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is calling her first trip back to her native tucson, arizona, after she was shot in the head five months ago. she'll spend a very special father's day weekend with her family. and power foursome, golf has long been a part of american politics and today president obama and speaker john boehner tee off. but can they do any business or will they get caught in a bipartisan sand trap? "early" this saturday morning, june 18th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >> good saturday morning to everyone. welcome to"the early show." i'm rebecca jarris advice. >> i'm russ mitchell. >> united airlines is trying to return to a normal schedule after a computer glitch led to many delays. they are working again but there are residual delays. >> reporter: for more than five hours at airports around the country the lines grew. this was los angeles international. >> it's been three hours on your feet so it's not very comfortable. there's no place to sit down. >> we've been standing in line for about two hours, that's it. and our flight got canceled. >> reporter: united airlines isn't saying exactly what happened but posted a notice to passengers saying a network connectivity issue knocked out its computers. all of the airline flights were affected leaving more than 1,000 waiting for planes in san francisco. >> i don't think anybody here has a clue so it's just a bad situation. >> reporter: adding to the frustration, the fact that united's only statement were occasional twitter messages acknowledging the problem but offering little more. though it woent help those who missed events or connections, united will waive all change fees and penalties for flights who were affected. warning those trying to unsnarl plans may have a headache. those normhigh volumes waiting change tickets. let's turn to syria, government troops and tanking are attacking the town in a turk irborder. homes have been burned and dozen as rested, after yesterday's bloody crackdown. 19 people were reported killed as the government continues to crush the three-month popular uprising in a wide ranging miller it assault. cbs news correspondent wyatt andrews is across the border in turkey. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ross. syria's dictator bashir al assad has been trying to crush the pro-democracy demonstrations by using extreme violence. all he's done is kill 1,400 of his own people, filled up refugee camps in turkey and strengthened opposition demands he reform or resign. demonstrators in every part of syria turned out in a show of defiance and rebellion not seen before. in hama, where assad's father in 19828 killed tens of thousands of protesters, almost 15,000 demonstrators marched on friday shouting "freedom for syria." [ irgunfire ] but in the hostal city of homs, the army fired into the crowds again. human activists reported 19 people died nationwide, a number that cannot be confirmed. in the overflowing refugee camps inside turkey, the anger against assad is intense. "my allah destroy him," this woman says, "the way he has destroyed us." she and several other refugees who have fled to these camps in turkey told us their stories using cell phone videos. they asked not to be identified. "there isn't a single thing that assad hasn't done," she is saying. "he's torched our homes, robbed the shops and raped the girls." that charge of widespread rape by the syrian army was repeated by this woman. "we saw the horrible and shameless things the army did," she told us, "so i ran away to protect my honor." with the camps now filling to capacity, angelina jolie, a u.n. refugee ambassador, paid a visit. it was brief but the point was made, the world is watching. the pressure on assad is now such that he's agreed to address the syrian people on television as early as sunday night. we do not know if he plans to offer any democratic concessions, but even his best diplomatic friends here in turkey are demanding that he institute democratic reform and stop killing innocent people. russ? >> wyatt andrews in turkey, see you later in the broadcast. despite the warnings and all the political posturing, there are reports that a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by vice president joe biden is making some real progress on a deal that would increase the federal government's borrowing limit and at the same time reduce the deficits. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes reports. >> reporter: when it comes to finding a deal to lower the debt republicans have made clear what's not on the table. >> our side will not support any attempt to raise the debt ceiling that is not accompanied by the kind of cuts necessary and reforms necessary, nor will we support an attempt to raise the debt limit that raises people's taxes. >> reporter: after a slow start and with a deadline looming, vice president biden met with a bipartisan group of six members of congress three day this is past week and he has at least three more meetings set for next week. the two sides have reportedly already reached an agreement on $1 trillion worth of spending cuts, but it will be tough to get to their stated goal of $4 trillion in debt reduction over ten years without either tax increases or entitlement reforms. on friday, for the first time, the powerful seniors group, aarp, opened the door to social security reform, but said any cuts should be used to keep the program solvent, not to lower the debt. >> we can make changes that are modest and we can make changes with a great deal of lead time so we don't need to affect anybody who is currently retired today or near retirement. >> reporter: negotiators would like to wrap up their talks by july 1st because that would give party leaders about a month to sell the plan to their members before the u.s. is set to default on its debt. nancy cordes, cbs news, capitol hill. >> joining us to discuss how the proposed cuts in the nation's budget might affect you is michael santoli, associate editor of "barron's." there are new things we heard in nancy's report but clearly you've got main programs that are going to have to be cut or at least parts that are going to have to be cut in order to get to the $2 trillion goal. namely the entitlement programs and defense spending >> right. >> let's start with social security. the white house estimates last year we spent $11.6 billion. this year the estimated amount on that is going to go up 8% to $12.5 billion. what's that really going to mean in layman's terms in. >> we need to deal with this on a long-term business. social security is okay for a number of years. we can continue to fund the program for awhile. the obvious things out there are perhaps a raising of the retirement age or at least making lower benefits available at a younger age or means testing social security which i think is not really on the table, it's too politically sensitive. in other words if you have a very high income maybe you get taxed on social security benefits so what it means right now is it's a looming problem but it's not an eminent issue for the moment. >> not eminent but who does it impact and at what point does it really kick in? >> at this point it's not going to impact anybody who is in the social security program, in other words collecting benefits, already retired or probably about to enter it. it's more of a matter people 55 and below especially, might have to get used to the idea they're not going to have exactly the kind of benefits they might have expected. >> so younger baby boomers are the ones who will start to feel it and the young in particular are really going to feel it down the road. >> this all assumes they will actually touch the program because right now it seems still as if the politics are not really getting very close at that point. >> now we did aarp come out and say they're willing to talk about touching the program. medicare is likely going to have some sort of impact there. in 2009 we spent $502.3 billion on medicare according to the department of health and human services. what kind of impact is that going to have and who is going to be impacted? >> ed in i care to be honest with you is really the entire debate right now. the inflation in health care costs is dramatic and persistent that's the time bomb in the federal budget. what that means is probably people are going to have higher deductibles, they have to pay more for medicare. it might not be an all-you-can-eat health care plan. the government will fesht things like prescription drug contracts. i do think right now medicare i think almost has to become less generous for people who are not yet collecting medicare. >> the stock market, if the debt ceiling does get raised but you don't see these cuts, what happens in the stock market? >> i think it's a foregone conclusion the debt ceiling is going to get raised. we're not talking about the u.s. government defaulting on its debt. i think the stock market wants to see sincere gestures for long-term deficit reduction, not so much next year. next year is not that big a deal. the tax revenues will come back because the economy is better than it was last year. i think what we have to see is some genuine commitment to a longer term, lower trajectory of federal spending than the stock market could take it. if we get -- >> more kicking the can down the road? >> i don't think it's going to be very welcome. >> won't be welcome. the market will go down. michael santoli as always we appreciate it. here's russ. >> thank you. baltimore promises to be the scene of lively discussions this weekend, the annual conference of mayors. the key issue, how to help those who lost their jobs find new work. mayor michael coleman of columbus, ohio and mayor cornett, you have unemployment rate 4.5%, less than half the national rate. >> we're continuing to improve the quality of late. they're coming to oklahoma city, that's allowing the entrepreneurs and job creators to be sutsful. it's part of the culture and the community and we have spent over $1 billion on public improvements to try and improve the infrainstruct stur which i'm really concerned about much of america and the declining infrastructure, a lot of deferred maintenance not being addressed. >> mayor coleman, unemployment is 7.3%, also below the national average. people say mayor we need new jobs, what can you say to them? >> well, we're trying. we're working our hardest and our best to create jobs in the city of columbus and frankly, we're doing it in a very productive way. we have an effort called columbus 20/20 and our goal is to engage 150,000 jobs by the time 2020 comes around, but having said that, we need to help the federal government. we have efforts like cdbg and other efforts that are on the chopping block in congress, and programs like that are investments in cities that create jobs and opportunities for people of our country, and when you cut those jobs at a time when nothing, when we need nothing but jobs in our community, when the focus on job creation, it becomes a problem for the country and for cities around the country. >> mayor cordette, do you think more federal assistance is the answer? >> i think mayor coleman talking about cdbg is important. so many dollars comes to the states and doesn't end up in the city's hands. mayor coleman is right, it needs to be protected. >> you called the economic hardship of cities the great retreat. what do you think happened there? the federal government used to contribute a lot of money to cities. what happened in the past couple years? >> i think the congress is not listening to cities as they should. the fact of the matter is, most of the united states population lives in city. about 90% of the gross domestic product comes from our cities, in our metropolitan areas, and when you see a time when we need to create jobs and opportunities, most of the jobs are in cities. it seems to me you have to develop strategies like cdbg to invest in cities to create the jobs that we so need in the country, and if you can't create dollars from cdbg for cities and mayors to use to create economic opportunities for cities, then what are the tax incentives and the other incentives that can replace those direct dollars in the cities to create jobs, to have investment in the private sector. >> i see. mayor ten seconds what to you hope to accomplish at the conferences today? mayor coleman. talking to two, i apologize. >> we want congress to step up and invest in cities, not cut cdbg, and to begin to pay attention to job creation and opportunities in communities around the country. >> mayor cordette five seconds. s. invest in infrastructure, unemployed or underemployment you may have to proactively do something to help yourself. >> mayors, in washington and baltimore today thank you so much. we appreciate it. former anchorman thank you for joining us. rebecca, to you. the mayors in baltimore, second republican presidential hopefuls are in new orleans, attending a southern leadership conference. for more we go to cbs news political analyst john dickerson in new orleans. great to have you with us. >> reporter: good morning. >> one of the people there is michele ba michele bachmann, made a big impression earlier this week at the gop debate. how is she doing there? >> reporter: doing well, well-received, spoke yesterday a little bit longer than planned. it used to be a liability to be in congress, to be in washington. a lot of the people running are governors or ex-governors, and for michele bachmann, though, she's able to say i'm in washington but i'm fighting against the establishment and that allows her to get big applause. a couple of standing owe vagus, none more popular when she said she was the author of the light bulb freedom of choice act, allowing people to pick whatever they want, not having it mandated by the federal government. >> in terms of the other republicans, who is getting the most enthusiastic response from the big powers in the rank and file republicans? >> reporter: the folks who are here, the ones getting the big applause lines, herman cain spoke, always well-received in the room, michele bachmann as i said. haley barbour who is not running and disappointed a lot of republicans because he's not, got a thunderous applause. made an interesting case. he said purity in politics is a loser and repeated ronald reagan's line, somebody who is with you 80% is your ally, not your 20% enemy, that's a message to republicans, this year they shouldn't get hung up on purity tests for their candidates, pick somebody who can unite the party and win in the general election. >> interesting point. he brought up the necessity of compromise in his comments. jon huntsman, planning on being there, worked in the obama administration, pulled out because he's ill. he's expected to announce his run for president on tuesday. how is that going to play with the republican voters, given his background, with the obama administration? >> reporter: it's a very tricky argue mgt to make. he wasn't here. his wife came down and spoke at a private reception. he's sick but it's probably a good thing he wasn't here because he needs to sort of create a moment next week, because he's quite far back in the polls, that's to be expected since he's sort of new entrant into the race but as you mentioned he's got to make the case that he was in the obama administration but he also criticizes it and he's got a lot of work to do because he's focusing his campaign largely in new hampshire. mitt romney is doing very well there. huntsman trying to run as appealing to independents as the kind of adult candidate in the race, nevertheless has to really go at that front-runner, mitt romney and those two qualities may be intention. >> john dickerson we appreciate it. so much to discuss and we'll continue the conversation shortly. i'm certain of it. now for the rest of the morning's headlines we turn to betty nguyen at the news desk. >> good morning, rebecca and russ and good morning to you at home. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is back in her hometown of tucson, arizona. she flew there yesterday to celebrate father's day weekend with her family. her husband, astronaut mark kelly says her homecoming is a dream come true for giffords and doctors say her return could help with her recuperation. giffords was shot in the head last january during a political event in her district. her condition improved enough she is an outpatient at a houston rehab center. two police officers were killed in afghanistan when suicide bombers attacked a police station near the presidential palace in kabul. the attack comes as hamid karzai says the u.s. and other nations are now talking with the taliban to end the decade-long war. it is the first official acknowledgment of negotiations to end the war. the 20-year-old serial thief known as the barefoot ban did pleaded guilty friday . he stole planes, boats and firearms, covering nine states, the bahamas and british colombia. he kept law enforcement on the run for two years until his capture last july. as part of his plea he faces 6 1/2 years in prison and will not be allowed to sell his story for profit. for more on the story on the so-called barefoot bandit, catch "48 hours" tonight at 10:00 eastern, 9:00 central right here on cbs. let's get you caught up on the weather outside, it is a holiday weekend, so lonnie a lot of pressure on you. >> this is your footwear forecast, all right, i'll dovetail off of your story. rainboots in the midwest. warm socks in seattle. so a chilly one for you. bare feet are going to be frying in texas. san antonio, texas hits 104 on the thermometer, tipp tipton, oklahoma, 107. shreveport, louisiana, 100 degrees. all of these triple digit readings. feels like temperatures of 110 if not a little hotter. that's what i'm talking about the bare feet frying in that area. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >> that's going to do it for me. >> thank you. it was 100 days ago today the deadly earthquake and tsunami japan. >> about 24,000 people were killed or still listed as missing. 100,000 others still have no permanent home. >> lucy kraft went to a homeless shelter near tokyo and filed this report. >> reporter: simple chores are no longer easy for retireemiyoki. next to her home an evacuation center about 100 miles away from her hometown of futabamachi, front line from one of the world's worst nuclear accidents. she says "i don't know what will happen to futabamachi. even if the radiation ebbs there will be contamination. by the time it's gone in 10 or 20 years i won't be around anymore." daily life at the evacuation center has settled into a numbing rhythm fetching boxed meals and waiting and waiting. this vacant high school outside of tokyo is home for 1,000 residents of futabamachi, the town from the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant is located. the people evacuated here two months ago. when they'll be able to leave is anybody's guess. tv cameras are not allowed inside the school turned evacuation center as refugees told us the strain of being homeless, living on classroom floors with no privacy has turned the residents of a once sleepy town into a crowd of insome know acs. this man says the elderly hit the lights at 8:00 so i can't read at night. japan officially talks about returning residents to their homes when the nuclear cries sis over, evacuees say the realization they're never going home agains that already sunk in. "they got the whole town down here and that's it. no one seems to have any idea what to do next." the residents are succespended a cloud of uncertainty. a town waits for its future. cbs news, tokyo. >> 100 days, many more days to come. >> lots of rebuilding ahead. >> we're coming right back. >> this is "the early show" on cbs. dad's little secret. plus hollywood heavyweights, jewel gentleman roberts and tom hanks. p the kaesy anthony trial in florida of course gets more bizarre. anthony is accused of killing 2-year-old daughter caylee. friday morning a fight broke out among folks waiting to see the trial. got so bad officials had to create a whole new way to hand out tickets to the public. >> in the courtroom the defense called a bug expert. we'll tell you why and talk to an expert about whether anthony will take the stand in her own defense. a lot of people said that would be an important thing in terms of it shall it shall. >> risky as well. >> but a lot of people are saying we need to hear from her in this case. we'll talk about it coming ;ç the empire state building on a beautiful late spring morning in new york city, summer begins officially in three days. >> feels like summer. in new york city with the temperatures. >> welcome back to the "early" show, i'm russ mitchell. >> i'm rebecca jarvis, good morning. >> president obama takes another swing you could say with republicans today. he plans on playing golf with john boehner. the white house says it will be a friendly game, the way for both men to get to know each other. chances are they'll talk about pressing issues. coming up this unusual golf summit. >> i'm as interested to see what they say as i am to see who wins. >> vice president biden is the best golfer so we'll see. despite the struggling economy there is possibly good news out there for you. gasoline prices have dropped about 25 to 30 cents in a month. oil is way down to $93 a barrel and that's a four-month low. we'll tell you how that is translating into lower prices at the grocery store especially for fruit and vegetables. first we begin with testimony which resumes this morning in orlando, florida, in the murder trial of casey anthony. she is charged with killing 2-year-old daughter caylee almost three years ago and betty nguyen has the story. hello again. >> good morning, rebecca. the defense enters its third day today calling witnesses in the murder trial and on friday just one witness took the stand. for the second straight day defense attorneys continued to make the case that casey anthony did not murder her daughter, caylee. all day friday, jurors heard testimony from just one witness, insect expert dr. tim know huntington. >> is this photo -- >> reporter: the defense sought to dispute prosecution claims that bugs found inside the trunk of anthony's car proved caylee's body had been left inside. >> looking at the evidence collected there's no reason to assume maggots came from a human body. >> reporter: under intense cross-examination prosecutors got the witness to admit he's never worked on a case involving a young child. the closest, an experiment he conducted using a pig. >> you wrapped your pigs in a blanket? >> reporter: lawyers made their case thursday started with an fbi witness who testified there is no dna from their client found in the trunk or on the duct tape prosecutors claim was used to kill caylee. >> and did you test the adhesive side of the duct tape? >> yes, i did. >> and was there anything that you were able to find there? >> the information that was generated was inconclusive. >> reporter: the trial continues to captivate people following online and on television, even before testimony resumed friday, a pre-dawn brawl erupted between spectators who had waited all night for a chance to witness the trial in person. >> day 22 of the trial does resume later this morning. rebecca? >> betty nguyen, thank you. joining us now a look inside the trial is criminologist casey jordan. great to have you with us. >> always great to be here. >> you've been following the trial and watching it as so many people are. this bug expert that is new information in the trial. >> right. >> what could that possibly do to change things? >> well what the defense is trying to do, they brought in their owne entemologist, the state's happened to be a professor of the guy we saw the stand yesterday. he's trying to refute the evidence, which came out with the state's case that it puts the body of little casey anthony in her mother's car, he wants to dispute the body was ever in the car and basically trying to say the body was hidden by persons unknown before it was transported to the woods where it was found but on cross-examination jeff ashton really skewered this guy and made him say things that were not helpful to the defense. >> jeff ashton of the prosecution made him say things, so it basically backfired, it was a failed plan? >> first of all the guy knows bugs, there's no doubt about it yet his replication study done in nebraska in the fall with a pig carcass instead of a human being just wasn't enough of a replication for all of his evidence to really apply to this case. so not a stupid guy, just his study didn't fit, and i don't think at the end of the day it came out on the side of the defense. >> what about the question of casey anthony herself taking the stand, where do you fall on that today? >> two weeks ago when i was here talking to you i said she has to take the stand. based on that outrageous opening statement on behalf of the defense, they opened up a can of worms, saying caylee died in a pool, casey's father molested her and none of this can be corroborated unless casey takes the stand and yet after it was really laid out, what a pathological liar she is and how much she has lied and lied and lied throughout the investigation, now three weeks into it, i wonder that if she takes the stand, will the jury believe her? i don't think so, and will they punish her or will it be backlash if she takes the stand and says things which they perceive as lies, will they now actually go for the harsher first-degree murder charge, instead the possible aggravated manslaughter of a child. >> in terms of not taking the stand if she doesn't, does that ever impact poorly a juror's view, do they think potentially you're more guilty because you didn't go in front of them? >> a lot of people do, and yet in voir dire in the process of jury selection they asked them specifical specifically. people said yes i would hold it against the defendant if she didn't testify, all 12 qualified they wouldn't hold it against her if she didn't take the stand, in 99% if the defendant doesn't take the stand, it can come back to haunt them. don't put a face to the charges is usually what most defense attorneys would advise. >> casey jordan, great advise. thank you. here's lonie with another check of the headlines. >> midwest has some storms that will be firing up later today. we're starting to see them fire up now at this hour. dry winds fan the wildfires in arizona and new mexico, that's a bad situation, and some will see triple digits, portions of oklahoma, 107 degrees on the thermometer. as for the midwest storms, lincoln to peoria, over to columbus, rain falling at two to four inches an hour. i mean a deluge out there, gusty winds and even a slight chance that this activity could become severe. just keep your eyes in the sky as far as the southwest goes and those wildfires, basically the entire state of arizona, the entire state almost of north carolina under red flag warnings, 35 to 45 to 40-mile-per-hour winds will fan the flames. humidity levels almost nonexistent, a tough situation for the fires. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. wherever you are, make it a great day. all of the dads early father's day wish to you. >> never too early. up next par for the course or political sand trap? 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>> john f. kennedy, a natural athlete, played football in hyannisport and single digit hand handicapper. >> reporter: first president bush was in a hurry, played 18 holes in an hour and a half. president clinton loved his time on the links and was famous for taking mulligans, called slang for a no penalty do over shot. cbs's mark knoller was there when he broke 80. >> you would have think he broke cancer. >> reporter: president bush thought playing golf during the war sent the wrong signal. will we see a score later today? don't bet on it. president obama is the least experienced during the foursome. the white house keeps saying the point is not the score, the point they say is that everyone should get to know one another better. bill plante, cbs news the white house. >> joining us now more on this powerful foursome is golf missorian martin davis. good morning to you. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing just fine as we heard bill plante say president obama least experienced golfer. is he pretty good? >> pretty good. he has an average handicap of 17, which means he'd shoot on a pretty good day in the low 90s, on a bad day high 90s, if he had a really good day, he might break 90. and he'd be excited about that. >> pretty good category. speaker boehner, how would you rate his golf prowess? >> speaker boehner is a very good golfer. his handicap now is about oh somewheres around an 8. i think he's better than that and played better than that and probably plays more than the other three people in the foursome. >> vice president biden who i'm told is the best golfer in the bunch, is that true? >> i didn't know that, and i spoke to someone in the press room over at the open yesterday that does know him. apparently he's a good athlete and at one point had a low handicap, about a 6 and when i was driving in this morning, we went past the vice president's house at the naval observatory, and i swear there was a figure out there on the lawn practicing for this match today. >> probably not a bad idea. let's move on to ohio governor john kasich. is he good? >> about as good. speaker boehner being the best, i think he plays the most, very avid and into history, but former congressman kasich is a good player, too. should be a good foursome. >> it should be. let me ask you this, in a situation like this, is it protocol to let the president of the united states win? >> that you'd like to say that. i don't think so. i think the game, i think the game they're going to play is the game that most of us play on weekends when you have a foursome, they're going to play two against two in teams, and i think if they're smart the president should team up with the speaker. that's the best way for them to bond. >> in a game like this is there a 19th hole involved, a little beer summit action at the end? >> there could be. if they really get along well they may go for what we call an emergency nine, but i don't think they're going to play 27 today. but it's a wonderful opportunity for them to get to know each other. golf is a great leveler. everyone who is enthusiastic about the game, all of the people who are playing today are. it should be a really fun day, and hopefully it will open something up so everybody can talk to each other a little bit later. >> rebecca jarvis was saying to be a fly on the grass. marvin davis, we appreciate it. >> thank you. up next, good news the next time you go food shopping, the cost of fruits and vegetables dropped more than 40%. you're watching the "early" show on cbs. is just not their style. you'll find them with their heads down, working their butts off. ♪ occasionally, they look up from their work, look behind them, see the pack in the distance, then put their heads back down and begin working again. the new chrysler town & country. quietly, convincingly the best-selling minivan in america. add the sauce, it's like the tick to the mcnugget tock. it's like the ping to the pong, the ding to the dong. and now with the new sauces, lips are even smackier, our sweet's even spicier, slam's even dunkier. ♪ [ male announcer ] made with white meat chicken and now new sauces -- the biggest thing to happen to chicken mcnuggets since chicken mcnuggets happened. i totally hear what you're saying. 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>> it gets back to the gas prices. when you're paying less for gas you're paying less to harvest, less to process, less to transport. the more that they have to transport the items that you want the more you have to pay because the gas costs something >> as a consumer what is the smartest way to behave? >> like you just suggested find stuff that's local or not too far away, maybe 100 miles away. there are farms near you that could use the business. food doesn't have to travel far. ultimately if you support these businesses and your farms near you, they'll provide more food later on. although it might be more expensive at the moment until the systems and the network developed the prices will come down. the other thing i suggest is by seasonally, these things are seasonal items. if you do that you're more likely to have lower prices. there's a lot more of it available, the second half it will taste better. it hasn't been grown offseason in a greenhouse somewhere. a bumper crop as nature intended to be. not just now when times are lean but any time. >> any time that makes sense. we see a lot of time in gas prices, they've been fickle but tend to go up faster than they come down. is that the same thing out of food prices? 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>> we'll do just fine in the new york city area. ni us. we have to talk about the fact tomorrow is father's day. looking ahead to tomorrow, it will be fab for fathers in fargo, t-storms "pop" in pittsburgh, put that in quotations for you and dads stay dry in dallas because there's no rain but dads will be sweating because dallas, lubbock, shrevepo shreveport, temperatures 95 to 100 degrees. some feeling like 110, if not hotter, heat advisories are in effect. that's one portion of the country there. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. this weather segment sp sponsored by at&t. at&t, rethink possible. >> just be on alert when you see storms rumbling through the midwest. that's about it for weather. rebecca over to you. >> loni, thank you. in perugia, italy, five witnesses are about to speak out in defense of amanda knox, the american who is in prison for killing her roommate, but these witnesses, there are some who question their reliability and cbs news correspondent charlie d'agata is in london with the latest. >> good morning to you. plenty of courtroom drama this morning, five serving inmates could provide crucial inside information about the case. the prosecutors are doing everything they can to say look these witnesses are hardened criminals who can't be trusted. amanda knox looked composed and dressed conservatively as she made the familiar journey into the italian courtroom from the prison cell that's been her home for the past three yaf years. the new witnesses say she and former boyfriend raffaele sollecito are innocent of the murder of meredith kercher. a third has also been convicted of the murder. a third convicted child killer mario alessie. a fellow inmet who said rudy guede told him his friend killed kercher. >> we're hoping more truth comes out that these stories about rudy and him speaking while in prison to the fact that amanda had nothing to do with this, that it's proven in court. >> reporter: but that's just one version. a second witness convicted mobster lucian op. salievllo insists his mother murdered kercher during a botched break-in. today's testimonies are the latest twist in knox's lengthy and ongoing appeal process. the 24-year-old seattle student and her former boyfriend were convicted 18 months ago for the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old kercher in the bedroom of the house they shared in the italian mountain village of perugia. she's serving a 26-year jail sentence, but in recent months, there have been growing doubts over the strength of her conviction. a final decision in knox's appeal is expected in the fall, but key to the case is the strength of the dna. lawyers in turn say in terms of the murder weapon there was so little of knox's dna on it, it should never have been used as evidence in the first place. rebec rebecca? >> charlie d'agata in london, thank you. joining us in seattle are amanda's parents. great to have you with us. thank you for joining us. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> obviously, a really tough time that the family is going through right now. eta, how is your daughter holding up at this point? >> you know, amanda was happy that things are moving along. every day that she's locked up is horrible, but she's doing what she needs to do to survive. >> and what kinds of things is she doing to survive, and to make herself feel better at this time. >> there's always family there, her stepdad, my husband is right there right now and her best friend is there, so she gets visits, she does a lot of reading. she does a lot of letter writing. she tries to get up and exercise, she tries to get through the day, every day. >> there's new evidence coming out, we have the five individuals who will be hearing from the inmates and we'll hear their testimony. how significant do you think that will be in your daughter's case? >> actually i don't put that much significant in it. it's more wrapped around really the dna evidence that's going to be brought to the trial on the 30th of june, but you know, it's interesting that these inmates are coming forward at the risk of additional jail time, if they're, you know, slandering somebody per se so that's kind of key. >> you bring up the dna evidence though as number one. we're waiting on this independent review of dna evidence. what do you expect that report to show? >> well, my belief is that the accuracy of the first dna set of tests that were done by the forensic police are going to come back as not being reliable by these independent experts and that's what we're really looking forward to. >> etta, how much progress do you believe the lawyers are making on your daughter's case? >> you know, i think little by little, they've been chipping away, but i mean we really felt like in the first trial, even in the first trial that there was no evidence, you know, that was brought forth to convict her, so you know, that surprised us, that they don't give up, they keep going at it. they believe in her and know she's innocent. >> kurt, there are reports out now the italian president himself is following amanda's case. do you think in any way, and i see you shaking your head in agreement at it, so you can jump in after kurt, do you think that helps this case in any way? >> i think it puts another eye on this particular case and the fact it's so high-profile and so, you know, really wrong, and you know, having somebody keep an eye on it, i think, is just that much more beneficial to the result. >> you know, it's not just the president. there have been lawmakers or you know, legislators in italy who have all come out and said something's not right there. this needs to be looked at. the president said yes he's watching it can only help. >> is there anything else, messages that you would like to send to your daughter right now? is there anything else that you think we need to hear at this point about what your daughter's going through, and what will be the eventual outcome of all of this, etta? >> well, you know, we tell her to stay strong. she gets huge messages of support from all over the world and she's really grateful for all of those, as are we, and we believe the truth will come out and that she'll be freed. >> etta and kurt, thanks for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you. and now here's russ. >> rebecca, thank you. up next, she could be the most eligible bachelorette in the world. the latest on pippa middleton. you're watching the "early" show on cbs. the network -- a living, breathing intelligence that's helping people rethink how they live. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. ♪ we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's a network of connections and ideas... open and collaborative... extending far beyond the mobile phone. connecting you to a world of intelligent new devices and technologies. from today's best innovators... and tomorrow's. ♪ it's the at&t network... a network of possibilities... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. ♪ your home and auto policies and save. it's quick and easy. don't worry, tiny people. flo is a gentle giant. yay! bundle your home and auto insurance at progressive.com. hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! you're hungry again? 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>> first of all my daughter carly and wife, beth, usually your goal is to have your kids something just above idiot and so any time a child shows appreciation to a parent i think it's special and this just, there's no words. >> no words. >> no tworwords for how you fel when you found she had written this letter. >> i'm not normally but i was. >> i know you talked about it in your e-mail but tell us something else about your dad. >> i would say the traditions he makes with our family. we have stuff like we'll have breakfast in bed for our birthdays and he'll give us calls at night and kind of say the same thing every time he says good-bye to me when i was at college, he'd say "have fun at college lindy" every time i'd get mad at him, he has things that are set that mean so much to me and my sister, carly, and that's so special to me. >> you also give back to the community in multiple ways. tell us about some of those things. >> well, with the help of an awful lot of other people, actually me helping a lot of other people, there's the triathlon that you saw a little bit about in the video piece, also very active along with the group of folks in bedford county, teen driving initiatives, working with the virginia tech transportation institute on things like distracted driving, texting while you're driving. my daughter was a passenger in a vehicle that basically the accident didn't need to happen, but it probably most likely happened because of distracted driving, off-road, over recovery and there are a lot of things we can do to keep teens safe and there are a lot of people working pretty hard on that and i put some time in that. >> linda, you feel sorry for the guy who -- >> i feel so sorry. >> tough act to follow? >> very tough act to follow, almost impossible but hopefully possible. >> for those of you trying to maintain that idiot status, any quick advice you have for us? >> i think just taking the time to be there, and then listening. parents have a tendency to sort of try to tell and sometimes i know with lyndy and her grief, i had no answers for that. everybody grieves differently. my wife, beth, carly, myself, lyndy, our family, the church we go to, everyone sort of deals with it differently, and just sometimes just sitting there and listening is the most a parent can ñ8 all right, everybody, welcome back to the "early" show. i am rebecca jarvis. good morning. >> and i'm russ mitchell. coming up, as you can see the web slinger himself is here with us. reeve carey, plays peter parker in the broadway hit, peter carney, playing the broadway hit "spider-man: turn off the dark." he'll sing the single "rise above one." >> the brothers voltaggio will help us celebrate father's day with family style barbecue. it's black bean on the menu, pulled pork sandwiches and banana parfait. i followed their season because they're great characters and great chefs to boot. >> menu sounds great. lonnie quinn has our final check of the weather. >> good morning everybody. here are my weather headlines in terms of the hot spots and chilly temperatures around the country. hottest spot anywhere, tipton, oklahoma, 107 degrees. coldest spot, eagle, colorado, drops down to 40 degrees, best weather anywhere in the country, lyons, new york, sunshine, 7 degrees. tomorrow is father's day so dadville, new york, 78 degrees. some of dad's favorite things, barbecue, north carolina, 94, with a thunderstorm chance, golf, illinois, 77 degrees. that thunderstorm chance, we have tool, texas, dad just loves his toolbox, how about that, so what? 101 degrees in tool, texas, feeling closer to 110 with the humidity. a quick look at the father's day forecast. a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >> all right, talking about dad's favorite things. don't want to forget about remote, oregon, 73 degrees, partly sunny skies. russ, over to you. >> okay, thank you very much. if you're feeling tired, wired or bloated, it could be you're simply not eating the right foods. here with some power foods help keep you focused and energized is frances largeman roth, senior editor for "health" magazine. >> great to see you. >> foods that will boost our energy. what are we talking about? >> when you are feeling sluggish, sometimes it's an iron deficiency. women need 18 milligrams a day, men only need 8. lean red meat, poultry and vegetarians, common iron deficiency, something like total cereal, fortified, 100% of the value for the day. >> if we're dragging throughout the day, 2:00 in the afternoon, forget about it. >> or huffing and puffing going up the stairs, getting more iron is essential and get your blood checked by your doctor to make sure you don't have a full blown deficiency. >> breads and pastas. what are they good for? >> a lot of times we feel jittery and it's sometimes not the caffeine, it's refined carbohydrates. we get a spike in the blood sugar but it drops sharply. you're sitting at your desk thinking i want to take a nap right now. so going with whole grains is much smarter than going with the refined carbs, sugary drinks and candy and those things that give us the quick boost but leave us feeling bad later. so it's the fiber actually that helps keep your blood sugar even. >> before, i took a test in school, mom would say eat fish, smart food. >> brain food. >> sometimes it helps. >> yes. if you're feeling like you're forgetting your car keys all the time and appointments and things like that, it may be that you're not getting enough omega 3 dha, an essential brain nutrient or b12. and the good thing about salmon and other fatty fish, they're a good source of both. >> all right. >> b12 or eggs for the b12 and salmon for the dha, which is very hard to get, because there are other sources, veng tagetar sources but not the dha. >> bloated at the beach? >> oh, believe me, i'm six months pregnant so i'm all about anti-bloat right now. you want to avoid vociferous vegetables and other things that tend to cause gas. same thing with carbonated beverages. they're refreshing but not great if you want to look your slimmist. probiotics, activia has a special pro biotic in it, specific for digestion or drinkable joe gurt and plain water. >> stick with the plain water, good advice. frances, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> take care. speaking of food, the fabulous voe taj yo brother vo brothers from "top chef" will be with us after the break. at you'k of a heart attack or stroke. plavix helps protect people with acs against heart attack or stroke: people like you. it's one of the most researched prescription medicines. goes beyond what they do alone by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking and forming dangerous clots. plavix. protection against heart attack or stroke in people with acs. 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"spider-man turn off the dark" opened this week. reeve was discovered by julie t taymoore. >> he joins us on "second cup cafe" to perform "rise above one" from the album of "spider-man turn off the dark." ♪ ♪ how much longer does it take and are there any real answers anyway ♪ ♪ silence in a crowded room is louder than the loudest tune ♪ ♪ i hang on every word and you said rise above open your eyes up ♪ ♪ and you said rise above but i can't, i can'ti miss you in everything ♪ ♪ i was too fast traveling to take you in ♪ ♪ i know silence is no crime, i just wish i could hear you fill it up one more time ♪ ♪ i know just what you said to me, exactly what you said to me ♪ ♪ i hang on every word and you said rise above, open your eyes up ♪ ♪ and you said rise above yourself ♪ ♪ in a time of treason is there time for trust when there's no them, only us ♪ ♪ is there time for reason, has your heart had enough ♪ ♪ is it time to let go and rise above ♪ ♪ and you said rise above open your eyes to love ♪ ♪ and you said rise above eno h enouenough ♪ >> thank you. >> thanks for being here. >> very nice, thank you. >> so congratulations. >> thank you. >> it must feel great to have it finally here >> feels amazing, yes. >> what does it feel like to hang upside down. >> as soon as you get over your fear of heights. >> quickly i bet. >> you have to. >> you were discovered singing in a rock band. >> here at the mercury lounge with my band, carney. we're actually now, went from the mercury lounge and now opening for u2 in canada this summer. >> wow. >> last night at the 360 tour. if you want to catch us before then, we're playing in new york city at the bowery ballroom july 25th. >> busy guy. >> literally. >> eight shows a week. >> reeve carney can't wait to hear more. congratulations. >> thank you. >> don't go away everyone. we'll be right back. you're watching the "early" show on cbs. this "second cup cafe" segment sponsored by coffeemate. add your flavor with caramel machiatto. ♪ express yourself ♪ ♪ express yourself ♪ ♪ oh, do it ♪ oh, do it [ female announcer ] coffee is like life. it's better when you add your flavor. like rich caramel macchiato, part of coffee-mate's new café collection. from nestle. is it a blast of clean ? 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