scrabble event is rocked by a cheating charge as one competitor calls for another to be strip searched over a missing g. we'll get to the bottom of this international incident early this tuesday morning, october international incident early this tuesday morning, october 18th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good tuesday morning to you, i'm erica hill. good to have you with us. >> i'm jeff glor, chris wragge is off this morning. some people take their scrabble very seriously. >> it is a great game. >> a great game with interesting accusations. there was a strip search this year. two years ago a player was accused of eating a tile. >> yeah. you may think it's just a board game, but goes way beyond that. a story we all love. we'll get you that one later this morning. we want to begin with this breaking news. gilad shalit the israeli soldiered captured five years ago back in israel now with his family. the price of his freedom is the release of more than 1,000 palestinian prisoners. cbs news correspondent mark philips is live in his hometown. mark, good morning. >> good morning, erica. this is gilad shalit's home town and there was great anxiety, great excitement and grament ea expectation and those emotions were mirrored on the palestinian side both in the west bank and in gaza, as well. shalit was captured by the hamas fighters from gaza, more than five years ago. today the israeli defense forces announced that his mission was finally complete and that he was coming home. the first glimpse of shalit came from egyptian television. the transfer had happened from gaza into egypt where his condition was assured by both egyptian and red cross authorities. at that point, he was also asked a few questions and gave his first interview. he appeared frail and week and appeared overwhelmed by what was going on. he got an inkling that this was under way over the past month and asked about the many politicians that were also being released. he was happy for them and their families that they were going home and that he was hoping for peace. on the palestinian side, the first releases of the 477 who go in this first slice of releases is another almost 500 to follow in a couple of months resulted in scenes of a great elation, a crowd estimated at several hundred thousand in gaza. great chaos. the hamas describing this transfer of prisoners is very much a victory for them and the numbers certainly support that argument. the case was also true in the west bank where palestinian president mahmoud abbas made a speech before a large crowd calling the returning prisoners who are going there heroes and seeing that their fight had not been in vain. so far this morning, it now appears that gilad shalit is on israeli territory and going at an air base here where he will meet his family and back here in his hometown, they are expecting his arrival later this afternoon. erica? >> mark philips in israel for us. thanks. this morning, president obama is getting back on the bus for day two of his trip through two southern states, both critical to his re-election campaign and nora o'donnell is traveling with the president this morning. she joins us from jamestown, north carolina. nora, good morning to you. >> tough new rhetoric coming from the president as he attacks and even mocks republicans for attacking his job's bill. now as the senate is prepared to take up pieces of the legislation. the president says if republicans continue to say no, he'll have to come down here and look people in the eye and explain why. >> we don't need a why we can't attitude. we need why we can attitude. >> reporter: at his stop in miller creek, north carolina, president obama portrayed the republican party as one paralyzed by its own internal politics. >> it's way overdue for us to try to stop satisfy some branch of the party and take some common sense steps to help america. >> reporter: after republicans block the president's $447 billion bill, mr. obama now wants the senate to take up his legislation piece by piece. >> maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all at once. so, we're going to break it down into bite-size pieces. >> reporter: the first piece, a $35 billion bill to provide local governments with more money, team ploy teachers, firefighters and police and pay for it with a new tax on millionaires. the president's three-day bus tour takes him through north carolina and virginia. two traditionally conservative states the president won in 2008 and desperately needs to hang on to. and while it's technically an official white house trip to sell the president's jobs plan to the american people, it has all the trappings of a campaign swing. republicans in washington like senator john mccain denounce the trip and even made fun of mr. obama's choice of transportation. >> that appropriate on the taxpayers' dime since it is clearly campaigning and, i must say, again, i've never seen an uglier bus. >> reporter: the president will need to excite supporters at the grassroots level to win re-election. a new poll shows democratic enthusiasm is significantly lower than republicans. you heard john mccain call the bus ugly, well, whatever. it's going to take the president from north carolina to virginia today. and also the president's campaign announced an important milestone. barackobama.com says it raised more money from a million individuals. jeff? >> norah, where does the jobs bill right now stand in the senate? >> well, they're going to try and take up this $35 billion piece, the senate democratic leader, harry reid, says he's going to try and do it this week, but we don't know about the schedule of the senate and interestingly now they're going to try to do pieces of this bill once a week to try to keep the pressure up on the republicans. >> norah o'donnell joining us, thanks very much. this is a campaign bus trip. we know we're in full campaign season at this point. the republican presidential race is getting plenty of attention this morning as the candidates prepare for their latest debate. itp it happens tonight in las vegas. the issue of religion is popping up, once again. another supporter is raising questions about rumomney. >> texas governor rick perry has walked a fine line on comments critical of mitt romney's mormon faith. but another texas minister is calling the controversy a stroke of luck that could help perry with evangelicals. in a series of e-mails reported by daily beast, the reverend david lane who helped organize perry's day of prayer told a christian radio talk show host they should thank jeffress for raising the issue. he questioned romney's faith. >> it would give credence to a cult. >> reporter: perry didn't agree with jeffress but agreed to disown the remarks. >> if i have to spend all my time disassociating myself with something someone says about me or president obama, we're not going to get much time to talk about how to create jobs. >> reporter: cbs news has learned that campaign officials to condemn the rhetoric. other candidates are more forceful. >> we're not running for theologian in chief, we're running for president of the united states of america. >> reporter: it's a complicated issue. in the 2008 republican primary, evangelical voters were a solid majority in two key early states, iowa and south carolina. perry needs their support to beat romney and if actively seeking it over other candidates with strong evangelical ties. herman cain said over the weekend, perry was wrong if he thought he would own the evangelical votes. jan crawford, cbs news, washington. and with us now, cbs political analyst john dickerson in las vegas, which, of course, is the location of tonight's gop debate. good to have you here. these new e-mails slamming mormonism. what do they do to rick perry at this point and essentially to the rest of the candidates? >> it doesn't really help rick perry at all. his campaign is in a hole. conservatives are confused about some of his positions, particularly on immigration. what he needs to do is build, get himself out of that hole and hitting mitt romney doesn't hurt with that. reintroduce himself to voters and explain why he's a conservative that he likes and any story distracts from that, that's not good for rick perry. >> how important is religion when it comes to the eventual republican candidate here. there's a lot of talk of the evangelical vote, there's also a very strong mormon vote in this country. a lot of people are practicers of follow the mormon faith and they tend to vote pretty conservative. >> well, that's right. well, as jan mentioned in south carolina and iowa, 60% of those who participate in the caucus and the primary say they're evangelical. the question is, for how many of those voters is this issue of mormonism a single issue that would make them throw mitt romney overboard. a lot of other reasons evangelicals don't like mitt romney. they don't like his switching of positions on abortion and don't like previous supports of gay rights and his position on health care in massachusetts. a lot of other reasons not to like him and the number of people who would not vote for him because of mormonism is probably a lot smaller than that larger group of evangelicals. >> let's look at these comments that herman cain made over the weekend about building that fence, an electric fence. he is according to this new cnn poll running, really, almost neck and neck with mitt romney. how is this going to affect him in how he deals with this question of illegal immigration moving forward? >> well, one of the things voters love about herman cain is that he's not incredibly polished, he's funny, he says there needs to be more humor in a presidential campaign. who can disagree with that? now that he is a top tier candidate and being looked at seriously, he probably has to moderate the gesture act a little bit and show that he can, in fact, be seen by voters as a president. but for his core supporters, when he says things that might be amusing or sort of tells everybody they should lighten up, that only makes them like him more. >> when it comes to the debate, a couple articles about this renewed interest in debate and significant audiences of people tuning in and some also talk about debate fatigue. we have a number of them at this point. how important, how relevant are they to this conversation to the candidates? >> well, they're quite popular in republican circles because, barack obama is gathering republicans and making them enthusiastic about finding a replacement for him. also, republicans aren't certain about the field out there. shifting between candidates. these candidates are quite important. remember tim pawlenty out of the race. had a bad moment in the campaign. rick perry, as we talked about, has gone down in part because of his performance in these debates. so, they've actually been quite important in previous races. they haven't changed things. but in this one, debates have been important. >> we'll watch tonight. john dickerson in las vegas. thanks. >> thanks, erica. the latest from wall street. the markets oep oened a little bit lower this morning after the dow fell 247 points on monday. alexis of cbs money watch is at the stock exchange. ended a two-week rally. what are investors looking at right now? >> looks like investors are searching for direction after another round of mixed earnings reports and another sign that europe is still far from finding a solution to its debt crisis. taking an early look now at the dow jones industrial average on the big board. here's where big things stand. goldman sachs posting only its second quarterly loss since going public in 1999. apple and intel will show us their profit report cards and that happens after the closing bell and wholesale prices surge nearly 1% last month as companies paid more for gas, food and other goods. if you take out food and energy, inflation was actually pretty tame. but there is word that europe's debt crisis may be going from bad to worse. now, moody's says it may downgrade france's top credit rating over the next three months. so, again, jeff, a lot of questions swirling around the situation in europe. >> looks despite the flat opening today and the rough patch yesterday, it's still been a relatively good month. >> it has. in fact, october shaping up to be the best month so far for the stock market, but, let's look at where we came. we went really far really fast. on october 3rd, the dow was down sharply and just nine trading days it rallied about 12% before giving back about 2% yesterday. just too much uncertainty in the global economy for a rally to stick. >> thank you very much. terrell brown also busy this morning. >> hardly busy at all. jeff and erica, good morning to you both. good to see you. secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in libya this morning on an unannounced trip there. captured one of moammar gadhafi's strongholds. alan is in tripoli with the details. good morning to you. >> secretary clinton arrived among heavy security and security is one of the focuses of her trip here, specifically about 10,000 missiles that are missing from moammar gadhafi's arsenal. part of the $135 million in aid that the u.s. has pledged to the new national transition council, the government, will go to search for and dismantle those weapons. some more of the money will go to help pay to rehabilitate the up to 15,000 troops that have been wounded fighting to overthrow gadhafi and the number of wounded is likely to grow. the town one of the last strongholds was overthrown yesterday and today at great costs. but the city of sirte, his hometown, is still undersiege by the rebel troops and there's no end in sight to that. one can expect that there will be more wounded. the national transitional council has said that when sirte falls, they will declare the whole country free and move on with the business of moving a proper government and having elections and so on. they are full of good intentions but, obviously, a long, long way to go. >> alan, thank you so much. tropical weather system is pounding florida with another round of rain today. the storm hovering off the west coast of florida and yesterday dumped a record breaking 7 inches on key west and an additional seven inches kracros florida today. the storm is expected to bring heavy rain to the northeast tomorrow morning. and the southwest, another one of those huge dust storms, this time it's in drought-stricken west texas. a vast wall of red sand and dust pushed by 70-mile-per-hour winds yesterday and had forced traffic to a standstill in some places. those winds also caused havoc at the lubbock airport. one cargo plane was tipped and one small aircraft was knocked over on its wing. and off california, a close encounter with the largest animal on earth, paddling recently south of los angeles, two kayakers got an up close and amazing look at a blue whale. rick holman even plunged into the water for a face-to-face meeting and brought back some video to prove it. >> he was so close. that was all exciting and, you know, just gets your heart really pumping. >> the fin came up close to the kayak and my first thing was, rick! i didn't scream out, but that was my first thought. oh, my gosh. he's down there hoping to get hit. >> hit is the big word. luckily the 50-foot long whale didn't hit him. but for an unforgettable whale the man and the graceful giant were eye-to-eye. check now on your weather,,, still ahead this morning, new questions over the death of indy 500 champ dan wheldon. we'll speak to a good friend of his. he has known dan since he was 7 or 8 years old. >> he was also involved in that crash on sunday. plus, if you're looking forward to the end of the cell phone bill shock, you're in luck, it's coming. you may have to wait a little bit. all the details just ahead. ♪ home is where you are ♪ home is where i want to be ♪ where [ male 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the firefighters below told her to drop the boy, so she did. one of the firefighters caught him. then they rescued the grandmother and everybody else in the building. we are going to speak with that hero fireman in just a bit with his catch of a lifetime. >> so nice to have a happy ending to a story like that. but first, we want to continue following this. tributes pouring in this mornin people asking if his death could have been prevented. an autopsy has confirmed it was blunt head trauma that killed indy car superstar dan wheldon. his death has left the entire racing community stunned. from outside the indianapolis motor speedway where shocked fans gathered to modern the two-time indy 500 champion. >> you just felt like you knew him, even though you didn't. it's just a devastating loss. >> reporter: to facebook and twitter, where strangers eulogyize wheldon with words like live fast, die young. >> daniel was born to be a racer and he left us doing what he loved to do. he was a true champion and a gentleman on and off the track. >> reporter: off the track, the debate continues over whether sunday's race on the short oval track at the las vegas motor speedway was too dangerous for the faster indy cars. >> i've never done 225 miles an hour in my life. >> reporter: on monday, five-time nascar champion jimmie johnson who watched sunday's crash at home with his daughter said it's not worth the risk. >> those cars are going to fast and get airbornes on ovals, i wouldn't run them on ovals. there's no need to. you can't control the vehicle when it's off the ground. >> wheldon's good friend and fellow indy car driver ed carpenter survived the pileup. >> it's easy to look back and try to pick things apart andretti motor sport. jeff, erica. >> bill whitacre in las vegas, thank you. >> indy car driver jay howard was a friend of wheldon's. >> he was one of the drivers involved in sunday's crash. he broke a rib. good morning. >> good morning, thanks for having me. >> good that you're here. our condolences to you and your family. i know that you knew him for, what, 23 years now? you guys grew up together, you raced together. >> yes. >> everyone is saying what a wonderful person dan was. and he saw that for more than 20 years. did you talk to him about your concerns at all? were there concerns about the track at the time? >> everyone was trying to get someone's head on the chopping block, you know, trying to point the finger, you know, were the cars safe enough, was the track safe enough? you know, indy car and all the tracks including las vegas motor speedway strive to, you know, put safety at the top of the list. and, you know, that doesn't make what happened on sunday right, you know, by any means, but just condolences to the family and everyone involved. >> and that said, i mean, removing the -- not putting anyone on the chopping block, but you know that dan was obviously working with some new equipment to try to improve the safety. going forward, i think there are some things that might need to be done. >> yeah. there's -- every day, every moment we're always trying to, you know, make things better and safer. i'm sure, you know, everyone is going to do everything in their power to make these cars safer. it's just a shame that something like this has happened. >> this was the last race of the season. you guys all have a little bit of time now, which in some ways is probably good for everybody. one thing that sticks out is everybody is talking about dan but talking about the sport in general. this seemed to be a really tight-knit group of people. you guys raced against each other, you switch teams a lot, but you forge these incredible bonds with one another. how much are you all relying on each other, turning to one another as you, you know, do your best to eventually move forward because you have to? >> yeah. we -- you know, it's funny, we're all very competitive. we all try and, you know, leave each other as little room as possible on the racetrack, but, you know, i think one of the best says i've heard is a little bit of something died in everyone, you know, last sunday. and i just -- again, i just can't imagine what susi and the rest of the family are going through right now. >> and they said you've given them a little bit of a break. you're keeping your distance from suzi and the kids and we heard from clive there and from dan's family. as jeff mentioned, though, you guys grew up doing this and you still had a lot of fun on the sidelines when you weren't racing. >> a lot of people say that, you know, what we do is fun and -- >> it's fun and dangerous. >> yeah. it's fun and, you know, clive, dan's father, said, you know, he died doing what he loved and that was for sure. there's no question in anyone's mind that he was loving every minute of that race. >> have you gone back really quickly, have you gone back and tried to reconstruct what you saw when you were on the track there and maybe what happened? >> yeah, kind of a little bit. i was fortunate enough, we qualified really poorly, but i had made a lot of ground and managed to make my way -- quite way forward. so i was right at the very front of the crash. i just -- you know, i can't imagine. i know what i went for. i can't imagine how bad it was. dan was ten places behind me and, you know, a lot of people ask questions, well, you know, why didn't he hit the brakes? why didn't he avoid it? these things happen like that. i'm just, you know, just as stunned as -- you keep trying to think of words. they're not there. >> no. >> appreciate you being with us this morning and our c condolens again. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. returned, hma symptoms my doctor prescribed dulera to help prevent them. 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how about that voice thing. >> the government and the wireless industry now have a deal to warn consumers when they're near their limit. here to tell us more about that is caramel wong ulrich, author of "the real cost of living." >> weber. she's a weber. >> we all like webbing. >> it's called bill shock. that's what they call it in the industry. the fcc got so much complaints over the past couple of years, they decided to do a study and they found one in six cell phone users suffer from bill shock, unexpected raises in their monthly bill. and 23% kaus saw increases of over $100 a month, which is a lot of money. so the s.e.c. joined up with the cellular communication industry to voluntarily come up with guidelines as to how to fix that problem so when he don't suffer from so much bill shock. >> so we have guidelines. >> we do. >> but do you think the guidelines are going to work? especially because they're a little far out. >> they're a little far out. here is the thing. let's talk about the guidelines. there are four ways we all use our phone. you have everything from voice mail, text messages, data, downloading and international roaming calls. there will be four separate alerts. these alerts will warn you before you hit your limits. if you don't have international roaming and you go internationally, you'll get that warning when you use your phone. >> was the bigger problem the talking minutes and not the data plan or -- >> everything. when you get an attachment, you download it. here in terms of time frame, all the cellular carriers are going to do this. at least two of these alert ves to be in place a year tr now. all four have to be in place in april 2014. be careful, erica with those downloads weber. >> with me, it was the talking minutes. i don't use my cell phone all that much. i monitor, check my usage. >> we're all getting signed up for this, though. al up next, can you spell cheating? 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[ male announcer ] state farm's got you covered. nice landing. it was. good morning from the traffic center. good news and bad news to report along 680. we had an earlier traffic alert southbound 680 at willow pass. all lanes are open but the damage is done, 14 miles per hour through there. traffic really slow through the area so give yourself some extra time through there. 880 not bad, both directions looking fairly light as a work your way northbound into oakland. southbound towards hayward things stack up at the maze. both direction of the san mateo bridge not too bad. a little sluggish between 880 and 101. and, of course, the bay bridge toll plaza, metering lights are on. still very slow and go coming off the eastshore freeway, backed up into the maze. altamont pass to altamont pass 34 minutes from the altamont pass to the dublin interchange. lawrence has a check of the lovely forecast. things have changed. we have an onshore breeze. this is a live camera from ocean beach. fog at the coast and dense at the beaches there. so you get the idea, that sea breeze kicking in and the temperatures will be cooling down around the bay area today. expect those clouds to linker toward the beaches today, keeping those temperatures mainly into the 60s. as you get inside the bay, more sunshine this afternoon, about 79 degrees in san jose, some low 80s still well inland but i think the trend will continue towards some cooler weather with some more low clouds and fog overnight tonight, maybe even some drizzle at the coastline. it looks like we'll start to warm things up, though, next weekend. ♪ [ ukulele strumming ] ♪ [ folksy whistling ] [ man ] quitting is a fight you can't let yourself lose. it can take many tries. but keep trying, you will beat smoking. honey, you okay? yeah, i'm fine. ♪ [ ukulele ] top of the hour on a tuesday. top of the hour on a tuesday. day of alliteration. coming up, information on mammograms. what age you should start. is it 40? 50? every year? not have one every year? well this morning, there is a new report out that focuses on just how much screening women need to protect themselves from breast cancer without having unnecessary treatment. we are here to look at the recommendations and help you decide what works best for you and your health. >> also this morning, the sound track to the occupy wall street protest. we're going to talk about some of the -- we will speak for some of the performers. a boston firefighters, how about being at the right spot at the right time. he saved the life of a 6-year-old boy. here is the story of a remarkable rescue. >> reporter: a touching moment. that is a firefighter kissing the head of a 6-year-old that he saved. the two have a special bond. fire was racing through this apartment building. people were trapped and judith was one of them. >> my grandson came. >> she was on the third story straddling the window and getting ready to drop her granson. >> he was dangling. i knew she wouldn't be able to hold him forever. >> lamb thinking that she and the others were going to die dropped her grandson. >> i was just praying don't drop him, don't miss the catch. he didn't miss the catch. he caught him. >> first time i have had to make a rescue like that and i hope it's the last time. >> you were thinking you were super man flying? >> yeah. >> so you can understand this reunion and the happiness on the firefighter's face. everyone got out alive including xavier's mother who could not get to her son. >> thank god for him. thank god for him. >> cbs news, boston. >> a lot of people saying that this morning. glen joys us from the fire house in boston. i know, every time this happens we say you are a hero, how does it feel? it must feel pretty good to know how many lives you saved. >> it's good to know we were able to get everybody out safely by ladders. any assistance we could give them is the best. >> correct me if i am wrong. when you arrived on the scene there were a number of people at the windows and ledges and you were telling them not to jump, to stay where they were. when you say this little boy, what changed that situation? >> when you get back around the corner and saw the grandmother holding the boy by one hand, he was flailing and moving his other arm and legs to be able to rescue him. i realize that i didn't think we had the time. at that point i told her not to drop him until i moved under to be able to at least break his fall when she let go. i positioned myself, looked up, told her to let go and she dropped him and thank god he landed right in my arms. >> you said in that piece that was a first time you had to make a rescue by catching someone dropped into your arms. did you have time to think about what was happening as he was dropping down? >> no. there was no time. this was all just a quick bang bang play. telling her, asking her to let go of him and immediately once i caught him i didn't have time to think about that. i just handed him off to other people on the street because now i had to focus our attention on the grandmother. >> you did get everybody to safety. one firefighter said it was one of the largest numbers of rescues. we saw this photo of you. did you say anything to him? >> i had -- as i was walking past him during the fire, i asked them is this the boy. and i believe a family member said yes, this is the one that dropped down. i told him we were safe and sound and we were able to successfully get them down and gave him a quick kiss on the head and went back to my job. >> have you had a chance to talk to him or his family since then? >> i have not. looking forward to talking with them in the near future. >> i am sure they are looking forward to that as well. thank you for being with us this morning. i know the city of boston is happy to have you on the job. >> thank you for having me. >> quite a story. the little boy felt like super man as he was falling down. good morning to you both. from hero to the victims locked in a philadelphia basement. learning more about the woman accused of keeping them captive in a widening fraud case. here is more. >> anger and abuse from an alleged ring leader. the woman now charged with kidnapping and abusing them. >> all this was all bleeding. >> tamara showed us her injuries. and a 41-year-old says he met her last year through an online dating website. he was found chained to a boiler. >> it was dirty and filthy. >> and this 40-year-old. >> did she hit you, too? >> no. >> he said she did not hit him but one of the two men arrested in connection of the case did. >> did you guys willingly give her your information? >> he asked for it. >> he took it. >> they all traveled with weston from texas to florida and finally philadelphia where they were locked into this dark poorly ventilated dungeon like subbasement. they may have been there since early october. >> for someone to do that to another human being is very, very disturbing. >> meanwhile, linda is no stranger to the law. she actually served time in prison for killing her sister's boyfriend. she locked him in the closet and starved him to death. police also tell us when they arrested weston, they found 50 different ids belonging to 50 different people. figuring out what kind of connection they have. this morning weston and her two accused accomplices are being held on two and a half million bail. >> a story we will continue to hear more about. thank you so much. and a michigan father has been charged with child abuse after turns out many women also lose their hair. it can be devastating. how can you fight it? 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>> and what does that do to their development? does it hurt their creativity? a lot of important questions, especially because this technology hasn't been around that long. our good friend and relationship contributor dr. jennifer heartstien is with us to let us know what's going on in those brains. >> my 22-year-old seemed to be expertly playing with a mac book the other day. >> it's kind of scary how quickly they pick it up, isn't it? >> yes. >> first, though, this morning, we want to get to this study on mammograms, which st making a lot of news this morning, trying to straighten out all the conflicting advice that women have been getting about mammograms. the report wag analyzing some studies. and it finds having one mammogram every year leads to too much false positive results. so being tested every other year is enough, it concludes. >> researchers says skipping a year between mammograms adds only a small increase of finding breast at a harder to treat stage. jennifer ashton is joining us now. >> good morning, guys. >> so this is not new data, it's a new analysis. >> that's right. >> offer data. what does it tell us? >> basically the controversy about mammograms and how they should be used continues. this is breast cancer awareness month and you can question the timing of this latest analysis of data. this was a large compilation of registry data of over 200,000 women age 40 to 59 followed between 1994 and 2006. the study found that women who had annual mammograms had a higher -- the rate of false positives over half of these women will have a false positive recall, which means that something was found on their mammogram that turned out now to be cancer requiring them to come back and 7 to 9% of them women would have a false positive biopsy. so the point of the research was to say, listen, if you are going to screen every year, be prepared for a high likelihood of these results. >> okay. so that is one part of it. there's also -- a lot of people are concerned about going for a mammogram every year. are there actual risk that's we should be concerned about if it's an annual event? >> so important. all the time, you guys hear me say it repeatedly. any test you get, you want to find out what are the risks, what are the benefits? the benefits are obviously the potential to find an early stage cancer before it could be felt by the cancer or the patient. however, like any screening test, there are risks. when you talk about a mammogram, you are talking about a small risk of radiation exposure. that's a known. there is some discomfort, that's going to variry woman to woman. there is the cost factor and, again, the chance of a false positive meaning something seen on that mammogram that turns out not to be cancer but generates other things like fear, anxiety. >> and there's still digital photography. >> most mammograms performed in this country are the digital variety. >> so bottom line then, what is the recommendation now? >> right now, some are saying start at 40, some are saying start at 50. women need to talk about this with their doctors because it varies depending on their own individual risk factor. these recommendations are not meant to take the place of a doctor's clinical judgment on that individual patient. >> a new study came out last night about screening from cervical cancers. what are we learning from that? >> this is even more controversial. this is not about the pap test, per se. we know the majority of cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted infection, hpv. this study said there is not enough evidence to recommend screening for women over age 30. every year i attend national medical conferences. we have known for years there is a lot of evidence and data to support screening women over the age of 30 for hpv. this is going to be just as controversial. >> so as a board certified o ob/g ob/gyn, you would say it's important to screen. >> it's the standard of care right now. >> jen, thanks. >> you bet. >> foremore information, log on to our partner and helgd at webmd.com. terrell brown is over at the news desk with one more check of the headlines. after hour than five years ago a prisoner of hamas, israeli soldier gilad schalit is free this morning. he told an egyptian journalist he was very excited to be home. he had feared he would be held captive for many more years. that is schalit there looking at prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and hugging his father there. he was reunited with his family south of tel aviv. schalit was released as well as hundreds of palestinian prisoners. palestinians awaiting the prisoner release clashvic leade. clinton prejudiced millions of dollars in aid. most will be to finding unaccounted weapons. renee nicole deseours said she had an mri and echocardiogram. she wasn't evacuated to new zealand until yesterday. the 58-year-old says she'll share her results with her doctors in the u.s. police in kansas city appear her results. missing now for two weeks, police went to the family home yesterday and left with several bags of evidence. lisa's parents have hired a prominent new york defense attorney, who spoke to reporters. >> the focus on this case, we shouldn't forget, is on finding lisa. we're optimistic she's still out there and still alive and the family prays for her return, her speedy return. >> deborah minding your manors used to be pretty straightforward. thanks to social networks, cell phones and webbing, emily post rules of etiquette may need some updating. >> and who better to do that than miss post's great granddaughter. here to school us all this morning. "etiquette:manors for a new world." >> it's weighty. >> it is. when it comes to technology, what's the biggest misstep you've seen, whether it be on twitter, facebook, texting? >> so many people -- by the way, this is all wonderful, social networking is great. but so many people text or send a message, put up a picture without thinking. the biggest mistake is putting something there and then you can't get it back. it's out there. it's not confidential, obviously. and it's permanent, even if you go off of whatever, stop your facebook account. it's already there. >> still going to be there. >> what's the golden rule? is there a golden rule on social networking? is it remember that it will always be there? >> remember that there's someone on the other side of the computer. that's the key thing. don't post a friend's photo on facebook that's going to embarrass him or her. think about what you do. don't just blast somebody. whether it's facebook, twitter or whatever. >> it's amazing to think that people would sling mud anonymously in this day and age online. >> you have such a dry wit. it's not just about pictures, but computers or people. >> right behind that computer, there is a person. so, just remember before -- and you said, someone knows who you are, that still doesn't make it okay to be uncivil. think before posting. >> one of the questions that came up here was if you need to unfriend someone. can you do that? how do you do that? >> ignore whatever they send. after a while, the person's friend list can go down. what i say you don't do is break up with your girlfriend or boyfriend via facebook. that's a face-to-face or at least a verbal encounter. >> it's bad when all you do is change your facebook status and then you know you're no longer together. >> yes. >> it's okay to delete comments on your own page. go back and say i wish i hadn't posted that? >> yes, that's okay. >> and untag yourself. i've done this. i don't like being tagged in picture. >> they should ask first. >> or have a conversation with your friend who might be putting those pictures up also. we were talking politics on the show, obviously. campaign season is already in full swing. we've heard that you're not supposed to bring in politics at the dinner table. is that still true? >> sometimes. but it depends on who you're with. at a big dinner party, be careful. you could have an intelligent conversation. just be calm about it. don't go into a fight mode. don't attack the person. you could talk about ideas, but if it gets heated, let's just agree to disagree. just change the subject. don't ruin an event for everybody. >> is it ever okay to have, let's say -- everybody is so connected nowadays. you want to keep your phone or blackberry there. is it ever okay to have it on a table if you're having dinner with a colleague, if you're at work, with a friend? >> you're on call, your wife is about to have a baby. you might put it there. you're a doctor on call. be discreet. put it down low. excuse yourself. texting at the table drives people crazy. think about the people you're with. >> and pay attention to them. >> that's right. >> not the messages you're receiving. nice to have you with us. >> thank you. we have an excerpt up on our website, etiquette:manor etiquea new world. if you've ever seen a toddler playing with an ipad, you may wonder how they pick these things up. >> one youtube video seems to prove the point, as ben tracy reports. >> reporter: the video has gone viral with 2.5 million hits. a 1-year-old plays with an ipad and later tries to make magazine pibts move in the same way with her fingers. mom's conclusion? her baby thinks her magazine is an ipad that doesn't work. and she's not alone. >> my daughter has been using ipad since she was 1 years old. and she plays games on it. she plays letter games, colors on it, gets creative on it. >> they're interested in it, figuring it out, like an ipad, that's more relevant for them in the future whether people like it or not. >> just as television was once criticized as an electronic babysitter, some say keeping kids entertained with a high-tech gadget is no substitute for personal interaction. >> boundaries, we call it screen time. those boundaries get set across the board. it's television, ipad, iphone. there's a lot of options for them. they all count as screen time. >> they will always be the apple of our eye, but these days the kids may have their eyes on our apple. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. joining us now is "early show" contributor jen goldstein. good morning. >> good morning. >> what do we think of this? >> this is the way of the future. this is how kids are learning. kindergartners are getting ipads instead of laptops. >> wait. instead of lap tops? before they were getting lap p tops? >> it's old school. they're providing kids with laptops, now they're providing ipads. it's how they're learning. with anything, they need balance. this is what kids are learning how to practice on. >> do we get worried? we both ask that question a lot when we see the kids -- >> it's bad if it becomes a replacement for your parenting, as a parent. if you're like, just stop and hand them a gadget. >> it's just like tv really. >> it's just like tv. the fact is that kids are learning. there's so many applications on these devices that kids can learn from. they can do math, learn their colors, learn their shapes. it doesn't take the place of, as we heard in that piece, going outside and playing, having face to face interaction. etiquette, you need to learn how to talk to someone. what a great supplement. you can learn and develop in a different way. >> it makes a lot of sense, if a picture moves, you're going to think a picture magazine moves but it's not like it's replacing books. >> no, but we're also reading more on electronic gadgets. kids are reading, just in a different way. my niece went from an iphone and thought the computer screen went that way, too, for a little while. kids learn by trial and error. so, what is she learning? not everything does the same thing. >> you say it's not okay. just don't give it to them to occupy them when you could be spending time with them. but if they're asking -- my son was ask iing to use the ipod touch. he likes the music. i was like, all right, buddy. >> it's everything in appropriate timing. if you could be spending time with them and you're giving it to them to quiet them down, maybe not the best thing if you're at dinner and it's the end of dinner and they are getting restless, no big deal. if he likes to listen to music and dance, by all means, do it. >> he does like to dance. >> following in your footsteps. is there a specific time limit or depending on using your best judgment as a parent? >> some guidelines are use your screen time wisely, computer, tv, combine it all together. >> good to have you here. >> thanks. a pair of farmers, they were lawyers. you'll meet ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, this morning, we have a story of two local farmers on new york's long island who do all of their harvesting in the ocean. >> but not for fish and not for oysters. >> you grab them off the fork. >> every saturday, steven judelson can be found at the farmer's market across long island selling his crops. he's not your average farmer. his tractor is a jeep. his overalls, waders. and smed of rich soil, his boundy comes from the rocky sea. >> why salt? >> why salt? salt was something that we have been doing for just a long time. >> you call that the ocean without the water. >> both former attorneys, steven and his wife, natalie, now make natural sea salt full time from their new york home. >> we really started getting into the whom local food movement and thinking about how clean ocean water is. so we decided to get serious about it a year and a half ago. >> steven begins by collecting 5 gallon buckets of saltwater from the ocean. it's more difficult than it looks. especially on windy days. >> look at mine. >> the heavy lifting is followed by a lot of wading around. >> so we'll go from the ocean water that we've then filtered and we'll then put them into these food grade plastic trays where they'll sit for in this case probably about three weeks. >> the trays are left outdoors in a special structure that steven invented. eventually, the water evaporates until nothing is let me teft bu. on the cbs morning news, a look at today's weather. damaging thunderstorms are also likely in the region. cool air is sweeping south into the midwest and the plains and high temperatures will be in the dakotas. here's another look at this morning's top stories. an israeli soldier held captive by hamas for five years was exchanged for more than 1,000 palestinian prisoners. president obama is presenting his jobs bill and hunting for votes in virginia and north carolina. and republicans square off in a debate in las vegas. so upclose and personal as it did for two california kayakers. fortunately, they had a camera as jack nguyen reports. >> it was so close. it was kind of all exciting and heart pumping. >> reporter: kayaker rick coleman and his wife, susan, went on a series of whale watching trips with their paddles. after spotting the blue whale, rick dove into the water a couple of times, even came face to face with the 50-foot mammal as it swam right beneath him. >> the fin came up close to the kayak and my first thing was, rick! i didn't scream out but that was my first thought. he's down there. i was hoping he didn't get hit. >> reporter: he wasn't hit and says it can be summed up in two word. >> peace and relaxation. his smouth open. he came up full speed to the surface. there's his eye right there. watch this wave come up and watch right over my kayak. >> reporter: the waves showed just how powerful the whales are. >> definitely wouldn't recommend that you try and jump in or try and get close. it is potentially dangerous. >> reporter: that's because a whale this size could easily cause a kayak to tip over. the colemans say they approached their whale watching trip with the utmost respect for the animals. jeffrey nguyen, kcal 9 news. good manners updated. emily post's great granddaughter takes up the cause.,,,,,,,,,, california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a world where tobacco kills more people... than aids, drugs, alcohol, murder and car crashes... combined. we have a lot more work to do. the "occupy" protesters in san francisco plan to march to city hall today. they plan to ask the mayor and the board of >> good morning. 8:55. i'm elizabeth wenger. the occupy propertiesors in san francisco plan to march to city hall. they spent the night at justin herman plaza. in oakland, crews were man handled after asking them not to take pictures of tents. our camera was nearly flung to the ground. a protestor's dog went after another reporter from a different station and the dog put a hole in the reporter's jacket. no one was supervisor. san francisco supervisors will honor a hero, pierre padron went into a burning building last month and warned several people to get out. no one was hurt in the four- alarm fire. traffic and weather are coming right up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, good morning from the traffic is center, slow and go in marin county toward 580. the golden gate, extra volume, not bad into san francisco. the bay bridge stacked up, slow and go coming away from the maze, still 40 to 42 minutes westbound 80 from the carquinas bridge to the maze. san mateo bridge, seeing slight delays between 880 and the 101. >> patchy fog along the coastline, the sea breeze is kicking in. we're going to cool things off around the bay area. it's not going to be a bad day. we'll find sunshine inside the bay, temperatures in the 70s, low 80s in the interior valleys, cooler on the coastline, mainly in the 60s. the next couple days we'll notice the cool fog moving onshore bringing down temperatures a few degrees, by friday high pressure builds in, this weekend looks fantastic. the ridge and an offshore wind making for beautiful weather. ♪ and a few thousand diapers later ♪ ♪ oh, yeah ♪ he loves that little girl [ male announcer ] all her life, she's been coming toward you. now that she's driving, she's going the other way. ♪ there goes my life [ male announcer ] thanks to state farm's steer clear program,