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they're about to scale america's tallest peak and they'll tell us why no challenge is too great, no mountain too high. cheers and tears for a new high school graduate. her parents abandoned her but now she's got her cherished diploma and a ticket to the ivy league. how she went from homeless to harvard. all that and so much more on "cbs this morning saturday" june 9th, 2012. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the start of your weekend. we're happy you could join us. >> on a very busy news saturday. >> we want to begin with a very serious story. the ongoing tragedy in syria. anti-government activists say that the syrian army shelled the southern city of dura this morning killing 15 people, wounding dozens more. elsewhere u.n. monitors made it into a village where activists say nearly 80 men, women and children were brutally murdered by syrian troops this week. the question is can a diplomatic solution be found before syria descends into an all-out civil war. elizabeth palmer is in the syrian capital, damascus. a word of warning, some of these pictures may be disturbing. >> reporter: even from a distance it was clear it was more than a crime scene, it was the sight of an atrocity. but why and who did it? united nations military observers and human rights experts are trying to piece together the story. they finally made it into the village on friday after being blocked by syrian forces for 48 hours. a local farmer who helped bury the bodies explained how he watched from a distance as armed men arrived. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: men in uniform got here first he said and shelled the houses and then thugs loyal to the regime executed 78 people. this house had 20 bodies in it. filmed in a cell phone on wednesday just after the attack, but before the cleanup. and here we were told seven children had been gunned down. the bullet holes, burned bedding and bloodstains still visible, but all the bodies which would have been valuable evidence for the united nations have been buried. the more time that passes, it's more difficult to verify. especially in the muslim world, they bury the dead immediately. among the ruins there are traces of evidence left. bullet casings and armored vehicle tracks, but probably not enough to reveal who is ultimately guilty of this atrocity. one thing is clear, though, all those who died were sunni muslims, the religious group most active against the regime, and, say witnesses, the attackers were a group that supports president bashir al assad. all the signs are that a deadly fusion of religion and politics have invaded this once peaceful valley and the killings here may just be the beginning. we're getting reports now that overnight the syrian military was shelling the down of dara in the south of the country heavily. activists are saying between 12 and 15 people were killed in those bombardments and perhaps more ominously right here in damascus, there were exchanges of gunfire, sustained ones, in several neighborhoods, including a well-known middle class area called mesa, which is where the american embassy was located. the embassy itself has been empty for some weeks now because of security concerns. for "cbs this morning saturday," i'm elizabeth palmer in damascus. >> joining us now is retired air force general richard myers, a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and cbs senior military analyst. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> what is the tipping point, is it time for military intervention now? >> well, in my view it's probably a little too early. the question is, we may be approaching a tipping point, but tipping to what? i think, you know, diplomacy still has a chance to work. even russia i think now has said that they would be for assad leaving as long as it's a peaceful process and not one that's done under duress. whether that can happen or not, who knows. but i think it's a little early to talk about military intervention, at least from the united states' viewpoint, because up to this point, according to our chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, nobody said here's the objective we'd like you to achieve by the use of force. diplomacy has been ineffective and unsuccessful so far. what makes you think that a new plan from him might work? and is it possible that iran and russia would join in on something the u.s. wants as well? >> well, you know, i think you just have to give diplomacy a chance. there's some activity in britain and france and of course the u.s. would be a participant. whether iran would participate in any sort of diplomatic efforts, i find that hard to believe. this is one of their primary client states. they rely on syria for lots of access to that part of the world. i just can't imagine they would cooperate in any meaningful way that wouldn't leave them with another puppet state of some sort. it's possible, you have to ask the question, i think. but i think -- i think we're probably a little before whatever the tipping point is. and then what's it tip to? what do you want military force pit's easy to say. it looked relatively easy in libya, but this is in my view a far different case, more complex case than the libyan case. >> what are serious military capabilities? >> they have an industrial-aged military, lots of tanks and artillery. they have pretty good aircraft and air defenses. they have some significant air defenses. they most certainly have chemical weapons, possibly biological weapons. we have seen them use their artillery and some of their armored personnel carriers in recent activities against some of their citizens. so i think the most important thing about their armed forces, that they're still cohesive and still respond to regime leadership, unlike libya, where leaders started defecting gadhafi pretty early on. we haven't seen that in syria. it's been a cohesive government and i think that makes the situation a lot different. >> general, if you don't think there should be full-fledged military intervention, should we or someone be arming the anti-government activists? >> i think that can be done, probably is should be done and should be done. the more folks that help in that area it's probably good. it's easy to say we need military intervention, but to do what? and if it's regime -- removal of assad from the regime, then what after that? what follows that? as we found out in iraq and afghanistan, as i know very well, it's the after combat phase that is the most difficult. so this is something that has to be thought through. national leaders need to figure out what it is we really want military forces to achieve and then how do we handle the aftermath, whatever that is. try to figure out what it's going to be like without the regime in place. >> iraq and afghanistan, you raise two very good points. general richard myers, thank you very much. >> thank you. now we turn to the presidential campaign. mitt romney and republicans pounced yesterday on something president obama said commenting on the economy during a news conference, the president said, quote, the private sector is doing fine. romney was quick to react. >> he said the private sector is doing fine. is he really that out of touch? i think he's defining what it means to be detached and out of touch with the american people. has there ever been an american president who is so far from reality? >> president obama later back tracked, conceding that the economy overall is still weak but saying there is, quote, some momentum in the private sector. he also accused republicans of pursuing policies that would weaken the recovery. for more on this we turn to cbs news political director john dickerson in washington. great to have you with us, good morning. >> good morning, rebecca. >> so why did the president do this? why did he put this briefing together and how is he looking at it this morning? >> well, the briefing was kind of the end to a bad week for the president. he wanted to do at least two things, sort of regain control of the conversation, put pressure on congress, say, look, i've had this american jobs act for almost a year that i've been pushing for. these are immediate solutions that will help get jobs and get the economy going again. the point he was trying to make about the private sector versus the public sector, he was trying to say cops and firefighters and teachers have been the hardest hit by some of these budget cut backs by governors and mayors and he wants the federal government to give some help to the states to bring those jobs back and boost the economy a little bit. he also had another message about europe which is to say there are rumblings in the economy in europe, things that are a little -- a lot of bit out of his control and that that may hurt the economy. he was trying to sort of prepare people if the economy goes through some more ups and downs, that he's not necessarily to blame. >> i want to come back to europe in a second, john, but going back to public sector jobs versus private sector jobs and trying to really define the difference between those two things, is that a line of argument that you think the president can continue to use or does this look like a tactical error that he can't use that line of argument again in this campaign? >> well, it's a little too subtle probably for the modern campaign, which is to say that anything you say gets spliced and parsed. the president was right in the sense that the private sector job growth has been going up whereas those other kinds of jobs, teachers, firefighters, those jobs have been getting cut. the problem is that the problem in a weak economy where people think the economy is very bad and that his stewardship of it has not been good, he can never be seen and sort of be resting on his laurels or think things are going okay and he repeatedly bends over backwards to show even with good news he knows people are suffering. he has millions of times said the economy is not doing well enough, we need to do more but in this case he offered his opponents a stick with which to hit him. >> and on europe, john boehner came out and said just because europe has problems doesn't mean we can't fix ours. so how much is the president going to be able to place the blame for our economic woes on europe versus saying we need to get our house in order? >> almost none. i mean the president gets blamed for the weakness in the economy and whether it's because of europe or whether it's because of george bush or whatever other reach the white house wants to put out. people want to see the president taking some action and doing something. that's just the way it is when you're a president. so john boehner and the republicans are right in the terms of the politics of this. there may be a reason that europe is causing the u.s. economy weakness, but in terms of what voters want, they look to the president to come up with solutions. >> john dickerson, thanks. here in new york, police have turned up possible new evidence in the etan patz case. investigators searched the home of pedro hernandez who confessed to killing 6-year-old etan in 1979. they found a toy and children's clothing that appear to be from the same time as the boy disappeared. senior correspondent john miller joins us from washington. john, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. >> quickly tell us a little bit more, john, about what was found and what you think this means. >> reporter: what was found were a couple of clothing items, specifically a pair of black pants, apparently short pants, and a matchbox toy, a matchbox vehicle, one of those little cars that kids collect. >> do police believe that these had once belonged to etan? >> reporter: well, they went in with a search warrant to seize the computers, looking for digital media, any writings, any things -- whether hernandez had written about the case or his confession or anything else, and when they came across these children's clothes, you know, there's no little kids who live in that house, so that struck them as unusual and they actually kind of stopped what they were doing, got the search warrant amended so that they could seize those items as well. they went to the court and wanted to add children's clothing and toys to it and took them. but there will be a process here where they have to document that evidence, photograph it and either show it in the evidence bags or those photographs to the p patz family and say does this look familiar. there's some debate as to whether the clothes might have been too big. >> is that the reason for delay? hernandez was arrested on may 24th and now they're just getting around to the search warrant? >> reporter: and that's unusual. i mean the normal procedure would be you arrest a person, you figure out where you need to search, you get your probable cause, you place officers there to get control of the premises so that nobody can go in and remove anything and then execute your search warrant. so seeing it a couple of weeks later is a little unusual, but the probable cause that they went in with, again, was for computers and then they kind of stumbled into this and it took them by surprise. >> john, very, very quickly, is it unusual for a killer to keep personal items from a victim? >> reporter: no. if you talk to an fbi profiler, they say that one of the offender characteristics of serial killers, killers of small children, is to collect trophies. i think that's what they were looking at the possibility of here. >> john miller, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you. now the trial of former penn state assistant football coach jerry sandusky. a judge has denied his lawyers' request to dismiss all charges. this should allow opening statements to get under way on monday. and joining us now is jean casarez, correspondent for "in session" on trutv and she's just returned from pennsylvania where she covered the jury selection process. great to have you with us at the table, jean, good morning. >> thank you. >> so the jury selection took three days. that seems pretty quick. >> it was so fast. it was very, very quick. and the jury has such ties to penn state university. if you're wondering why it went so quickly, you know, you can strike a juror, get rid of a juror for two reasons, for cause and then for any reason at all, you've got a number of those challenges. and the judge, judge john cleland, when the defense would want to strike a juror for cause, for instance, one woman's husband is a physician that practices in the same practice as mike mcqueary's father, star witness for the prosecution, and the judge said, no, i'm not going to give a strike for cause here. >> let's take a closer look if we could at this jury. seven women, five men. you mentioned the ties to penn state. ten have ties in one way or another to penn state. there's a season ticket holder, a former professor, a current student and a penn state graduate. >> and a current professor. there's a professor that is currently -- and she did not want to disclose publicly what department she was in. 24 years. she regularly had meetings with graham spanier, former president of penn state university and she worked there when jerry sandusky was a coach there. how integrated can you be? it's just amazing. and the student, he's going to be a senior in the fall. >> speaking of public disclosure, the judge also made an interesting point about the alleged victims, that they will have to publicly testify in order to be taken into consideration in this trial. >> that's right. >> how much does that change things for the defense and the prosecution? >> well, we haven't heard that some of them are saying i'm not going to testify now because my name is coming out, but they will have to state their names in court. the judge is asking the media to defer from saying their names publicly. but the judge is saying we have public trials and these are adults, so it sounds like we don't have anybody under the age of 18. we'll see. >> jean casarez, thank you, as always, for joining us. >> thank you. horse racing fans are shaking their heads over a triple crown shocker so sad. i'll have another, the horse that won the kentucky derby and preakness stakes won't run in today's third leg of the triple crown at belmont park. he has been sent into retirement by his owner. tony is at belmont with more on this and what it means for today's race. tony, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, rebecca. i'll have another is collecting a horse's version of social security this morning, retired, as you say, and soon to be heading out to pasture back home again in california. the 3-year-old chestnut colt looked fine walking outside his barn yesterday afternoon, but the appearance was deceiving. his left front tendon was swollen. a freak injury that convinced his owner and trainer to scratch i'll have another from the belmont stakes and retire him. >> could he run and compete? yes. but would it be in his best interests? no. >> reporter: it's a sad finish for a horse poised to write racing history. >> i'll have another has won the kentucky derby! >> reporter: he came from nowhere, a 15 to 1 shot to win at churchill downs. two weeks later he electrified the racing world again, winning the preakness by a nose. making i'll have another the prohibitive favorite to win the first triple crown since the jimmy carter administration. billy turner trained triple crown winner seattle slew, noting thoroughbred racing's declining popularity, he was rating for i'll have another. >> every sport needs a superstar and it would make him a superstar. we haven't had one in a while. >> reporter: i'll have another's racing career is over, but his millions of fans will get one more chance to see him this afternoon in an unprecedented tribute with his jockey up, i'll have another will lead the post parade for this afternoon's belmont stakes. of course stopping short of entering the starting gate. >> thank you, tony. attorney general eric holder has ordered an investigation into suspected leaks of classified national security information. holder says two u.s. attorneys, ronald maychen of washington and rod rosenstein of maryland will work separately from an fbi probe that's already under way. political critics say the white house leaked this information to boost president obama's imknowledge. mr. obama calls that offensive and wrong. federal health officials are trying to determine the source of a new and deadly e. coli outbreak. in the past two months illnesses have been reported in six states, louisiana, georgia, alabama, tennessee, florida and california. 15 people were sickened. one, a child, died in louisiana. hundreds of firefighters are battling a wildfire this morning north of los angeles. it broke out yesterday afternoon and quickly engulfed 650 acres of brush. the fire burnt so closely to a busy freeway it had to be shut down most of the day yesterday. late last night all lanes were reopened on interstate 5 as firefighters magged to partly contain that blaze. and prince philip is out of the hospital. he was released this morning after several days of treatment for what buckingham palace said was a bladder infection. he missed part of the four-day jubilee celebrating queen elizabeth. tomorrow he will be 91 and we say happy birthday, prince philip. >> all things considered, i think h looks great, right? >> absolutely. >> some longevity going on over there. guys, listen, i want to talk to you about some weather because you were just telling the story about the los angeles wildfires. there's lots to talk about. first i take you outside here in new york city. that's the george washington bridge right there. if we can pull up the satellite and radar picture and make some sense of what's going on. anywhere from new york city north could see a shower today. some big storms will erupt in the southeast. then we've got a system moving to the northern plains. it's going to be a fast mover, but i'm talking 1, maybe 2 inches of rain an hour associated with that as it moves through. elsewhere, a lot of sunshine in the southwest. again, this is that story about those los angeles fires. typically when you have red flag warnings, it's got to be concerned about an open flame, the national weather service would give spotty areas to keep an eye out. not today. take a look at this. we are basically talking four entire states, utah, colorado, arizona, new mexico, humidity levels as low as 5% in some spots. we'll have winds 20 to 40 miles per hour to fan those flames. hear me on this, you have got to be careful with any kind of all right. happy saturday, everybody. jeff, rebecca, over to you. coming up, one major business exec wants to raise the retirement age to 80. >> what? >> yes, 80! we're going to talk about what that means for your health. and some cities are trying to create laws to stop overeating. we have some suggestions that don't require an act of congress. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." stick around. ,,,,,,,,,,,, curt schilling was on top of the world back in 2004 when he helped the boston red sox win their first world series in more than 80 years but now his world has come crashing down. he might be taking the state of rhode island with him. his video game company filed for bankruptcy and that could cost the state of rhode island more than $90 million. >> there was an fbi investigation into what happened. coming up we'll take a look at why schilling and rhode island risk so much and how much more might be at stake. we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs in morning saturday." 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>> that is a reasonably sized jump. >> that's a long time to work. we'll look at what working longer could mean for your health. there's been talk about legislating our way out of overeating. this morning we have some ways to help that don't require a law. and if you combine boring with dull, do you get exciting? >> not this show. >> two towns, 9,000 miles apart, hope so. those and other stories when we take you behind the headlines. they are the twin cities. >> excellent. first this morning the investigation into curt schilling's video game venture. his company filed for bankruptcy on thursday. it's more than $150 million in debt. more than half of that may be owed to the taxpayers of rhode island. now the fbi and state investigators are trying to find out what went wrong. in 2004 curt schilling was immortalized in new england. after helping lead the boston red sox to the team's first world series victory since 1918. and while his fame following that may never be in jeopardy, his fortune is a different story. schilling's video game company, 38 studios, filed for bankruptcy on thursday and is now under investigation by the federal government and the state of rhode island. >> the amount of money to be successful in this industry, it's not tens of millions of dollars, it's hundreds of millions of dollars. it's just so daunting. >> reporter: schilling brought 38 studios from massachusetts to neighboring rhode island in 2010. he received $75 million in guaranteed loans from the taxpayers, promising jobs to an economically challenged state. two weeks ago, the company laid off all of its 288 employees. lincoln chafy, the current governor, opposed the loan deal while running for office. hree championships. after baseball his passion changed from pitching to gaming. a famously risky industry, some critics feel he's now gamed the system. >> joining us now from providence, rhode island, is a reporter with wpri.com who's been covering this story from the beginning. ted, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. >> how was curt schilling able to secure this loan in the first place? >> reporter: schilling founded the company 38 studios in 2006 when he was still playing for the boston red sox. come 2010 he hadn't been able to secure private financing. he had gone to wall street, venture capitalists in boston, but then he met up with the governor of rhode island who was then a republican and the speaker of the house of rhode island and they began to talk and came up with this idea of passing a big new loan program in the state of rhode island and giving most of the money, about 60% of the guarantees, $75 million to schilling. that brought him here. >> he also tried to sell the deal to massachusetts, which said no thank you, we're not going to get in on this loan. i'm curious to know in terms of what the rhode island taxpayers now get back, this company has $22 million in assets and it owes $151 million. that doesn't seem like the kind of deal where the taxpayer is going to get much back, if anything. >> reporter: no, taxpayers are facing huge losses here in rhode island because they -- basically the big assets the company has at this point is the unfinished video game that schilling's company was working on. there's really no sense of how much they're going to be able to sell the unfinished game for to some other company because who knows if they'll want to finish it or not. in the meantime we're looking at here in rhode island nearly $90 million -- about $90 million in principal and interest payments. they are hoping they might be able to get tens of millions of dollars to whittle that down, but we're still in rhode island looking at tens of millions of dollars from the taxpayers going out to bondholders who loaned this money. >> ted, is curt schilling going to face any charges? could he face charges? >> reporter: i don't want to get ahead of things with the investigation, so there's no sense yet of whether schilling could personally face charges, but there are a lot of questions in rhode island now about whether something went wrong or whether there was some sort of inside dealing going on, because toward the very end before the company collapse e, there was this effort to get the company new tax credits from the state, more taxpayer money to help it. that's involved a very close associate of the speaker of the house and other political insiders, so the question now is what promises were made to the banks that gave a loan and i think that's what investigators are going to be focusing on. but a complete mess for schilling, regardless if he faces charges. he could also face huge personal financial losses. >> and it's also becoming a mess for some of the policy makers who helped him get that loan, the head of the council for economic development for rhode island has stepped down. a number of others attached to that. do you think there's a story there beyond just the fact that for a pr reason he would need to take a step down? >> reporter: i think the same economic development corporation chairman here in rhode island who you mentioned resigned, he was the one who helped secure the deal for schilling with our previous governor. the new governor who used to be a republican u.s. senator, he's now an independent, he kept that gentleman on thinking in part he would be able to keep close tabs on the 38 studios deal. obviously what happened toward the end, someone wasn't keeping an eye on the books because the company unraveled in less than a month. there are still big outstanding questions about who knew what when. people in rhode island are beyond angry i'd say at this point. >> ted, we appreciate your reporting. thank you, sir. >> thanks, jeff. now here's lonnie with another check of our weather. >> good morning, everybody. off we go to new york city and columbus circle. here you see it right there, the entrance to central park, but let's get to the satellite and radar picture. what i see out there when i look at the whole country, i'm analyzing three different systems. a rain chance for new york city north but it's a rain chance. couple of big systems, one around the southeast, one up around the northern plains. let's talk about the southeast for places like miami, tallahassee, over towards new orleans, a lot of rain. 1 to maybe 3 inches, localized flooding. some of this could be on the severe side. kind of a two-day event. not the case for the northern plains. this line will move through fast and furiously. same amount of rain for rapid city, minot, billings. that 1 or 2 inches could come down in an hour's time. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. all right, everybody, that's going to do it for the weather. rebecca, over to you. >> lon action i have a question for you. can you imagine working until you're 80 at that wall? 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>> well, if they're doing something they love, i think it's actually good for your brain. a lot of people have the worry that when they retire, that they die. so, you know, working long isn't the problem. it's whether or not they keep their brain healthy, because if your brain is not healthy, you're going to get fired early because you'll be forgetful, you won't have the energy that you need to sustain working. >> i wonder, dr. smith, how realistic is it to think physically, mentally, you can really work until you're 80? >> first of all, let's understand what the statement was. this was an economic statement, it was not a medical statement. if you look at life expectancy, those born in 1960, the life expectancy now is about 70 years. those born in 2010, life expectancy is 78 years. so basically this doesn't make sense from that standpoint in the sense he's saying you would work forever. the average person would never be able to retire. the point is as we get older, we lose some of our mental faculties. yes, you can do things to help keep yourself sharp, but the question is, is it healthy for us to be working at that late stage and is it safe? i mean i particularly don't want a surgeon operating on my heart who's 79 years of age. so this also comes down to what profession you have, if you should be working full time. >> people do age differently. dr. amen, how do we stay sharp? >> we do brain imaging and look at 70,000 scans. it's very clear as you age your brain gets less and less active, but it doesn't have to. so not being overweight, exercising, eating the right food and keeping your mind engaged is all things that can slow or even what we've seen is reverse the aging process. >> dr. smith, you talked about, you know, should people versus can people and choosing versus requiring people to work until they're 80 and you pointed out there are certain professions where working until you're 80 doesn't really seem feasible. >> absolutely. whether or not someone who's 75 can conduct a particular job with a high skill level compared to someone who's 45, this is a competitive marketplace, is another question. there are some people who fear retiring. they fear once they stop moving and doing their thing, basically their life will be over. those types of people should wean themselves off work and maybe take three days. but to say we should work until we're 80, i think it's a little far-fetched. >> because there are examples of that, are there not, where people suddenly stop working and things change very quickly. >> well, my father is 83, still& the ceo of his company, and i think he works because he says when my friends retire, they tend to die. now, if you are engaged in your retirement, you're doing things you love, you're spending time with family, you have great hobbies, you know, that keeps that passion and motivation going. but if you have not taken good care of your brain, it's much harder to be sharper and to be engaged. things like alzheimer's disease actually start in the brain 20 or 30 years before you have any symptoms. so we need to be thinking about what's life going to be like for us when we're 80 when we're about 45. >> i know you've got to go but i just want to say i'd we remiss if i didn't say there's more to life than working. >> you can engage your brain in other ways besides work. >> absolutely. and the stress of work absolutely. >> and you wrote the book on happiness. dr. ian smith, dr. amen. by the way, happy father's day to your dad. how to stop overeating without government legislation. you're watching "cbs this morning." i mean it does look good. >> it's very appealing when we put it out on television that way. >> we'll be right back. ♪ [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil. here's one story. i'm keith baraka and i'm a fire fighter. it's an honor to be a fire fighter. my job involves life or death situations and it's very physically demanding. if i'm sore, i have a headache, i'm not at my best. i've tried store brands. advil just works for me. advil is my go to. it's my number one pain reliever. 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probably a lot. >> never. >> i don't believe that for one second. even that vocabulary went over well with mom and dad. >> i was a troublemaker, i'm telling you. later, coming up here, five wounded war heroes refuse to let their disabilities slow them down. they're going to tell us why good morning. saturday, june 9th, i'm gigi barnett. first, here's what people are talking about today. the fate of same-sex marriage in maryland is in the hands of voters. the state boors of elects is saying rainstorm gathered 7600 signatures. the highest numbers come from -- if voters approve same-sex marriage will be legal in maryland in january. a bear is causing concern about northern baltimore county this morning. the animal popped up this week in jacksonville. students and parents gathered at injury elementary school for a 5th grade graduation and the bear showed up. the school was put on lock down. now, the department of natural resources is saying calm. four workers are accused of stealing metal from the army facility. the stolen metal was worth $200,000 workers could face 10 ta15 years behind bars. here's a look at the exclusive eye witness news first warning five-day forecast. 91 degrees today. then tonight, 61 degrees. and mostly cloudy skies and tomorrow, 91 degrees. that's our report. i'm gigi barnett. thanks for joining us. have a safe weekend. these are ocean spray sparkling juice drinks. they have bubbles. it's real fruit juice; crisp, sparkling water; and no added sugar. and they come in these really cool cans. you want one? 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we look forward to chatting with kyree very soon. first our top story this mornig, the chaos in syria. anti-government activists say syrian forces bombarded the southern city of dura this morning killing at least 15 people. diplomats are trying to stem the violence but can they head off an all-out civil war. whit johnson is in washington with more from that angle, good morning to you. >> reporter: rebecca, good morning to you. well, there's a growing feeling of frustration and kbashs. it's been 15 ponts amonths and violence seems to be getting worse, not better. critics like senator john mccain have blasted the president for showing what he calls a lack of leadership on syria. mccain and others have called for some level of military intervention, whether it's arming the rebels or perhaps providing air support if necessary. for its part, the white house repeatedly has condemned the violence, has called for the assad regime to step aside, but still wants to give diplomacy a chance to work. u.n. envoy to syria kofi annan was actually here in washington yesterday meeting with secretary of state hillary clinton. most would agree that annan's six-point peace plan is clearly failing and annan acknowledged that yesterday but said that he and secretary clinton would try to discuss ways to either fix that plan or replace it altogether. in the meantime, u.s. diplomats are working feverishly to try to rally the support of the international community, specifically countries like russia and china, both close allies of the assad regime in syria. rebecca. >> whit johnson in washington, d.c. thanks. a taliban suicide bomber killed four french soldiers in afghanistan this morning. nato says the attack was in the mountainous eastern province in afghanistan. five other french soldiers were injured. france plans to withdraw most of its 3,000 troops from afghanistan by the end of this year. a man in southern california is being held on suspicion of felony child abuse after a video of him allegedly beating his stepson went viral on the internet. the video was secretly recorded and posted online by a neighbor. it shows the suspect, anthony sanchez, whipping the boy with a belt supposedly because he failed to catch a baseball. we all know there's no such thing as a free lunch but there is such thing as a $3.5 million lunch. that was the top hit on a private lunch with warren buffett. the winner chose to remain anonymous. the auction benefits a san francisco foundation that helps homeless men and women. >> warren buffett gets the goods for his lunches. >> lonnie. >> lonnie, would you be willing to pay $3 million to dine with anyone? >> what's for lunch? >> chump change. >> chump change. >> guys, also in the news, the belmont stakes today and another year without a triple crown winner because i'll have another is not going to be running. i'm going to take you right now to new york city. this is central park. well, what we've got over new ork city right bit of a haze, some high clouds. we'll call for a bit of a rain chance and that's important when i'm talking about new york city because just outside of new york city is where we find the racetrack in elmont, new york, just outside of kweequeens. it will be 77 degrees at belmont but otherwise it's a sun and cloud mix for the northeast. this cold front is going to be triggering some afternoon activity. again, it's a shower here or there, primarily north of the city. anywhere north of new york could see wet weather. bigger weather will develop around the southeast because that low-pressure system, you put some heating of the day on top of that and it will fire up big storms. also this front moving through the northern plains will also bring about some strong storms and those will bow fast movers, dumping a lot of rain very this weather segment sponsored by sensodyne pronamel. all right, everybody, wherever you are all across our fine country, please make it a wonderful saturday, enjoy it all. rebecca, over to you. after more than a decade of war, the brooavery of u.s. serve members continues to be inspiring. nearly 1500 veterans have lost limbs in iraq and afghanistan but that has not stopped many of them from setting their sights higher than ever. alaska's mt. mckinley reaches more than 20,000 feet into the sky, making it america's highest summit. beginning monday, a group of extraordinary men are going to climb to the top, proving the saying only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. the five are all wounded warriors, disabled veterans with just four good legs between them. this band of brothers has banded together for the denali challenge to race awareness to the difficulties faced by our wounded heroes. neil duncan lost both legs fighting in afghanistan, as did 42-year-old steve martin. 31-year-old david borden lost one leg fighting in iraq before redeploying to afghanistan. jesse acosta, 34, suffered permanent hip, leg and back damage in iraq. they will be hiking with 64-year-old kirk bauer, himself an above-the-knee amputee and the executive director of disabled sports usa. the group has been training for the climb in colorado and sets out on their journey tomorrow. it's hard to prepare for the conditions of mt. mckinley, where the temperature can reach 40 below zero with wind speeds of 150 miles per hour. but these are men who have already weathered the toughest of storms. and with us now, we are honored to el welcome jesse acosta and kirk bauer. first of all, thank you for the sacrifices that you have both made, but also thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, rebecca. >> how do you come up with something like this? >> well, disabled sports usa and the war fighters sports program was started when the war in iraq was declared. we basically started out by teaching the wounded warriors sports skills so they could use that to help rebuild their lives and get back into sports again. but not too long into the program, the war fighters started demanding more strenuous exertions and more strenuous activity because they really wanted to test the limits of their capabilities. so we started entering them into 26-mile hikes in the desert and 197-mile relay races from the top of mt. hood and they loved it. then one of the warriors came to me a couple of years ago and said i want to try to climb kilimanjaro and that was sort of the ultimate. we successfully did that with two double leg amputees and myself so we had one good leg between us then. and then it just -- then that just really created a demand. so this venture is going to be much tougher because denali or mt. mckin low has a lot of snow and ice, deep snow, slick ice, crevasses and it's going to be a real challenge to see if these wounded warriors can make it up with their artificial prosthesis and the injuries they received in battle. >> captain acosta, what made you want to do this? >> two things. i think one, the sheer challenge of being able to overcome an obstacle, a perceived limitation. my particular injuries, the entire team, we all have injuries that have limitations, so as a team climbing up the mountain together is just overcoming that obstacle, the individual obstacles that we perceive within ourselves and the obstacles that we as a team have together. and to be candid, i think it's probably one of the most challenging obstacles we could have come up with. so hopefully the idea is to overcome, at least address those limitations as well as inspire to others what is possible. >> and you will be a team. how did you put this group of men together? >> well, we at disabled sports usa really hand picked these guys to do this climb. we looked not so much for skill but we looked for positive mental attitude, a self confidence and a real striving to want to better themselves. all of them in their own lives have tried to be better, both in their professional lives and in their sports lives, and endurance. being willing to really get out there and hike and move for 12 and 13 hours. that was the core of the guys that we picked. david -- captain borden is a perfect example. when i talked to him, he had already lost a leg in iraq from an ied and now he was redeploying and going back to afghanistan. i said you've got what it takes to get up this mountain. when he got back from afghanistan, he started training with us. but that's the kind of characters that these folks have. i think it's going to get them to the top. >> there's been a lot of attention lately on the crowds, the sheer number of people climbing mountains luike everes and the fact that has led to unfortunate incidents. does that concern you at all? >> i think at some point it does. the mountain is a lot more regulated than a lot of mountains elsewhere, so combine that with a phenomenal guiding team taking us up. a lot of experience we have as individuals and as a team getting up. i think we feel very safe. you have seen other incidents in the press lately with respect to other bigger mountains, other smaller mountains, but i think alaska, denali in general do a good job of regulating that so i think we're in good shape. >> well, we wish you the absolute best on your journey. thank you for sharing your story with us, and we really look forward to checking in with you from the mountain as you climb. >> look for warfightersports.org and you'll find out. >> absolutely. best wishes. we look forward to hearing from you soon. and coming up next, from hoeless to harvard. a north carolina teen was abandoned by her parents, but she did more than survive. she thrived. and her inspirational story is coming up next. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." 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>> counting harvard, five. >> how many schools did you get into? >> all of them. >> and which one are you going to? >> harvard. >> reporter: she wants to study biology and said the adversity she faced just made her more determined. >> a lot of people use bad situations as an excuse. instead of doing that, i used them as motivation. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning saturday," i'm nancy cordes, lawndale action south carolina. dawn, it is wonderful to have you here with us in studio. >> thank you. >> congratulations. you graduated on thursday. what was it like to walk across that stage? >> when i first started walking across, i was thinking smile, smile. but when everyone stood up and started clapping and cheering, i was thinking don't cry, don't cry, don't cry. >> and you held out. you didn't cry. >> i did afterwards. >> you did afterwards. >> after the ceremony. >> you smiled while it was happening, though. tell me a little bit more about what you plan to do this summer. >> i plan on working and spending time with friends and family. >> and exploring new york city today, by the way. first time? >> yes. >> what is it that motivates you? how do you get this drive? where do you find it? >> when i was younger, i was able to look around at the way my family was living, at the drug abuse and neglect, the overall bad choices, and i was able to make a decision for myself that i was not going to end up like that. and i knew that education is the only way to get out of poverty. >> you found that out from inside. was there someone guiding you? your grandma is here with you today. >> yes. my grandma raised me until i was 12. i'm eternally grateful for that. i feel like if she had not raised me, i would not be the same person, because when we were younger, she always told us how important education was. she always had crafts around the house to stimulate our imaginations. we watched history channel with her and she really explained the importance of an education to my brother and i. >> can we get a shot of grandma, by the way? i think she's in our green room. there she is. >> there she is, the inspiration. >> there's the inspiration right there. and you're, by the way, trying to be an inspiration right now for your sisters, 11 and 12 years old. >> yes. >> are you concerned about their futures? >> i have two amazing sisters, alexis and kylie. and they are doing amazing in school right now. alexis is really big on the academic, kylie is more on the athletic and she does dance. i want to be a good role model for them because they don't have really positive influences in their lives. i want to be someone they can look up to and i want them to be able to know that they can do anything. >> dawn loggins, you're an inspiration. >> to a lot of people. >> thank you for coming in this morning. >> thank you for having me. up next, it is do or die for miami as the heat take on the celtics in game seven of the nbc's eastern semifinals. we're going to talk with nba rookie of the year kyrie irving. a laundry list of inspirational st ♪ me and my friends, da da da da da ♪ ♪ me and my friends, da da da da da ♪ "with my friends, randy and phil." nothing brings friends together like chili's triple dipper for dinner. lose those lines, for up to a year! juvéderm® xc, is the gel filler your doctor uses to instantly smooth out lines right here. temporary side effects include redness, pain, firmness, swelling, bumps, or risk of infection. ask your doctor about juvéderm® xc. ♪ [ [ barks ] [ announcer ] all work and no play... will make allie miss her favorite part of the day. 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>> it's definitely tough. you know, we had a goal that we wanted to make the playoffs. it didn't work well for us this season once andy got hurt but obviously we have a few years to rebuild. especially this draft is important for us. >> tell me what happens tonight. >> i have the heat winning it. i have the heat winning it. >> the whole thing? >> yeah, i do. i do. >> really? >> uh-huh. >> if you are guarding lebron james, what do you have to do? >> honestly, there's not really a way you can stop him. i feel like he's if not the best player in the league right now, he's playing like it, especially the last game, 45 points. >> have you had a chance to talk to him? >> not recently. i haven't talked to him since the end of the season. he congratulated me on my rookie of the year. i'm just wishing him good luck tonight. >> what do you make of the position that lebron and dwyane wade and the heat are in? obviously not everybody is a fan, as you know well, as you've seen when they come to play in cleveland. how do you think they're handling that and how do you think that affects their game? >> you know, to have so much talent on one team is kind of unheard of. other than okc and san antonio, that's why they're in the finals, eastern conference and western conference. having so much talent, especially what happened and the decision and all that. it kind of just took a change, especially for lebron's corner and d wade. i felt like everybody was against the miami heat. but it is what it is. >> but the pressure, do you think they handle it the right way? there are times when they don't come out and hold their press conferences right. are they frustrated? are they upset? do they just not want to deal with the questions? >> honestly, i'm an outsider looking in like you guys, i don't have the perfect answer. honestly, they're figuring it out over in miami. >> what are the chances you and lebron james play for the cavs some day together? >> i have no idea honestly. >> a lot of speculation about it. >> we're not sure what the future holds, so we'll see. >> but hopefully. >> that's what you're saying. you know, we'll see. >> you've been well trained. >> kyrie irving, you've done a fantastic job in cleveland. congratulations to you, sir. the prediction is that the heat win tonight from kyrie irving and they beat the thunder in the nba finals as well. >> yes, sir. nba finals as well. >> yes, sir. com[ male announcer ] are you paying more and more and more for cable -- and enjoying it less? 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i've never had one. let's be honest, i'm going to be trying it the first time. also singer song writer shawn colvin is here. she'll perform her new hit single and then sing her grammy-winning single, "sunny came home." >> lonnie is home with rebecca and jeff. you know what, guys, today is, today is june the 9th. and that is national get outdoors day. here we are right here, gang. nice to be with you. let me get you outside. here's your picture of new york. you're looking over one of our skyscrapers in construction but it's national get outdoors day. here's how it works. it began in 2007. it's no secret, americans spending less time outside. this is the day we encourage you to get outside, reconnect with nature. you have lots of spots all across the country where you can do just that. i do see some wet weather along the northern tier of the country in spots, also along the southeast. but a good swath of the country with beautiful weather out there. and this is your zip date forecast where the city matches the zip code -- or the date matches the zip code and that is for 60912, beaverville, illinois, 88 degrees with the sunshine. so get outside. that's a quick look at the national picture. a closer look at weather for your weekend. all right, everybody, it is that time. time for my shoutout. my shoutout goes to scottsdale, arizona, where it will be 103 degrees with the sunshine out there and this is actually perfect weather for their mighty mud mania. go there just to get dirty, folks, because it's all about mud. there's a mud obstacle course you can get dragged through them. there are three mud pits and even a mudville town toddlers. >> that's it for me. >> this morning we're quicking off our summer reading series called "between the sheets." >> for the past two decades dan has written about his sometimes awkward transition from dude to dad and he talks about that in his new book called "dan gets a minivan." the book is published by simon and schuster which is owned by cbs. >> this 20-something hipster guy pulls up to me at a red light. he starts laughing at me. i'm like no, dude, look at you. you don't even have any cup holders. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. >> we need cup holders up here on the set. >> seriously. i envy all of those cup holders. >> dan zevin, good morning. >> good morning. >> you have how many kids? >> i have two. >> and it was a progression here from not having any kids. you were living where at that time? >> we were living in brooklyn, in the coolest neighborhood of brooklyn. now i'm a suburban dad driving around in a minivan. >> can you be a dude and a dad at the same time? >> yes. i have hot rod flames on my minivan. very cool. >> was that an initial thing or an after the fact, oh, how do i cool this up? >> it's my midlife crisis car. i got the idea for this book before i had the minivan. i was packing the trunk. i'm the first writer who got the idea for a book packing the trunk of his car. it was a small sedan and we were taking the kids to visit their cousins down in maryland and there was so much stuff. there was the jolly jumper seat and the bouncy seat and the spinning seat and the vibrating seat and the porta crib and i'm thinking we've outgrown this car. and then i'm thinking, no, we've outgrown this life. the minivan was the gateway drug to suburbia to me. >> and so much of "dan gets a minivan" is the gateway drug and the lifestyle, really the changes that you individually go through but also that your children go through. >> you know, i think that one of the big reasons that i wrote this book is because none of us thought anything would change when we had kids, right? i don't know about you, jeff -- >> jeff is a father. >> things change. everything changes. >> is really is everything changes. >> and i think that's what i'm trying to share. this book is just small, funny moments that none of us saw coming before we had kids. >> because people say things don't change generally speaking when you get married, right? i told you that as well. that's when things change, when they arrive. and the difference between the first and the second? >> they're both equally great. >> no, no. of course the diplomatic answer. i'm talking about the change and the complications in your life and also how that affected your writing. >> you know, it's funny, the biggest change for me in becoming a dad is i used to be named dan and now i'm named leo and josie's dad. even at the playground people go oh, leo and josie's dad, i'm johnny and janie's dad. do you know gina's mom here? so i think i had to put my name in the title of the new book. >> do your kids ever call you dan? >> they do call me dan but it -- it's close to dad, almost the same spelling. >> a lot of kids go through that phase. >> they say jeff and i'm like that's not my name, buddy. >> there's a difference between being a dad and being a buddy. >> that's a very fine line and always remember that one. >> great book. >> thank you very much. coming up next, she introduced america to the gastrol pub and april bloomfield dishes about the spotted pig in her recent book. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." 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>> no, that's new to me. >> we're glad that you're here. >> thanks for having me. i'm so excited to be having ribeye. >> what else did you bring? >> this is an aged ribeye that is my favorite, my ultimate comfort foods. i cook comfort food at the spotted pig, so this is like a ribeye that's cooked medium rare, a little mashed potatoes. a little bit of swiss chard and roasted vegetables. >> ribeye your favorite cut of meat? >> by far. >> it is delicious and i like how you kept it nice and bloody. >> you've got to keep it a little medium rare. >> it's interesting, your background is england. that's where you grew up. >> yes. >> a lot of people, they don't necessarily have the best associations when it comes to food. >> we get a bad rap. >> what are you saying, rebecca? >> i'm just suggesting what a handful of people have suggested to me over the years. here you are preparing amazing food. do you ever feel a sense of pressure or a sense of desire to prove people wrong? >> no, not really. hopefully my food will speak for itself, you know. and people will enjoy it, basically. but we get a bad rap, english people, you know. >> do you think it's justified? >> i think it was probably justified, but i think it's changed now with the likes of jamie oliver kind of bringing that great food, you know, to the forefront as the english population. >> three restaurants now. when you go in, do you just follow your instincts when you're about to open a new one, do you follow some sort of plan? how do you figure out what kind of food you focus on. >> i kind of have a plan but sometimes the plans go off in their own direction and you end up with something a little bit different so it's good to have the guidelines, but it's good to be creative and flexible at the same time. >> because as rebecca will testify, the places you open become these huge -- we both know they're huge -- these are hot spots. >> right, right. >> it can be very difficult to get a seat. it just becomes this big enormous experience. >> right. >> how do you create that, and how do you keep that going? >> i think it's a combination of great food. you know, i have a great business partner and we're a great team. i don't know, it's just kind of like this great energy that we create. sometimes we don't know how we do it. you know, it's just very natural. >> mario batali is part of the reason that you came here in the first place. >> yes, that is true. i came over for a whirlwind weekend of eating in new york and i had to kind of wobble back onto the plane on my way back to england and ken dropped me off with a big pa traustrami sandwi. it was amazing and i devoured it all. i was very stuffed. >> if you could have this meal with anyone, who would it be? >> probably my family. i miss my family. actually they're going to come over in december. they're going to go to the adirondacks. i'll probably be doing something like this, nice and comforting. >> can you tell us about this dessert? >> this is a really great english dessert. strawberries, a bit of cream and a little bit of meringue. >> it is delicious. >> it is divine. >> april bloomfield, thank you so much. for more on chef april and the dish, go to cbsnews.com/cbsthismorning. up next, shawn colvin is here to perform her new hit single and her grammy-winning song, "sunny came home." you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." stick around. ♪ [ male announcer ] if you suffer from heartburn 2 or more days a week, why use temporary treatments when you can prevent the acid that's causing it with prevacid24hr. with one pill prevacid24hr works at the source to prevent the acid that causes frequent heartburn all day and all night. and with new prevacid24hr perks, you can earn rewards from dinner deals to music downloads for purchasing prevacid24hr. prevent acid all day and all night for 24 hours with prevacid24hr. prevent acid all day and all night for 24 hours it's real fruit juice; crisp, sparkling water; and no added sugar. and they come in these really cool cans. you want one? 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"sunny came home." ♪ sunny came home to her favorite room ♪ ♪ sunny sat down in the kitchen ♪ ♪ she opened a book and a box of tools ♪ ♪ sunny came home with a mission ♪ ♪ she says days go by i'm hypnotized ♪ ♪ i'm walking on a wire ♪ i close my eyes and fly out of my mind into the fire ♪ ♪ sunny came home with a list of names ♪ ♪ she didn't believe in transcend ence ♪ ♪ she didn't believe in transcend ence ♪ ♪ time for a,,,,,,,,

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