is finally traced back to a farm and health officials more problems could be traced to bad cantaloupe shipped to 17 states. and it's out with the old and in with the new as "two and a half men" ends its with charlie sheen and debuts ashton kutcher. we will have all the highlights. it's september 20th 2011. captioning funded by cbs and a very good tuesday morning, everyone. >> if you caught "two and a half men" last night, you caught a lot of laughter. >> yes yes. if you dvv'ed we won't spoil too much. it was insult upon injury. >> plus you had john stamos. if you haven't seen it yet, check that out. >> and we begin with a historic day for the u.s. military. the controversial don't ask, don't tell policy expired at midnight. david martin has more on this dramatic change in policy. >> reporter: after 18 years of controversy, don't ask, don't tell died at the stroke of midnight. from now on, gays can serve openly in the military and the 13,000 who were discharged under don't ask, don't tell can re-enlist. >> no longer will our country be denied the service of thousands of patriot americans who were forced to leave the military because they happen to be gay. >> reporter: president clinton first tried to repeal the ban on gays but ran to the objections of collin powell. a year ago, president obama had the chairman of the joint chiefs on his side. admiral mcmullen was the decisive voice calling for the rel pea of don't ask don't tell. >> we have in place a pomz which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens. >> reporter: there are thousands of gay men and women in uniform. as one of them said this will be the first day that i can be open and honest about who i am. david martin cbs news the pentagon. we want to move to the latest on the budget mess. the congressional super committee in charge of the budget is meeting today. >> and cbs news white house correspondent bill plan is here with us in new york for a special treat. good morning. >> good morning. knight nice to be here. with his approval rating sinking and his xhb in the doldrums the president has been under pressure to step up his game. he may be listening. his speech yesterday was aggressively populist. he threatened to veto any kidz cuts on medicare unless there are tax changes for the wealthy. >> the speaker says we can't have it my way or the highway and then basically says my way or the highway. that's not smart. it's not right. >> reporter: speaker john boehner fired back accusing the president of divisiveness. >> i don't believe that class warfare is leadership. and, you know we could get into this tax the rich, tax the rich but that is not -- that's not the basis for america. and it's not going to get our economy going again and it's not going to put people back to work. >> reporter: the president is asking congress to cut $3.6 trillion from the deficit over ten years, half of that coming from tax increases on the wealthy, including a new tax on millionaires known as the buffett rule. after billionaire warren buffett who says it's not fair that his tax race is lower than his secretary's. >> this is not class warfare. it's math. the money is going to have to come from some place. >> reporter: the president's populist stance on taxes comes as a new book suggests he was ill served by dissension in his economic team during the economic bailout in the early months of his presidency treasury secretary timothy geithner was asked about the book. >> i haven't read this book, but to borrow a phrase i live the reality. and the reports i've read about this book bear no resemblance to the reality we live together. no resemblance. >> well the odds are that there's another person who won't be reading that book or paying any attention, the president. he is here in new york today at the u.n. meeting with other heads of state. of course, the big issue this year at the u.n. is the palestinian bid to get the u.n. to declare them a state, despite the fact that they have no agreement with israel. jeff. >> you'll be watching that bill. thank you very much. >> thanks, bill. our white house officials mentioned in that controversial new book confidence men" are crying foul, as well. one of them is austin gouldsby. good morning. >> good morning. my pleasure. >> this book paints a lot of dissension within the economic advisory council that president obama initially put together. summers and geithner continually, according to this book overlook what the president wants and expects. was there any of that happening when you were there? >> well not really. i haven't read -- to be fair the book is just coming out today. i haven't read the book and i don't plan on buying it. but from the reports that i've read that characterize the president as if he weren't in charge, i think that's ridiculous. the time i was in the white house, sure, it's a big organization and people got different views and they would present those views before the president, but the president fundamentally was the guy making the decisions and all the times when i saw somers and geithner if the president said here is what i've decide we are going to do, they did it. >> so was the president who decided not to dissolve citigroup in march 2009 after he gave the order to treasury secretary geithner to do so? >> well i saw that reported that it was in the book but i think that is just factually wrong. it wasn't -- the president didn't give the order, go dissolve citigroup and then the treasury say no. if you remember, back at that moment, they were doing the stress tests on the banks, which was the test to determine whether they were -- they had inadequate capital and the stress test something took like eight weeks. nobody was talking about dissolving anyone before the stress test is done. you had to have the numbers so that there wouldn't be a run on every other bank as they said oh, no if they're going to dissolve banks without even doing the test where are we? i think they just kind of got the -- the author of this book got the timing mixed up. that wasn't the way that occurred. >> so the president never say dissolve citigroup to the treasury secretary? >> correct, correct. >> i want to take a turn and talk about the economy here. right now, the president has a in proposal on the table. $3.6 trillion in deficit cuts. a lot of it focusing on medicare cuts and medicare and medicaid spending and also these increases in tax rates on the super wealthy americans. is it, in your opinion, a good idea to start raising taxes on anyone when the economy is barely growing and unemployment is 9.1%? >> well in the -- i looked at the proposal you're talking about, and it looks like none of the tax increase were coming right away when the economy was, you know still trying to re-ignite. the taxes were well in the future not until 2013 and after that. i think the -- from what i read the essence of the thing was trying to be balanced that you would have some spending cuts you would cut discretionary spending, you would cut defense, you would cut entitlements and you'd raise some revenue because we have had the feature that very high income people's tax rate is the lowest its been in something like 60 years. that was the reasoning. and i do think that a balanced approach is better than a one-sided approach. >> just one last point, austin. the white house, in their estimates, say that unemployment is going to be at 9% by the end of next year. so even if these increases come in 2013 they're going to come at a time when the economy is still in a precarious position. >> well, i think the -- i'm not sure that the general forecasts are an unemployment rate as high as you say. but it's clearly going to be too high. but i think the essence is how fast is the economy growing? you either have to decide you think that the long run deficit is too big and try to cut it or you can say, well we're just going to ignore the deficit for however many years it takes to get the unemployment rate back down. i think in the short run you have to do that. >> we appreciate you being with us austin gouldsby thank you. >> thank you. now we bring in douglas holtz-eakin. he's now president of american action forum. good morning to you, professor. >> good morning. >> let's talk about these tuts that are on the table. you have the cuts that are on the table, the 3.6 trillion in deficit cutting. what's your name on the ttd president's proposal inspect. >> i think it misses him three ways. first first of all, a lot of the spending reductions are the presumed rolldown of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. that's going to happen, anyway. that's not really a new proposal and he's counting it anyway. second is on the tax front the president has been eloquent about the need for tax reform. those words are the right words but the proposals he's put out the buffett rule temporary tax breaks, are all things that compliment the tax code and move us away from tax reform. it would be nice to see proposals that mamped his words. the real failing is it doesn't take on the future growth in the entirement programs. social security is running rampant, medicare is entirely deficit financed. we need a social safety net that is durable for the future. we can't afford the red ink that those programs are generating. his proposals on medicare are all waste, fraud and abuse and we know that that is not what it takes. at this point in our history we need the leadership on the big problems and that is the potential for a debt crisis and the entitlement programs. >> i want to come back to what a number of people have been saying and they're calling it class warfare. do you believe this is class warfare? >> i don't know what class warfare is. it's like fairness it's in the matter of the eye of the beholder. i know to have this economy grow, these proposals don't take us there. there's nothing about the buffett tax that is going to solve the biggest unfairness we face which is the gap between those who have a job and not who do not. >> douglas holtz-eakin, thank you for being with us. we now more over to betty celebrating the circus orange. >> i'm trying this morning. good morning to you. this morning, standard & poors decision to downgrade italy's rating, this morning, italy's leading bankers met at the treasury ministry. italy passed an unpopular austerity budget but s&p indicated it did not go far enough. s&p sees higher levels of government debt. a new audio message believed to be from mu march ga dafoammar ga gafwammar ga pastfy was broadcast this morning saying the bombing would not last. a powerful bomb rocked turkey this morning. there are unconfirmed reports the explosion contain from a mini bus. a deputy prime minister says 15 people were wounded. there was an explosion overnight in an oil rig this time in oklahoma. several homes were evacuated. a witness says there were several explosions but no confirmed injuries. a tenth person has died as a result of a crash of a world war ii era plane during a plane race in reno. investigator are examining the crash. one photo shows the p-a 51 lost a piece of its tail that helped stabilize the plane. off to new zealand, a monster catch of the day. it took jeremy almost two hours to reel in a huge blue finfin tuna on sunday. it weighed 670 pounds just short of a world record. he could have it sold to a seafood dealer for as much as $ $8,000, but instead, i had cut up for still ahead this morning, we are looking at the cantaloupe problems, the death toll is now four and it could go even higher from a listeria outbreak that's been traced to one colorado cantaloupe farm. we are going to bring you the latest on the efforts to contain the outbreak. and up next on a much lighter note sorry, charlie, ashton kutcher steps into the hit sitcom "two and a half men." we're going to check in on last night's premier. you're watching "the early show." probiotics go beyond digestive balance. and fruit & veggie has antioxidant properties. new pronutrients from centrum. help make nutrition possible. when you realize that depression has left you nowhere to go. when you've lost interest in everything. when you've had one too many days feeling sad or anxious... aches and pains, fatigue . when it becomes hard to ignore that you need help. that's the day you do something. depressi on hurts. cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing of the skin or eyes. talk with your doctor about your medicines, including those for migraine, or if you have high fever confusion and stiff muscles, to address a possible life-threatening condition. tell your doctor about alcohol use, liver disease and before you reduce or stop taking cymbalta. dizziness or fainting may occur upon standing. side effects include nausea, dry mouth, and constipation. is today your day? 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>> we're talking about a bacteria we normally find in association with deli meats, unpasteurized milk or deli products. it is unusual to be associated with fresh produce in this case. but it is a bacteria. in terms of what symptoms it can cause, typically things that are very flu like. they can be easily misinterpret but you could have fever, stiff neck, muscle aches, a headache gastrointestinal symptoms. in most people this is grg to be mild. in certain people this could be severe, even deadly particularly pregnant women. this could cause anything from pre preterm labor, illness -- >> treatment? >> most cases will be mild. severe cases, you're talking about needing antibiotics, possibly hospitalization. but the best treatment, of course, is prevention. practice safe handling food practices always. use bags that separate your produce from your meats. read the labels. if something says fringe rate after opening and when in doubt throw it out. things should not be kept out for more than two hours. try not to reheat things. if you have to smell it to tell whether it's still good, don't eat it. >> it's not typically associated with cantaloupe listeria but if we could step out, the number of food borne illnesses every year, put that into perspective. >> one in six americans, that translates to 30 million people 3,000 of whom will die from food borne related complications. so the disease trackers tcdc will be watching this closely. >> thanks for breaking it all down. good morning. we have showers in the area, but maybe not necessarily your neighborhood. let's take a look at first warning doppler radar. it's a pretty good slug of moisture but it's not a ton of rain. i think over the course of the next seven or eight hours maybe a tenth of an inch of rain. having said that, there's your radar returns. 75 today maybe a thunderstorm up next a look at morning's news relationship with mexico. mexican president felipe calderon joins us in studio to say how mexico and the u.s. might be able to help each other, especially when it comes to the jobs. called atrial fibrillation or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem? 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>> i'm talking about market alternatives, market solutions. the point is the astro notticnomical -- that the criminals have coming from the consumption of the united states must be addressed. and my point is either we reduce consumption or we need more alternatives more solutions to analyze and among them of course, we need to include the market alternatives the. >> immigration reform, what should the u.s. do right now? >> well i know that president obama is working really hard on that. my perception is that mexico our people are contributing to the prosperity of this great nation during almost a century. there is a very important point that i want to raise. if you analyze for instance the research from princeton university, the rate of immigration of the united states coming from mexico is almost reaching zero and probably negative in the last year. why? because there are a lot of new conditions. one is the improvement of social opportunities for young people, schools, and jobs opportunities we have created last year more than 800,000 new jobs in mexico. we grew at 5.4%. so the net -- the rate of immigration to u.s. from mexico people is almost zero right now. but that implies that we are doing -- or pardon that but it is necessary to establish a new legal framework in order to solve the situation of the people who is living here in the united states. >> you bring up your country's growth. more than two times as fast as the united states growth right now, thanks in part to manufacturing and the new jobs being created there. with the immigration issues that your country faces as well as the drug war that's taking place, the violence that's taking place right now, if those two issues are not to be addressed and to be addressed soon, is there a chance that that growth is at risk down the road? >> well let me tell you, somebody called this -- how is possible with such image of violence is not only growing, but also achieving very important points in terms of education or health? for instance, let me tell you that we are almost reaching universal health coverage in mexico. so any single mexican will have a doctor, will have medicines, will have treatment, hospitals. i have built more than 1,000 new hospitals in mexico and a little bit more than four years. so we are growing and achieving very important results for mexican people. >> but when people in the united states look at the headlines, they see the deaths they see the 40,000 deaths that have taken place since 2006 and they wonder how did this stop? what do you think needs to be done to put an end to the violence? >> i already mentioned that it is important to reduce the flow of money going into the hands of the criminals. but the strategy has three parts. one is take it from the criminals to build new law enforcement institutions and to rebuild social fabric in mexico. we are working really hard on these three pieces and as well we persevere in that goal. to solve the problem is not a short-term solution, but there will be a solution and we are working on that. thank you, mr. president. we appreciate it. felipe calderon president of mexico. coming up next, small businesses are creating fewer jobs. is president obama's jobs bill the answer? 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[ male announcer ] ask the doctor about once-daily nonstimulant intuniv. president obama says his job plan puts a lot of emphasis on small business. more than half of the $447 billion plan is made up of tax incentives that he says can help small business owners. >> and we're talking about the possible impact of this plan with author and small business owner dave ramsey. his new book is called entra leadership. good to have you here. >> it's great to be here. >> you're a small business you're hiring right now. what is it going to take right now to get your companies doing what you're doing and is that in the president's plan? >> i think the president has a great orature. i love the fact that he's identified small business as the answer to the jobs program. that's awesome. all the tinkering, though as a small business guy, i resist the tax code telling me how to behave. i would rather you leave me alone, set up a stable environment and let me operate. a $4,000 tax credit is not going to help me hire people that i have to pay for the next three years. i'm going to hire people because i see that my business can win. >> so you're a huge fan of the buffett rule basically? >> one of them. >> can we talk about taxes? what do you think should happen? >> again, it's a small business free enterprise guy. really, 61% of americans work for small businesses. is that that is the answer to moving the economic needle and getting some healing and some recovery going on. i really honestly believe, as a practitioner, that the best thing to do is get out of our way. let us do our thing. we are natural animals that exist in this environment if you take the stuff off of it. >> what does that la like? getting out of the way, what needs to be in place and what does government's role need to be in this economy, if anything? >> government's role is not necessarily to engineer things with the tax code. it would be to push the taxes back from the edges and that's not so that millionaires make more money. that's not the point. i know that's the big thing going on. but that's so that as the owner of the business, i have more money, then i can hire people. it's a mathematical equation. >> a simplified tax code? >> a simplified tax code. i've got agencies coming at me from left and right and i only have 300 people hired. >> that is something, when you're on the smaller side any kind of regulation is going to hit you harder than if you're on the bigger side because you have to allocate more capital to being able to code with that regulation. small business is not hiring this go around like small business has hired previously coming out of recovery. do you think there's anything behind that other than what we've discussed already? do you think there's something about the type of business that small business is in that's keeping hiring so weak right now? >> no. it's about hope. by speaking hope into the nation and by setting up an environment where people believe again, then i go highre. it's not about giving me $4,000. >> really jobs are an enormous concern. you call the hiring process relational and not transactional. what does that mean? >> companies lose their soul when they treat their team members as units of production and not human beings. these people have children they have families, they've got a grandmother that has cancer. these people work on my team. they're my family. when you forget that in america, in business, you mess up your whole company culture. >> dave ramsey, etreleadership. check it out. help stop the damage before it stops you... ...with humira. for many adults with moderate to severe ra,... ...humira's proven to help relieve pain and stop joint damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events can occur, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, blood, liver, and nervous system problems,... ...serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. ask your doctor if you live or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you have had tb hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. ask your rheumatologist how you can defend against... ...and help stop further joint damage with humira. somebody found just one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. it is a gray day to start some raindrops on the lens and lots of colors on the radar. sharon will have the commute right after marty's weather. look at the motion of the rain shower activity if you will. figure out where you are if it's coming toward you. we're talking about not a ton of rain. that's moving this way. this is not brain surgery. i mean, i think we'll see over the next few hours pretty good shower activity. the forecast is talking about a tenth of an inch of moisture. 75 will be the high. also have to watch out for a thunderstorm. now over to sharon gibala. wjz tv traffic control. you will have to watch for a lot of delays. one of them on 70 eastbound at baltimore national pike. that one at pleasantville road. watch for delays 13 minutes from york road. nine minutes owings mills. 295 southbound. 44 minutes. there's a look at your drive times and speeds. huge delays, 42 minutes. a look at 95. this traffic report is brought to you by home paramount. call home paramount pest control at 888-888-home or log on to home paramount.com. as you've heard, don't ask don't tell is now history. the nearly two decade old history banning gays from serving openly in the military has been lifted. monique griego has the story. >> reporter: that change took effect at midnight ending decades of debate. in annapolis leaders from the top military academies responded by saying the change will not affect operations. students are ready for a positive transition. president obama signed the bill into law in december after fierce opposition from lawmakers who claimed the repeal would undermine discipline. service members who were discharged under the old law can reenlist. a 2-year-old is dead after being shot in the head. it was reported as a 911 call. investigators are still trying to figure out how and where the gun came from. stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. up next, how to ease your allergy symptoms and julianna margulies welcome back to "the early show." i'm rebecca jarvis with jeff glor. chris and erica are off this morning. friday is the first day of fall. you can feel it out there already. the summer flew by but when you go outside, you can feel the coolness, the crispness. >> it's crisp, it's football season, it's good. >> it's also allergy season and they're making people miserable. i am one of those people. >> so we're being told this is maybe the worst allergy season in years, thanks to all the rain especially in the northeast. where are you most likely to be affected? we're going to show you a list this morning of the hardest places to live if you have allergies and dr. jennifer ashton is back here. she's going to look at ways to make the allergy season a little better. >> i wonder if new york city is any of them. growing up in indianapolis i never had an issue and then i move here and -- >> it's just the traffic and the smell. >> it's the usual. it's the way things are here. first, we'll head to betty at the news desk. >> i feel like new york city has to be on the list. i've been feeling it. republicans are shooting down president obama's deficit reduction proposal. the president wants to cut $3.6 trillion in the deficit over ten years, half of that coming from tax increases on the wealthiest americans. social security would not be touched. but there would be cuts in medicare and medicaid. earlier, a former top economic adviser to the president told rebecca that to control the deficit, there needs to be cuts and an increase in revenue. >> very high income people's tax rate is the lowest it's been in year. i think a balanced approach is better than a one-sided approach. >> but the former director of the congressional budget office says it's not just taxes where the president missed the boat. it's the broken entitlement programs like social security and medicare. >> we need a social safety net that is durable for the future. we can't afford the red ink that those programs are generating. and the president took a pass on fixing them in any substantial way. >> the president is threatening to veto any plan sent to him that cuts medicare and medicine kay cade and does not raise taxes on wealthy merps. media mogul rupert murdoch may be close to paying millions of dollars to the family of a phone hacking victim. the case sparked a firestorm and anger in britain and led to arrests. charlie is in london with the latest on this. good morning, charlie. >> reporter: good morning to you, betty. murdoch's office confirmed to us negotiations are under way. they won't talk numbers, but it's up to $5 million, including more than $1 million donated to charity. the case of millie was the tipping point in the moisture do many dock empire's tapping scandal. eavesdropping on celebrities was one thing, but then reports emerged that a reporter hacked into the voice mail of a 13-year-old school girl. messages were deleted to make room for more. that gave her family false hope she was still alive. in fact she had already been murdered. the british public was horrified and angry. so were politicians who were soon baying for blood. rupert murdoch and his son, james, were summoned to parliament and made to squirm. the shocking revelations led to the closure of the "news of the world" and the resignation of rebekah brooks and others. murdoch personally apologized to millie's family when he met them in july. >> i was appalled to find out what had happened. >> if the $5 million figure is accurate, the cash settlement to the familiar and their chosen charity will dwarf previous payouts to hacking victims. it's understood the $1 million plus donation to charity will come out of murdoch's own pocket. rupert murdoch's personal fortune is estimated at more than $7 billion. the murdoch attorney said no amount of money is going to change what happened to millie or repair the damage done in the past. time it's going to be gray and 75 for the high. warmer with gray skies and showers around, and tonight partly cloudy with an overnight le of 60. more rain with a as we told you earlier, the don't ask, don't tell policy for gays in the military expired at midnight. that means 13,000 people forced to leave the military under the old rules are now free to reenlist. >> however one of them former air force major mike almy is choosing a different route. he has chosen to sue to be reinstated. >> it's good to have you here. your thoughts, the fist day? >> it's a little bittersweet, i must say. it's a tremendous step forward towards equality for all gay and lesbian americans it's obviously long overdue. it's something that most of the rest of our allies have long since changed their policies. it came a few years too late for me as well as the 13,000 other americans and tens of thousands of americans before 1993 when this became a law. >> you served our country for 13 years. >> 13 years, correct. >> now as we mentioned, you're suing to be reinstated. you're not just re-enlisting. why? >> for poem like myself who still want to get back into the military, they have to be physically qualified as well as the military still has to have a need for them. retention is at an all-time high right now as a result of the economy. more people are staying in the military which translates to opportunities for people like myself who want to get in. we filed this lawsuit last year last december before repeal was finally enacted. so at the time we weren't sure what was going to happen in the lame duck session of congress last season. >> what do you think the transition is going to be like? >> for me personally or all a whole? >> for the military as a whole. a nonevent or a big one? >> there's two answers for that. for lgbt americans, this is a historic milestone. now gays and lesbians can serve honestly and openly in the military with full integrity and have this 50 pound weight i have theed off their back the constant fear that they could be fire any day if someone misreads an e-mail. that fear is now gone. for straight americans, for straights who are in the military, i think it's going to be a nonevent, which is a good thing, which highlights that gays and lesbians are already serving there. in many cases, they're open and it's had no detrimental effect to the mission. if anything, it's enhanced the mission. >> this repeal has just happened. there are others says more needs to be done. >> yes. >> what do you think needs to we done? >> this is a watershed moment. we now have marriage equality in several states, new york massachusetts, washington, d.c., and yet as of today, you can have service members legally married in their state of residence and have no benefit, no recognition from the military, things such as health care insurance. if a military member was to go overseas, they couldn't take their spouse with them. >> appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you for your time. thanks for having me. up next here allergies. we're being told it may be the worst season ever. >> lucky us. >> jen ashton joins us with tips on how you can get through it. you're watching he ises. 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how is that? >> court. these people don't really know how you think. >> but you do? >> i hate to tell you this but we're going to be -- >> good luck with that. >> icy. >> well yeah. i think now what gets interested in this season is that i go up against his office constantly. so -- and he's really trying to run a clean office this time. he feels like he's been given a second chance and alicia is sort of -- not that she's going to the dark side but she's going to win a case any way she can, so the tables are turned a little bit. yeah. >> it's tough. so 16 years since you won your other emmy for er. >> thank you very much. >> that's quite a while. clearly, you've had some other roles. is this the one you were always looking for, good wife? >> you know you always looking for something that's interesting and that's challenging. and television celebrates women in that way. with film, it's a little different in terms of the options that people are given, actresses are given. and the few times i've done film, i've had a really good time in those characters, but this is a character that i find the most challenging and most fun to play because she's so far away from who i am personally. >> she is. >> she is. i wish i could be a little bit more like her. she's incredibly -- she's incredibly articulate and thinks before she speaks and she has great answers, you know? she's a lawyer. >> scripted tv at least. >> she does have this relationship with her children, though, and it's one that you alluded to at the emmys. sara michelle geller actually contacted you, talked about this in an interview saying how do you balance work and motherhood and it's something you do on the show and it's also something that you do in real life. what did you tell sara michelle geller when she asked you, how do you do it? >> she was very sweet because i think her anxiety about being a lead in a network show where you're doing 23 episodes a year and being a new mom, she's a must mom, was daunting. and i said, look i'm not going to kid you, it's a lot of work but it's doable. you just have to balance it out. and, you know i said but be prepared. you have to be an almostan. you have to stay in great shape, eat well be there all the time for your kid on your moments of leisure. >> and realize that you can't always control everything. >> you have to let go of control, which is hard. >> that is especially on their first day of school and you can't dress them. but yes. >> you let go. >> you're not going to cry again. >> no, honestly, and kiera cedric said this to me my first day on work on this show. she e-mailed me and said i know you're panicking. kiran was only 14 months at the time. my daughter would never have the relationship she has with her father if i had been around all the time. and it does it makes the father and child bond. >> woman: downloading music can be expensive. so to save money, i trained my dog and this cockatoo to play all the hits of the '80's woman: hit it, mr. butters. ♪ ♪ ♪ take on me... ♪ ♪ ....take on me ♪ ♪ take me on... ♪ anncr: there's an easier way to save. get online. go to geico.com get a quote. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. it appears to be raining east of downtown. sharon's got the rush. >> we've been talking all morning, getting up and joining us. we have showers in the forecast and the computer model is not printing out a ton of moisture. having said that we are seeing some heavier shower activity in the region right now. i want to expand radar out and let's see what may be sitting back to the west. keeping in mind that about elkton is where our current scan is going to come to an end. take a look at the forecast. i think it's going to be a wet day. keep the umbrella handy. if it ends up being mostly cloudy a high of 75 degrees low 60s. let's send it over to sharon gibala. good morning. good morning everyone. it's a busy one. a new accident on the beltway the latest one at eastern boulevard. it is causing a backup on the inner loop. we have the crash on 70 eastbound at baltimore national pike. 17 minutes on the jfx and about a 45-minute delay between route 100 and route 530. speeds in the teens with a very long drive time. now the east side is jammed because of the accident on the inner loop at eastern boulevard. this traffic report is brought to you by aaa. the don't ask don't tell policy banning gays from openly serving in the midnight expired at midnight, including local installations. here's monique griego. >> reporter: that change ended decades of debate. annapolis leaders from the top leadership academies already responded by saying the change will not affect operations and students are ready for a positive transition. president obama signed the law into december after fierce opposition from lawmakers. service members who were discharged under the old law can now reenlist. aruban authorities have reenacted what may have happened to robyn gardner. gardner's travel companion gary giordno remains in custody. he claims she drowned while the two were snorkeling off the beach. the government doesn't want constellation energy to merge with exelon. it asked state regulators to reject the plans in the combined companies can prove they can provide reliable service to customers. up next, a look at today, patricia is always outspoken. >> are you insecure about anything? >> hair is falling out in certain places and growing in other places that it shouldn't be. so you're looking at a pumpkin patch, but i can only spot one, maybe two hiding there. should be full of pumpkins right now, but it's not. >> is it almost halloween, are you serious? >> it is almost halloween and there is a pumpkin shortage because of the rain we've been getting, hurricane irene, tropical storm lee. the pumpkins, underground. >> you think the rain would help but it hasn't. it's a huge opportunity for pumpkin grow hers across the country. we'll find out if there might be difficulty getting pumpkins this year. also ahead, we have some news. if you like ketchup, no shortage of these. heinz has been trying to improve on those foil frustrating packets for a long time. they finally say they have the solution. the squeeze and dip, dip & squeeze. >> notice a dance move. >> it's coming out. we're going to hear what customers are saying and we'll take a dip ourselves. >> sounds like fun. also 16-year-old golf pro lexi thompson made history this weekend becoming the youngest player ever to win an lpga championship. she thinks she could have won calm years ago. she's going to talk about life on tour and her dad caddying by her side. >> one a couple hundred thousand dollars. >> she might need that for the pumpkin headlines these day. >> no pumpkins? you're kidding me. something must be worked out. good morning, everyone. there is fresh violence in yemen this morning. at least nine people have been killed as government forces crackdown on government protesters and that brings the death toll to at least 60 in three straight days of fighting. protesters are trying to force president assad from power. new video may help in the investigation of what caused friday's airplane crash in reno. >> shocking newly obtained amateur video of friday's airplane crash in reno captures the horror and carnage of that around. and it happened yards away from bob kraft and his son, steven. >> it hit like a bomb. like a freight train. the sound and the furry, and it was over so fast. but it was an explosion more than an impact. >> he's been in combat for the last few years in afghanistan and i haven't had an opportunity to come. i really thought when the airplane came over the top that we were not going to make it. >> the one thing i remember seeing is the nose the front of the aircraft coming straight down right at us. >> did you think it was going to hit you? >> there was no doubt in my mind that it was going to hit us and we were going to die. >> steven captured these pictures of the mayhem. >> people were taking belts off, people were trying to cover the wounds. it was incredible. >> people had begun applying tourniquets. people were coming up going, what can i do? what can i do? the biggest thing was i need your help. >> emergency news julie boringan was working in a nearby first aid booth. >> most of the people were critically injured and in so much shocked that they were silent. the hardest part was going back and looking at some of those injuries knowing that some of those people weren't going to live no matter what we did. >> reporter: dozens of people joined her. >> everybody dropped everything to save people. that's what america is about. that's what we did. >> that means a lot. >> it does to me. >> karen brown, cbs news, reno, nevada. hollywood is mourning delores hope's life. she's the widow of bob hope. bob and dolores were at the dedication of her star right next to his. mrs. hope gave up a career as a singer when they married and moved to hollywood. they were married for almost 70 years. she died yesterday in los angeles. delores hope was we've got rain in the region. earlier on we've been discussing computer models. let's take a look at the first warning doppler radar. it's not showing a ton of heavy rain. we're in the midst of area wide activity. there's a whole lot more and getting ready to press towards our region. go for so i've got a question for you. you go to mcdonald's, do you ever take a couple ketchup packets with you a little extra for later? >> rnd the seats. >> they could be a collector's item coming up. there is a big change for america's top ketchup. heinz is giving up its ketchup packets, or rather giving them a makeover. and it's good news for consumers and bad news for dry-cleaners. >> it's an american as apple pie, burgers and fries. since 1968, the way most hungry consumers dress their fast food is with several single sloppy serve packets. >> i hate when it explodes on you. >> now, more than 40 years later, heinz has unveiled a new ketchup packet called the dip & squeeze. and this redesigned ketchup container does everything its name implies. from one end the lid can be peeled out for dipping and on the other end, it can be opened like a bottle for squeezing. it holds three times more than the current catchup. chick-filet began carrying them earlier this year. customers at this location in new jersey are any indication, the new pockets are a big hit. >> they're really easy to open. >> some of the time. go. open. >> just like that. in less than two seconds. >> yes. >> i like it because it's in a really cool shape and if you have chicken nuggets or something, you can just peel it back and dip it. >> stewart leslie is the president of foresight incorporated. his packaging firm worked with heinz to develop a better packet. >> the intention with this design is create a shape that says to the consumer this is enough ketchup for you to put on your burgers and your fries. >> michelle miller cbs news new york. >> you actually just missed. jeff got ketchup all over. >> these are not easy to open here. i'm sorry, but -- the squeeze side of it is the compliment complicated said. i guess you dip it like -- >> that's the squeeze and then you have the alternative dip. here you can dip. this would be the way of not getting it all over your hands. >> i wonder where he gets it from now. sorry. >> it's okay. jeff will learn. >> what about the other -- i need a napkin. >> do you want to compare? >> we could compare. >> you comparing is kind of like ridiculous because we know how good you are with this stuff in the first place. >> in the meantime while we clean -- here we go. thank you. in the meantime, we're going to talk about another issue. a scary problem that may be threatening halloween this year. it turns out there's a pumpkin shortage. >> the recent weather has washed away almost all the crop in the northeast. karen has more. >> reporter: is that right. i'm here in the pumpkin field and because of the severe weather, there's a complete shortage of pumpkins. normally this time last year i would ve have been surrounded by a sea of orange. but because of the severe weather, this place has lost 83% of their pumpkin crop. big or small, there's nothing that says fall quite like a pumpkin. whether you eat them or carve them pumpkins are autumn's finest bounty. but throughout the northeast, pumpkin patches are in peril. many wiped away in a one-two wallop at the hands of tropical storms lee and irene, decimating crops from new york to new england. >> am i holding a direct casualty of storms lee and irene? >> you are holding a casualty. you can see the disease. it's already rotting. it rots from the inside out. >> karen scott's family has been growing pumpkins on their farm for more than 75 years. last year at this time what did you see compared to now? >> oh, you saw the whole field was orange. you could barely walk from here to the end of the row without tripping over a pumpkin. >> she says this is one of the worst harvester she's seen in a long time. only two of her 12 acres of pumpkins survived the torrential rainfall. >> normally we would have about 42 inches from january to the end of the year. we have had that 42 inches already and we have 3 1/2 months to go. >> leaving farmers in short supply just in time for the peak holiday season. >> if someone were to buy a pumpkin now, it is very likely that that pumpkin is not going to last till halloween. >> while farmers in the northeast cope other big pumpkin producing states like illinois indiana, california and ohio are taking advantage of the shortages, forcing farmers like karen to import more pumpkins. >> this year i did not plan to buy any. >> how many pumpkins will be be outsourcing? >> probably about $15,000 or more. >> in sh season of trick or treating, it's a cool trick by mother nature. >> one cruel summer indeed. and the scott family tells me they anticipated harvesting 50 tons of pumpkins this year. they'll be lucky if they get ten tons. what does that mean for you and i, the customer? last year at this time they were selling pumpkins for 49 cents a pound. now it's up to 69 cents a pound. who knows where that will be capped. >> thank you. if you're one of the 80 million americans with a smartphone, we're taking a turn here from pumpkins to smartphones. >> the desk has been cleaned, fully. >> it's another scary thing. you should know they can be attacked by the same viruses that can plague your computer. >> this is becoming a bigger issue. here with much needed advice this morning is our "the early show" tech expert katie linendal. the problem with viruses on smartphones, is it worse on phones than computers? i should say laptops. >> here is the deal. i always tell people people think of the computer as the most powerful device. i like to say it's the smartphone now. it's on us 24/7. the amount of data we have on here are gold mines. so yes, we need to be a lot more careful. >> but right now, the problem is not awful, it's just creeping up. >> it's growing and it's growing exponentially. what should we be doing to protect ourselves? >> a few tip owes what to look for and what's out there. we always talk about apps. we love our apps. angry birds, bejeweled, great. make sure you're downloading from a trusted source. there were some apps that were malicious. one was a fake antivirus that got into the apple's i store. you download these and they pull them quickly, but sometimes for many it's too late. you have to say, is this a reputable company? what are the reviews? download only from a trusted source. >> we always hear about pcs obviously being more susceptible to viruses. same case and resides versus iphones? >> bad news for android users. way more susceptible. the reason for that is it's an open first program. if you are an android users, the rate -- and i want to give you the statistic. according to lookout, a mobile security firm, three out of ten android owners are likely to encounter a web base virus every year. so the android user, what do you do? you download lookout. it's a free mobile security app. for $30 a year you get premium services. if you lose your phone, you can wipe your data remotely. it will protect you from spy wear and any malwear that comes into your device. >> thank you. >> thanks. the hit drama ncis returns tonight with one of its most popular characters. >> early show contributor caught up with pauley perrette. >> this area brings back memories. i feel like you posed everywhere. >> i have been in some fabulous outfit in every single place in this hotel. >> these timeless photos feature ncis star pauleyp perrette. she married william paley in 1997. the powerful couple lived here in st. regis hotel. >> how did you get into character for this? >> i went back and did research on her and she just had an interesting figure. especially, it was a different time then and just the way she carried herself and every little thing that she did can become, like, instantly a trend from like, a bag or the way she stood or the way she walked anything. that's how you get all those iconic photographs of her. >> tell me a little bit about your time, kind of down and dirty in new york when you were trying to make yao way. >> oh it was very different. i was in new york forever. i was a bartender, eeking by as a bartender with roller skates nothing as fancy as this. >> when she's not recreating the fashion of yesteryear, she portrays abby sciuto on ncis. >> it's an iconic character that i have the honor to play. i'm the luckiest girl in the way to play abby sciuto. >> a devoted following has made her one of prime time's local characters. she's been inspiring young girls to pursue a degree in science. >> there are young girls who started watching the show when they were, like ten. now they're going to college and they're getting degrees in math and science. i hear it all the time. it's amazing. >> are you a science and math geek? >> actually, i'm a math freak and i love science. i'm fascinated by it. >> with the smily face? >> always looking for new ways to engage her expanding audience, pauley has become one of twitter's most active stars. while she's posts the occasional picture of her rescue dog, she has causes. >> she started a twitter campaign for this women eeps shelter and it worked. we saved the shelter. and then i got addicted. you start thinking in twitter, oh, i'll tweet that. >> based on the level -- >> paulie's twitter feed should see a rather large spike tonight when ncis makes its season premier after its summer hiatus. >> we can't wait for everybody to actually see what us crazy kids have been up to. >> i heart abby hash tag ncis. >> yeah. >> and don't forget, watch the season premier of ncis with pauley perrette tonight at 8:00 central on cbs. coming up lexi thompson the youngest women ever on the women's tour. you're 16 years old and you just [ female announcer ] this is steve and lynn and they have a good question. can the aetna app make you healthier? 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[ female announcer ] see for yourself, aetna.com aetna. know more. get better. the biggest story in women's golf right now is a 16-year-old champ lexi thompson made history on sunday winning the navistar classic by five strokes. >> lexi turned pro last year. she is the youngest ever to win on the lpga tour. to make it even more special, her dad was her caddie. lexi thompson joins us this morning. congrats. >> thank you. >> you have the trophy right here. >> yep. >> did they engrave your name on that or what? >> nope. nobody's name is on it. >> it looks nice. >> thank you. >> $195,000, where does that go? >> well i actually donated $20,000 to wounded warriors. and then the rest is just in a bank account i guess. >> is your dad going to get any kickback for being your caddie? >> i'll treat him well. >> is that weird, having your dad be a part of these huge moments? does it freak you out at all or is it calming? >> it's really calming. he knows my game so well so it's just really relaxing to have him on the bag. >> did you have a road map to say, listen, this is what i want to win by or was this just an enormous surprise? >> well i was actually playing pretty well lately. i knew it was coming up. i was just being patient. i was really looking forward to this moment. >> it sounds like you're a bit of a perfectionist. you wish you had done it, what, two years before? >> well, last year i got pretty close. but i really love this tournament and i was really happy that it happened here. >> you've accomplished so much at such a young age. you qualified for the women's u.s. open at 12 years old. we've seen a lot of other sports prodigies, michelle wi is one of your sports in golf. she came out and said she wanted to compete on the men's tour. she clearly has struggled quite a bit. when you look at all that how do you figure out the best way to proceed and what the timetable is? >> i'm just doing -- you know i'm just going along with everything, stay it one tournament at a time. i'm not going to the men's tournament. michelle is an amazing player. i'm looking forward to watching. >> how old were you when you initially got into golf? >> i started when i was 5 years old. >> did you imagine at 5, was this the goal at 5 years old or even after that point to be a star in this game? >> i would say probably when i was around 8, 7 or 8 i wanted to be big time in this sport. but when i was 5, i wasn't very good. it was just fun. >> first club you picked up? >> yeah when i was 5. >> no, what was the club? >> oh i don't know. it must have been plastic for all i know. >> lexi thompson great to have you with us today. thanks for bringing along the trophy. pretty cool. >> thank you. >> lexi thompson ladies and gentlemen. watch out for her. we are going to wrap for now. have a great day, everybody. we'll see you back here tomorrow morning. raindrops are probably dropping on your head as you step outside. i want to take a look at first warning doppler radar. i'm on the scan called the mosaic. i'm trying to look at the slug of moisture. it is along this stalled frontal boundary. we can get a grip on how much rain may be coming our way. now the computers as of this morning, we're not printing out too much over a tenth of an inch of rain. having said that it will be a clear and damp day. general movement is east, northeast. so having said that we're not worried about what's below charlottesville. the models may be exactly correct. a high of 75. we are going to have a couple of thunderstorms light up. it's gotten warm and humid 75 today on the way to the mid-60s. more humid and an early shower. tomorrow an early shower and later tomorrow night thursday into friday and we'll clear out for the weekend. the don't ask don't tell policy that banned openly gay americans from serving in the armed services has formally ended. monique griego has the story. >> reporter: that change took effect at midnight. in annapolis, leaders from the nation's top military academies said the change would not affect operations. president obama signed the bill into law in december under fierce opposition from lawmakers who claimed a repeal would undermine discipline. service members that were discharged under that old law can now reenlist. bail has been denied for a bowie state university student charged with murdering her roommate. alexis simpson murdered domonique frazier. a two-year-old died after being shot in the head. the call reported that the child had shot himself in the head. investigators are still trying to figure out what happened. tonight hockey returns to baltimore city. the first mariner arena is getting things ready. they will face the national predators. game time is 7:00. stay with wjz 13, maryland's news station. as always, updates available at any time from anywhere at wjz.com. let's take another live look outside, looking across the east, southeast where there's lots of rain. rain will be falling