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one day, and it's not over yet. we'll tell you how it's impacting roads, trains early this morning august 15th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "the early show" on a dark and gloomy monday morning. i'm chris wragge. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. erica hill is off this morning. of course the sky looks a little better than it has the last 24 hours. >> not much. >> kind of crazy, the rain. >> yesterday, total deluge. >> constant, nonstop. >> day inside. don't leave the house on the east coast. >> the disaster at the indiana state fair. the fair reopens this morning as state investigators search for answers in saturday night's sudden stage collapse that killed five people. cbs news correspondent cynthia but aers is at the grounds with the latest. cindy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, chris. you know, it was supposed to be a joyous night for country music fans gathered at the indiana state fairgrounds to hear the band sugarland, but when a strong storm approached, things took a tragic and deadly turn. it was just before 9:00 saturday night when powerful winds ahead of a storm system tore through the state fair grounds seeming to zero in on this stage. [ screaming ] gusts as high as 70 miles an hour toppled the stage and lighting system sending steel scaffolding into the vip section known as the sugar pit. >> i looked over my shoulder and the i heard people screaming and yelling. trash cans and everything else. >> reporter: while many of the 12,000 fans ran for shelter, others rushed in to try to dig out victims penned under the heavy rigging. >> there was a -- she was probably about 3, this 4 years old, i would say, laceration on her arm. you could see the bone. i took my shirt off. we made a tourniquet for her. there was another fellow flat out on his face, a laceration to his head and neck and everything. >> reporter: the open act had finished and eager fans crowded the stage awaiting the headliner sugarland when an announcement was made about an approaching storm. moments later, the heavy scaffolding came crashing down. five people died. chicago resident christina santiago, one of ft. wade and tammy, nathan and gloria all of indianapolis. more than 45 others were injured. >> this desperately sad, as far as i can tell, fluke. >> indiana governor mitch daniels called it a freakish accident. but questions were raised about whether enough was done to get everyone to safety. >> it was predictable. we put out a warning for 60-mile-an-hour winds a full half hour before the stage collapse occurred. >> reporter: another concert outdoors being held just 15 miles from here got that same weather warning, canceled the show, and ordered 7,000 fans to get to their cars. that decision is fueling speculation here that more could have been done to prevent this tragedy. chris? >> cbs' cynthia bowers in indianapolis for us. thank you. joining us is indiana state fair spokesman andy klontz. good morning. >> good morning. >> how concerned were the organizer, were you, with the weather that was coming in on saturday night? >> well, we were extremely concerned. we had emergency plans in place and we had personnel on site. we were in constant contact with the national weather service and we were constantly trying to figure out what was coming, when it was coming, and get people to a position of safety as best we could with the information that we had. >> according to a newspaper report, more than one person in attendance said they should have told people to get out, but they didn't. why didn't you evacuate everyone from the area at that point? >> well, you have to know all of the circumstances. we did make an announcement, warning people that the weather was coming, it was severe, and that we recommended that they leave the grandstand to go to the nearby buildings, permanent structures outside of the grandstand to seek shelter. and in the four minutes that that announcement was made and a decision was made, know that the time now is to get everybody out and not make it an option, that is when the straight-line winds hit. but we did make an announcement recommending that to people. and the information we had with our meteorologist on site, with constant contact with the national weather service was that we had about 30 more minutes before any kind of rain or storm blew in. and we were constantly assessing and reassessing what the situation was. >> where were you when the stage collapsed? and could you actually believe what you were seeing, the aftermath? >> it was a horrific scene, as you can imagine. i was actually overlooking the grandstand from a second-floor office. and it was devastating to see. but it was also just as incredible to see the acts of heroism and the cooperation amidst the chaos by people who were trying to help other people. and i'm convinced that there were lives saved because of the cooperation that people showed. >> definitely a heroic response by a lot of the people in attendance. let me ask you, the fair was closed yesterday. you'll be reopening today. how will that be handled? >> well, we're going to start the day with a remembrance ceremony in order to honor those victims and in order to really try and help the grieving process for all of us. but we do have a fair. we have a great state fair honored year after year as one of the great state fairs in the country. and we have a lot of people who still want to have a fair for another week. and we think that's the best thing to do, and we will restart our fair after our remembrance ceremony this morning. >> all right. we wish you the best. thank you for joining us. andy klotz. here's rebecca. now we turn to politics. president obama goes to minnesota today starting a three-day, three-state bus tour focusing on jobs. his re-election campaign may be focusing on the latest gallup poll. for the first time the president's approval rating is below 40%. cbs news chief white house correspondent nora o'donnell is in cannon falls, minnesota, with more. good morning to you, norah. >> reporter: good morning, repeca. that's right. with the dismal poll ratings, the president is hitting the road, to arrive in minnesota late they are morning. but getting americans to focus on the president's jobs agenda may be difficult with all the attention being paid to the republican presidential candidates, including texas governor rick perry, who's the latest to throw his hat into the ring. the electric park ballroom in water park, iowa, was packed for rick perry's first visit to the hawkeye state as a presidential candidate. >> sometimes it kind of takes me a while to get into something, like this presidential race. but let me tell you, when i'm in, i'm in all the way. >> reporter: perry chose to make his debut in the very same place minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann launched her own presidential campaign. the iowa-born bachmann showed up at the same event sunday night to defend her home turf. >> my goal is to be bold, new, different, actually go in and take your voice, this voice here from waterloo, iowa, take this voice into the white house. >> reporter: bachmann is fresh off winning this weekend's iowa straw poll with 28% of the vote. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty came in a distant third with 13%. that poor showing prompted him to drop out of the race yesterday. >> i think that the results that came in yesterday were ones that indicated that the field was -- it was going to thin. >> will you ask for his endorsement? >> i look forward to talking to him. >> reporter: but pawlenty may end up throwing his support behind perry. they serve together on the republican governors association, and perry calls pawlenty a close friend. president obama travels to the midwest this week and stops in the same small towns and farm land communities that helped launch his 2008 white house bid. advisers say the president will focus on job creation and attempt to draw a clear distinction between himself and republicans as he did in michigan friday. >> time and again, we've seen partisan brinksmanship get in the way. and this winning the next election is more important than fulfilling our responsibilities to you and to our customers. >> reporter: so the president is beginning this bus tour. it will be a three-day, three-state tour that will take him through the west today, minnesota, iowa, on to illinois. >> he's been through all of this. like we said, worst approval rating on record for himself. what can he hope to accomplish on tour? >> reporter: well, i think the goal of the president's advisers is, one, to get the president out of washington and on the road with people, talking not only about jobs and the economy, but they chose this area, the midwest, in part because these states were key to the president's election in 2008. his poll numbers have taken a beating here. he needs to win these states in the next election. and also because the republican presidential candidates have spent much of the last two months in iowa hammering the president. so i think this is a way to sort of come in here before the last two weeks of august to talk to the american people and also to sort of say to them, i agree with you. i don't like the gridlock in washington. and so the white house denies that this is a political trip, but there are certainly political overtones. >> speaking of those republican candidates, norah, we want you to hang on and bring in cbs news political analyst john dickerson. he was in waterloo last night. this morning he joins us from west des moines, iowa. this weekend, we have pawlenty dropping out, the standouts perry and bachmann. where does this put mitt romney at this point, the perceived front-runner in all this? >> well, he may not be the front-runner for much longer. michele bachmann is not a real threat to romney because the tea party activists she appeals to are not romney's natural base. but rick perry is a big threat. he can appeal to those activists and make a case for his executive experience as a three-term governor. that's romney's pitch, executive experience. so the battle between those two men will be what kind of executive experience will be able to create job, going back to that central issue of the economy. romney will argue my executive experience in the business world means i'm in a better position to create jobs. perry's argument will be i created jobs as a governor. >> mitt romney has been accused of not having that job creation. in that race, who win in your opinion, john? >> we'll have to see. the argument romney will make is i understand the real economy and that perry, as a lifelong politician -- and you'll hear a lot of that from the romney camp, that he's a politician, he's always gotten a government paycheck -- that he doesn't understand the business world as well as romney does, and that will be the big battle of this campai campaign. >> norah, who is the white house most concerned with in the republican field right now? . >> reporter: i think they're trying to tie the republican presidential candidates to the republicans in congress, who of course have horrific poll numbers. this is a strategy right out of harry truman's playbook from 1948 where where harry truman said the congress was putting party above the country. you've seen the president use that same formulation of a line out on the road in michigan. we're told he'll do that again. i think there's clearly a concern that there's a great contrast with texas governor rick perry, almost half of the jobs created in america in the last two years were created in texas. so governor perry is going to try and make that contrast on jobs. but for now, you know, the president is going to try and stay above the fray. he's not going to mention any republican presidential candidates by name but try to tie them to republicans in congress and say they have the same tea party politics. >> we appreciate you both of you joining us this morning. >> reporter: thank you. and the plot thickens. >> it's going to be ever thickening, i think, as we go into all of this. >> 15 months ago and counting. jeff glor is at the news desk with a check of the headlines. >> good morning to everyone at home. in iraq, a wave of coordinated bombing attacks, at least 56 people killed in more than a dozen cities in iraq from kirkuk in the north to kut in the south, where most of the deaths took place. two separate blasts went off in kut in a crowded market killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 60 others. >> pakistan is said to have given china a look at key parts of a secret u.s. stealth helicopter and most likely to strain u.s./pakistani operations even more. after a black hawk crashed during the raid that killed osama bin laden, navy s.e.a.l.s destroyed all but its high-tech tail. but pakistan let chinese agents study it and sample the aircraft's radar-absorbing skin. chilling video this morning of the man behind the massacre in norway, anders breivik re-enacting his crimes. police took bref toik the island where he shot and killed 69 people last month wearing a red shirt, bulletproof vest and harn esched on a leash. he showed officers how he gunned down his victims. breivik has said the massacre was necessary to save norway from muslim immigrants in europe. at the pga championship, an incredible rally for a 25-year-old rookie. keoghan bradley triple bogeyed the 15th hole with this chip that went into the water. looked like he was done. he was five shots back at that point. but he sank two late birdies and won a playoff over jason duffler. keoghan won the playoff, his first appearance in a major championship was a victory in that major championship. 15 minutes past the hour. it's very soggy in the northeast today. after we got, what, almost 8 inches of rain at jfk airport, more than that in long island, where marysol castro is in long beach this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. good morning, everyone at home. well, this town got nearly 11 inches of rain in less than a 24-hour period. and, jeff, as you mentioned, jfk got nearly 8 inches of rain in the same amount of time. we shattered records in the mid-atlantic and in portions of new england. thousands have been displaced. thousands are without power. and more rain is on the way. up and down the i-95 corridor from maryland to maine, millions were left soaking wet by a rainstorm that submerged the mid-atlantic states and new england in torrential downpours. >> it was bad. i mean, people were walking up to their knees in water and mud and stuff. it was pretty nasty. >> reporter: homes were evacuated in new jersey after heavy rain flooded roadways. >> with 11 inches in one day, there's no place for it to go. >> reporter: in baltimore, one motorist had to be rescued from his car after he was trapped by several feet of water. >> your vehicle down there, what happened? >> i was driving by to go to work, and i drive by here all the time, and i know this road gets bad, but i didn't think it was this bad till i started going down the road here, and the car just kong conked out. >> reporter: all told, the storm dumped as much as ten inches of rain and set records around the region as the deluge continued through the night. in new york city, energy officials reported power outages affecting thousands of customers. jfk international airport experienced a single-day record of more than 7 1/2 inches of rain, causing cancellations and flight delays. so, from maryland to new york city, folks can see some spotty showers over the next 24-hour period. as the storm tracks into northern new england, you can see albany, portland, you'll get the heaviest hit with 2 to 5 inches of rain expected again in the next 24 hours. we have five states from vermont to new jersey with flashflood warnings and advisories. you can see the rest of the nation, southern tier of the united states doesn't look too shabby, in and around southern florida, you'll see some thunderstorms. >> reporter: thanks so much. that's your latest weather. rebecca and chris, good morning. >> good morning. >> nice job out there. we'll see you in a couple minutes. >> not even getting rained on. still ahead this morning, a key day in the case of robyn gardner. her family goes to court as prosecutors ask for new time. and new trouble for bernie madoff. reports say his wife has walked out on him. the family drama behind the split coming up. but we still may suffer from nasal allergy symptoms. they can hit you year round... indoors or out. 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[ screaming ] wind gusts of up to 70 miles an hour blew that stage over on saturday night, killing five people and injuring dozens. the governor called the wind a fluke that no one could have predicted. authorities continue investigating a bomb scare outside the office of house speaker john boehner. the bomb squad was called in yesterday and a robot removed three briefcases. they were detonated by bomb experts, but they contained only papers. an elderly woman in ohio found quite a surprise in her backyard -- a runaway blimp. strong winds blew the craft off its mooring at a columbus airfield yesterday. it took seven hours for officials to find it ain the 49-year-old's yard. >> i came to my big window there and looked out first and saw all of this. and i said, wow, i didn't think it was anything this big. >> the blimp, which was on a 20-city tour promoting a premium vodka had to cancel its up next, when bernie madoff was areed for fraud, his wife stood by him. but now she may be changing her tune. we're going to tell you why when we come back. 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>> my sense is that bernie wants ruth to do whatever she must to rebuild her life, even at the expense of their obviously limited time together. he cares very much about her and i think wants her to have the comfort of her family in the years to come. >> andrew had basically sworn off his mother for the past few years. the other son, mark, committed suicide. will andrew welcome her back? >> we're going to see. i'm encouraged by the sources that i hear that there are good signs of reconciliation. >> yeah. >> and the progress remains to be seen, obviously. there's a dreadful burden of anger and hurt. this crime shattered the madoff family, as it did so many families among the victims, of course. >> and there are probably a lot of people that were victimized by this family that have no sympathy for anything going on with their family right now. let's talk about the investigation and the money that is being recovered from this ponzi scheme. >> it's a remarkable recovery. the summer has brought some important news on that front, though. i was going into the summer saying this is going to be the most phenomenal ponzi scheme recovery in history. the trustee, ernie picard, is on track to potentially return victims up to 50 cents on the dollar of their out-of-pocket losses. now, obviously, you can't rebuild the shattered lives. you can't recover, you know, the homes that were sold and the college educations. but in ponzi scheme term, this is a phenomenal recovery if he only gets 50 cents on the dollar. that was the good news. he landed another billion-dollar out-of-court settlement just a few weeks ago, which was another big gain for him. but then in recent weeks a bad setback on that front. >> more to come i'm sure. but still getting 50 credibility pos trenchly on the dollar back so much better. normal ponzi schemes about five cents. >> if you're lucky. >> good to see you. up next, a cyber criminal gets caught. natalie helps the government catch others like him. find out what's being done to protect you from identity theft and credit card fraud. now get an incredible offer on the powerful c300 sport sedan. but hurry before this opportunity...disappears. the mercedes-benz summer event ends august 31st. but hurry before this opportunity...disappears. hello parents, it's going to be your kids are going to climb rope. they're going to have a year long tug war with the ceiling. and by the time they get out of 8th grade, they're going to do it with sweat on their brow and achievement in their hearts. so, this is what they're gonna need: running shoes, t-shirts, tube socks, fruit cups, cheese sticks, energy bars, rope climbing gloves, rope burn ointment, and a jump drive. not sure what that is, but they're gonna be jumpin'. school takes a lot. target has it all. a mouthwatering combination of ingredients...e for you! i know you're gonna love. 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>> i'd spend all day every day. >> reporter: for more than three years, 30-year-old dan defelippi cashed in on other people's credit cards on his way to becoming a professional hacker and personal identity thief. >> most of the stuff i did was straight credit card fraud, but i did do some identity theft where i opened accounts in people's names. >> reporter: did you feel powerful? >> yeah. i mean, there was some power to it, you know, knowing i could walk in a store and walk out with whatever i wanted pretty much for free. >> reporter: how much money had you spent on other people's credit cards? >> i spent about $210,000 on discover cards. that doesn't include visa and master cards. probably upwards of half a million. >> reporter: but his high-end shopping spree came to an abrupt end when authorities tracked him down through a fake card he created. in exchange for a lesser sentence, he agreed to pay back all the money he stole and work with secret service in breaking up cyber gangs. >> i actually worked with them for two years doing training, teaching them how these online communities work. >> we have 45 field offices across the country. >> reporter: catching criminals like defelippi is a major priority for a.t. smith, the assistant director for investigations of united states secret service. how big of a problem is credit card fraud here in the united states? >> it's a large problem, and it's pervasive, and certainly with the continued use of technology and the internet, it's become even more of a problem over the last several years. >> reporter: last year alone, the agency arrested 1,200 cyber criminals with the loss of nearly half a billion dollars. >> this is our command center, and we can do a number of things from here. >> reporter: recently, they invited us no-in to see their high-tech command center, where they track and monitor one of the fastest growing crimes in real time, protecting unsuspecting companies and consumers. who are the perpetrators of these cyber crimes? >> they could be sitting next door behind a keyboard there, or they could be on the other side of the world, quite frankly. one of the things that cyber crime, credit card, and the like has made it easy for is the kind of person that doesn't have to go out and actually break into your house. >> this is a chat room where people are buying and selling pretty much anything you can think of. >> reporter: when we met defelippi, he showed us how quickly and easily someone can purchase credit card and other personal information just by going online. >> reporter: how much does it cost to buy someone's credit card? >> it costs anywhere from a dollar to maybe $20 depending on the type of the card, the information it comes with it, and how many you buy. the more you buy, the cheaper it get es. >> reporter: so here you have two people. you have their credit card number, their expiration. that looks like the secret number. >> yep. that's the cvv right there. >> reporter: that credit card number belonged to this woman, so we tracked her down to warn her that her financial information was compromised. so how does it make you feel to see your name, your address, your credit card information in this public place? >> it's -- i mean, it's unnerving. it's my identity, and it's for sale on a website. it's really scary, and it definitely makes me think about what i'm going to have to do going forward to keep something like this from happening again. >> these are two criminals that are negotiating. >> reporter: for a.t. smith and his agents, staying one step ahead in the virtual world is no doubt their biggest challenge in the real world. >> for every advance we make, the criminal is able to find a way very often to perpetrate their crime and to continue their effort. so it's always a game back and forth. >> different cause for concern there. >> really shocking to me just to see how easy it was to track this info down. >> best way to protect yourself? 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>> cbs' cynthia bowers for us in indianapolis this morning. thank you. governor mitch daniels' wife and daughter were in the crowd at the time of saturday night's disaster. governor daniels joins us now from the fair grounds. governor, good morning. >> hi, chris. >> i know hindsight is 20/20, but now that you hear reports from the meteorologists in the area of the warnings issued at other concerts in the area, do you think it would have been wise to have canceled this concert? >> i don't know the answer to that. it's a legitimate question. and in its time we'll seek those answers and learn any lessons. but i'll just tell you that they were -- nothing comes ahead of safety with the people who put this event together. they think about it all the time. they were that night. multiple sources, the council, including the weather service. you know, the storm did not get here for 15 minutes after this tragedy occurred. if you look behind me, you'll see a ferris wheel and a midway which was still operating just a couple hundred yards from where the blast of wind took this stage down. and nothing else on the entire fair grounds was affected at all. so i'm sure there are lessons that can be learned and we'll seek to learn them quickly. but out here, our first thoughts are about taking care of those who were hurt, about repairing damage, about thanking those who rushed to this trouble as so many hoosiers did, not away from it. >> i want to ask you about that, too, because obviously in the aftermath, when so many people were trying to flee for their safety, their own personal safety so, many people did rush to the scaffolding to try to bring people to safety as well. >> that's right. i talked to to so many state troopers and ems personnel. every single one of them said i don't know who these people were but immediately there were folks on it, both sides helping. some of them brought training, but many of them were just citizens who with no regard for their own well-being went to a place where they easily could have been hurt, too. >> yeah. >> i don't know if p you can imagine how proud i am to be the employee of a state with people like that. >> yeah. governor, just one quick question. your wife and one of your daughters were there. how are they and how close were they to the stage? >> yeah, they're fine. my wife is at the state fair every single day of every single year and happens to be a big sugarland fan so she was there. my daughter was little closer, too close for comfort, but she e's fine, thanks. >> governor thanks for taking the time. i know it's been a rough couple days. we wish you and your folks in indiana the best. >> thank you. >> goff mor mitch daniels. so tragic. keeping all of them in our thoughts and prayers. coming up, jeff glor at the news desk with a check of the other headlines. >> good morning to you. good morning to everyone at home. police in pakistan are searching for an american aid contractor kidnapped over the weekend. cbs news correspondent seth stone has more from kabul, afghanistan. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. that's right. pakistani officials say they've questioned a number of people includinging the guards at front gate of the americans' home who were tricked into letting the gunmen in. pakistani u.s. officials searched the home over the weekend after as many eight armed assailants stormed his home early morning. "we've made no progress so far," the deputy superintendent of police told cbs news. warren weinstein is the 70-year-old country director for virginia-based consulting firm j.e. austin associates, which released a statement highlighting weinstein's extensive development work in pakistan, adding, "given the gravity of the situation, no further information can be made available." weinstein had reportedly told his staff just before being abducted that he was planning to finish his work and leave pakistan today. kidnappings for ransom have become common in pakistan. and since the raid here that killed osama bin laden, anti-american sentiment has been running high. >> right now he's completely terrified, has lost all sense of masculinity, all sense of being in control. >> reporter: jerry van dyke is a cbs news consultant who was abducted and held hostage by militants in pakistan in 2008. >> it is extremely dangerous right now because at the very beginning the kidnappers are frightened, he is frightened, everyone around him is frightened. >> reporter: so far, no group has publicly claimed responsibility. now, some say the silence is worrying. it could mean that they're transporting mr. weinstein to the remote tribal regions of pakistan, which could make him very did i feel to find, though others say that after a kidnapping this can be common for the kidnappers to lay low for a little while to make sure they have evaded police. jeff? >> seth doane in pakistan. hosni mubarak is back in court. just like his first appearance a couple weeks ago, he was rolled in on a hospital stretcher and then placed in a courtroom cage. outside protesters and supporters clashed today. the 83-year-old mubarak is accused in killings of hundreds of pro-democracy fighters. now the strange case of edward vera who spent an extra 2 1/2 years in jail in buffalo, new york, because the jailers didn't realize the charge against him had been dropped. vera, from st. vincent, is described as a man of few words who never complained of his plight even though he spent an extra 854 days behind bars. eight minutes past the hour. marysol castro in long beach this morning. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, jeff. good morning, everyone. this town saw a deluge yesterday up to 11 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. not as much rain expected in the middle of the country, but some severe weather as we show you the maps, anywhere from the eastern rockies from montana towards the dakotas. you're going to see hail, winds that could topple down some trees, about one to two inches of rain in places like bismarck, minot and fargo. 5% chance of tornadoes. little eagle, south dakota, did get a confirmed tornado yesterday. from the severe weather to the dome of heat, which has shrunk considerably, houston is the only city that has any watch or warning. the temperature will be anywhere from 100 to 105 for today. midland, an isolated thunderstorm later on this afternoon. the great lakes and ohio river valley, indianapolis, you clear out nicely. pennsylvania, you'll get some rain later on this afternoon. temperatures right on target. it will be breezy. this weather report spons sponsored by at&t -- rethink possible. >> thanks so much. that's your latest weather. back to chris and rebecca. the sand zamboni, as i'm referring to it, keeps making its rounds, making things nice, and noisy. >> marginal beach day out there for you. enjoy. >> enjoy. yeah. exactly. americans are complaining more than ever about gridlock in washington and wondering what's it going to take to make their voices heard. >> one high-profile corporate executive says if money talks it's time to shut off the cash. cbs news national correspondent ben tracy has the story. >> reporter: while members of congress enjoy the remainder of their summer vacation, many americans have a thing or two to say about the job performance of their elected officials. >> i don't think the politicians are really taking the ordinary american into account. >> if they listen to the community and listen to the people, maybe we would get somewhere. >> reporter: the statistics are staggering. a whopping 82% of americans disapprove of the way congress is doing its job according to the latest cbs news/"new york times" poll. congress' worst rating in 40 years. >> is this your drink? >> reporter: 3,000 miles away in seattle, a backlash is brewing. howard schultz, the chairman and ceo of starbucks, sent an e-mail to employees in which he expressed frustration over the, quote, lack of cooperation and irresponsibility among elected officials as they have put partisan agendas before the people's agenda." the e-mail struck a nerve. by the end of the week, support from some 50 other company leaders helped schultz put action behind his words and called for a boycott by individuals and corporations until washington gets it act together. >> i think howard schultz is motivated by civic pride, by a sense of civic duty, and a hope that if people withhold campaign contributions, that will encourage members of congress to compromise and reach a bipartisan agreement. >> we need to get up and take things back into our own hands. >> maybe we can get some of the greed out of our government. >> reporter: that's the point comedian stephen colbert seems to be making with his satirical take on the upcoming elections. >> i do not accept the status quo! but i do accept visa, mastercard, and american express! >> thank you. >> reporter: and maybe if howard schultz has his way, spending $5 on a latte instead of writing a check to your congressman will fuel the next political revolution. ben tracy, cbs news, los angeles. >> kind of a problem, too, though, $5 far latte. >> if nothing else, a great marketing move for starbucks. >> without a doubt. we'll see how far they go. >> it would be nice if they could accomplish something with all this. we'll see. >> a reminder, howard schultz will speak with scott pelley tonight on the evening news. coming up, a new study says babies are more likely to have autism if their older brother or sisters do, too. 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[ falcon screeches ] that's right. going to be a beautiful day here in manhattan as you can see. >> might not want to get up. >> i'm chris wragge along with rebecca jarvis. erica hill is off this morning. she'll be back tomorrow. it has been a tumultuous couple days here weather-wise. >> yeah. torrential. >> bad things continuing to come here. >> you think? the harbinger of bad things to come? >> it is. coming up, fans of "the help" put down the novel over the weekend and headed to the multiplex. it fell just short of number one at the box office. we'll talk about this much-anticipated film with viola davis, the tony award winner, there she is, but the key role of this drama set in mississippi in the civil rights era. there is a border war going on down in the south, and it's claim they produce the best tasting fruit, so we went down so see what all the fuss is about. or should we say fuzz because, you know, peaches have fuzz on them. first jeff glor is at the news desk with another look at the morning e morning's headlines. don't hate me. it's not me, it's the writers. >> ever tried grilled peaches? >> good stuff. three supermarket chains have issued a ground beef recall because of possible e. coli contamination. it recalls more than 60,000 pounds of beef sold by the winn-dixie, kroger, and publix supermarket chains with sell-by dates expiring august 12th. most of the beef was sold in the southeast, but some could have been repackaged for sale nationwide. president obama starts a three-day bus tour this morning. he begins in minnesota. he'll also make stops in iowa and illinois. the trip includes hearing from voters at five town hall events. meanwhile, a new gallup poll shows the president's approval rating at 39% only, his lowest rating in more than a year. double-dip recession fears will likely follow the president's trip. according to "usa today," a group of top economists put the chance of the u.s. slipping into another recession at 30%. that is twice as high as three months ago. they also see economic growth at about 2.5% this year and unemployment dipping to only 8.8%. a big business deal this morning. google announced it is buying motorola for $12.5 billion. that deal will give google direct control over its android phones and puts it in direct competition with apple's iphone. the company says the deal has been approved by both boards. an 11-year-old minnesota boy may win a $50,000 prize for an incredible hockey shot. take a look. it's part of a raffle last week. nate smith walked on the ice for a shot through a small 3 1/2-inch slot, and, yeah, he got it right through. however, he wasn't supposed to take the shot because the name on the raffle ticket was nick smith, nate's identical twin. >> the next day i called back and i said, you know, it was really nick that made the shot. we thought honesty was the best policy. we wanted to set a good example for our kids. >> it is now up to the insurance company to decide if the kids get the money. 33 minutes past the hour. marysol castro, what do you think? should he get the cash? >> reporter: outrageous. outrageous. >> how you doing out there in long beach? >> reporter: yeah. there are no hockey pucks out here. just some -- just some ominous-looking skies is all i have for you, jeff. good morning to you. good morning everyone at home. straight to the maps to show you the national picture. northern new england will get storms this afternoon and into tonight, the same storms that affected portions of new york, connecticut, and new jersey. the northern plains are under the gun for severe weather. keep an eye out for gusty winds in the overnight hours. the west coast looks absolutely gorgeous. let's head there. they've had a kind of wonderful summer if you don't like storms or heat or heavy rain. it's going to be nice from nevada to california. temperatures are right on target. they are seasonal, although it will be a little cooler in the great valley. you can see lapse, 82, san francisco, 71. and then we head over to the tropics for the seventh named storm of the atlantic season. this is tropical storm gert. there you can see 100 miles off the coast of bermuda packing wind speeds of about 60 miles per hour. it's moving at a steady clip at about 14 miles per hour. there are some watches and warnings for the entire island of bermuda. these models d do not show any threat to the united states, and of course we're going to keep an eye on it for you. thanks so much. that's your latest weather. back to you guys in the studio. >> thanks. more than a year after the largest oil spill in u.s. history, the gulf of mexico is still seeing fish that are sick. and researchers are trying to figure out exactly why. cbs news correspondent debbie turner bell went there to talk to scientists and the fishermen. >> reporter: lucky russell is convinced his days as a commercial fisherman are numbered. >> i don't think we'll be fishing in five years. my opinion. >> reporter: he, like many others that fish the gulf waters, have started catching fish with sores and infections at a greater frequency than ever before. >> every one of them is worried. everyone is worried. >> this is a good example of what the fish look like when they first come out of the water. >> reporter: dr. jim cowan from louisiana state university has analyzed in of these diseased fish. >> when one of these things comes on deck, it's sort of horrifying. i mean, there are these large dark lesions and eroded fins areas on the body where scales have been removed. i imagine i've seen 30,000 or 40,000 red snapper in my career, and i've never seen anything like this at all, ever. >> reporter: cowan can't say with certainty the cause of these lesions. >> we think from chronic exposure to some environmental stressor, and i think the likely assumption is it has something to do with the spill is there. >> reporter: but the 200 million gallons of crude spilled from the deepwater horizon last year is at the top of the list, because the highest rate of sick fish are being found in the areas of the gulf that were the most affected by the oil. >> this whole issue seems to be centered between galveston and panama city or dustin. in fact, almost 50% of the red snapper we've caught on some of these reefs had these secondary infections. >> reporter: these so-called hot spots are of particular interest to university of south florida researcher dr. steve murawski. >> we're conducting a study to see if there are elevated rates of fish disease. >> reporter: we caught up to him on the choppy waters 11 miles off the coast of pensacola, florida. because of the high waves we couldn't board his boat. >> what we're going to do is establish a baseline so, you know, even if we don't find any substantial pathology now, we can go back three, four years from now and see if, in fact, there were some slow time bombs going off. >> reporter: this is the first comprehensive study ever done on the health of fish in the gulf. during the six-week study, steve murawski will catch and examine more than 4,000 fish. >> it's going to be very important for this spill and the next oil spill that happens in the gulf because we veal this baseline. >> reporter: it's the bottom line that worries frank patty, owner of joe patty's fish market in pensacola, so he prominently displays where his fish were caught. >> we still customers wanting to know where the product comes from. >> reporter: the majority are not from the gulf of mexico. >> we're in no way trying to infer that this is a human health issue. i can assure you that none of these fish are reaching the markets. >> reporter: while consumers need not panic, lucky russell worries whether there will be enough healthy fish for him to make a living. >> if our fish are polluted, nobody's ever going to get to go out there and catch fish. >> reporter: are you worried that might happen? >> very well could. >> reporter: debbye turner-bell, cbs news, pensacola, florida. >> and we should point out that the number of sick fish in the gulf depends where you go. in areas not affected by the oil it's 1% or less. even in some hotspots only 2% to 5% of the fish are sick. here's chris. viola davis has been a top-rated actress for more than two decades, picking up two tony awards and an oscar nomination along the way. in her new movie, "the help," based on the best-selling novel, she plays a maid in the south who isn't allowed to dream of a better life. >> i know it's scary. >> they set my cousin's car on fire just because she went down to the boat. there's a reason. they'll burn my own house down. >> i promise to be careful. >> it's not about being careful. >> and viola davis is with us here this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> it was such a wonderful, wonderful movie. >> thank you. >> was there any pressure for you to play this role? this book, everyone's read it, it seems. >> everyone. >> to play this role and to have to play it as well as you did, was there added pressure? >> i want to rename this movie "the pressure cooker." >> yes. >> because so many people have read it, so many people have grown up with these surrogate mother, and the there's a huge pressure with the african-american community because i was playing a maid in 2011. and there's so much kind of stigma attached to playing a maid in movies. >> your mom, you've said she lived a hard life. i loved this. you said no one invested in her potenti potential. she had gifts but she was a maid back then. >> she was a maid to this woman who lived in a trailer, and every time she went to clean the trailer there was nothing to clean. and it was after maybe several weeks she realized that the woman was just lonely. you know? but my mom grew up on singleton plantation in st. matthews, south carolina. she now has sciatica nerve damage. she said all those days of working tobacco, cotton fields, taking care of children since she was 4 years old. she was 4 when she started taking care of kids on the plantation. doesn't stop her from going to the casino, the sciatica nerve, but i modeled the character after her because there are so many black women who led such hard lives but still had so much joy and compassion and love in their hearts. >> let's switch gears a little bit. emma stone, a co-star, throws a pretty good party down there, huh? >> well, what happens in greenwood stays in greenwood. but i would get the phone calls late at night saying, especially octavia, i got some apple pie for you. oh, i love apple pie. she says, no, apple pie, meaning moon shine. >> you know you're in mississippi, right? >> mason jars, yeah, of moon smin. >> tough when you have to gain weight and also work under those conditions? >> well, yeah, but, you know, in mississippi it's very easy to gain weight with all that fried food. >> yes. i want to talk to you about the cover of "essence" magazine. you look absolutely beautiful. >> thank you. >> cover girl, adding a whole new dimension to the career, huh? >> and a lot of pressure. did we say that word pressure before? >> mentioned it a few times. >> because the term "cover girl" has not been, you know, used in the same sentence as my name usually. >> but things have taken off for you with the oscar nomination, the tony award last year for "fences." >> mm-hmm. >> there's no down time for you. you and your husband, i know you like to work out all the time, there's not even time for that now, is there? >> no. i got to work out now. i mean, i got to do that. but, you know, my husband is an ex-linebacker who used to have 38-inch thighs and a 22-inch neck. so he's been working out for most of his life. so he wants a wife who's in shape. >> i was going to say, with the whole weight gain you had to go through for this role, probably a normal diet. rather than eating those salads. >> he said i'll give you permission to gain weight, but after this, it's got to be over. >> when you look back on this character, where do you think this was going to rank as far as the things that you've done in your life when you look back? >> that's for other people to say. but for me, it was such a joy to play this woman. it was such a joy to go on a journey and to get -- just pay homage to these women who contributed so much to our culture, you know. and i think there's something in this movie for everyone. you said you cried. >> yeah. >> i don't know if you want to say that on national television. >> did i? >> but you can't cry and do news. >> it's a very emotional movie. >> it is. i think that means a lot. >> great to have you here with us. >> thank you. >> i want to be the first to congratulate you on the future oscar nomination. did i say that? it's fantastic, though, seriously. i recommend everybody see it. viola davis, great to have you here this morning. >> thank you. nice to be here. >> what makes the sleep number store different? you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. they say, "well, if you want a firm bed you can lay on one of those, if you want a soft bed you can lay on one of those." we provide the exact individualization that your body needs. this is your body there. you can see a little more pressure in the shoulders and in the hips. then they start telling us, "well yeah, i feel sore right there in the morning." my lower back. that's right where i've been experiencing pain. now you can feel what happens as we raise your sleep number setting and allow the bed to contour to your individual shape. oh yeah. it's really shaping to my body. when you find somebody's perfect level of comfort, that may be the first time they've ever felt a bed that feels exactly like they're hoping it would. you can adjust it however you want so you don't have to worry about buying the wrong mattress. once they get our bed, they're like, "why didn't i do this sooner?" and now the revolutionary sleep number bed is redefining sleep again. find your sleep number and join over 7 million people who love their bed. only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at just $699. ♪ moving to the country going to eat a lot of peaches ♪ >> august is national peach month. but what you minor league not know is georgia, the peach state, is is not the top producer of the fuzzy fruit. >> south carolina has been growing more peaches than its next-door neighbor for decades. karen winterbrill has the story of this bat that will pits one state against the other. >> very funny. i love it. peach season is wrapping up down south, and the question is who really grows the best fruit? it's a peach war and it's on. >> reporter: across titan farms, the hot august sun beats down on 5,000 acres of peach trees. >> this tree you see right here, we'll pick this tree at least six times. >> reporter: the famous heat and humidity milt wilt people, but its peaches thrive. that smells peachy all right. that's good stuff. with 600,000 trees, titan is the largest peach farm east of the mississippi. a title made more impressive by the state it calls home -- south carolina. >> this farm right here will almost produce as many peaches as the state of georgia. >> this one farm alone. >> this one farm. >> reporter: since 1959, south carolina has largely beat georgia at its own game, growing peaches. farmers like chalmers carr think georgia's nickname, the peach state, is outdated. >> in my opinion, south carolina is the real peach state. we produce three times the amount of peaches as georgia. south carolina last year produced over 3,000 truckloads and georgia only produced 1,000 truckloads. >> reporter: you've taken over. >> we have. >> this is the stone, and the flesh is separating. >> reporter: south carolina's peach specialist desmond layne says it's no accident his state outproduces georgia. >> south carolina is the perfect place for growing peaches because we have cool winters and long, hot summers with adequate rainfall, really good soils, perfect place for peaches. what do you think? >> reporter: that's juicy. >> okay. >> reporter: delicious. wow. but as you cross the savanna river into georgia, you get the sense peaches are more than produce. >> middle georgia's peach 96.5. >> reporter: from license tags to water towers, one fruit reigns supreme. >> everything from dropping the big peach on new year's to we're sitting in peach county with the home of peach festival. >> reporter: here in ft. valley, georgia, peaches are grown in soil steeped in tradition. will mcgehee is a fifth-generation grower. your family started growing peaches when? >> the late 1880s. >> reporter: this is a way of life for your family. >> it is. it's pretty much what we've always done. we feel like we do one thing well, and that's grow the sweetest peaches in america. >> reporter: his uncle, al pearson, owns 1,400 acres of peaches. >> i can't deny south carolina produces more peaches than georgia does. >> i'm producing all i can, but i can't argue with the numbers. >> reporter: what pearson can argue with is south carolina's claim they are the peach state. >> i'll go to my grave swearing that georgia peaches taste better than any other peaches. >> reporter: why is that? >> i'd love to say it was due to my talent, but i don't think that's it. i think i'm just fortunate to be in the right place. >> reporter: location. for those on the front lines of the peach war, it's what keeps them fighting. >> if i'm from south carolina, i would probably say my peaches taste the best, too, but i'm from georgia, and i think that our peaches are sweeter and do have a better flavor. >> reporter: that's crazy good. if you're passing through south carolina and georgia and you can only are have one peach, where do you go? >> i'd stop in south carolina. >> reporter: have you ever tasted a south carolina peach? >> absolutely. >> reporter: and what was that like? >> oh, it was just a touch below what i can do. >> reporter: it's a good-natured war between neighbors who share the same crop and an abundance of state pride. >> they are good farmers and good friends, and they just on the wrong side of the river. >> reporter: all comes down to geography, huh? when it comes to the numbers, believe it or not, california actually dominates the peach market, shipping six times as much fruit as south carolina and georgia combined. but every southerner we spoke to agreed on one thing -- nothing tastes quite like a southern peach. that's how they say it. southern peach. >> i want to try. >> who is the peach leader? >> i want you guys to decide. >> we have peaches separated. >> i don't know what this is. >> we brought peaches from both states. i'd like you to try them. >> a blind taste test. >> blind taste test. >> the green plate and the yellow plate are options p. >> the peach war, green versus yellow. >> i'm allergic to peach fuzz. >> are you? >> yeah. >> really? get out of here. >> they both taste really good. i'm going with the green. >> wait for it. wait for it. >> close-up. >> toss-up, right? >> yeah. >> they're pretty close. they're both pretty good. >> the green was the georgia. >> really. >> they look -- these rl a little bigger, right? >> the surface area. do they taste different to you at all? >> they taste really similar to me, and i think honestly it depends on which batch. one of those things if you get a ripe one, great. >> great to see you. >> great to see you. >> good job. >> all right, everybody. have a wonderful day. go out and enjoy some peaches. see you tomorrow. your local news is next. >> i grew them myself.

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