axelrod: good evening. i m jim axelrod. all but certain republican presidential romney mitt romney made an appeal today to evangelical christians, a group whose whose support he will certainly need if he is to prevail in the fall. romney traveled to the largest evangelical college in the world to reach out. chip reid joins us now. chip, good evening. reporter: well,ing good evening, jim. mitt romney has struggled to win over evangelical christians in part because many evangelicals believe mormonnism, romney s faict, is a religious cult. today romney emphasized the shared values of two very different branches of christianity. people of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose when there are so many differences in creed and theology. reporter: their different faiths can meet, romney contended, by way of a common world view based on christian values. there is no greater force for good in the nation than christian consc
everyone, i m jeff glor, as election season heats up in the u.s. t now over in france. and the world s fifth largest economy just chose to make a major change. francois hollande will become france s first socialist president in 17 years, defeating nicolas sarkozy in a runoff. mark phillips is in paris tonight, mark, good evening. reporter: the new president of france is a man few would have predicted as little as a year ago, but a combination of europe s economic woes, and the personal affairs of others have catapulted francois hollande into power. his election will have consequences well beyond france. there s nothing like victory to get a crowd cheering, especially when it s a crowd that hasn t tasted victory in a long time. francois hollande is the new president of france, only the second socialist president- elected here in more than 50 years. he had campaigned on a platform of reversing the cost-cutting austerity measures that france and the rest of europe have adopted
u.s. special forces raided osama bin laden secret compound in pakistan and killed the al qaeda leader. al qaeda is weaker but remain a threat to americans and u.s. interests and the raid has become a political issue in this year s presidential campaign. tara mergener is in washington with more. good morning. reporter: good morning. that s right. this anniversary is quickly becoming a controversial campaign issue. this as americans are warned to be on guard while officials track down leads. the fbi and homeland security department warns, americans need to be on alert ahead of wednesday s one-year anniversary of osama bin laden s death. we don t see any active plots under way but we are maintaining our guard. reporter: counterterrorism advisers admit al qaeda likely wants payback for killing of its leader, but u.s. officials say the terror group is no longer capable of carrying out a september 11th-type attack. we have taken off the battlefield founding leader. report
good morning. thanks for joining us. i m michelle miller. it was one year ago this week, u.s. special forces raided bin laden s secret compound in pakistan and killed the al qaeda leader. al qaeda is weaker but remain a threat to americans and u.s. interests and the raid has become a political issue in this year s presidential campaign. tara mergener is in washington with more. good morning. reporter: good morning. this anniversary is quickly becoming a controversial campaign issue. this as americans are warned to be on guard while officials track down leads. the fbi and homeland security department warns, americans need to be on alert ahead of wednesday s one-year anniversary of osama bin laden s death. we don t see any active plots under way but we are maintaining our guard. reporter: counterterrorism advisers admit al qaeda likely wants payback for killing of its leader but theycy the group is no longer capable of carrying out september 11th type attacks. the anniver
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. jeff: good evening, everyone, i m jeff glor. we begin with a growing epidemic among american children. and tonight a new recommendation on how hundreds of thousands of those kids should be treated. we re talking about type ii diabetes, a problem that is confounding more doctors, families and health care professionals every day. now the release of a new report offers new insight. here s tony guida. reporter: type ii diabetes was never seen in young people as recently as 15 years ago. now it s occurring with alarming frequency. doctors know that a major risk factor is obesity. beyond that, they were mostly in the dark about this disease. very little is known about the right way to both prevent it and to treat it. reporter: a new study out today in the new england journal of medicine finds that the standard treatment for type ii diabetes in children is ineffective because the commonly prescribed drug, metaformin