CBS - Up to the Minute and Morning News - 2009-03-05

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[0:00] BS.

[0:08] >> In this recession, it's getting harder

[0:10] and harder to pay for a college

[0:11] education. In January, the number of

[0:13] students seeking federal financial aid

[0:16] jumped 14%. The good news is 92% of

[0:20] private colleges and universities plan

[0:21] to increase their student aid budgets.

[0:24] As CBS's Byron Pittz tells us, some

[0:26] colleges are taking aggressive steps to

[0:28] make college more affordable.

[0:31] >> Any other semester, Susan Mascola might

[0:33] have been forced to drop out of school.

[0:36] A senior at St. Peters College in Jersey

[0:39] City, New Jersey. Her family came up

[0:42] short on tuition.

[0:43] >> My parents cannot pay right now.

[0:46] >> She's not alone. In years past, the

[0:48] small private schools saw about 12

[0:50] students a semester who were unable to

[0:52] pay their tuition. But last semester,

[0:55] that number jumped to 123, nearly 5% of

[0:59] the student body.

[1:00] >> This is about as bad as it's been.

[1:02] >> College President Gene Karnacia realized

[1:04] he had a major problem. So, he came up

[1:06] with a plan.

[1:07] >> We try to be very flexible. We've

[1:09] tightened our belts here at the college

[1:10] and trimmed our budgets to try to free

[1:12] up some additional resources.

[1:14] >> How? By cutting back on things like

[1:16] daily trash pickups to twice a week,

[1:19] saving $100,000 a year, they've delayed

[1:22] hiring, a $200,000 savings. All in an

[1:26] effort to increase financial aid

[1:28] packages to keep kids like Susan in

[1:30] school. Across the country, colleges are

[1:33] taking extraordinary steps to reduce the

[1:36] financial burden on students. One

[1:38] school, William Jessup University in

[1:40] Rockland, California, has lowered its

[1:42] tuition by 2.5%,

[1:45] a savings of $500 per student. Several

[1:48] schools like Dartmouth College in New

[1:50] Hampshire are eliminating tuition for

[1:52] families who earn less than $75,000 a

[1:55] year. April McAllister ran out of

[1:58] options.

[1:58] >> I struggled through last semester

[2:01] just thinking about how I was going to

[2:04] pay tuition. a student at Atlanta

[2:06] Spellelman College. She was forced to

[2:07] drop out because she couldn't pay the

[2:09] $3,700 she owes on tuition and she's

[2:13] having no luck finding a job.

[2:15] >> They hired everybody that were going to

[2:17] be hiring. So, I guess it's back to the

[2:20] drawing board again.

[2:22] >> At Spellelman, more than 500 of its 2100

[2:25] students found themselves in financial

[2:27] difficulty. So last December, the school

[2:29] started the Starfish Fund where donors

[2:32] make tuition payments for Spellman

[2:34] students near graduation. We're at risk

[2:37] of losing a whole generation of

[2:38] students, young women and men who have

[2:41] done everything we've asked them to do.

[2:43] >> And it won't get easier for colleges or

[2:46] students. Many are facing state budget

[2:48] cuts and shrinking endowments, which

[2:50] means higher tuitions next year. Byron

[2:54] Pittz, CBS News, Jersey City, New

[2:56] Jersey.

[2:57] President Obama is expected to soon lift

[3:00] restrictions on stem cell research. It's

[3:02] a breakthrough the scientific world and

[3:04] one young woman in particular have been

[3:06] waiting for. CBS's Daniel Seabourg

[3:09] reports.

[3:12] >> Eight words on inauguration day.

[3:14] >> We will restore science to its rightful

[3:16] place.

[3:17] >> That reverberated through the scientific

[3:18] community and gave hope to 33-year-old

[3:21] Ashley Lauren Fiser.

[3:23] >> This is something huge. This is going to

[3:25] affect lives. Fischer broke her neck

[3:27] while swimming 10 years ago. She

[3:30] believes stem cell research may hold the

[3:32] answer to regaining her mobility. While

[3:35] the Bush administration restricted

[3:37] federal funding for this type of

[3:39] research,

[3:39] >> even the most noble ends do not justify

[3:42] any means.

[3:44] >> President Obama has pledged he will

[3:45] reverse those restrictions and soon

[3:48] >> there were no steps going on for eight

[3:51] years. And even though now we've started

[3:54] the baby steps, hopefully in four years

[3:56] we'll be running and eventually I'll be

[3:59] running.

[3:59] >> We are at the dawn of a new age.

[4:01] >> Peter Kieran is with the Christopher and

[4:02] Dana Reev Foundation.

[4:04] >> We're not going to get people out of

[4:05] chairs with stem cells right away, but

[4:07] we're going to be able to start the work

[4:08] we've been itching to do.

[4:10] >> The sense from many scientists is that

[4:12] President Obama appears to at least

[4:14] respect their work. It's a stark

[4:17] contrast to the Bush years, widely

[4:19] perceived as anti-science, something not

[4:22] lost on late night TV.

[4:24] >> If the Bush administration was so bad

[4:26] for science, how come the last 8 years

[4:29] we went from one to three CSIs?

[4:33] >> It's no joke to climate change expert

[4:35] Michael Oppenheimer. He supports Mr.

[4:37] Obama for taking global warming

[4:39] seriously and for believing green jobs

[4:42] can grow the economy. Economic growth

[4:45] comes from developing new technologies

[4:47] and new technologies come from new

[4:49] scientific understanding. No new

[4:52] science, no new technology, no long-term

[4:55] economic growth.

[4:57] >> A real test of Mr. Obama's commitment to

[5:00] pure science will come when he appoints

[5:02] a new NASA administrator. Astrophysicist

[5:05] Neil Degrasse Tyson says NASA needs to

[5:08] be pioneering great discoveries.

[5:10] >> People say, "Why are we spending money

[5:11] up there and not down here?" We first

[5:13] learned about global warming and about

[5:15] the greenhouse effect on the planet

[5:17] Venus.

[5:18] >> Ultimately, Tyson believes Mr. Obama

[5:20] sees science as not just a budget issue,

[5:23] but as something fundamental to the

[5:25] future of our nation.

[5:26] >> We used to dream about tomorrow. Nobody

[5:28] dreams about tomorrow anymore. Whatever

[5:30] happened to Tomorrowland?

[5:31] >> Well, for many in the scientific

[5:33] community, the dream is back. Daniel

[5:37] Seabourg, CBS News, New York.

[5:40] In this economy, there was at least one

[5:42] investment that panned out. 10 workers

[5:44] in New Jersey put five bucks each into a

[5:47] lottery pool. They won $216 million.

[5:50] Christine Salone from our New York

[5:52] station, WCBS TV, has their story.

[5:55] >> We had people running down the hall. You

[5:58] won. You won. You won.

[5:59] >> All it took was a dollar and a dream. 10

[6:02] co-workers at a Chub Insurance office in

[6:05] White House Station, New Jersey, pulled

[6:06] their resources and won last night's

[6:09] Mega Millions jackpot. The IT workers

[6:12] have been playing the lottery for

[6:14] several years now.

[6:15] >> When it reaches a certain point, Al

[6:18] Mooney uh will start the lottery. We'll

[6:21] start buying the tickets and ask if

[6:23] people want to join.

[6:24] >> But on Monday, with a heavy snowfall and

[6:26] the jackpot climbing above 200 million,

[6:29] Bob Space realized Al was out of town.

[6:31] He dug his car out and went to buy $50

[6:34] worth of tickets at a gas station in his

[6:36] Tom's River hometown. So, what were the

[6:39] magic numbers that won he and his

[6:40] friends all that dough?

[6:42] >> 26, 32, 35, 43, 52, and 10.

[6:48] >> Bob bought tickets for his colleague

[6:49] Oscar Oedto, who hadn't yet given him

[6:52] the money for this week's drawing.

[6:53] Later, he asked Oscar for the $5, then

[6:56] told him he just found out they had a

[6:59] winning ticket. And he's like, "Well,

[7:01] you pay me, right?" I said, "Yeah, I'll

[7:02] pay you." So, he's like, "Okay, so now

[7:04] you're a millionaire."

[7:05] >> The co-workers plan to take a lump sum

[7:07] payment. Even with all that cash now

[7:09] coming to them, it took a while for the

[7:11] good news to sink in.

[7:12] >> I thought it was a joke. Thought it was

[7:14] a real joke, you know, cuz we won $7

[7:17] last week. I said, "What do we $4 this

[7:20] week?"

[7:22] >> That was WCBS TV's Christine Sloan

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[9:51] tireless men who were taken for granted

[9:53] just when they were in their prime.

[9:55] CBS's Randall Pinkston has their story.

[9:58] >> The Pullman Porter begins to change

[9:59] seats into beds.

[10:01] >> They were pioneers, a new kind of worker

[10:03] for the new age of train travel.

[10:06] >> How long were you a Pullman carporter?

[10:08] >> 35 years.

[10:09] >> What year did you begin?

[10:11] >> 1941.

[10:13] >> I was cutting the rug.

[10:14] >> Cutting the road.

[10:14] >> Lina Scott, now 98 years old, was one of

[10:17] 20,000 Pullman porters.

[10:19] >> Some good days and some some bad days,

[10:22] but you take the good with the bad.

[10:25] They were all African-American men hired

[10:28] by luxury sleeper car innovator George

[10:30] Pulman soon after the Civil War

[10:34] to cater to the demands of well-healed

[10:36] travelers.

[10:37] >> They had spent their entire life doing

[10:39] what their masters had told them. And

[10:41] what George Pullman envisioned was when

[10:42] they went out on the rail cars, they

[10:44] would do the same things for his

[10:45] customers. Many earned only a dollar a

[10:48] day, working long hours with very little

[10:51] sleep.

[10:52] >> Three hours a night. So you worked 21

[10:54] hours and you slept three.

[10:56] >> That's right.

[10:56] >> But they made tips saving each dime and

[10:59] dollar, creating the foundation of the

[11:02] black middle class and a better life for

[11:04] their children.

[11:05] >> All started from Pullman. That's where

[11:09] it started from.

[11:11] >> But Pullman porters also influenced

[11:13] social change after a Philip Randolph

[11:15] founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping

[11:17] Carporters, the nation's first black

[11:19] labor union.

[11:20] >> Why you going? Why you hated? When Rosa

[11:23] Parks was arrested in 1955, her first

[11:26] call was to her boss, a Pullman porter

[11:29] named Ed Nixon. While the men who wore

[11:31] the uniform were laying the foundation

[11:33] for the black middle class, the black

[11:35] labor movement, and the civil rights

[11:37] movement, they were sometimes denigrated

[11:39] in media stereotypes.

[11:46] on stage and in movies. Pullman porters

[11:48] were often caricatured, their

[11:50] professionalism ridiculed.

[11:52] >> Boy, what a crap game I could have with

[11:54] this.

[11:55] >> Today, fewer than a hundred porters are

[11:57] still alive. Amtrak has spent the last

[11:59] year celebrating their historic

[12:01] contributions.

[12:02] >> The phone was one of the leaders. One of

[12:05] the leaders, you know,

[12:06] >> make you feel pretty proud, doesn't it?

[12:07] >> Yes.

[12:09] >> A proud life on the rails which created

[12:12] a lasting legacy. Randall Kingston, CBS

[12:16] News Chicago.

[12:18] >> Thanks for joining us this half hour.

[12:20] This is CBS News Up to the Minute.

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[12:49] >> now on CBS News Up to the Minute.

[12:52] >> It will not reward folks who bought

[12:53] homes they knew from the beginning they

[12:55] would never be able to afford.

[12:57] >> President Obama unveils his homeowner

[12:59] rescue package.

[13:01] >> The real attempt here was to close the

[13:03] courthouse door to lawsuits. But the

[13:06] Supreme Court rules that drug makers can

[13:08] be sued for damages even if their drugs

[13:11] carry an FDA warning.

[13:23] Good morning from CBS News headquarters

[13:25] in New York. This is Up to the Minute.

[13:26] I'm Michelle Gelin. Former first lady

[13:29] Barbara Bush is said to be resting

[13:31] comfortably this morning after

[13:32] undergoing open heart surgery at a

[13:35] hospital in Houston. Doctors scheduled

[13:37] the procedure after Mrs. Bush developed

[13:38] shortness of breath last week. She had

[13:40] one valve replaced and is expected to

[13:42] make a full recovery. Also in the

[13:45] hospital this morning, actor and

[13:46] comedian Robin Williams. He canled this

[13:49] week's shows in Florida and checked

[13:51] himself in after experiencing shortness

[13:53] of breath. His 80 city comedy tour

[13:55] resumes on Monday in Jacksonville.

[13:58] >> In Washington, top aids to former

[14:00] President Bush, Carl Rove and Harriet

[14:02] Meyers have agreed to testify about

[14:05] their roles in the firing of US

[14:07] attorneys. The Bush White House insisted

[14:09] they ignore congressional subpoenas. The

[14:12] pair will now give sworn depositions and

[14:14] could be called to testify publicly. At

[14:17] least eight federal prosecutors were

[14:19] fired by the Bush Justice Department,

[14:21] allegedly for political reasons. The

[14:24] Federal Reserve released its latest

[14:26] gauge of economic activity and it landed

[14:28] like a bomb. The Fed's beige book says

[14:31] economic conditions deteriorated in

[14:33] January and February. Prospects for

[14:35] improvement in the near term are

[14:37] near-term are poor and a significant

[14:40] rebound isn't expected until late this

[14:42] year or maybe next. Meanwhile, President

[14:45] Obama ruled out his plan to help as many

[14:47] as 9 million homeowners in danger of

[14:49] foreclosure. Chief White House

[14:51] correspondent Chip Reed has details.

[14:54] >> The Obama administration officially

[14:56] kicked off its plan to help millions of

[14:58] struggling families stay in their homes,

[15:00] a program with two major parts. The

[15:02] first is intended to help three to four

[15:04] million homeowners on the brink of

[15:06] foreclosure by providing $75 billion in

[15:09] incentives for lenders and homeowner to

[15:11] modify mortgages. When the president

[15:14] first previewed the plan two weeks ago,

[15:16] he said it will only help people who've

[15:18] acted responsibly.

[15:19] >> It will not reward folks who bought

[15:21] homes they knew from the beginning they

[15:23] would never be able to afford.

[15:25] >> So, who's eligible for help? Only

[15:27] homeowners who can no longer afford

[15:29] their monthly payments because their

[15:31] interest rate has increased, they're

[15:32] bringing in less income due, for

[15:34] example, to job loss, or they're

[15:36] experiencing a hardship such as high

[15:38] medical bills. For people who meet one

[15:41] of those requirements, the next step is

[15:43] to go to the Treasury Department

[15:44] website, financialstability.gov,

[15:47] and answer some questions, including,

[15:49] "Is your home your primary residence?

[15:51] And is the amount you owe on your home

[15:53] less than $729,

[15:56] 750?" Questions intended to weed out

[15:59] speculators, investors, and highincome

[16:01] earners. Those who think they qualify

[16:03] will have to prove it by submitting

[16:05] financial information including tax

[16:07] returns, pay stubs, credit card

[16:09] balances, even a sworn affidavit

[16:11] explaining their financial hardship. The

[16:14] second part of the program would help

[16:16] four to 5 million homeowners refinance

[16:18] to lower mortgage rates, but only if

[16:20] their home loans are held by Fanny May

[16:22] or Freddy Mack. The housing program

[16:25] needs no approval by Congress. It starts

[16:28] now. So, the White House says if you

[16:30] think you qualify, call your mortgage

[16:32] company. But they also say please be

[16:34] patient because those phone lines are

[16:37] swamped. Chip Reed, CBS News, the White

[16:39] House.

[16:40] >> The Obama plan will not help every

[16:43] American homeowner who's underwater

[16:45] right now. One out of every five owe

[16:47] more on their mortgage than their house

[16:49] is worth. CBS's Ben Tracy reports.

[16:52] >> Good job, buddy.

[16:54] The Jenkins family is caught in a flood

[16:57] of falling home prices. They're now

[16:59] underwater. That means they owe more on

[17:01] their mortgage than their house is

[17:03] worth.

[17:04] >> We've made this house our home and and

[17:07] like so many other people out there, we

[17:09] might have to walk away.

[17:11] >> They bought this home in a once thriving

[17:13] area near Los Angeles in 2005 at the

[17:16] peak of the market. They paid $700,000.

[17:19] They still owe $540,000. Yet, their

[17:22] house is now worth just $350,000,

[17:26] putting them underwater by $190,000.

[17:30] Most homeowners with so-called negative

[17:32] equity live in states already battered

[17:34] by foreclosure. In Nevada, every other

[17:37] person with a mortgage is underwater,

[17:39] 40% in Michigan, Arizona, Florida, and

[17:43] California round out the top five. Owing

[17:46] more than your house is worth really

[17:48] matters when you need to sell. Here's

[17:50] the problem. You're underwater. You lose

[17:52] your job and you need to relocate to

[17:54] find work. You're stuck.

[17:57] >> It really freezes people in place.

[18:00] >> Economists are now worried that

[18:01] homeowners who can't afford to stay and

[18:03] can't afford to leave will slow down any

[18:06] economic recovery.

[18:08] >> And the ultimate upshot of this is

[18:09] unemployment rates will stay higher

[18:11] longer than they otherwise would.

[18:13] Meanwhile, the part of the Obama plan

[18:15] written for these homeowners doesn't

[18:17] help those who owe more than 5% of what

[18:19] their house is now worth. The Jenkins

[18:22] owe 54% more. They're hoping their bank

[18:25] will rewrite their loan.

[18:27] >> We're at the bottom. We can only go up,

[18:28] right?

[18:29] >> Walk with Mia. Look both ways.

[18:31] >> Ben Tracy, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[18:35] >> A major legal victory for consumers. The

[18:38] Supreme Court ruled that drug makers can

[18:40] be sued for damages even if their drugs

[18:42] carry an FDA approved warning. CBS's

[18:45] Wyatt Andrews reports.

[18:50] >> She is a music teacher from rural

[18:52] Vermont, but she beat the drug companies

[18:54] at the Supreme Court. And what Diana

[18:57] Lavine won in a victory for all patients

[18:59] was the right to sue.

[19:01] >> I just feel like such a huge weight has

[19:03] been lifted off of me. Nine years ago,

[19:05] Diana lost her right forearm when a

[19:08] local clinic gave her the nausea drug

[19:10] feneran by a method called IV push. A

[19:13] method linked to 20 cases of gang green

[19:16] and amputation. But the drug's maker,

[19:18] Wyth, never listed that risk on the

[19:21] drugs warning label. When Diana then won

[19:24] a $6.7 million jury award, Wyth came

[19:28] here to the Supreme Court with a

[19:29] groundbreaking appeal. It asked the

[19:31] court to rule that federal FDA approval

[19:34] of a drug should put an end to state

[19:36] court claims alleging harm.

[19:38] >> The real attempt here was to close the

[19:40] courthouse door to lawsuits and cut off

[19:43] any compensation for people who are

[19:45] harmed for by defective or mislabeled

[19:47] drugs.

[19:48] >> But the court led by Justice Stevens

[19:50] ruled that Congress did not intend FDA

[19:53] oversight to be the exclusive means of

[19:55] ensuring drug safety. And besides,

[19:58] Stevens wrote, Wyth had a duty to

[20:00] provide a more adequate warning. The

[20:03] ruling means that future drug safety

[20:05] cases, the next vio, the next Fenfen,

[20:08] can move forward, as can other state

[20:10] court claims against the railroads or

[20:13] car makers.

[20:16] >> In this true life case of David versus

[20:19] Goliath, David or Diana Lavine might

[20:22] finally collect that jury award. Wyatt

[20:25] Andrews, CBS News, Washington.

[20:28] >> When up to the minute returns, the

[20:30] president of Sudan is indicted for war

[20:32] crimes against his own people in Darur,

[20:35] where as many as 300,000 have died.

[20:37] Another two and a half million are

[20:39] homeless. We'll have details in 2

[20:41] minutes. This is CBS News Up to the

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[22:59] The International Criminal Court in the

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[23:07] against humanity in Darur. UN officials

[23:10] say more than 200,000 people have been

[23:12] killed there since rebels began fighting

[23:15] the government in 2003. Up to the minute

[23:17] contributor Frank Ucardo sat down with

[23:20] Sudan Sudan's ambassador to the United

[23:23] Nations and has more on the story.

[23:25] >> A sitting president of a sovereign

[23:27] nation has been indicted for the murder

[23:29] and rape of civilians in his own

[23:31] country. Omar al- Bashir is suspected of

[23:35] being criminally responsible as an

[23:38] indirect co-perpetrator

[23:41] or in the alternative as an indirect

[23:44] perpetrator

[23:46] for intentionally directing attacks

[23:50] against an important part of the

[23:52] civilian population of Darur Sudan.

[23:57] murdering,

[23:59] exterminating,

[24:01] raping, torturing.

[24:04] >> Sydney's President Omar Albashir denies

[24:06] the charges and his UN ambassador

[24:08] totally rejected the court's claim.

[24:10] >> Uh we strongly condemn this move uh

[24:13] which is politically motivated and which

[24:17] uh aimed at uh destabilizing the

[24:20] country. One of the prosecutors have

[24:22] said that they actually have evidence

[24:24] that your president Basher has been

[24:27] criminally involved in directing

[24:30] murders, rapes, torture and the forced

[24:33] movement of civilians in your country.

[24:35] >> This is all uh baseless. Uh therefore

[24:39] issue is a a problem that has been blown

[24:43] out of proportion. Uh it is a

[24:45] traditional conflict like many in Africa

[24:47] and elsewhere uh whose uh root causes

[24:51] are in poverty and under development.

[24:54] >> Fighting in Darfa began in 2003 when

[24:56] mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms

[24:58] against the central government they

[25:00] accused of neglect. UN officials

[25:02] estimate that more than 200,000 people

[25:04] have died and another 2.7 million have

[25:07] fled their homes in the conflict. Any

[25:10] war situation unfortunately brings uh

[25:13] brutalities and bring uh violations of

[25:16] human rights here and there. This is war

[25:18] unfortunately.

[25:20] >> And ambassador Abdhale Muhammad says

[25:22] that all sitting presidents including

[25:24] Bashier have legal immunity from

[25:26] criminal prosecution.

[25:27] >> The heads of state those in office enjoy

[25:30] immunity from persecution

[25:33] >> even for murder even for rape even for

[25:35] torture. No, it it's not that he should

[25:37] not be put in that in that order because

[25:39] if the head of state is held accountable

[25:42] for uh uh situations like this uh then

[25:46] uh should we also call President Bush

[25:50] responsible for what is going on in

[25:51] Iraq?

[25:52] >> The head of Human Rights Watch believes

[25:53] President Basher will eventually be

[25:55] arrested. The International Criminal

[25:57] Court has essentially put out a wanted

[26:01] poster for President Omar al-Bashir of

[26:06] Sudan.

[26:07] >> But there has already been a backlash

[26:09] against Darur's war torn refugees in the

[26:11] wake of the Bashir arrest warrant. Sudan

[26:13] has ordered 10 international

[26:15] humanitarian organizations expelled from

[26:17] Darur.

[26:19] The Arab League of Nations representing

[26:21] 22 countries has also rejected the ICC's

[26:23] arrest warrant, arguing the indictment

[26:25] threatens a peace deal in the region.

[26:27] And China, which buys about twothirds of

[26:29] Sudan's oil, is now requesting the court

[26:32] suspend trying that case. Michelle,

[26:35] >> all right, Franko, thank you so much for

[26:37] that report. Pakistani authorities say

[26:40] they have few leads into who was behind

[26:42] Tuesday's shocking attack on the Sri

[26:44] Lankan cricket team. The team and its

[26:47] police escorts were ambushed on their

[26:48] way to a match. 14 people died and six

[26:51] players were wounded. The gunman escaped

[26:53] after battling police for 30 minutes.

[26:56] Pakistan has reeled under a wave of

[26:58] attacks in recent years, mostly carried

[27:00] out by militants linked to the Taliban

[27:02] or al-Qaeda. As CBS's Dave Martin

[27:05] reports, the Pakistani government has an

[27:07] uneasy and sometimes unclear

[27:09] relationship with Washington when it

[27:12] comes to the war on terror.

[27:14] Viewed from space, this remote air base

[27:16] in western Pakistan looks innocent

[27:18] enough until the day a satellite exposes

[27:21] its secret. Those are believed to be

[27:24] predator drones which the CIA uses to

[27:26] launch missiles against terrorist safe

[27:28] havens inside Pakistan. Although

[27:30] Pakistan publicly condemns the strikes,

[27:32] it not only provides a base for the

[27:34] drones but also intelligence about their

[27:36] targets and it imposes restrictions on

[27:39] exactly which terrorists can be hit.

[27:42] Some of the biggest fish such as Taliban

[27:44] leader Mullah Omar are never targeted

[27:46] because of their secret ties to

[27:47] Pakistani intelligence. Christine Far is

[27:50] with the Rand Corporation.

[27:52] >> These fellows are completely off limits

[27:55] and yet these fellows are so responsible

[27:57] for so much of the violence that's

[27:59] happening in Afghanistan.

[28:00] >> In an attempt to stop crossber raids

[28:02] into Afghanistan, the CIA launched more

[28:04] than 30 missile strikes since last

[28:06] August, killing nine senior al-Qaeda

[28:08] operatives. and not be overstated how

[28:10] much anti-Americanism exists there. And

[28:12] it's ironic because we spent what$12

[28:14] billion and what we've gotten for that

[28:17] is a more insecure Pakistan and and a

[28:19] Pakistan that's more fearful of us than

[28:20] al-Qaeda.

[28:21] >> That's a remarkable statement. Pakistan

[28:24] is an indispensable ally in the war

[28:26] against terror. Yet Pakistanis view the

[28:29] US as a greater threat than al-Qaeda.

[28:32] For all its drawbacks, US officials

[28:34] insist that without the attack of the

[28:36] drones, the war in Afghanistan would be

[28:38] going even worse and the chances of

[28:40] another terrorist strike against the US

[28:42] would be greater. David Martin, CBS

[28:45] News, the Pentagon.

[28:47] >> And now to some very amazing video. Two

[28:50] close calls. First, a skydiver in

[28:52] England. He jumps and slams right into

[28:56] the tail of the airplane. Okay, here it

[28:58] is again in slow motion. He was knocked

[29:01] unconscious, but the impact forced open

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[29:23] in time, but watch from another angle,

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[29:31] But incredibly, he gets away with only

[29:34] minor injuries. He says he'll always

[29:36] remember that day that it happened. He

[29:38] calls it his new birthday.

[29:41] Coming up next, selling the possessions

[29:44] of the man who had so little. The

[29:46] controversy surrounding an auction of

[29:48] Gandhi's belongings. This is CBS News Up

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[32:30] >> Top stories on Up to the Minute. Barbara

[32:33] Bush is recovering after heart surgery

[32:35] last night in Houston. The operation

[32:37] replaced the former first lady's aortic

[32:39] valve. Part of President Obama's tax

[32:42] plan is running into opposition from key

[32:44] congressional Democrats. They're worried

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[32:48] be hurt by the proposal to limit tax

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[32:57] New York's Hudson River, has announced

[32:59] he'll return to air by the end of the

[33:01] month.

[33:03] Japan's benchmark NIK index closed up

[33:06] 142 points to finish at 7,433.

[33:09] Alexis Christopher has more in this

[33:11] morning's CBS News Money Watch. We'll

[33:14] see if Wall Street can turn its one-day

[33:16] rally into a winning streak. The Dow

[33:18] jumped nearly 150 points Wednesday after

[33:21] a five-day sell-off. And the Nasdaq

[33:23] gained close to 33 points. The markets

[33:25] rallied in part because of President

[33:26] Obama's housing plan. The $75 billion

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[33:31] promises to help 9 million homeowners

[33:34] either refinance their mortgage or

[33:36] modify the terms of their loan. More

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[33:44] worth. A couple of important economic

[33:46] indicators to watch today. We'll find

[33:48] out how many people are signing up for

[33:50] unemployment benefits and get a report

[33:52] on factory orders. Oil prices jumped 9%

[33:55] Wednesday on news crude oil inventories

[33:57] unexpectedly dropped last week. And

[34:00] Switzerland's biggest bank says it won't

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[34:22] more. In New York, I'm Alexis

[34:24] Christopherus.

[34:26] >> There is controversy over an auction

[34:28] scheduled today in New York on the block

[34:30] items which once belonged to Mahatma

[34:32] Gandhi. They include his sandals, pocket

[34:34] watch, glasses, an eating bowl and

[34:37] plate, and results of a blood test. The

[34:39] memorabilia is owned by James Otis. He's

[34:41] a documentary filmmaker who collected

[34:43] the possessions, many of which Gandhi

[34:45] gave away during his life. The Indian

[34:47] government is trying to stop the

[34:49] auction, claiming the items belong to

[34:51] them. Actor Matt Damon is in South

[34:54] Africa visiting refugee camps as part of

[34:56] his humanitarian work. The country is

[34:59] battling to cope with masses of

[35:00] refugees, especially from Zimbabwe,

[35:03] fleeing their homes. As many as 6,000

[35:06] cross the border daily. Damon pleaded

[35:08] for international help.

[35:10] >> Desperately needs addressing, and it's

[35:12] gotten continually worse, and it's going

[35:14] to get continually worse. So, the sooner

[35:16] we take action, the less work we're all

[35:18] going to have to do to to fix it. Damon

[35:21] founded a human rights organization

[35:23] called Not On our Watch with other

[35:25] celebrities including Brad Pitt and

[35:27] George Clooney. The organization

[35:28] previously drew attention to the crisis

[35:30] in Darur and assisted with humanitarian

[35:33] aid in Haiti and Myanmar. Chris Brown is

[35:36] expected in an LA court today regarding

[35:39] his arrest last month. The 19-year-old

[35:41] R&B singer was booked on suspicion of

[35:44] making criminal threats after he

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[35:48] Rihanna the night before the Grammy

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[35:54] case weeks ago, but prosecutors asked

[35:56] for more information.

[35:58] Now, a look at your Thursday morning

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[36:29] sports, the NBA had its first playoff

[36:32] team. The Cleveland Cavaliers clinched a

[36:35] spot by beating the Milwaukee Bucks last

[36:37] night. LeBron James led the Cavs with 23

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[37:17] Shaquille O'Neal is back in Miami to

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[39:55] And as CBS's Michelle Miller reports,

[39:58] one seasoned veteran is sharing her

[39:59] recipes for survival.

[40:02] >> What can I do?

[40:03] >> Nothing.

[40:03] >> Not so mildmannered great grandmother

[40:05] Clara Kuchari cooks pasta in her kitchen

[40:08] where she minces garlic, but never

[40:11] words.

[40:13] >> That's a fine way to start.

[40:14] >> I know.

[40:15] >> You can't waste anything. She's cooking

[40:17] the recipes she learned as a girl in

[40:19] Chicago during the Great Depression.

[40:21] >> Every night was pasta. When we got

[40:24] sauce, that was on Sunday.

[40:25] >> Her family ate what they could afford or

[40:28] did without.

[40:29] >> Tell me about egg drop soup.

[40:32] >> Yeah, that's cheap and that's easy.

[40:34] >> What What are the ingredients?

[40:36] >> Just eggs and water.

[40:38] >> That's it.

[40:38] >> That's it.

[40:41] Now, Clara's depression meals, average

[40:43] cost under 50 cents a serving, are a

[40:46] surprise hit on the web.

[40:51] >> Welcome to my kitchen. I'm Claire. I'm

[40:53] 93 years old, and today we are making

[40:55] meals from the depression.

[40:57] >> She shares a lifetime of savings tricks.

[41:00] >> We would turn off the gas and let it

[41:02] cook by its own heat so we would save

[41:05] gas

[41:05] >> and a lifetime of memories. My father,

[41:09] he was a damper old man.

[41:11] >> Her episodes include pasta, of course,

[41:14] potatoes, and stale bread with water and

[41:16] oil.

[41:17] >> You can't use it for anything else. We

[41:19] went through a lot of hard times.

[41:20] >> Do you think in comparison we're a bunch

[41:23] of whiners?

[41:24] >> Oh, yes.

[41:25] >> We brought her grandson Chris with us.

[41:27] He's the one who taped her for the

[41:29] family and then decided to post the

[41:31] videos on the web.

[41:32] >> This is good for old people that don't

[41:34] have teeth. People started searching the

[41:36] word depression a lot and the cooking

[41:38] show came up and people saw it and they

[41:40] liked it and they kept watching.

[41:42] >> Chris then added a Facebook page and a

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[41:47] her know what they think.

[41:49] >> Thanks for sharing and greetings from

[41:51] Holland.

[41:51] >> Clara doesn't like the spotlight much.

[41:54] >> No, I don't want any taste.

[41:55] >> She doesn't want any.

[41:56] >> It's time to eat.

[41:58] >> But a new generation is soaking up every

[42:00] word.

[42:01] >> Thank you for listening. Michelle

[42:03] Miller, CBS News, Skinny Atlas, New

[42:05] York.

[42:06] >> God bless you. Bye-bye.

[42:09] >> Thanks for joining us this half hour.

[42:10] This is CBS News Up to the Minute.

[42:29] Can where you live improve your chances

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[42:55] >> Medical checkup. The White House hosts a

[42:58] summit to reform health care, rest, and

[43:00] recovery. Former first lady Barbara Bush

[43:03] is said to be doing well following open

[43:06] heart surgery. A shocking courtroom

[43:09] attack. A defendant stabs a judge

[43:11] presiding over his murder trial.

[43:14] >> He tried to stab the judge. She stabbed

[43:16] her and they shot him in the head and

[43:18] they killed him.

[43:20] >> This is the CBS Morning News for

[43:22] Thursday, March 5th, 2009.

[43:29] >> Good morning and thanks for joining us.

[43:31] I'm Michelle Gilen. This morning, first

[43:33] lady far, former first lady Barbara Bush

[43:36] is recovering from successful hope open

[43:38] heart surgery. The operation to replace

[43:41] a failing aortic valve was done

[43:43] yesterday at a Houston hospital. Allison

[43:45] Triars of our Houston station KOU

[43:48] reports.

[43:50] >> Doctors say the operation went extremely

[43:52] well. They tell us that Barbara Bush is

[43:54] recovering in the ICU here at Methodist

[43:56] Hospital with her husband, former

[43:58] President George HW Bush by her side.

[44:01] She underwent a 2 and a half hour

[44:03] surgery to replace her aortic valve. Dr.

[44:07] Gerald Lowry performed the surgery.

[44:11] Doctors tell us that the surgery was

[44:13] scheduled last week after the former

[44:15] first lady complained of shortness of

[44:17] breath. Doctors detected a hardened

[44:19] aortic valve, which when left untreated

[44:21] can cause heart failure or sudden death.

[44:24] The valve was replaced with a biologic

[44:26] valve, which is made of animal tissues.

[44:28] You'll remember back in November, Mrs.

[44:30] Bush underwent surgery here at Methodist

[44:32] to repair a perforated ulcer. Doctors

[44:35] say she is fully recovered from that

[44:37] surgery and that the two are not

[44:39] related. Former President Bush said that

[44:42] he was impressed and grateful with his

[44:44] wife's team of doctors and nurses. He

[44:47] said that she is in the best of hands.

[44:49] She's expected to recover here at

[44:50] Methodist for the next 7 to 10 days.

[44:53] Allison Triars for CBS News. Healthc

[44:56] care reform takes center stage at the

[44:58] White House today. President Obama will

[45:00] host a summit to build support to

[45:02] overhaul the nation's ailing health care

[45:04] system. Susan Roberts is in Washington

[45:06] with more. Susan, good morning.

[45:08] Michelle, good morning to you. The

[45:10] president is making it very clear he

[45:12] would like healthc care legislation

[45:14] reform passed this year. Republicans are

[45:17] saying they agree with the president,

[45:19] but yet they are caution about a

[45:20] governmentrun system.

[45:23] >> President Obama wants to find a cure for

[45:25] a health care system he says is making

[45:27] the economy sick. The president's hoping

[45:29] to get some good ideas at today's White

[45:31] House summit from a broad group of

[45:33] patients, doctors, insurers, and

[45:35] lawmakers.

[45:36] >> This is a good first step in uh in

[45:38] starting a process that uh the president

[45:41] believes is long overdue.

[45:42] >> The US spends $2.4 trillion a year on

[45:45] its health care system, making it the

[45:47] most expensive in the world. Yet, an

[45:50] estimated 48 million Americans are

[45:52] uninsured. President Obama wants to set

[45:54] aside $634 billion over the next 10

[45:57] years as a down payment for healthc care

[45:59] reform. That's about half the money

[46:01] needed to provide coverage for every

[46:03] American. But many Republicans are

[46:05] against the tax cut on the wealthy the

[46:07] president's proposed to make it happen.

[46:09] Some lawmakers like Montana Senator Max

[46:12] Bakas, who will play a leading role in

[46:14] writing healthcare legislation, have

[46:16] other worries. In a statement, Baka

[46:18] said, "My concern, frankly, is the

[46:20] viability of the down payment and how it

[46:23] will help Congress contain the costs

[46:24] associated with reforming the health

[46:26] care system. President Obama's aids say

[46:28] he's determined to pass healthcare

[46:29] legislation this year. While the

[46:31] president's hoping for bipartisan

[46:33] support, they say he won't put up with

[46:36] interest groups or other parties trying

[46:37] to stop him."

[46:40] And the White House is saying Secretary

[46:42] Designate Kathleen Sibilius will not be

[46:45] in attendance today. She's actually

[46:47] still transitioning from the Kansas

[46:48] governor's office and of course she

[46:50] still needs to be confirmed. Michelle

[46:53] >> Susan Roberts in Washington. Susan,

[46:54] thanks. The House is scheduled to vote

[46:57] today on a broad housing measure aimed

[46:59] at preventing home foreclosures.

[47:01] Yesterday, the Obama administration

[47:03] announced another housing plan designed

[47:05] to help homeowners refinance or modify

[47:07] their mortgages. Chip Reed reports. The

[47:10] Obama administration officially kicked

[47:12] off its plan to help millions of

[47:14] struggling families stay in their homes.

[47:16] A program with two major parts. The

[47:18] first is intended to help three to four

[47:20] million homeowners on the brink of

[47:22] foreclosure by providing $75 billion in

[47:25] incentives for lenders and homeowners to

[47:28] modify mortgages. When the president

[47:30] first previewed the plan two weeks ago,

[47:32] he said it will only help people who've

[47:34] acted responsibly. It will not reward

[47:36] folks who bought homes they knew from

[47:38] the beginning they would never be able

[47:40] to afford.

[47:41] >> So, who's eligible for help under the

[47:42] rules announced today? Only homeowners

[47:45] who can no longer afford their monthly

[47:47] payments because their interest rate has

[47:49] increased, they're bringing in less

[47:51] income due, for example, to job loss or

[47:54] they're experiencing a hardship such as

[47:56] high medical bills. For people who meet

[47:58] one of those requirements, the next step

[48:00] is to go to the Treasury Department

[48:02] website, financialstability.gov,

[48:04] gov and answer some questions including

[48:07] is your home your primary residence and

[48:09] is the amount you owe on your home less

[48:11] than $729,750?

[48:15] Questions intended to weed out

[48:16] speculators, investors, and highincome

[48:19] earners. Those who think they qualify

[48:21] will have to prove it by submitting

[48:23] financial information including tax

[48:25] returns, pay stubs, credit card

[48:27] balances, even a sworn affidavit

[48:29] explaining their financial hardship. The

[48:32] second part of the program would help

[48:33] four to five million homeowners

[48:35] refinance to lower mortgage rates, but

[48:37] only if their home loans are held by

[48:39] Fanny May or Freddy Mack. The housing

[48:42] program needs no approval by Congress.

[48:45] It starts now. So, the White House says

[48:48] if you think you qualify, call your

[48:50] mortgage company. But they also say

[48:52] please be patient because those phone

[48:54] lines are swamped. Chip Reed, CBS News,

[48:57] the White House. On the CBS News Money

[48:59] Watch, Asian stock markets are mixed

[49:01] this morning. Claire Lake is here in New

[49:03] York with more on that and the rest of

[49:05] today's business news. Claire, good

[49:06] morning.

[49:07] >> Good morning to you, Michelle. Japan's

[49:08] Nikkeay jumped nearly 2% overnight. News

[49:12] that the Chinese government says its

[49:13] economy could grow 8% this year despite

[49:16] the worsening global financial crisis

[49:19] wasn't enough, however, to keep Hong

[49:20] Kong stocks out of the red. The Hang

[49:22] Sang index ended down nearly 1%. Now on

[49:26] Wall Street, stocks rebounded off

[49:28] 12-year lows, rising for the first time

[49:30] in five days. Hope spread that China and

[49:33] the US were taking bold action to

[49:35] jumpstart their economies. The Dow

[49:37] rallied nearly 150 points to 6875.

[49:42] The S&P 500 clawed its way back above

[49:45] 700. Now, the unemployment lines

[49:47] probably got longer last week. The Labor

[49:49] Department will report weekly jobless

[49:52] claims probably stayed near record highs

[49:54] as more companies laid off thousands of

[49:57] workers. New York State's Attorney

[49:59] General Andrew Cuomo wants to question

[50:01] several top Meil Lynch executives who

[50:03] were each paid more than $10 million in

[50:06] cash and stock last year as the company

[50:08] bled more than $27 billion. The Wall

[50:11] Street Journal reports Cuomo has issued

[50:13] subpoenas to seven executives, including

[50:16] Merryill's former top investment banker,

[50:17] Andrea Orcel, who earned $34 million

[50:20] last year. Meil Lynch has come under

[50:23] fire for the more than $3.5 billion in

[50:26] bonuses it paid out to employees before

[50:28] it shotgun marriage to Bank of America.

[50:31] And we all need some good news during

[50:32] these tough economic times. FedEx office

[50:35] will provide free resume printing

[50:37] services to its customers on March 10th.

[50:40] FedEx says it wants to help people

[50:42] struggling in the recession. More than

[50:44] 1600 locations nationwide will print up

[50:47] to 25 black and white copies of each

[50:50] customer's resume free of charge. The

[50:52] orders must be placed and picked up in

[50:55] the store. Michelle sounds like a good

[50:56] idea.

[50:57] >> Yeah, and hey, you could hit multiple

[50:59] FedEx locations.

[51:01] >> Yeah, that's right.

[51:02] >> Claire Leica here in New York. Claire,

[51:04] thanks. Just ahead on the morning news,

[51:07] violence in a California court leaves

[51:09] one person dead and another seriously

[51:11] injured. And caught on video, a Michigan

[51:14] teenager brutally beats his school bus

[51:17] driver. We'll tell you why. First, Katie

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[53:45] California's gay marriage ban last night

[53:47] in San Francisco. An attempt to resin

[53:50] Prop 8 goes before the state supreme

[53:52] court today. Both houses of the state

[53:54] legislature have passed resolutions

[53:56] supporting efforts to overturn Prop 8.

[54:00] There was bloodshed and gunfire in a

[54:02] California courtroom. Police in Stockton

[54:04] say Judge Cinda Fox was stabbed

[54:07] yesterday by a man on trial for killing

[54:09] his girlfriend. They say Dave Paradiso

[54:12] left the witness chair to attack the

[54:14] judge before he was shot to death by a

[54:17] police detective. His mother says it did

[54:19] not have to happen.

[54:20] >> How did you know that he had a weapon?

[54:22] >> He told a family member and I called.

[54:26] >> Who did you talk to? I talked to a

[54:27] sheriff in Sanwa King County Jail

[54:31] and I told him he had a weapon. Jumped

[54:34] up on the thing. He tried to stab the

[54:36] judge. He stabbed her and they shot him

[54:38] in the head and they killed him.

[54:40] >> And after

[54:41] >> and he's laying on the floor dead.

[54:44] >> The judge was treated at a hospital and

[54:47] released. A Michigan teenager is being

[54:49] held on assault charges after he

[54:51] brutally beat his school bus driver.

[54:54] Now, a word of caution. The video is

[54:56] disturbing to see. The driver, a woman,

[54:58] says she suffered a broken hand as she

[55:00] tried to fend off her 16-year-old

[55:02] attacker. When another student, tried to

[55:04] stop the assault, he was pushed away and

[55:06] it started again. The accused reportedly

[55:09] has a history of violent attacks on

[55:11] teachers.

[55:13] A sky diver in England found out the

[55:15] hard way about the value of a reserve

[55:17] parachute. Jamie Robertson made it out

[55:19] of the plane, all right, but then he

[55:22] slammed into the tail wing and was

[55:23] knocked unconscious. But here's the

[55:25] thing. The impact forced his backup

[55:27] chute to open and so he floated 4,500

[55:30] feet to to the ground. Now, despite

[55:32] suffering some bruises, Robertson has

[55:34] gone skydiving five more times since

[55:37] last summer's mishap.

[55:39] And in Turkey, a very close call after a

[55:42] train struck a tractor trailer. Now, the

[55:45] truck driver didn't clear the train

[55:46] tracks and a train hit the trailer as it

[55:49] crossed the tracks. But look at the man

[55:50] standing nearby. He gets hit by the

[55:52] truck and then it passes over his

[55:55] motionless body. Incredibly, he suffered

[55:58] only minor injuries. The man says he

[56:00] regards February 25th, the day the

[56:02] accident happened, as his new birthday.

[56:06] Straight ahead, your Thursday morning

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[56:10] the Mavericks shoot it out in a

[56:11] Southwest Division showdown. Got to come

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[57:51] >> Here's a look at the weather in some

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[57:55] sunny 40°. Miami 74. Chicago partly

[57:59] cloudy and mild at 56°. Denver 70. Los

[58:02] Angeles partly cloudy 65 degrees.

[58:06] It's time now for a check on the

[58:08] national forecast. The latest satellite

[58:10] picture shows clear skies across the

[58:12] east. Some clouds are forming over the

[58:14] bone dry plains and it's a gray morning

[58:16] throughout the Northwest. Later today,

[58:18] the Northwest will still feel like

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[58:29] as temperatures soar into the 70s and

[58:31] 80s.

[58:33] In sports, the Cavaliers had a chance to

[58:35] clear a key hurdle. A three-pointer from

[58:38] LeBron James put the Cavs up by 12 in

[58:41] the second quarter against Milwaukee.

[58:43] Richard Jefferson cut the lead to 10

[58:45] with a fourth quarter slam, but James'

[58:47] 23 points, led the Cavs past the Bucks

[58:50] as Cleveland became the first team to

[58:52] clinch a playoff birth 9173.

[58:55] In Dallas, the Mavericks Josh Howard

[58:57] scored 29 points in a key matchup with

[58:59] the Southwest division leading Spurs.

[59:01] Jason Kids sealed the deal with a

[59:03] three-pointer with 31 seconds left as

[59:06] the Mavs beat the Spurs 107 to 102. A

[59:10] three-pointer from Vince Carter put New

[59:12] Jersey up by three in the fourth quarter

[59:13] against the Celtics, but Paul Pierce

[59:15] nailed the gamewinner with 20 seconds

[59:18] left to play. Celtics beat New Jersey

[59:21] 115 111. In college action, March

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[59:26] Number four Oklahoma's Blake Griffin

[59:28] scored 16 points on his way to his 24th

[59:32] double double of the season, but Deari

[59:35] Carol scored 15 points to lead 15th

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[62:00] at today's weather. It'll be another

[62:03] warm day across the southern and central

[62:05] plains with temperatures climbing into

[62:06] the 70s and 80s. The northwest will be

[62:09] chilly and wet while the east remains

[62:11] bright and sunny.

[62:14] Here's

[62:19] another look at this morning's top

[62:21] stories. Former first lady Barbara Bush

[62:23] is recovering from open heart surgery.

[62:25] Mrs. Bush was operated on yesterday in

[62:27] Houston. Doctors replaced her aortic

[62:30] valve and say the surgery went

[62:32] exceptionally well. President Obama

[62:34] hosts a healthc care summit at the White

[62:36] House today. The president says he wants

[62:38] to reform the nation's health care

[62:39] system and cover more Americans who do

[62:42] not have insurance.

[62:44] Senate Democrats are trying to drum up

[62:46] Republican support in time for a vote on

[62:49] a $410 billion spending bill. A vote

[62:52] could come as early as today. President

[62:54] Obama is promising to sign the package,

[62:56] but there's growing opposition over

[62:58] what's in the bill. It includes money

[63:00] for more than 9,000 pet projects of

[63:03] Congress worth almost $8 billion. Nancy

[63:07] Cordes reports.

[63:08] Detroit's Tiger Stadium hasn't hosted a

[63:11] ball game since 1999.

[63:14] And yet, lawmakers are pitching 3.8

[63:17] million to preserve its crumbling

[63:19] remnants as a landmark.

[63:21] >> Is that a priority for the Congress?

[63:25] If it's really a priority for the

[63:26] Congress, I got to tell you, I don't

[63:28] belong here. At a time when Washington

[63:30] isn't exactly flush with cash, members

[63:33] of Congress have slipped thousands of

[63:35] port barrel projects into a bill that's

[63:37] meant to keep the government running.

[63:40] There's 200,000 for tattoo removal in

[63:43] California, 1.9 million for water taxies

[63:46] in Connecticut, and 4.5 million for wood

[63:50] utilization research. That earmark has

[63:52] been popping up since 1985.

[63:55] Taxpayers have now forked over $95

[63:58] million to study how to use wood. And

[64:02] that's something that the industry

[64:03] should be paying for, not the taxpayers.

[64:06] >> That was Mr. Obama's stance during the

[64:08] campaign.

[64:09] >> President, I will go line by line.

[64:11] >> But today, even as Obama unveiled

[64:13] sweeping plans to cut waste in

[64:15] government contracting, the White House

[64:17] said it will wait to tackle ear marks

[64:20] >> and we'll change the rules going

[64:21] forward. That means several

[64:23] administration officials will get to

[64:25] keep the earmarks they inserted before

[64:27] leaving Congress, including Vice

[64:29] President Joe Biden, Chief of Staff Rahm

[64:32] Emanuel, and Secretary of State Hillary

[64:34] Clinton. If the bill passes, you'll

[64:37] spend $1.8 million to control pig odor

[64:40] in Iowa.

[64:41] >> But I can tell you in farm country,

[64:44] manura and odor management are

[64:45] profoundly serious challenges.

[64:48] Add up all those pet projects and it's

[64:51] more than $7.5 billion dollar worth of

[64:54] bipartisan pork. There are even earmarks

[64:58] in the bill directed towards a lobbying

[65:00] firm that's under investigation for

[65:02] corruption. A move to strip those 13 ear

[65:05] marks was defeated on the Senate floor

[65:07] late Wednesday. Nancy Cordes, CBS News,

[65:10] Capitol Hill.

[65:12] >> Pulitzer Prize and Oscarwinning writer

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[65:20] President Bill Clinton presented him

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[67:50] The California woman who gave birth to

[67:52] Octuplets apparently has been under

[67:54] investigation by authorities after

[67:56] police had to be called to her home. The

[67:58] incident happened before the eight

[68:00] children were born. In one instance, she

[68:02] called 911 after losing track of one of

[68:05] her other children. Tara Miner reports.

[68:08] >> 911 emergency.

[68:11] >> Help me.

[68:12] >> Help me. My son is missing. I'm going

[68:15] crazy.

[68:16] >> What happened?

[68:18] >> Okay, you're going to Calm down. What

[68:20] address are you at?

[68:21] >> Where's my son?

[68:24] Where's my son?

[68:28] >> Where's my son?

[68:31] >> Where's my son?

[68:33] >> My son.

[68:36] >> What's your address?

[68:37] >> Where's my son? 136. Please help me. The

[68:41] celebrity website TMZ reports that both

[68:44] child services and police were called to

[68:46] Nadia Sullivan's home at least five

[68:48] times in the year before she gave birth

[68:50] to the Octo Blitz.

[68:51] >> Ma'am, what's your name?

[68:52] >> Nadia N. Help me.

[68:55] >> Okay. Where was he the last time you saw

[68:58] him?

[68:58] >> An hour ago.

[68:59] >> I know, but where was he?

[69:02] >> Ma'am, where was he?

[69:04] Out.

[69:05] >> He was out front.

[69:08] Oh my gosh.

[69:10] I'm going to die.

[69:12] Oh, God help me. God, help me. Oh, God

[69:16] help me. God help me. This isn't

[69:20] happening. This isn't happening. God

[69:23] help me.

[69:24] >> Okay. Are your neighbors helping you

[69:25] look for him?

[69:26] >> Yeah. They don't see him anywhere.

[69:28] JJ,

[69:29] >> did you go in the house to see if he

[69:31] went in the house to hide or take?

[69:32] >> He's nowhere. He's nowhere. He's nowhere

[69:34] in the back. He's nowhere in the house.

[69:36] God help me. Where's JJ? Where's my

[69:40] baby?

[69:41] >> January 9th, 2008, police respond to a

[69:44] call that one child locked him or

[69:46] herself in a room. The cops picked the

[69:48] lock.

[69:49] >> May 12th and August 10th. Twice,

[69:51] neighbors report a possible break-in at

[69:53] the home. Both times, police find that

[69:56] the front door had been left open. July

[69:58] 8th, family services responds to a

[70:00] neighbor's complaint that Nadia's

[70:01] children are not clean or being fed

[70:03] properly. A later report says the charge

[70:06] was unfounded.

[70:08] October 27th, Nadia calls police because

[70:11] she says one of her children are

[70:12] missing.

[70:13] >> Please God, help me. What if he What if

[70:15] someone came in the car? Some stranger

[70:17] came. Oh god. Oh god, I'm going to kill.

[70:20] Oh god, I'm going to kill myself. Oh

[70:22] god, I'm going to kill myself. Oh god,

[70:26] I'm going to kill myself. I'm going to

[70:29] kill myself. Oh,

[70:32] don't say that in front of your other

[70:33] child. Okay,

[70:35] >> keep yourself under control for your

[70:36] other child. He doesn't need to hear

[70:38] that. Okay.

[70:41] >> Well, that mommy

[70:45] went on a walk.

[70:47] >> He went on a walk and he came back by

[70:49] himself.

[70:50] >> Turns out the child had followed grandma

[70:52] around the block. No bombshells, but not

[70:56] good news for a woman who can't seem to

[70:58] turn the tide of bad press. Tara Meriner

[71:01] for CBS News, Washington.

[71:04] >> I'm Michelle Gilan. Have a great day.

[71:13] CBS News is very good news.

[71:18] Coming up, you need a job in a bad

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[71:50] >> Good morning, South Florida. I'm Jim

[71:51] Barry

[71:52] >> and I'm Cynthia Deus. Here's what's

[71:53] making news right now. South Florida

[71:55] stop for Vice President Joe Biden. We're

[71:57] live where he'll speak about the middle

[71:59] class and finding jobs today. Also,

[72:01] comedian Robin Williams is in a South

[72:03] Florida hospital. What he's reportedly

[72:05] being treated for.

[72:06] >> And sea rescues. The boating tragedy in

[72:09] Southwest Florida calls attention to the

[72:11] challenge facing the Coast Guard every

[72:12] day. What they do to ensure boating

[72:15] safety.

[72:15] >> CBS4 News This Morning starts right now.

[72:18] >> From Miami Dade, Broward, and the Keys.

[72:22] This is South Florida CBS4 News.

[72:25] >> The time now is 4:59 and change on

[72:28] Thursday, March 5th. Thanks so much for

[72:29] tuning in. I'm Jim Barry.

[72:31] >> And I'm Cynthia Deus. And we are talking

[72:33] about the 60s.

[72:34] >> We're talking about the 60s. The music,

[72:36] you mean the

[72:38] >> weather. L Gonzalez is here with the

[72:40] 60s.

[72:41] >> Yes. Good morning, Cynthia and Jim.

[72:42] Finally on the map, we're seeing those

[72:44] temperatures on the rise. You know, a

[72:46] few mornings we ago, we had the 30s

[72:48] popping up in the 40s, but right now

[72:50] we're seeing some improvement. If you're

[72:51] not a fan of the cold weather right now,

[72:52] a milder start for you. 64 degrees in

[72:54] Fort Lauderdale, 62 in Miami, and 58

[72:56] degrees in West Kendall. Looking at

[72:58] those winds veering a little bit more

[73:00] out of the east. Anywhere from 8 to even

[73:02] 12 m an hour. That'll be creating a high

[73:04] risk of rip currents, which will be the

[73:05] case even as we head into the weekend.

[73:08] And as you can see this afternoon, those

[73:10] temperatures will continue to increase.

[73:12] 75° mild and breezy this evening, a

[73:14] comfy breeze, 67. We'll let you know if

[73:16] the warming trend will continue into the

[73:18] weekend and just how warm it'll be if

[73:20] that trend continues. All the details

[73:21] straight ahead right now. Let's check in

[73:22] with Christine Lauren with a look at

[73:24] your traffic. Good morning, Christina.

[73:25] >> Hello there, Lette. Good morning to you.

[73:27] If you take the Dolphin Expressway to

[73:29] work via 27th Avenue, you need to add

[73:31] some extra time to your trip. The exit

[73:33] ramps and entrance ramps are being

[73:35] worked on this morning, and chances are

[73:37] it's going to be hit or miss whether or

[73:38] not you can access the entrance or exit

[73:40] ramp. So, what you'll want to do is go

[73:41] ahead and give yourself extra time at

[73:42] 27th Avenue. They're also working on the

[73:44] Dolphin Expressway at I 95 this morning.

[73:47] So, give yourself some extra time there.

[73:48] This should all wrap up by about 5:30.

[73:50] We'll keep you posted. If you're

[73:51] catching a flight this morning, no

[73:53] delays out of either major airport, but

[73:55] we do have some construction to tell you

[73:56] about on the Sawrass Expressway. Expect

[73:58] lane closures there each night starting

[74:00] at 8:00 p.m. and until about 6 a.m. And

[74:03] so that's going to last until Friday of

[74:05] this week. And we'll keep you updated on

[74:06] all the construction and trouble areas

[74:08] for your commute. For CBS4 Traffic, I'm

[74:10] Christina Lauren.

[74:13] >> Thank you, Christina. First this

[74:14] morning, President Barack Obama spelled

[74:16] out his plan to help homeowners drowning

[74:18] in housing debt. It's a $75 billion

[74:21] package and here's how it works.

[74:22] Homeowners must go online and prove they

[74:26] are in trouble. Financialstability.com.

[74:28] If they do, then they could be eligible

[74:30] for cheaper financing. The plan could

[74:32] benefit about 14 million homeowners,

[74:35] some who are in foreclosure as well as

[74:37] others who are upside down on their

[74:39] mortgages, owning more than what their

[74:41] home is worth.

[74:42] >> Now, this morning, Vice President Joe

[74:44] Biden will make a stop in South Florida.

[74:46] He will address labor union leaders

[74:47] about issues which affect the working

[74:49] middle class. CBS4's leave Davalos is

[74:51] live at the Fountain Blue Hotel in Miami

[74:53] Beach where Biden will speak later this

[74:55] morning. Leave, good morning.

[74:57] >> Good morning, Jim. Well, the vice

[74:58] president will speak with those labor

[75:00] union leaders at 11:00 this morning

[75:02] right here at the Font and Blue Hotel