very serious crimes he is alleged to have committed. >> reporter: bulger headed boston's irish mob, a group called the winter hill gang. he's charged with 19 murders, extortion, drug dealing, and money laundering. bulger's alleged gangland activities and explosive temper were the inspiration for jack nicholson's character in martin scorsese's movie "the departed." >> you dump him in the marsh. >> reporter: but the film's popularity in 2006 did not help the f.b.i. find its man. public appeals and wanted posters brought no results until this week. >> have you seen this woman? >> reporter: on monday, the f.b.i. unveiled this ad focusing on bulger's long-time girlfriend catherine grieg. a spot airing on daytime television and aimed at female viewers described grieg and her numerous plastic surgeries. within 24 hours, authorities got a very specific tip that bulger and grieg were living in this apartment building. the f.b.i. lured bulger outside and arrested him, then they entered the building, arrested grieg and confiscated nearly 30 guns and hundreds of thousands of dollars stashed in the apartment. neighbors knew the couple as charles and carol cays go. they lived in apartment 303 and for much of the past 15 years, it seems, paid their $1,100 a month rent in cash. but sources say bulger, armed with multiple passports, also moved around. reportedly spending time in the caribbean, fort lauderdale and london. the bulger case has long been an embarrassment for the f.b.i. in the mid-'70s, bulger became an informant for the bureau, providing information about a rival gang and even some of his own mob soldiers. but f.b.i. agent john connolly, assigned to handle bulger, eventually went to work for the mob boss. connolly was convicted for racketeering. in fact, it was connolly's warning to bulger that he was about to be indicted in 1995 that sent the mobster into hiding. now, sources tell us bulger at first was verbally combative when he was arrested but he didn't resist. now we're told he is talking a bit to federal authorities and, scott, bulger will be returned to boston to face trial. >> pelley: thanks, bob. "60 minutes" has been on the bulger case for years. the late ed bradley interviewed two of bulger's closest mob lieutenants. in 2001, ed spoke with eddie mackenzie, the first member of bulger's gang ever to speak publicly. >> he had such a stare of blankness, no compassion in his eyes, ed, that just would horrify anybody. you could be 6' 6, 360 pounds, the toughest guy... i've seen people almost go to the bathroom in their pants in his presence. he was so scary. >> pelley: then, in 2006, ed spoke to kevin weeks, a mob lieutenant who knew bulger better than most. >> oh, he stabbed people, he beat people with bats, shot people, strangled people, ran them over with cars. >> you said also that he liked killing. >> yeah. >> explain that to me. >> after he would kill somebody, he'd... it was like a stress relief, you know? he'd be nice and calm for a couple weeks afterwards, like he just got rid of all his stress. >> by killing? >> yes. >> that's a bizarre way to get rid of stress. >> pelley: kevin weeks, the man you just heard from, led the f.b.i. to where some of bulger's alleged victims were buried. he is likely to be a witness at trial. it has been a busy 48 hours for the f.b.i. we learned today that agents have arrested two men in what the feds say was a terrorist plot to attack a military recruiting station in seattle. we'll bring justice correspondent bob orr back in with details on this. bob, what have you learned? >> reporter: well, this apparently did start out as a real plot, as you say, scott. prosecutors say two men who somehow had become radicalized on their own first wanted to attack joint base louis-mcchord in washington then targeted a military processing center in seattle. the f.b.i. got wind of this three weeks ago when a third man, who they tried to bring into the plot, turned and became an f.b.i. informant. so the f.b.i. then made sure that the conspirators only got dummy guns. in that sense, the plot was disrupted. i have to say, this is still troubling. it comes just a few weeks after al qaeda jihadists called for more home-grown attacks here in the u.s. to avenge the killing of osama bin laden. >> pelley: thanks again, bob. news on the economy today suggests that the stall in the recovery could be with us for a while. the number of americans filing their first claims for unemployment benefits rose to 429,000 last week. also today, the price of oil fell more than $4 to close just over $91 a barrel. that sudden drop came after the obama administration announced that it is going to dump 30 million barrels of oil on to the market-- a rare release from the strategic petroleum reserve where america keeps its emergency oil supply. was it a move to help the economy? anthony mason joins us now with some insight on that. >> reporter: scott, gas prices have been falling for the past month, so the sudden decision to tap into the strategic petroleum reserve surprised almost everyone. the strategic petroleum reserve is the country's emergency oil lifeline. the white house said it was tapping into it because of supply disruptions in libya and the middle east. there are some people saying this looks like a desperate move. >> i would call it an economic hail mary pass. >> reporter: only analyst steve co-pitts says it's not about supply disruptions, it's about the weakening economy. >> i think there was some skepticism these oil prices could bring down the economy. i think people are beginning to think that, in fact, they can. >> reporter: for the 11th straight week now, unemployment claims have lingered above the key 400,000 mark. yesterday chairman ben bernanke downgrade it had federal reserve's growth forecast for the economy. >> we have an awful lot of uncertainty right now about how much of this slowdown is temporary, how much is permanent. >> reporter: set up after the arab oil boycott of 1973, the strategic petroleum reserve holds more than 700 million barrels of crude in four salt caverns along the texas and louisiana gulf coast. only the president can authorize its use in the event of a severe energy supply interruption. but until today, the white house had done that only twice-- during the first gulf war in 1991 and then in the wake of hurricane katrina in 2005. >> this is not a severe supply disruption, so i really don't think it meets its original mandate for what we should use the s.p.r. for. >> reporter: while the fighting in libya did push gas prices to nearly $4 a gallon in may, they've fallen 37 cents since then. tapping the reserves should bring them down even more, temporarily, but cop pitts says there's only so much ammunition in this weapon. >> so we can use it for one month, two months, maybe four months. after that the question is then what do you do? >> reporter: in the near term it should bring relief at the pump. analysts estimate the move could lower gas prices by 50 cents or more within weeks. >> pelley: anthony, the price of oil is regulated in the market, of course, and i wonder if the government's action today changes the way the markets are going to work. >> reporter: it's a game-changer in one sense, i think, scott. the government is clearly trying to drive down the price here and may do this again. so if you're a trader, are you going to jump in the market if you think the white house might come in suddenly again traders don't like this, drivers will. >> pelley: thanks, anthony. one day after president obama spelled out his exit strategy for afghanistan, his top generals went before the congress today. david martin tells us they stand behind the president but they made it clear mr. obama wasn't following their advice. >> reporter: both general david petraeus, the commander in afghanistan, and joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen, the president's principal military advisor said today they initially balked at president obama's drawdown plan as too risky. >> the president's decisions are more aggressive and incur more risk than i was originally prepared to accept. >> the ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you will, in terms of the timeline, than what we had recommended. >> reporter: they wanted to pull out fewer than 5,000 troops this year. but they were up against an option presented by president obama's civilian advisors to pull out the entire 33,000 surge force by the end of this year. the president decided to pull out 10,000 this year, all 33,000 by september, 2012. >> is it going to be hard? you bet it's going to be hard. >> reporter: but mullen said it would be even harder on the taliban. >> the taliban had a really bad year last year. they're having a really bad year this year. they're gonna have another really bad year next year. >> reporter: and both men seemed to acknowledge their military advice was not politically realistic. >> more force for more time is, without doubt, the safer course. but that does not necessarily make it the best course. >> reporter: petraeus said he supports the president's decision and will carry it out but he refuses to say he is comfortable with it. >> pelley: thanks, david. more rain is forecast for this weekend for north dakota, the last thing it needs. most of the state's 53 counties have been declared federal disaster areas because of flooding. the swollen missouri river swept away this home in bismarck today and in minot, more people were urged to leave their homes. a quarter of the city has already been evacuated. the mouse river is expected to crest in minot this weekend seven feet higher than the level it reached during a disastrous flood in 1969. it may be that what what you learned about dinosaurs in school is all wrong. there's a din dinosaur discovery tonight. turns out childhood obesity is much more common than we thought. and video games are recession-busters for a major city in texas. they can't hire enough people when the "cbs evening news" continues. 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