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Held to kwt. Pressure grows to stop the syrian regime. Credible use of weapons by syria. If that gas discharges it would take only one minute to kill tens of thousands of people. I would not put it past assad to use this weapon its the kind of regime hes been leading. Where are they taking you, john . To jail. John mcafee under arrest in guatemala for entering the country illegally. He vanished after his neighbor was found dead. The administration, are they prepared to go over the fiscal cliff. Absolutely. Fiscal cliff negotiations in washington, still up in the air. Most lawmakers have gone home for a long weekend. Ill be here and ill be available at any moment to sit down with the president if he gets serious about solving this problem. The duchess of cambridge has left hospital. There for morning sickness. How are you feeling this morning, kate . As of today, possession of small amounts of marijuana is legal in the state of washington. Now the 55th annual Grammy Awards revealed. The top contender, kanye west and jayz. Hes got it. Kobe bryant. The greatest player in the history of the los angeles lakers. All that, ready for your mistake . Yeah. Id like to hear it. Can eating while driving be distracting. No and all that matters. Former senator alan simpson is bringing his meg abossage ab the National Debt to a new generation. Gangnam style. On cbs this morning. The star . A toddler and tiaras earning a spot on Barbara Walters list of the 20 most fascinating people, then barbara said, i cant do this [ bleep ] anymore and retired. Captioning funded by cbs welcome to cbs thmthm. Syria, signs deepings, but signs of a breakthrough. The United States detected signs that syrians government is preparing chemical weapons for possible use. Meanwhile, secretary of state Hillary Clinton is holding an unscheduled meeting in ireland with russias foreign minister and the u. N. Special envoy to syria. A sign russia may be switching sides to put pressure on syria to stop the fighting. In dublin covering talks, margaret, good morning. Do you think this is a sign of a diplomatic breakthrough . Reporter norah, the sign of a possible diplomatic breakthrough. Flying here to dublin for a lastminute meeting with secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the Russian Foreign minister. It may signal that russia is finally willing to take u. N. Action to send a message to Bashar Al Assad to stop the killing. One of april sauds few remaining allies and so faro posed action to intervene the crisis that killed nearly 40,000 people. Margaret, charlie rose here. Has the report that david martin has, the story that david martin has reported that theyre mixing the ingredients of chemical weapons influenced what the russians may be doing . Reporter well, the Russian Foreign minister said that the Assad Government assures them that the reports that syria is readying chemical weapons are rumors. Adamant among todays meeting, charlie, a signal russia wants to be a part of what comes next. If clinton can get them to support at the security council, they could roll out tough sanctions cutting syria off from any remains support. Where does the violence stand . Reporter well, charlie, were told that rebels surround the city of damascus which has been an assad stronghold. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton says that bash ar al assad assado could use chemical weaps to hold on to power and told cbs news, not clear she can negotiate an exit pnd tends to recognize the Syrian Opposition as the representative of the Syrian People next week. That could start to pave the way for them to create a new government. Very interesting. Margaret brennan, thank you noor. In washington this morning, just 26 days left before the fiscal cliff deadline. President obama spoke on the phone with House Speaker john boehner on wednesday while his treasury secretary said the white house is, in fact, ready to go straight over the fiscal cliff. Major garrett is at the white house. Major, good morning. Reporter good morning, norah and charlie. Later on this afternoon the president will travel across the Potomac River to Northern Virginia to meet a middleclass family to make the selfevident point if the there is a deal and taxes are raised by about 2,000 theyll be happier and spend more money. Thats the p. R. Side of this. Much more importantly, for the deal, the two key players yesterday picked up the phone. The phone call relatively brief and substantive, though Details Remain illusive. Shorter, sources say. The last week 28minute conversation described then as curt, direct and frank. No one with this call used such barbed words and occurred before treasury secretary tim geithner laid down this harsh fiscal cliff marker. If the administration, are they prepared to go over the fiscal cliff . Absolutely. No prospect or agreement that doesnt involve those rates going on on the top 2 . Remember, only 2 . Reporter that danger . Not enough to Keep Congress in session. Its all right quit for the week. Most lawmakers assume correctly there are bit players until theres a deal. That looks more complicated until mr. Obama demanded republicans raise the debt ceiling this month without any spending cut strings attached. If congress in any way suggests theyre going to tie negotiations to debt ceiling votes, and take us to the brink of default once again as part of a budget negotiation, i will not play that game. Because weve got to break that habit before it starts. Reporter the president sees the fiscal cliff showdown as an opportunity to break that linkage for good. Republicans say they will not increase the debt ceiling now 16 trillion and due to expire in february without more deficit reduction. History shows the only major deficit cutting deals we ever do around here, ever, comes after debates over the debt ceiling. It may be a good idea if you dont care about the debt, but its a nonstarter for those of us who do. Reporter Public Opinion generally is on the president s side, but republicans in the house are not paralyzed or perilous, more unified behind Speaker Boehner than a year ago. Why is this important . The white house is beginning to notice and now believe there is a deal boehner can find the stroets pass it. An idea whats really at stake. Rebecca jarvis has a look how the government spends money and how it could spend less. Rebec rebecca, good morning. Reporter good morning. The question comes up in terms of the money that were talking about in raising the rate. How much is it that the republicans are objecting to . If you look at that 250,000 number, if you were to raise taxes on everybody making 250,000 or more in the country that would raise about 700 billion in revenue over the next ten years. Thats a drop in the bucket compared to our 16 trillion debt, our 1 trillion deficit, and so what a lot of people are saying, and argues, when they look at this situation is, if youre really going to be serious about deficit reduction it cant just be about taxes. It has to be about spending cuts, too. On that point of spending, its always important to remember, where do we spend money in the federal budget jt youve put together to remind us exactly where do we spend most of the money . The bulk is going to entitlement programs like Social Security, medicare, medicaid. Thats mandatory spending. Its been budgeted based off of what we spend on our taxes. The bulk of it is going there. 20 is going to defense. Discretionary spending about 13 then the 7 interest which is the interest that we are paying on our debt. Thats also mandatory. We have to make good on our debt. Which is why anybody serious about the debt says you have to look at entitlements. Based 0en that. Where are the areas for compromise . So when you look at where theyre talking about cutting spending, its in the discretionary category. About 600 billion in Discretionary Spending is on the table now. When you actually look at the programs like Social Security and medicare, one of the ideas for compromise thats been on the table is increasing that age. The availability of medicare begins at 65. If you were to increase it to 67, about 250 billion in savings. Also, if you look at medicare cost sharing. This is from the provider. If you go back to the providers to provide medicare and say to them, we need you to come around and provide, pony up a little bit of the money, you can save 350 billion, and also Social Security. Right now a cost of living increase, built into Social Security, and a lot of economists say thats way out of reach from where we actually are seeing the increases in cost of living. If you were to reduce that a bit you could save 232 billion. Very important information. The savings over ten years . All over ten years. All right. All over ten years. Remember what theyre looking for, what businesses would like to hear what jamie diamond as jpmorgan would like to hear, david cote at honeywell would like to hear what the fix the Debt Committee and simpson bo s simpsonbowles, 4 trillion over the next ten year. And Prince Williams wife catherine is out of the hospital after being treated for acute morning sickness. The royal couple left just at short time ago. Good morning, norah and charlie. We were told from the beginning this hospital stay would last a few days. Thats exactly what it turned out to be. Kate along with Prince William paused briefly at the hospital entrance as she left. If she was still feeling the effects of the morning sickness that has brought her here, it didnt show, but neither she nor william would make any comment that she left. The couples plans are unclear at this stage, but its thought the royal mother to be will be resting in private and not making public appearances for a while. How she continues to feel after this bout of severe morning sickness will determine how public or private this pregnancy will be. It certainly was public to start. But for the past day, the story has also been about more than the princess. Especially since the broadcast of a prank call put in to the hospital by an australian radio station. Hello. Im just after my granddaughter, kate. The fake royal accent of the australian comedian impersonating the queen was funny enough, but when a nurse then provided an update on kates condition, the Hospital Administration was decidedly unamused. Obviously, the vice, what the australian broadcaster did may well have broken the law. On the other hand, theyve apologized for it. So were going to have a long and careful think about what, if anything, we do. Reporter the station said it was the easier prank call it had ever made. When is a good time to come and visit her . Because im the queen, so i need to get down there. I would suggest anytime after 9 00 would be suitable. Reporter easy for a nurse, what shes supposed to do when someone calls up saying its the queen, ask for proof. What started as a story here about a difficult beginning to a pregnancy became more than that. It became one of a patient confidentiality and about humor, and about bad accents. Thank you, mark phillips. In egypt this morning army tanks are protecting the president ial papplace as the president prepares to speak to the nation tonight. At least five People Killed overnight and hundreds wounded as opponents fought out the palace gates. More demonstrations are planned today in cairo. Holly williams is there. Holly, good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie and norah. Well, egypts political strife has now spiraled into violent clashes around the country, including a deadly confrontation here in cairo last night. Supporters and opponents of president Mohammed Morsi battled for control of the streets around the president ial palace. They fought with sticks and stones. Some people were carrying guns. Other people threw molotov cocktails. Egypt state tv says six people were killed. President morsi supporters camped out on the streets and opponents are planning more protest later today. Were just now hearing from the militarys elite Republican Guard they are ordering all protesters off the streets near the pallets and the deadline is less than an hour from now. President morsis opponents are angry about a new constitution due to be put to a referendum a vote, in less than ten days time saying he is a dictator and under the new constitution, it represents his islam and fails to protect basic rights and freedoms. The president s supporter meanwhile, accuse the opposition of trying to derail egypts democratic transition. President morsi says that he wants to negotiate, but is determined to push ahead with the referendum. And in the midst of this crisis, he is due to address the nation later on today. Charlie and norah . Holly williams, thank you. And winds of change are blowing through Washington State this morning. And you might say they smell a little funny. A new law is now in effect. The first of its kind in u. S. That is allowing adults to own marijuana for nonmedical usa. John blackstone reports from seattle that supporters wasted no time celebrating. Three, two, one whew reporter at the stroke of midnight, cheers in seattle of marijuana officially becoming legal in Washington State. Yeah reporter an impromptu celebration was head, appropriately enough at the space needle, a seattle high point. Did you ever think youd see this day . I certainly did not. I did not. Reporter the air was filled with the scent of victory. For those who campaigned for this night. Although, that itself is stretching the new law. It is not legal to use marijuana in public, just like alcohol. And while it is now legal for those 21 and over to buy marijuana, it is not yet legal to sell it. The state still has to write rules for licensing marijuana retailers. This is the beginning of reporter washington voters passed the law partly because of the efforts of one welltraveled resident of the state. Hi. Im rick steves. Reporter rick steves for 20 years hosted a popular public travel show was prominent among those campaigning for Legal Marijuana. I spent a third of my adult life in europe hanging out with people who think its wacky to be locking up people for smoking pot. Reporter in a show from amsterdam, steves gave a preview of what could soon be coming to cities and towns in washington. Throughout the netherlands, bars selling marijuana are called coffee shops. Amsterdam alone has over 300. Reporter he says america should not fear. Consumption is not going to go up a lot. By every statistic, our government and the dutch government, americans smoke more pot than the dutch, and the dutch have the most liberal laws on pot in all of europe. Reporter seattles City Attorney peter holmes also pushed for the new law. All weve done is achieve by prohibition is fill our jails and make drug dealers quite rich. Reporter he says Legal Marijuana even with high taxes will be cheaper than ilLegal Marijuana. Want to put the drug dealers out of business . Absolutely. Reporter now that marijuana is legal here in washington, the state is going to start collecting taxes on it. The state hopes to raise some 500 million al year. But there is one catch. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law. For cbs this morning, john blackstone, seattle. Times are changing. What the Justice Department is going to do because its still a federal crime. Now marijuana is legal for Recreational Use in washington and colorado state. It will be interesting to see how many other states now put it on for a vote. Exactly. Time to show you some of this mornings headlines according to the New York Times british researchers say patients make using a powerful Breast Cancer drug should take it twice at long finding patients who took tamoxifen for ten years instead of five can dramatically reduce the chances of having their cancer come back. Until now doctors told patients not to use the drug for more than five years, because it was not worth it. And the wall street journal says apple stock fell 6 on wednesday, and some an legitimates predict it will keep falling based on the companys short and longterm outlook. Apple shares hit record highness midseptember then fell 25 in less than two months. The l. A. Times celebrates a milestone for kobe bryant, the lakers superstar scored the 30,000th point of his career. Last night in new orleans, only four player had more. Wilt chamberlain, Michael Jordan and karim jal barr. And plans for the super bowl in new orleans. The network is taking over making sure everybody was listening. Exactly. The network isic taing over Jackson Square to be the home of its Network Cable digital and radio assets. Among the shows that will be staged outside in Jackson Square are the late, late show with kregg ferguson, face the nation, the cbs evening news and, yes cbs this morning will be in new orleans. Awesome, for the super bowl. There for several days. Everybodys excited. Im really excited to be in new orleans. Yeah. Great city. This sponsored by walmart. From americas gift headquarters. Walmart. Soft wrar executive mcafee, this morning, we show you the online flipup that supposed his hiding place. And is it illegal to say a contractor did a lousy job on your house . Its at the heart of a lawsuit over a customers scathing online review. There was no question in my mind that i did 150 professional job in her house. Well look at a judges ruling and the impact of this case on other online reviewers, on cbs this morning. This portion of cbs this morning sponsored by kay jewelers. Every kiss begins with kay. Inve, unlocking the true beauty of the diamond. [ female announcer ] now tolkowsky ideal cut diamonds are brought to you by kay, the numberone Jewelry Store in america. Every kiss begins with kay the numberone Jewelry Store in america. Have led to an increase intands clinical depression. Drug and alcohol abuse is up. 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They dont even trust each other in their own party. Youve got leaders with people behind them hoping they can get their job the next goround. Durbin has somebody looking over his back because he voted for the package. Every time they deal, and boehners got to go to work and come back and theres, now theres 70 of them left. The tea party guys. These are guys who went to congress not to limit government but to stop it. The reason we were so successful is we effectively pissed off everybody in america. Congratulations, sir. Kudos. Kudos to you. You got to love senator simpson. No one in political life funnier than alan simpson. So funny. Did you see this clip of him doing gangnam style. Watch this. Gangnam style i rest my case. To his credit, trying to connect with Younger Voters on that issue. Indeed. An update on john mcafee, the Software Executive who disappeared in guatemala. In a jail questioned about a murder case. Bob has the story. Good morning. Reporter good morning, charlie and norah. Police in belize call john mcafee is person of interest in the murder of one of his neighbors there. Cell phone technology pinpointed his location, until then, police didnt know where he was. The problem is theyre trying to detain me. Reporter john mcafees threeweek run from authorities came to an end wednesday nipt in the Silicon Valley entrepreneur detained at an Upscale Hotel in guatemala city. Where are they taking you, john . To jail. Reporter with the help of interpol, arrested for entering the country illegally and taken to a nearby detention center. For almost a month he evaded police who wanted to question him about one of his make neighbors in belize. Mcafee was not alone. Reporter from vice. Com joined him on his fugitive run to document mcafees outrageous lifestyle, which now revolves around drugs, sex and guns. To promote his exclusive coverage, the online magazine published this smartphone picture of mcafee with vice reporter rocco castoro. A mistake. The hassicker noticed it had gp coordinates where it was taken. He was guatemala. April cross the border from belize. He denies involvement in his neighbors killing, saying he only ran to escape a police witchhunt. At that point i decided i had to do something, went under cover and im here and now going to speak out big time. Reporter he made millions with cyber security. Most dont realize it, but these Little Things carry a lot of information in them. Reporter joel brenner, until 2009, was a top counterintelligence official, says unless the gps function on your smartphone is deactivated, your location is no secret. This is a tracking device. Theres no question about it. And were all carrying one now. Reporter mcafee, who is no longer connected to the Software Company that bears his name is no longer charged in belize. Right now in a guatemalan jail asking for political asylum. Interesting about cell phones. All being tracted. Thats how they found him. This story, if youve ever complained online about a business, you may think twice about it. Suing after criticizing on a website. The bad reviews could cost her big money. Reporter outside Fairfax County Court Wednesday a lawyer for jane perez flipped through pictures allegedly showing botched home repairs. Windows, work that was not properly done. Reporter the photos include door hinges, trash allegedly left behind and what are said to be strands of hair in a refinished floor. I think we presented evidence sufficient to establish that the work was not completed, that he charged for work that had not been done, and that the workmanship was very poor. Reporter perez hired christopher deitz, a former High School Classmate in 2011 to do cosmetic work on her townhouse. Unhappy with the rates, gave him a f on a Consumer Review website. On yelp accused him of damages her home, billing her for work he didnt do and suggesting he stole jewelry. She sended her scathing review with this advice, bottom line, do not put yourself with a nightmare of this contractor. He fired back with a lawsuit for defamation. No question i did 150 professional job in her house. Reporter he says perez claims are lies. Lies that cost him 300,000 in lost business. I believe that people should have the right to state how they feel, but when you state stuff as fact and its not fact or its not what could be is a are the positived, there has to be some type of, for lack of a better word, punishment. Reporter deitz award his first victory. Take down any comments about theft and legal action. If we need to we will appeal to make sure that people are not afraid to speak out. Reporter the court still must decide whether there are grounds for a defamation case. For cbs this morning, chip reid, washington. Cbs news legal analyst jack ford joins us. How can you prove defamation . Heres what defamation is, for people to understand the desks, if you will. Our constitution right to free speech is not absolute. There are limitations on it. For instance, the classic one, you cant falsely yell fire in a crowded theater. Falsely yell it. Because obviously, you can expose people to damage. What you can offer up is your opinion about things. As long as its clearly an opinion. What you cant do, this is where you get into defamation. You cant make a false statement of fact that damages somebodys reputation. So if i wanted to say, a situation similar to this, i was just not at all happy with the work that my contractor did. Thats okay. Thats my opinion. But if i say, i was not at all happy with the work that my contractor did, and by the way my contractor is an embezzler. Okay . Now ive made it sound like or he sol jewelry or even make the argument saying he damaged my house. Now youre making a statement of fact. Now, the law also says, truth is an absolute defense. So if somebody did damage your house or somebody is an embezzler, then youre okay. Even though it damages their reputation, as long as its true, its okay. The classic thing to remember is, a false statement of fact that damages somebodys reputation. An opinion. Reviews are really important online when buying stuff on ebay, when looking for a contractor, anybody on angies list. So if you were going to post something about someone, you recommend, look, it wasnt that great of a job . Right. The internet is still kind of the wild west. You know, tradition news organizations, we have editorial processes we follow. Reliable sources, fact checking, even though you have the right to the do it, is it the right thing to do . If youre going online, everybody uses this, goes and does Research First before they buy stuff. Make sure youre doing it in terms of a genuine opinion on your part. The other thing, dont cloak a statement of fact say, its my opinion. Its my opinion he damaged my house. Its my opinion this person is a serial killer. You say the word opinion, doesnt mean its no longer a statement of fact. The thing to be careful about. Statement of fact thats false and damages the reputation. Jack, all right. A number of defamation of cases. People are starting to say, how do i defend myself, and thats why youre seeing this happen more often than not. More free legal advice, jack ford, thank you. Learning about a promising new treatment for alzheimers disease. Well ask a researcher why putting a pacemaker in the brain maybe work wonders. Thats next on cbs this morning. [ female announcer ] with depression, Simple Pleasures can simply hurt. The sadness, anxiety, the loss of interest. The aches and pains and fatigue. Depression hurts. Cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. 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The perfect way to tell your newborn child were planning to replace you in six months. Usually replace your apple products after six months to a year. Right . Exactly. A new one i wanted. Exactly. Exactly. There is some promising news this morning in the fight against alzheimers disease. It involves the use of a pacemaker for the brain. The same device that helped tens of thousands of patients with parkinsons disease. Dr. Paul rosenberg is an alzheimers specialist at Johns Hopkins University Part of the first Clinical Trial of this treatment in the United States. Welcome. Thanks for having me. Tell me ow this works. You put two wires in the brain, in the part of the brain we know is involved in memory. The wires are attached to, it looks like a pacemaker. A little battery that sits under your shoulder blade and it puts electricity through these wires. These wires run along the natural wires of the brain, which feeds your memory, and they actually stimulate those parts of the brain. Similar to what we do in deep brain stimulation with parkinsons . Exactly. The equipment is the same, surgery similar, its just a different part of the brain and based on what we know about memory circuits in the brain. What have the results been . There was a pilot, charlie in canada of six patients. They did somewhat better in terms of their memory. They did great in terms of their brain metabolism. And in alzheimers disease you usually go downhill and these folks actually increased a little bit. Did you go for this approach because chemicals were not working . Those kinds of applications did not work for alzheimers . I would say this can go along with the kinds of chemical treatments were doing. Admit dltedly this year a numbef disappointing drug trials. Were not done with that. This is a different mechanism. Any negative small risks of surgery. Infection, things like that along with surgery . Exactly. How invasive . How expensive is it . Pretty expensive. I think it costs 50,000 to 100,000 for insurance. Its not that invasive. They drill a couple of holes in the skull and patch the wires in, and actually a lot less than you think it might be. I know you say not that invasive, but drilling holes in the skull sounds pretty invasive to people. It certainly is more radical than other things weve done. Available fou for people who want to do this . Were doing research on it and the trials up and running and looking for folks. And when might it be available . Cautiously optimistic. A few years down the line mts alzheimers is growing in this country and people are concerned they dont have teemreatments f it. Ap epidemic and things arent changing. Its from aging. Young, new artists dominate this years grammy nominees. Six different musicians got six nominations each. The editor of billboard magazine, a new era beginning for the grammys. Thats ahead on cbs this morning. 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Well talk about that and what he makes of John Travolta and Olivia Newtonjohn returning. First a look at todays eyeopener at 8 00. The Russian Foreign minister says the Assad Government assures them reports syria is readying chemical weapons are rumors. Sources tell cbs news the United States has detected signs syrias government is preparing chemical weapons for use. And the white house is in fact ready to go straight over the fiscal cliff. If youre really going to be serious about deficit reduction, it cant just be about taxes. It has to be about spending cuts, too. Prince william and wife catherine is out of the hospital after being admitted for acute morning sickness. Told the hospital stay would last at few days and thats exactly what it turned out to be. Software executive john mcafee no longer a fugitive. Arre arrested after his neighbor was murdered. Police didnt know where he was. Now that marijuana is legal here in washington, the state will going to start cleshgting taxes on it. Gangnam style. There is no one in political life funnier than alan simpson. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced new york will hold a contest to redesign the citys pay phones. Now, a brand new eyeopener at 8 00 is brought to you by the aarp. Im charlie rose with gayle king and norah odonnell. This morning, Prince Williams wife catherine is back home in london after three days in the hospital. The pregnant duchess of cambridge was being treated for an acute form of morning sickness. Mark phillips is outside the hospital in london. Mark, good morning. Reporter good morning, norah and charlie. Normally a royal baby gets this kind of attention when its born. This one only had to be conceived. The duchess did leave the hospital today after three days inside treated for acute morning sickness, as she and Prince William left, they were asked, she was asked how she felt. She said, much better. Yelling across the street to reporters who had gathered here in the cold for that period of time. The couple heading back to their London Residence at Kensington Palace will the duchess will stay for a period of rest, were told. Its very unlikely that well see her over the next few days, anyway. Her weekend events have been cancelled. Well see how shes doing next week before we see her out and about again. Charlie and norah . Mark phillips, thank you. The Grammy Awards usually honor musical royalty, but young up and coming artists dominated this years nominations. They were announced last night during a very big show in nashville. Live from nashville, its the grammy nominations concert. [ cheers and applause ] tonight we are young going to set the world on fire we can go higher than the stars ah. Why you got to be they were great together. Editor of billboard magazine is here to bring us up to date. I loved taylor swift and ll cool j together. Unexpected to me. It was a little unexpected. Who knew taylor had a gift for light improv comedy. Thought she was just a singer and songwriter. Got beat. In nashville. Different. It was. Big move for the grammys. They blew it out of the auditorium. More music, fewer nominations. Young, the headline. Young is the headline. Fun, we are young. Nominated in all categories we are young the song and the theme of the grammy nominations. Lionel ritchey, a big record, shut out. Bob dylan, shut out. No nomination. Kanye west . Kanye and jayz, six nominations, each, again, not in a major category. How is it Bruce Springsteen with that new album is not nominated . I know youre outraged over this. Outraged i tell you, outraged. Youve heard the album. The Grammy Organization and voters want to get with whats happening right now. So its been a big thing for them a long time. There are 81 categories. Theres just too much, and they want to focus on whats happening right now, and they have. And theyve done it successfully. This is a good list of major nominations. So what about the women . That was also a ed hadline last night. Why so few album of 9 year. No nominations for women in album of the year and im a little surprised. A couple of my favorite records, fiona apple, pink, very good records. Different kind of records, and no nominations. All guys. And it is a little bit of a surprise. Especially because the pop charts have been dominated by women for the last few years. Why do you think that is . Well, i think for one thing, people look to katy perry and rihanna at singles artists, not album artists and nomated so much in the past. This is a chance to move on and an oversight. No two ways around it. I dont let the moment past without remembers dave brubeck. We lost at 91 years old did so much. In a moment where jazz was still part of popular music, did so much to introduce the young generation to the young sound of the cool jazz he played so well and beautifully, and he will be missed. A legend. Thank you, j Anderson Cooper had a scare last week losing his eyesight during a 60 minutes story. Well talk to him about that. Hes here looking pretty good. Anderson cooper is with us. So are his baby blues. Coming up next on cbs this morning. This portion of cbs this morning sponsored by aarp. Fighting to keep Social Security strong your generations to come. Talk about the options on the. Table and what they mean for you and your family. Ancr aarp is cutting through all the political spin. Because for our 37 million members, only one word counts. Get the facts at earnedasay. Org. Lets keep medicare. And Social Security strong for generations to come. You. Colorful. Soft. And, totally irresistible. Your lip butter . Likewise. Revlon colorburst lip butter. A hydrating buttery balm for baby soft lips in 20 shiny colors. Our last visit with cnn anchor correspondent Anderson Cooper was five weeks again. Since then, listen to this guy. Dodged rocket fire in the middle east, gone temporarily blind and getting a new highpro file boss. Your life is never dull. Anderson cooper i saw the picture of tweeted. Very scary stuff. What exactly happened to you . On assignment for 60 minutes and in portugal in a beautiful spot doing a story on the water, a very windy day. Only on the water two hours. An overcast day and i burned my eyeballs. Didnt even know think was possible, but i woke up that night, like, eight hours later with excruciating pain and couldnt see, and is it because your eye, blue . Not trying to be funny i read people with lighter eyes have a greater issue with this, but you can burn your eyes just like you can burn your skin. What do you do i dont know. I dont think i did anything different. I was on a team in college, on the water every day of my life. I dont know because im older. The doctor says it was windy. Uv light bouncing off water, like snow blindness. People on snow sometimes this happening, and it burns your eyeballs, and it feels like, i mean, i didnt know what it was for hours. It feels like you have sand in your eyes. Thats what i thought i had. Did you see your career flash before your eyes . I did. In the middle of the night i woke up with excruciating pain, couldnt. See im thinking, jeff zucker has just taken over cnn. I havent even meant with the guy. Im going to be blind. How am i going to adapt . Like, 1 00 a. M. , you know, like, you know, your mind starts to play tricks with you. And easier to dodge bullets when youre blind. Yeah. And i didnt see my hand in front of my face. Did you have on sunglasses . No. I dont like wearing sunglasses. Thats the thing. Now i have to wear sunglasses all the time. Small price to pay. Amazing thing about anderson. He does not know as much as music in the segment we just had as we might have imagined he would know. Really nothing about music. We think of you about the king of pop culture as well. I know. As well as a war correspondent. Sorry to let you down. Music, i didnt grow up listening to music. What do you do when you work out . Rihanna and up tempo dance music and stuff. Honestly, my assistant puts it on my ipod. I dont know how to do that. I do down load my own music and recently playing, who did this . I did it myself. I am so i just got apple tv, which is, if you dont have it, the greatest. Just got apple tv . Oh oh when charlie rose says to you you just got a piece of technology, you know thats bad. Wait, wait. Do you have apple tv . Yes. You do . Had it for years. What is apple tv . Apple tv changes your life. Ive heard that. The greatest thing. I dont watch regular tv. I wouldnt go that far. Just apple. The remote, moat the most simpl remote like a nasa computer i dont know how to use, but the apple tv, easy to use. Like 100. Amazing. Netflix and before we leave this, tell me how you think, what changes might be coming at cnn . In other words, whats the challenge for cnn . Look, i dont know. Cnn has a great brand, a great place and dedicated journalists, and like cbs, theres not a lot of places that have journalists worki ining in the field and cb one, cbs is one and cnn is a place expanding with bureaus. Thats important to us and in our dna. I worked for jeff zucker many years. He says in taking over cnn he wants to have more passion. Do you think you can meet that bill . I think i certainly hope so. Look, a lot of passion in people there and i think, you know, weve always done well when things are happening and its in the slower times that weve run into problems, and i hope we figure it all out. A big story in new york with the photographer who didnt help a man who ultimately was killed in a subway. Youve been in predicaments, you see something happening, working on a story. You recently had something happen to you with a little boy. Oh, in haiti. Yeah. That was yeah. An incident where somebody threw a concrete block on to a little boy in hate and opened up his skull, everyone was running a way from him. Interesting. I initially ran towards him to take the picture. Too two steps. Continued running. This is ridiculous i dont need to take a picture. Grab the kid and run with him. I dont want to make a big deal or anything, an incident i felt it was more important to get involved to help this person than take a picture. Did you think what you were exposed to in gaza was more precarious that other situations youve been involved in . No, i didnt, honestly. I think there were targeted strikes. You know, look. Missiles are blunt instruments, and innocent people get killed in them, but israel, its not indiscriminate, sarajevo, that was indiscriminate shelling. No idea where mortars would land. In israels towns, you have no idea where hamas rockets will land. Nor does hamas. Yes. At least there is a general idea that there is targeting involved. Now, you may not know who else is in your building. Thats the danger. We were operating in a building. Who knows if hamas has an office on the lower floor. I watched israel put three rockets into a second floor of a building, didnt destroy the entire building, hit what they thought was there target on the second floor. So i was worried in that i didnt know who else was around me and could there be a rocket launching site next door to me or below me . Absolutely. But it was not the fear of indiscriminate shelling which you get in syria, Bashar Al Assad is just shelling people. The other big story is princess kate. Youve heard shes pregnant . I heard that, and in the hospital, too. A big name game. I suggested shitherrien. Any thought to the royal family no . Not a moments thought. But i should. What i really want, John Travolta release add video yesterday. I know. Youve seen it . Have absolutely seen it. Can we show a little bit of the video and i want your take on it. John travolta, Olivia Newtonjohn, costar from greece. Get the wheels down im coming home tonight i thought we were on so many levels, look, i wish him best and i dont know the guy. Im sure hes a lovely person and stuff, theres something going on. I dont know. Theres a lot going on. I so disagree. You like it . I do. I think its great, between the two. I do. You are just no. For the love of god. I think its really cute, the two of them together. Sure. Okay. Okay. Thats your story, youre sticking with it. Is it on a plane . Well, you know hes landing his plane, charlie. Theyre reunited. Oh. Maybe you can like a uv willy lady. Just a nice guy. Nothing but the best and hope its a huge success. I got no dog in the pond. As i said what do i know about music . There you go. Were glad your sight returned. Im glad my sight returned to see that music video. Thank you. Youre welcome. One of the blessings of having sight. Wrap it up. Continuing the conversation after the break. Well be right back. [ mom ] 3 days into school break and theyre already bored. Hmm, we need a new game. Thatll save the day. So will bounty selectasize. Its the smaller powerful sheet. The only one with trap lock technology. Look one selectasize sheet of bounty is 50 more absorbent than a full size sheet of the leading ordinary brand. Use less. With the small but powerful picker upper, bounty selectasize. Rft ld cor chn be myadaut , d tahty n t er moin p it. Odrinth. 9 shs watn e rm99uslsf ea [ lennnc ] p,hes ler wlera fern osmiwat® bcus. Hp epouul. 5 shs wat. A mni lg. Thea g eaas. Mi ]eeaw. N osfu lileisit welcome back to cbs this morning. Boeings new 787 dream liner is often called the airplane of the future. At Mark Strassmann reports, the ride continues to be a little bumpy. Reporter when the United Airlines became the first carrier to add the boeing 787 to its fleet last month it looked like clear skies ahead for the next generation aircraft. This week a pair of setbacks as one plane was forced to make an Emergency Landing in new orleans and the federal Aviation Administration issued an order all 787s be inspected for fuel leaks. Every 787 mp manufactured will have problems in its initial production. Reporter united says the Emergency Landing in new orleans tuesday was caused by the failure of one of six generators, and the 787 never lost power. The generator has been replaced and additional tests carried out before the plane is returned to service. United also said that its checked all three dream liners for fuel leaks and no problems were found. The dream liner was designed to make a revolutionary plane. Its made of composite materials that make it lighter and more fuelefficient than traditional jetliners. An aircraft with tremendous engineering, Research Development has gone into, and it is a safe aircraft. Tremendous redundancy, a very advanced aircraft. Reporter but the pathway to the future has not been easy. Delays and issues with the plane the engine. For cbs this morning, Mark Strassmann, new orleans. Cbs news editor Peter Greenberg has flown on the 787. Peter, good morning. Good morning, charlie. When you think of this plane, are we looking at compounding issues that have a larger story . Well, there are always going to be growing pains and trying to fit the Little Things when a new plane is delivered. Threeyear delay caused by not delivering the right kind of parts on time. The first problem. Then an engine disintegrated on a test palane and now this electrical problem. Bound to happen. The thing significant to report in this case, when they reported the fuel leak problem, part of the problem, why the faa issued that air directive, the operator to boeing, boeing reported to the faa and issued the director, got to inspect all the planes. With the electrical problem yesterday, the pilots did the right thing. Learned their lesson from swiss air flight 111 many years ago when the pilots had an electrical problem on that flight tried to troubleshoot it in the air. Lost precious time and then the plane. In this situation, a sophisticated airplane with all the instruments in cockpit, an alarm, do the first thing you can, put the plane on the ground at the nearest possible airport and thats what they did. How safe do you feel they are . Cutting edge safety . I do. Done a lot of testing. Ive flown it. Pressurize the 5,000. Were used to 8,000. You feel a lot better. How many of the 787s are in use . Only 38 delivered. United airlines only hall three. The largest customer in the United States. 50 onrder. A big, big love affair with this plane, as do many other airlines. Its big. Because they were so late in being delivered boeing only manufacturers 3 1 2 a month, trying to wrap up the production line to do five a month. Wrap it up not doing the proper oversight . And that remains to be seen. The air directive order is a good thing the faa did it. Inspecting it. Only three in service in the United States and all done by united right now. Do you like these kind of planes, gayle . I like them. Most attractive, tvs in the back of the seat. The most attractive thing on these planes are the windows. The normal airplane window is small. These windows are large and tint automatically. A really cool thing getting in the plane. Make as big difference. Im with gayle. I like the tv. And wifi. Right. We know about you and wifi, charlie. And peter, did you know charlie has apple tv . Just saying. Hes ahead of the curve. Thank you, Peter Greenberg. Thank you very much. Daniel ek is not even 30, but he created his first web company 158 ye years agos ther is in the black shirt. Ask him about his music streaming site and the future of theres a senate vote tomorrow on United Nations disabilities treaty. Approved by 126 countries, would promote equal rights and better treatment for the disabled. Unavailable and unifying. This proposal could not be matched. Even current rivals put aside their differences for it. Senator mccain thank you very much, mr. Secretary. Ah . A little good natured ribbing. Im sure kerry had a comeback. Thank you very much, mr. President. Mccain teased you about a job you might get, and you hit him with the failure of his life. Its like its like mccain nudged him in the ribs. Mccain nudged kerry in the ribs. Uhhuh, mr. Secretary. Kerry turned around and stabbed him in the back. Became an auentrepreneur at 14. Daniel ek. Listen to music, share it for free. More than 15 million users and 18 million songs. Daniel ek joins us now. Welcome. Thank you very much. How do you characterize the musical application . Social media . What is it . Its really a music app, but music, we think music is the most social thing there is. So its probably a bit of both. You need to tell that to Anderson Cooper. Yeah. But you know, you have been described, daniel ek, as the music man. Named one of the top 100s most influential, one of the most important men in music. What daniel recognized best is that if you make paying for songs easier than stealing them, people will pay, this by ashton kutcher. One of the most precious commodities we have is our time. If we make it convenient for people to do things i think theres a huge market in that for pretty much everything. The thing thats cool, you can share it with your friends. I hear thats one of the best things about it. Yeah. Thats always been something really, really huge when it comes to music. You want to share music with your friends. Weve all, you know, back in the day, gone over to each others houses and checked out each others record collections, and now you can do it pretty much with two clicks on your computer. Whats the most exciting thing happening in this arena for you today . The broad arena of social media, digital revolution, where were going, mobile, all that. Right. Well, youre exactly right. Theres two supertrends really right now and one is social. More and more people are coming on to social media, whether its facebook or twitter or even now instagram, and more and more media really is becoming social. The other one is that were getting more and more computer software. Phones are becoming computers, and we have these phones with us all the time. Theyre bringing us notification about whats going on in the world with our friends, and we are exchanging sort of realtime events with them, photos, music, you know, videos, et cetera. So its just a really exciting time. Beyond music and photos, whats the most amazing application that youve seen in the last month . Oh. Its probably this app called up, which is basically a bracelet you can wear. And what it does, it allows you to sort of track your physical activity. So how much youve walked. How many calories you burned, et cetera. Definitely something i could use. Yeah. What would you say, though, about the Music Industry . How they feel about spotify . I first heard about your company two years ago from the Music Industry executive, who shall remain nameless, mike tyler, who said to me, this is really the wave of the future. Because i was thinking, but wont it hurt the Music Industry . Well, i think, again, you know, the Music Industry, because music is the most social object, it was probably one of the ones that was hit hardest of all media types when it comes to piracy. So, you know, a lot the Music Industry back in the year 2000 was actually about a 45 billion industry, and now its about 15 billion. Its onethird of where it used to be, but at the same time, people are consuming more music now than ever before. Yes. So its pretty clear that theres something wrong here. And whats wrong is that people are listening to music illegally. What were doing is taking them from illegal, an illegal service and whats happening to pandora . Well, im sure pandora is doing well. I dont know whats happening to their stock price. Youre saying the company is good . Yeah. I think a lot of people are still listening to pandora. Everybody looks to this question. There is apple. There is facebook. There is google. Uhhuh. And there is one more. And theres this competition. Is that where the game is in the digital revolution . What happens between those four companies . Well, i definitely think those four companies are sort of very much affecting the whole sort of digital landscape, but theres a lot of other companies out there that are making meaningful impacts. You guys had mark pink its its yesterday. You watched. Yes, i watched. For gaming, were for music, and netflix for video. Many other companies are doing many things as well. You saw the gangnamstyle guy, getting reportedly 8 million from youtube, and the itunes it down load. What does that say about the future, do you think, of the Music Industry . They can get 8 million from youtube . I think its great, because all of these sources of revenue just means were going to get the Music Industry back to growth again. Daniel, thank you so much. Thank you. You can visit cbs this morning. Com to subscribe to our spotify play list. Were she some good one on there, too. Have you ever wanted to jump off of a bridge . Not lately. More people than ever are taking up something ycalled tandem bas jumping. Why anyone in their right mind would want to do this. Coming up next on cbs this morning. Jumping off of a bridge, a building or a cliff is one of the most dangerous sports there is, and thats why this man wants to do it. Starting to become more mainstream in the sport of tandem jumping. A new way of risking your neck. 2012, becowelcome. Whos ready to do base jumping . Reporter one saturday every fall the new river gorge bridge in fayetteville, West Virginia transforms into a human launch pad. Its known as bridge day. The largest event in the world dedicated to a sport that defines the word extreme. Bridge day is not safe. Basically the best way to describe it. Thats what makes it so cool. 450 jumpers from 41 states and 10 countries. An amazing event. Reporter its illegal in most of country. A freefall parachuted jump off a fixed object. The jump must be from antenna, span from the earth itself. The length of free fall make it the dangerous younger cousin to skydiving. Mark kittner has been jumping out of planes and off objects since the 90s and says although the ladder is motter is more ins more serene. The winds rushing. Versus space, youre standing on the edge. Its completely quiet. Theres no motion. Youre just really one with yourself and the object that youre on, and so youre stepping off into nothing. Reporter very few people have ever had that sensation, because it takes a lot of time and money. In those places youre required to have at least 100 certified solo skydives before you make a solo base jump. But recently, thats all changed. One, two ah reporter two years ago, he founded the firstever tandem base jumping company in twin falls, idaho. Did research and started doing it. Reporter for just 400, anyone can be strapped to an instructor and leap off a perfectly good bridge. Bridge day, pretty exciting. You guys ready . Yep. Reporter and for the second year in a row, base jumpings biggest day offering a tandem experience to any adrenalinehungry novelist. What made you decide to jump off a bridge . Reporter Ronny Franklin heard about that option and didnt think twice. My wife had pancreatic cancer four years. Four months before she died, one night she rode and said i wish you would have went and i would have went with you. Im just not going to lay there and wish i did something. Im doing it. Reporter hes on his way to crossing off everything on his bu bucket list. Hang on and smile big. Reporter finally at age 68, he was ready and able. With his son and quite possibly his late wife looking on ready . Reporter ronny bravely shimmied up to the edge. Base jump. Clear to base jump. Three, two, one, zero. Whew reporter only al few seconds of freefall okay. Lets do it. Land in the water. Reporter in the rough landing, it was everything he dreamt. It was fantastic. Perfect. Now, everybody who wants to fly like a bird is able to come and do that. Reporter proponents of base jumping hope the new tandem trend may open doors to the sport in general and point to tandem skydiving as the reason why. In the 1980s, skydiving was reserved for extreme daredevils only. When it was perfected, the sport took off. Today more than half a million tandem jumps in the u. S. Alone. Something like skate boarding was in the 70s. Look how well its accepted. Yeah. Well be there some day. Reporter so far only al few hundred people across the country signed up to par pr take partake in one of the worlds most dangerous sports. Three, two, one zero oh, my reporter but if all the reviews are similar to this thats awesome reporter the risks may be well worth the reward. I love you, honey oh, man. Thats nice. Alex is here at the table. Im wondering if those who love and care for you know you do this . I tell my mom after. You looked like you hit the ground hard there . Its a very dangerous sport. The main thing, you only have a few seconds. Not much reaction time. Skydiving, 45 seconds if something goes wrong. Here, not much. Also winds can pick up. People jumping off cliffs and stuff like that can get pushed against that. Even though doing it in tandem with somebody whos done it many, many times. Yes. With tandem base out of twin falls, idaho, theyre only jumping off bridges. Thats the safest place. If you are tandem jumping, thats the safest place to do it. Charlie, when are you going to do it . Next year. A question to be answered, how safe, how thrilling and how hard . It was thrilling. Exciting. Also a lot of fear. You come up on that edge, its over 800 feet. Its really not that difficult. What have you done thats more fun . Thats a tough one. Thats a tough one. I have skydived, large bungee jumps. Theres something about the fact, the danger factor in there im glad youre all right. Glad youre all right. Up next, your local news. 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