we

[58:57] had fever and flu, checked the informed

[59:00] consent agreement, saying we consulted a

[59:02] doctor. An online doctor supposedly

[59:05] reviewed our order and approved our

[59:07] purchase, but no one called or even

[59:09] emailed with questions. A few days

[59:12] later, we have the Tamlu in hand. The

[59:15] CDC says websites like this one are

[59:17] falsely claiming their medicines prevent

[59:19] swine flu. And reselling taplu like this

[59:23] posting on Craigslist is illegal.

[59:26] Doctors warn patients should be careful

[59:28] about what they buy online because like

[59:30] all medicines, Tamlu and Renza have

[59:33] potential side effects. The one that

[59:35] I've experienced a couple of times with

[59:36] my patients is uh delirium. So, it's

[59:39] kind of scary to see your kid

[59:40] hallucinate. And if you're doing that

[59:42] for no reason other than paranoia, then

[59:45] it's silly.

[59:46] >> That's why most doctors are refusing to

[59:49] prescribe the drugs unless a patient is

[59:51] sick. Patty Kaufman, CBS News, Los

[59:54] Angeles.

[59:55] The fate of the Boston Globe newspaper

[59:57] is still in question this morning. The

[59:59] midnight deadline to reach a deal with

[60:01] union workers passed a few hours ago.

[60:03] The Impass is over more than $20 million

[60:06] in pay cuts. The owner, the New York

[60:08] Times company, says it will shut down

[60:10] the globe if unions don't agree to the

[60:12] reductions. Italian automaker Fiat is on

[60:15] a shopping spree. The company is forging

[60:17] ahead to take what it can from Chrysler

[60:20] and also eyeing a large part of General

[60:22] Motors. But if the plan falls through,

[60:24] American taxpayers could be left holding

[60:26] the bag again. CBS's Tony Ga reports.

[60:31] >> Under the surgeon's knife, also known as

[60:33] a bankruptcy proceeding, Chrysler

[60:35] sacrificed its few remaining vital

[60:37] organs. It moved to sell substantially

[60:40] all its assets to Fiat. Chrysler's

[60:42] bankruptcy is routinely called surgical.

[60:45] The hope being the operation will be

[60:47] successful and swift, but auto analysts

[60:50] worry. Anyone that's ever gone under

[60:52] anesthesia knows that you can always run

[60:54] into complications. And the longer the

[60:56] surgery lasts, the less chance of a

[60:59] successful outcome.

[61:00] >> It's not just Chrysler's future riding

[61:02] on this surgery, but GMs as well. And

[61:05] there's no guarantee the operation will

[61:07] come off without a hitch. The hitch is

[61:09] the creditors at Chrysler, whose

[61:11] objections to the Obama administration's

[61:14] deal could scuttle it. The smaller

[61:17] lenders feel they've gotten short

[61:18] shrift, and they may be right. The

[61:20] bankruptcy court may favor them. Once

[61:22] that gets started, it could go on for

[61:24] months.

[61:25] >> That could spell disaster. It would mean

[61:27] auto industry experts say that the

[61:29] government, you, the taxpayer, would be

[61:31] on the hook for billions of extra

[61:34] subsidy dollars to keep auto suppliers

[61:36] in business while the court fight rages.

[61:39] If the court ultimately endorses the

[61:41] Obama plan for Chrysler, it will give

[61:44] the president greater leverage with GM.

[61:46] But if the bankruptcy judge throws out

[61:49] that deal or modifies it substantially,

[61:51] then Obama's leverage in the GM

[61:53] negotiations dissipates, and that whole

[61:56] deal may unravel as well. Saving GM is a

[61:59] much heavier lift for President Obama

[62:01] than preserving Chrysler. At minimum,

[62:03] the plan cuts 47,000 jobs worldwide,

[62:07] closes more than a dozen US plants, and

[62:10] puts 2600 dealerships out of business.

[62:13] There are also tens of thousands of

[62:15] creditors of GM as well, including many

[62:18] pension funds. If all these hurdles at

[62:21] Chrysler and GM are successfully jumped,

[62:24] at the end of the day, there is this

[62:26] harsh reality. Chrysler will be run by

[62:28] an established car maker, Fiat. But at

[62:31] General Motors, the board of directors

[62:33] will effectively be the American

[62:35] taxpayer with President Obama as

[62:37] chairman. Tony Ga, CBS News, New York.

[62:42] And Fiat's big plan is to form an

[62:44] entirely new company worth $15 billion.

[62:47] It would include its current brands, the

[62:49] Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and Ferrari, plus

[62:52] whatever it gets from Chrysler and GM.

[62:55] The newest X-Men movie isn't hurting for

[62:57] cash.

[62:59] >> Let's do this.

[63:01] >> X-Men: Origins: Wolverine slashed

[63:03] through the competition at movie

[63:05] theaters this weekend, earning $87

[63:07] million in its debut. Also new this

[63:10] weekend, ghosts of girlfriends past.

[63:12] Romantic comedy came in second place,

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[63:54] >> Great [snorts] game.

[63:55] >> Thanks.

[63:58] you out.

[64:01] [music]

[64:03] >> Oh, there we go.

[64:08] [music]

[64:10] >> Congratulations.

[64:14] [music]

[64:18] >> So, let's go get a win.

[64:33] >> [music]

[64:34] >> This year's MVP is Jake.

[64:37] [screaming]

[64:43] >> Take steroids and eventually everyone

[64:45] will see you for what you really are. A

[64:47] fake, a fraud, an asterisk.

[64:54] >> [music]

[64:56] >> What events is the most impact in my

[64:59] lifetime? Child birth. [laughter]

[65:02] Uh the current economy because I just

[65:05] retired. I think going to college was my

[65:08] main thing. Um seriously, getting clean

[65:10] and sober. I've been clean and sober for

[65:11] a little over 7 years now.

[65:13] >> Watching the birth of um my three

[65:15] daughters.

[65:15] >> Election of President Obama has been

[65:17] probably the most inspirational

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[65:37] There are encouraging signs that the

[65:39] H1N1 or swine flu cases are beginning to

[65:42] taper off worldwide. But while there's

[65:44] hope that the worst is over, many still

[65:46] worry things could take a bad turn.

[65:49] CBS's Martha Tyishner explains why.

[65:53] >> There it is. The virus known as the

[65:55] swine flu or not.

[65:58] >> It is not correct to refer to it as

[66:00] swine flu because there's really that's

[66:02] not what this is about.

[66:03] >> It's a combination swine bird and human

[66:06] virus. And no, you can't catch it from

[66:09] being around pigs or eating pork.

[66:11] >> I wasn't wearing this until today.

[66:14] >> We're supposed to take precautions.

[66:16] >> Keep your hands washed. Cover your mouth

[66:18] when you cough. Keep your children home

[66:20] from school if they're sick.

[66:22] >> But not too many precautions. New York

[66:26] Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

[66:27] >> I took the subway here as I take the

[66:29] subway to work every day. And I will do

[66:32] so tomorrow as well.

[66:34] >> Look at the map. It's obvious the virus

[66:36] is spreading not just in the United

[66:39] States, worldwide as fast as you can say

[66:43] boarding pass.

[66:45] I have decided to raise the current

[66:48] level of influenza pandemic alert from

[66:52] phase 4 to phase 5.

[66:56] >> The World Health Organization has told

[66:58] us to brace for the worst.

[67:00] >> It really is all of humanity that is

[67:04] under threat during a pandemic.

[67:08] >> Yikes. How do we reconcile the mixed

[67:12] messages? The World Health Organization

[67:14] is entirely justified in raising the

[67:16] alert level.

[67:17] >> Dr. Irwin Reder is director of the

[67:19] National Center for Disaster

[67:21] Preparedness at Columbia University.

[67:24] >> That message about the emergency is

[67:26] really directed towards public health

[67:28] departments and public health officials.

[67:31] We want them to get ready to put plans

[67:33] in effect. It's not actually a message

[67:36] that's supposed to be for the general

[67:37] public.

[67:38] >> But why? with relatively few people

[67:40] affected so far. Alert level five out of

[67:44] a maximum six because H1N1 meets these

[67:48] criteria. It's new. Nobody is immune. It

[67:52] does kill people. It's transmitted

[67:55] person to person and it's appeared in

[67:57] multiple countries at the same time.

[68:00] What the alert level doesn't tell us is

[68:02] what will end up happening, how serious

[68:05] it will turn out to be. If we had a

[68:08] dozen experts in public health and

[68:10] infectious disease or 20 in this room,

[68:13] it would be hard to find two of them

[68:15] that actually agree how bad is it going

[68:17] to get. Will we see a 1918 uh redo?

[68:22] >> 1918 is the benchmark for bad. The 1918

[68:27] flu killed 50 million people or more. In

[68:31] World War I, more soldiers died of the

[68:33] flu than on the battlefield. living in

[68:36] close quarters. They got the sniffles

[68:38] one day and were often dead the next.

[68:42] >> What we're doing is analyzing uh a virus

[68:45] right out of the lungs of people who who

[68:47] died in the prime of their lives. These

[68:50] soldiers were just in their 20s when

[68:51] they died.

[68:53] >> In 1998, molecular biologist Dr. Jeffrey

[68:56] Taenberger announced he had decoded the

[68:59] 1918 virus, mapped its genome, which

[69:03] meant lessons could be learned about why

[69:06] it was so deadly with applications for

[69:09] other flu. At the time he worked at the

[69:12] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in

[69:15] Washington.

[69:16] Here he had access to an incredible

[69:19] warehouse filled with tissue samples,

[69:22] millions of them from dead soldiers

[69:24] dating all the way back to the Civil

[69:26] War, including he discovered soldiers

[69:29] from World War I who died of the 1918

[69:32] flu virus.

[69:33] >> What we have is a fingernail sized piece

[69:36] of lung tissue that has been fixed and

[69:39] then embedded in wax. Since then,

[69:41] microbiologists have been able to

[69:43] compare the genetic signature of the

[69:45] 1918 flu with newer viruses,

[69:49] which is how the week ended with the

[69:51] Centers for Disease Control announcing

[69:54] the first good news about H1N1.

[69:57] >> We do not see the markers for virulence

[70:00] that were seen in the 1918 virus.

[70:04] >> Is this a pandemic non-event? No one

[70:07] knows. Even if it turns out that the

[70:11] H1N1

[70:12] uh is relatively mild on the front end,

[70:16] it could come back in a more virulent

[70:18] form during the actual flu season.

[70:21] >> That's exactly what happened in 1918.

[70:24] Viruses mutate unpredictably.

[70:28] >> This is too much of a of a of a gamble

[70:31] over public health to say, well, let's

[70:33] see see if it really becomes severe. So,

[70:36] are the warnings, the school closings,

[70:39] the masks, the stockpiles of Tamlu just

[70:42] overkill, media hype, or not? What if

[70:47] the H1N1 virus does have an even more

[70:51] vicious second act?

[70:54] >> CBS's Martha Tyer reporting. Some tragic

[70:58] news from that accident at the Dallas

[70:59] Cowboys training camp. The team has

[71:01] announced a scouting assistant was

[71:03] paralyzed from the waist down. The

[71:05] 33-year-old spine was severed Saturday

[71:08] when the team's practice tent collapsed

[71:09] during a severe storm. The special teams

[71:12] coach also suffered a fracture in his

[71:14] back, but was not paralyzed. Former

[71:16] congressman and vice presidential

[71:18] hopeful Jack Kemp died Saturday night at

[71:20] the age of 73 at his home in Bethesda,

[71:23] Maryland from cancer. As CBS's Kimberly

[71:26] Doer reports, Kent's long career took

[71:28] him into battle in the halls of

[71:29] government and on the grid iron.

[71:32] >> He was a star quarterback who became a

[71:34] major player for the Republican party.

[71:38] >> Jack Kemp was a nine-term congressman

[71:40] from Buffalo, New York, a secretary of

[71:42] housing under the first President Bush,

[71:45] and a nominee for vice president

[71:46] alongside candidate Bob Dole.

[71:49] >> We think Dole and Kemp make a great

[71:51] team, don't you?

[71:52] >> [cheering]

[71:53] >> After his four decades plus political

[71:55] career, Kemp left a record of turning

[71:57] setbacks into personal and later party

[72:00] triumph. He was a 17th round draft pick

[72:02] who went on to be voted most valuable

[72:04] player for the Buffalo Bills. After 18

[72:07] years and a dozen concussions, he said

[72:09] all he was fit to do was run for

[72:11] political office.

[72:13] a self-proclaimed bleeding heart

[72:14] Republican. His signature issue was

[72:16] lowering taxes, helping shape President

[72:19] Ronald Reagan's 1980 tax cuts.

[72:22] >> He also aimed to expand the GOP to

[72:24] embraced all races.

[72:26] >> That issue. Uh I will not uh rest until

[72:29] my party addresses this issue.

[72:31] >> President Obama saluted Kemp for

[72:33] remembering the lessons on the football

[72:35] field. that bitter divisiveness between

[72:37] race and class and station only stood in

[72:40] the way of the common aim of a team to

[72:42] win. Kemp called Democrats not enemies

[72:45] but opponents and even friends.

[72:47] >> He was a person who brought the same

[72:49] enthusiasm and energy to politics that

[72:51] he brought to football. Uh and you could

[72:53] tell whether it was a battle of ideas or

[72:55] battle on the grid iron, Jack Kemp threw

[72:57] himself into it completely.

[72:59] >> That included the fight to turn around

[73:01] the Republican party as part of N.

[73:03] Gingrich's contract with America.

[73:05] >> He saw himself as a in some ways a John

[73:08] F. Kennedy Republican, believing that if

[73:10] the economy grows enough, everybody will

[73:13] have a better future. This weekend, as

[73:15] the GOP reels from election loss and

[73:17] falling membership, some are calling for

[73:19] a return to Kemp's way of doing

[73:21] business, bringing everyone onto his

[73:23] team. Kimberly Doer, CBS News,

[73:26] Washington.

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[76:09] >> A special report on the Taliban this

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[76:13] Kurrick.

[76:14] >> The more than 50 million Americans on

[76:17] social security are in for a financial

[76:19] shock. This year they received a cost of

[76:21] living increase almost 6%. But the

[76:23] government is now forecasting that for

[76:25] the first time since it began in 1975

[76:28] there will be no cost of living increase

[76:31] next year or the year after. For many

[76:33] this could also mean higher Medicare and

[76:35] drug coverage premiums. From social

[76:38] security to unemployment for those who

[76:40] lose a job a key issue is maintaining

[76:42] health insurance. Joining us from San

[76:44] Francisco with some tips on how to make

[76:46] sure you're covered is Stephanie Aer,

[76:48] contributing editor for smartmoney.com.

[76:50] Good morning, Stephanie.

[76:52] >> Hi, Michelle. Great to see you.

[76:53] >> So, you have some expert advice on what

[76:56] you should do as far as healthcare. And

[76:57] the first thing you say is you should

[76:59] embrace COBRA. Why is that?

[77:02] >> Well, COBRA is a federal law that when

[77:04] abbreviated is called COBRA that allows

[77:06] you to maintain the healthcare coverage

[77:08] from your previous employer for up to 18

[77:10] months after you lose your job. Now,

[77:13] it's it's you're not able to be denied

[77:15] coverage, but it's not going to be

[77:16] cheap. You're paying both the employee

[77:18] and the employer portion of the tab plus

[77:20] a 2% administrative fee. So, for a

[77:22] family that can easily run $1,000 or

[77:25] more per month. Now, a bit of good news

[77:27] on this front is that there was some

[77:29] relief provided in the stimulus package

[77:31] for folks who lose their job. There is a

[77:33] tax subsidy that covers up to 65% of the

[77:37] premium cost for 9 months after you've

[77:39] lost your job.

[77:40] >> Oh, that's pretty good. Um, now what

[77:42] about the second point you say is to

[77:44] consider your spouse's plan. Why can a

[77:46] your spouse's plan help you out?

[77:48] >> Well, if you are married, this is

[77:50] certainly an option to consider. Um,

[77:53] because you're going from one group plan

[77:54] to another, you can't be denied coverage

[77:56] because of a pre-existing condition.

[77:58] Now, one thing to note is that if your

[78:01] spouse loses his or her job or if you go

[78:03] through a divorce, you likely will turn

[78:05] to COBRA only through your spouse's

[78:07] plan, not your previous employer's plan.

[78:10] So, this is only something to think

[78:11] about if your plan you feel is

[78:13] considerably better and you're worried

[78:15] about one of these scenarios. I had to

[78:17] get health insurance one time and I

[78:18] actually went online and looked at

[78:19] individual plans and I had a lot of luck

[78:21] with that and that's something that you

[78:22] suggest as an option. Why? Well, you

[78:25] absolutely should comparison shop. You

[78:27] never know, you might find a better deal

[78:29] as you did or you might not. the rates

[78:31] that you're going to be quoted are based

[78:33] on the state where you live, uh your

[78:35] overall health and also um the type of

[78:38] coverage that you are looking for no

[78:40] matter what. You don't want to grip on

[78:42] the quality of the provider. That's a

[78:44] very important thing. But some folks

[78:46] have no choice but to go onto the

[78:47] individual market and that's because

[78:49] they don't qualify for COBRA. For

[78:50] example, if you are fired from your job,

[78:52] you may not be eligible. And if you work

[78:54] for an employer that has less than 20

[78:56] employees, you also may not be eligible,

[78:58] although that's going to vary by state.

[79:00] What about health savings accounts? What

[79:02] are those? Well, if you are looking in

[79:05] the individual market and you're trying

[79:06] to keep costs in check, this is one

[79:08] option to consider. Here, you basically

[79:10] get coverage for the big health care

[79:13] expenses and you agree to self-insure

[79:15] for the smaller stuff. And the way this

[79:17] works is you buy health insurance that

[79:18] has a high deductible and then you pair

[79:21] it with this tax advantaged account and

[79:23] that's the account that you use to pay

[79:24] for smaller healthcare expenses. It's a

[79:26] confusing idea, but not a bad option,

[79:29] particularly if you're in good health.

[79:31] >> Now, the last thing you suggest is to

[79:33] contact your state insurance

[79:34] commissioner. Why can that be helpful?

[79:36] >> Well, if you're really struggling, if

[79:38] you can't find coverage or if you are

[79:40] confused by your options, these folks

[79:41] can help you out. Among other things,

[79:43] they can tell you whether your state has

[79:44] a high-risk pool, which is not

[79:46] necessarily a good option, but it can be

[79:49] an option of last resort. And no matter

[79:51] what, you just want to make sure you

[79:52] don't go without coverage. Um,

[79:55] [clears throat] sorry, I have a cough

[79:56] here. Um, you don't want to go without

[79:58] coverage. It's a major cause of

[80:00] bankruptcy, not having health insurance.

[80:02] So, just make sure that you are covered.

[80:03] >> All right. Smartmoney.com contributing

[80:05] editor Stephanie Aler. Stephanie, thanks

[80:07] for joining us as always.

[80:08] >> Thanks. Thank you. And for more on this

[80:11] and links to other great articles at

[80:13] smartmoney.com, just visit our web page

[80:15] at cbsnews.com and click on personal

[80:18] finance.

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[81:27] >> My name's George. I live in Milwaukee.

[81:29] >> Bill, I live in Sherwood.

[81:30] >> I'm from uh Vancouver. My name's Arlene.

[81:32] >> What do I love about where I live?

[81:34] >> Where I live?

[81:35] >> Can actually find trees every block you

[81:37] go.

[81:38] >> A lot of weird people.

[81:40] >> I I like my home. I mean,

[81:42] >> rated 18th in the nation. Livability.

[81:44] >> It's my home. I love everything about

[81:46] it.

[81:46] >> Oh, I guess go down to the waterfront.

[81:49] the fact that it's such a pet friendly

[81:51] city.

[81:51] >> In the summertime, there's an activity

[81:54] every weekend.

[81:55] >> No, we get to be who we are here.

[81:57] >> Yeah. And

[81:58] >> uh it's quiet.

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[82:15] help people.

[82:15] >> The people are pretty fantastic. I think

[82:18] I'll go have some fun. Thank you.

[82:24] >> We were all inundated last week by

[82:26] analysis of President Obama's first 100

[82:28] days. The benchmarks been used to

[82:30] measure a president's progress since FDR

[82:32] was in office. But unlike the pundits

[82:35] and political analysts, CBS's Andy

[82:37] Rooney kept counting.

[82:40] >> You probably didn't know this, but I

[82:42] have a nervous habit of counting

[82:43] everything. I count small things. For

[82:46] example, I count stairs when I go up or

[82:49] come down them. Because I've been

[82:51] counting, I know that this is President

[82:53] Barack Obama's 104th day in office. Glad

[82:57] no one is reminding me how many days

[82:59] I've spent in this office. A lot of

[83:02] words like office have two meanings. Of

[83:04] course, the actual office itself in the

[83:06] White House must be pretty much the way

[83:08] President Obama wants it by now, not the

[83:11] way Ford or Carter or Eisenhower or

[83:14] anybody else wanted it, even though it's

[83:16] the same place. President Obama uses the

[83:20] same desk that President Kennedy used. I

[83:24] made this desk myself from a great piece

[83:26] of walnut that I got off my property.

[83:29] This is something I made to keep my

[83:30] pencils in. isn't much, but I like it

[83:33] because I made it. It's one of my small

[83:36] things. I bet every president has some

[83:38] small things on his desk that are his

[83:41] and his alone, too. You know, I mean,

[83:43] something other than mistakes. The

[83:46] president's office in the White House

[83:48] was redesigned after they had a fire in

[83:51] 1929.

[83:52] Franklin D. Roosevelt had it done over

[83:54] in 1933.

[83:57] I wonder if the president wakes up in

[83:59] the morning these days and thinks about

[84:01] doing the White House over or if he ever

[84:03] thinks about how many days he has left

[84:05] there in it. He [snorts] has so many

[84:07] problems. He must often think to

[84:09] himself, "Geez, how much longer do I

[84:11] have to do this anyway?" Pretty good

[84:14] being president. Of course, he doesn't

[84:16] have to get his own breakfast, for

[84:17] instance. But being president is hard.

[84:20] Obama has chosen the cabinet that helps

[84:23] him, of course, and it's between 15 and

[84:25] 23 members, depending on who you count

[84:28] as a cabinet member. I was thinking

[84:31] maybe he should add one more cabinet

[84:33] member, a member who does nothing but

[84:36] save government money by cutting out

[84:38] things we don't need. He'd be called the

[84:41] Secretary of Savings, or SOS for short.

[84:45] 60 Minutes, by the way, is an expensive

[84:47] program, but it is not a government

[84:49] program. It's a program we need, or it's

[84:52] a program I need. Anyway,

[84:56] CBS's Andy Rooney. Thanks for joining us

[84:58] this half hour. This is CBS [music] News

[85:00] Up to the Minute.

[85:09] [music]

[85:15] >> [music]

[85:20] >> giving Portland's unidentified dead

[85:22] their names back. Coin Local 6 Monday at

[85:24] 11.

[85:25] >> Now on CBS News Up to the Minute,

[85:27] >> we lose our newspaper. It doesn't augur.

[85:33] >> The owners of the Boston Globe could

[85:35] begin the process of shutting down the

[85:37] paper as early as today. [music]

[85:40] considered dismissing the students for a

[85:42] period of up to two weeks. And hundreds

[85:45] of thousands of American school kids are

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[86:02] Good morning from [music] CBS News

[86:03] headquarters in New York. This is Up to

[86:05] the Minute. I'm Michelle Gilim. A

[86:07] midnight deadline came and went. Talks

[86:10] continued and there's still no word on

[86:12] the fate of the Boston Globe. Management

[86:14] has drawn up the paperwork to close the

[86:16] 137year-old Daily and has threatened to

[86:19] file it today. At issue, $20 million in

[86:22] union givebacks. The newspaper guild has

[86:24] agreed to $10 million in concessions,

[86:27] but it's unclear if that'll be enough to

[86:29] keep the presses rolling. CBS's Randall

[86:31] Kingston reports.

[86:33] It may be the worst deadline the Boston

[86:35] Globe ever faced with management's

[86:37] demand to cut $20 million, 10 million of

[86:39] that from the 600 member newspaper

[86:41] guild, the PAP's largest union. The

[86:44] guild said it was offering deep cuts in

[86:46] pay and benefits, which should be more

[86:48] than adequate to save the Boston Globe.

[86:50] Last week, employees tried to rally

[86:53] public support while staring down parent

[86:55] company New York Times.

[86:56] >> The New York Times, as you know, has

[86:58] threatened to shut down the Boston

[87:00] Globe. That threat is unacceptable.

[87:02] >> These are tough times for me outlets. Ad

[87:05] revenues in freef fall. Newspapers and

[87:08] magazines losing subscribers at the same

[87:10] time they have to build websites where

[87:12] readers have come to expect free

[87:14] content. While the Globe struggles to

[87:16] survive, other papers have succumbed.

[87:19] This year alone, the Rocky Mountain News

[87:21] shut down in Denver. The Seattle Post

[87:23] Intelligencer and the Christian Science

[87:25] Monitor stopped their presses and are

[87:27] now only available on the web. This is a

[87:30] great American city, Athens of America,

[87:33] hub of the universe.

[87:34] >> For veteran reporter Shawn Murphy, the

[87:36] Globe is part of the city and nation's

[87:38] intellectual capital as important as

[87:40] Harvard and all the other worldclass

[87:42] institutions that make this city

[87:44] special.

[87:44] >> If we lose our newspaper, uh I think

[87:46] we're diminished uh here and it doesn't

[87:49] augur well for other great cities across

[87:52] the country.

[87:53] >> If the Globe closes, Boston would be

[87:55] left with one paper, the tabloid Boston

[87:58] Herald. The globe is completely out of

[88:00] touch. It's run by uh Ivy Leaguers with

[88:02] trust funds, most of whom aren't even

[88:04] from New England.

[88:06] >> Howie Carr, a conservative talk show

[88:08] host, reports for the Herald, but knows

[88:10] his paper is not immune to the financial

[88:12] problems facing the globe.

[88:14] >> If we outlast the Globe by one day, we

[88:17] win.

[88:18] >> Even if management in the Globe reach a

[88:20] deal on the $20 million in cuts, the

[88:21] paper will still be in the red. The New

[88:23] York Times, the parent company, says the

[88:25] paper's on track to run an $85 million

[88:28] deficit this year. If the paper does

[88:30] survive, readers will be paying more.

[88:32] The price of a daily edition will go up

[88:34] from 75 cents to a dollar. Randall

[88:37] Kingston, CBS News, Boston.

[88:39] >> 50 million Americans receiving Social

[88:42] Security benefits could be in for a big

[88:44] surprise next January. No cost of living

[88:47] increase. And for some, their benefits

[88:48] will actually go down. This year, the

[88:51] cost of living adjustment was nearly 6%.

[88:53] But with the government forecasting zero

[88:55] inflation, there will be no increase in

[88:58] either 2010 or 2011. And for many,

[89:01] higher Medicare and drug coverage

[89:03] premiums could actually cause their

[89:04] monthly benefit to decline. The Chrysler

[89:07] bankruptcy hits home today as plants

[89:10] close down for up to two months.

[89:12] Chrysler's lawyers will go before a

[89:13] bankruptcy judge trying to use a $4

[89:16] billion government loan to keep

[89:17] operations going. Meanwhile, Chrysler

[89:20] dealerships reported a surge in

[89:22] customers over the weekend. CBS's

[89:24] Michelle Miller reports.

[89:26] >> In a deal in down in bankruptcy court

[89:28] Friday, Italian automaker Fiat will buy

[89:31] all but eight Chrysler plants, but it

[89:33] will be forced to share ownership of the

[89:35] troubled company with the United Auto

[89:37] Workers and the governments of Canada

[89:39] and the US. We're in a situation right

[89:42] now where we've never had an automaker

[89:45] emerge from bankruptcy successfully in

[89:47] modern times. So, we are in unchartered

[89:50] territory.

[89:52] >> And there is no shortage of obstacles.

[89:54] The company must shut down all plans on

[89:56] Monday to save cash. Dealers may fight

[89:59] the reorganization and debt holders may

[90:02] continue to demand the money they're

[90:03] owed. That's why Chrysler wants out of

[90:06] bankruptcy court fast. They call this a

[90:08] surgical bankruptcy. And anyone that's

[90:10] ever gone under anesthesia knows that

[90:13] you can always run into complications.

[90:14] And the longer the surgery lasts, the

[90:17] less chance of a successful outcome. In

[90:20] 1979, Chrysler was on the brink of

[90:23] bankruptcy and came back strong. If they

[90:25] succeed this time, the company could

[90:27] become a model for other troubled car

[90:29] makers to follow. Michelle Miller, CBS

[90:32] News, New York.

[90:34] The H1N1 virus continues to spread

[90:36] across the United States. There are

[90:38] nearly 250 confirmed cases in 35 states

[90:42] with many more test results due back in

[90:44] the coming days. The good news is the

[90:46] virus appears to be mild. The bad news

[90:48] for many students and parents, hundreds

[90:50] of schools and some entire school

[90:52] districts are closed down because of

[90:54] only one or two positive cases. CBS's

[90:57] Bianca Solarano reports.

[91:00] >> Worshippers at St. Mary's Catholic

[91:02] Church in Detroit, Michigan Sunday

[91:04] didn't give a sign of peace or drink

[91:06] from the communion chalice.

[91:08] >> They asked us um not to shake hands and

[91:12] also we took communion but not the wine.

[91:16] >> Churches across the country hoping to

[91:18] slow the spread of the H1N1 influenza

[91:20] virus were preaching a change in habits.

[91:24] >> Washing your hands and sanitizing them.

[91:26] These are all the sort of things I I'm

[91:28] really trusting my parishioners are

[91:30] doing. More than 20,000 Detroit school

[91:32] children won't be seeing each other for

[91:34] two days. Officials closed all 24

[91:37] schools in one district west of the city

[91:40] Sunday after a high school girl came

[91:42] down with an apparent flu case. That

[91:45] makes more than 470 schools closed in at

[91:48] least 18 states, stranding some 270,000

[91:52] children at home. Our current guidance

[91:54] for school dismissals um suggests that

[91:58] if there's a case identified in a school

[92:01] population, the authorities consider

[92:03] dismissing the students for a period of

[92:06] up to two weeks. In Cibolo, Texas, where

[92:09] schools were closed last week, officials

[92:11] opted to keep them shut.

[92:12] >> We want them to stay home. And when we

[92:14] mean home, we don't mean just not

[92:16] school. We mean home. Medical

[92:19] anthropologist Ron Barrett says

[92:20] officials are right to error on the side

[92:22] of prudence.

[92:23] >> There was a large study done at the

[92:24] University of Michigan uh that showed

[92:26] that in 43 cities in the United States

[92:29] uh that school closures seem to be

[92:31] significantly associated with lesser

[92:33] mortality for that flu uh in 1918.

[92:38] >> To calm nerves, President Obama's health

[92:40] officials blitz the Sunday talk show,

[92:42] striking a carefully balanced tone. The

[92:45] early news seems to be cautiously

[92:48] optimistic about where we are right now.

[92:51] We certainly can't get complacent.

[92:53] >> And that's because much remains unknown

[92:55] about this virus, including why it seems

[92:58] to be attacking an unusual age

[93:00] demographic with a median age of 17. US

[93:04] health officials said while at this

[93:05] point they are not sure why the older

[93:07] population is not being affected as much

[93:09] by the H1N1 virus they are looking into

[93:12] whether they are protected by years of

[93:14] previous flu vaccines. Bianca Solarano,

[93:18] CBS News, New York.

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