studio 54 to reveal why he waited so long to reveal his battle with parkinson's. first, we begin with this morning's "eye opener," the world in 90 seconds. >> no air conditioning, no electricity and we can't get in. >> reporter: nearly 2 million americans facing the fourth day without power in the midst of a historic heat wave. >> utility crews from as far away as quebec are pitching in to restore electricity. >> sizable tree that's fallen has not been removed, typical of what we've been seeing. states of emergency have been declared from ohio to washington, d.c. >> they're bracing for yet another scorcher today from the plains to east coast. this action constitutes the largest health care settlement in united states history. >> glaxosmithkline will have to pay $3 billion to settle charges of improper marketing. >> promoting two popular drugs for unapproved uses. >> also not telling the fda about two studies on cardiovascular safety related to avandia. >> practices like these put our public health at risk. we're determined to bring them to a stop. iran is flexing its muscles with war games. >> this exercise included the launch of missiles capable of hitting u.s. navy ships that are out in the gulf. anderson cooper has revealed he's game. cooper says he "couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself and proud." the observation of this research vessel flipped, which was literally designed to flip, right in the ocean. >> all that -- >> watch this ball. she's staying with the call, and boom! >> here's the great catch, dad holding the baby was a great catch in itself. >> that poor girl ends up flowerless. >> and all that matters -- >> with all due respect to speaker boehner, did you see the clip? did you see the clip? >> well, i -- >> i heard it. >> i, i, i -- >> on "cbs this morning." this thing is headed our way, but the key to the forecast, right before this thing makes landfall, it is going to be deflected by a godzilla. now, to be honest, i have no idea what's going to happen on that day. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." from the midwest to the mid-atlantic, hundreds of thousands of homes are still in the dark and suffering through the heat, four days after violent storms caused heavy damage. >> nearly 2 million people are facing a few more days without electricity, and many of them are asking their power companies why is it taking so long? chip reid is in washington, d.c. chip, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, jeff and erica. take a look behind me. that is why it is taking so long. now, fortunately, no one on this street was hurt, but look at all those wires down. as you can imagine, nobody around here has power. and multiply that by the thousands upon thousands of trees that were brought down by this storm. power companies say they've been playing catch-up as they struggle to get the washington area back online following friday's big storm that hit so quickly, it caught just about everyone by surprise. ken barker is can virginia's dominion power, the largest electricity provider in the state. >> in parallel, we're restoring power and getting more resources in while we're restoring power, versus a hurricane, where we would prestage the resources. >> reporter: the storm system originated in the midwest and affected over 4 million households and businesses in seven states and the district of columbia. president obama declared federal emergencies in ohio and west virgina. the vast area affected by what officials are calling a catastrophic event has made it impossible to get the kind of assistance the washington area usually counts on. >> the resources that we'd usually get from ohio or other places, they need their contractors to restore service for their own customers. >> the work we're doing today is going to keep the power on. >> reporter: pepco, one of the largest electricity providers in the district, launched an ad campaign back in january, defending their often maligned service, but they have come under new fire since the storm. >> pepco's pace of restoring power, to me, anyway, is unacceptable, and the speed of their response has been disappointing. and how many times have we been through this before? >> reporter: in virginia, dominion has restored power to over 75% of its customers while 60% of pepco's customers are back online. both hope to be near a full recovery by friday. with the greater washington area under a state of emergency, many communities are considering canceling their fireworks displays for the fourth of july. jeff and erica? >> hey, chip, you mentioned they expect to be near full recovery by the end of the week, but when can we see full recovery? >> reporter: well, it could be a while for some people. the people on this street were told another four or five days, so some time this weekend. and they say the most difficult part is that last 5% or so of people, because they tend to be in remote areas, out of the way, one family affected by one tree, and those people, it could be quite a while before their power is back on. >> chip reid, thank you. iran is reporting new missile tests this morning. in a show of force meant to give u.s. forces in the persian gulf something else to think about. >> the official iranian news agency says several missiles were test-fired this morning and hit their target. elizabeth palmer is in london with more on iran's war-gaming. so, why now? >> reporter: well, iran hasn't come right out and said it, but it does appear to be a show of force in response to a new round of oil sanctions targeting iran, trying to prevent it from selling its oil abroad and cut off its revenue. they took effect yesterday. these war games seem to be a response to that. of course, this is all about trying to put enough pressure on iran to shut down its nuclear program. >> liz, saber-rattling from iran, but on both sides, right? >> reporter: you bet. not only these war games on iran's side, but yesterday the iranian parliament floated this idea that they might shut down the straits of hormuz. now, that is its very small but crucial choke point in the persian gulf through which about a fifth of the world's oil supply travels by tanker. so, if they did that, the world oil price would shoot up again. the united states has been doing a little saber-rattling of its own. it's been building up its forces in the persian gulf, partly to deter iran from shutting down the straits and partly to deter israel from launching any kind of military strike on iran's nuclear installations. >> is there much concern about any potential danger with this situation? >> reporter: look, any sort of a military build-up like this is dangerous just because a mistake can so quickly spiral out of control, escalate into open conflict. but we should say that there is dialogue going on behind the scenes. iran and the u.s. and its allies are talking about the nuclear program, so i suppose there's a glimmer of light that there may be a deal to defuse this. >> thank you. president obama's health care law has always been a tough issue for his republican challenger, mitt romney, because he supported a similar plan as governor of massachusetts. >> this morning, romney's campaign finds itself in a skirmish over the issue with some in its own party. jan palmer is live with more. >> reporter: good morning. republicans saw the thursday supreme court decision, this huge decision, as a big win for them. it kept alive this controversial issue. it accused the president of raising taxes. but now we're seeing some complaints that the romney campaign could be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. >> i disagree with the supreme court's decision. >> reporter: romney's attempt to distance himself from president obama's health care law has gotten tougher. >> the governor was very clear. >> reporter: adviser eric fernstrom veered off message on monday, saying romney's plan was a penalty, not a tax, essentially siding with president obama. >> the governor believes that what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty, and he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. >> reporter: since the court's ruling, practically every republican leader has used the decision as proof the president's signature legislation is a massive tax hike on americans. >> it's now a tax, since the court said it was a tax. >> believe me, if this was brought to the public as a tax, there is no way this law would have passed in to law in the first place. >> how are you? >> reporter: it's a tricky spot for romney. from day one, he's campaigned on a vow to scrap the president's health care law, but as governor of massachusetts, he passed the first individual mandate at the state level. some political pundits took issue with the campaign's approach and said romney should return his focus to the economy. >> this is a classic case where consistency and intellectual honesty is a mistake. simply accept what the supreme court has said. it's a tax. >> reporter: now, the focus of romney's entire campaign has been the economy, and that, of course, is the issue voters tell us over and over that they care about the most, but republicans also believe that romney could at least get a little traction on this health care law with this ruling, because of course, most americans continue to oppose at least significant parts of this law. jeff and erica? >> jan, thank you. also in washington this morning, cbs news political director john dickerson. john, good morning. give us a sense, the sort of two almost conflicting messages on health care from republicans and mitt romney. what does that do for his message as a candidate? >> well, on health care, it basically means that governor romney is deprived of an opportunity of beating up the president. in this ruling, what republicans thought they had was a new opportunity to go at the president on health care. a lot of the arguments are well worn, people have their views, it's little backward-looking. what they're saying is, wait, there's something new in this supreme court decision, that this is a tax. the problem for governor romney is he has an identical mechanism in his massachusetts law and that governor romney repeatedly over the years has talked about the tax in that law. so, he called it a tax in the past. his adviser now is calling it a penalty. why the change in tone or why the change in the word? well, they don't want to admit that governor romney was raising taxes in the past or called it a tax in the past. so, this is a semantic game, but the governor doesn't want to get on the wrong side of the tax question. >> so, john, i wonder if you have a sense of how long this stays hot for. so, republicans want to talk about the health care ruling. the presumptive republican nominee does not want to talk about the health care ruling, and the president also does not want to talk about the health care ruling. how long does this stay in the public forum for like this? >> i don't think that long. i mean, where mitt romney wants to get is to connect health care to jobs, and they've been trying to do that all along, because if he's talking about jobs, he's in the most comfortable turf for him in this election. well, this friday, there will be a release of the unemployment numbers. that will move the conversation right back to the economy again, his more comfortable spot. that's where he wants to stay. it's where he has the best chance. so, that's going to happen pretty fast. >> what about, though, there is new polling from the kaiser family foundation out that shows essentially, i think it's nearly a third of republican voters now say they're more likely to vote in november, that health care is starting to galvanize people. >> well, that's good for governor romney that it's likely to bring up his base, give him support within his party, but to get real advantage from that issue, he would need to convince people who aren't already convinced, who don't already hate the legislation. and as we've talked about, he's got some complexity there with his massachusetts record and some conflict with his own party on this question of tax and penalty. so, it's a hard road to get new voters on that specific issue of health care. on the economy, on the other hand, he can say, look, i was in the business world. people think the president hasn't done a good job on the economy. the numbers are bad and people think the country's going in the wrong direction. so, governor romney has a lot easier path on the issues of jobs and the economy. >> john, you talk about the governor wanting to talk about the economy here. i wonder, though, any sense he may talk more about immigration policy? his response to the president's announcement a couple weeks ago was fairly muted. >> he got some grief from his own party that he didn't come out hard enough and say that the president had overstepped his authority when the president signed executive order or made the declaration on the children of undocumented workers. again, the challenge for governor romney is how much benefit can he get on the issue of immigration? hispanics in polls show they support the president by great numbers. governor romney wants to make the pitch to hispanic voters that he's making to all voters, which is, this is about the economy. again, get it back to his sweet spot, and that's been their kind of strategy so far, and it looks like they're going to stick with it. >> john, thank you. the latest banking scandal in britain has forced a top ceo to quit this morning. bob diamond is the second top official to be forced out of barclays, one of britain's largest banks. the bank's chairman stepped down on monday. last week, barclays was fined $453 million for trying to manipulate interest rates. another giant british company, drugmaker glaxosmithkli glaxosmithkline, is setting records this morning for the wrong reasons. on monday, the company settled a federal fraud case by agreeing to pay $3 billion in fines. >> the company will also plead guilty to criminal charges over the way it sold medications used by millions of americans. bob orr is in washington. bob, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica and jeff. well, the $3 billion penalty you're talking about is the largest ever paid by a drug company in a u.s. settlement. federal prosecutors accuse glaxosmithkline of withholding critical safety data from regulators and committing widespread fraud. ♪ y'all ready for this >> reporter: this is not the start of a world-class karaoke routine, but rather top executives at the drugmaker glaxosmithkline, exhorting their sales reps to aggressively push a new asthma drug. >> i think we can make some millionaires out there. let's do it right, all right? >> reporter: federal prosecutors used the tape as evidence, alleging the culture at gsk was focused on the bottom line and put profits ahead of customer safety. >> practices like these put our public health at risk, increase costs and undermine our health care system. we are determined to bring them to a stop. >> reporter: prosecutors said gsk hid critical safety data from the food and drug administration regarding the blockbuster diabetes drug avandia, and the company allegedly marketed two antidepression drugs for treatments that had never been approved by the fda. paxil, court documents charge, was unlawfully promoted to treat depression in children, and the drug wellbutrin was illegally marketed and sold for a spectrum of treatments ranging from sexual dysfunction to substance addiction. now, glaxosmithkline has agreed to pay $3 billion to settle criminal and civil penalties. >> it's a big penalty when you look upon it as cash on the table. for a company like glaxosmithkline, however, which is making billions of dollars a year, it's really the cost of doing business. >> reporter: in a statement, the ceo of glaxosmithkline expressed "regret," and said "we have fundamentally changed our procedures for compliance, marketing and selling." glaxosmithkline is not the only target of the justice department's crackdown on health care fraud. in the past three years, a number of big pharma companies have paid for marketing sins. in 2009, pfizer agreed to a $2.3 billion settlement. eli lilly paid $1.4 billion in penalties. now to put this $3 billion settlement in perspective, consider this, last year, glaxosmithkline made $9 billion. and remember, the alleged infractions occurred, jeff and erica, over a number of years, maybe five or six years. >> bob, i'm not on helpful timing for the justice department right now, right? >> reporter: well, no, this is a big win for the justice department, and specifically for attorney general eric holder. as we reported many times, they've been a bit under siege. they've lost some high-profile cases, they failed to get convictions in the clemens case, in the john edwards case. and holder himself was just held in contempt by the house last week over a flap over documents relating to the "fast and furious" botched gun-running sting. so, this is a win. and we have to say in fairness, this justice department has been good on health care fraud and also good on reinvigorating the civil rights clause. >> bob orr, thank you. in colorado this morning, firefighters are making new progress against two massive wildfires. the waldo canyon fire near colorado springs has destroyed nearly 350 homes and is now 70% contained, and the fire near ft. collins, which burned 259 homes, is now fully controlled. firefighters, however, now have fewer weapons from the air. that's because seven air force tanker planes were grounded on monday after the crash of a c-130 in south dakota that killed at least one crew member. as of this morning, 14 tanker planes are still flying. there are also two new fires burning in utah this morning, and in our next half hour, we'll show you how that state's governor is taking on the rather bizarre cause of some of those fires, guns. time now to show you headlines from around the globe. attorney general eric holder tells "the washington post" republicans are attacking him to get back on president obama. on thursday, the republican-led house held holder in contempt for not turning over documents in the "fast and furious" gun-running operation, which was first exposed by cbs news. the "wall street journal" reports the worldwide factory slump has reached u.s. manufacturers. exports fell last month for the first time in three years, and new orders declined faster than they have since 9/11. scientists aren't using the word discovery, but britain's "telegraph" says they do have the strongest evidence yet they've found the so-called god particle. the subatomic particle got that name because it's said to give size and shape to all matter. "the baltimore sun" says michael phelps will not try to repeat his olympic record of eight gold medals, announcing he's dropping out of the 200-meter freestyle in london to conserve energy for other events. and "usa today" reporting more government offices and hospitals are keeping perfume wearers out. they say fragrances can trigger allergies or asthma, some even comparing perfume and cologne >> announcer: this national weather report sponsored by cottonelle. nothing leaves you cleaner and fresher than the cottonelle care routine. anderson cooper tells the world, i'm gay, always have been, always will be. >> we have so many openly gay people now in so many different walks of life that when someone acknowledges that they're gay, it's just another part of who they are. it's not a big headline. >> this morning, we'll look at how coming out is becoming more common and more accepted. [ shots ] and utah's governor tells target shooters, watch out, because their guns are causing wildfires. that's causing controversy in one of the most pro-gun states in america. we'll go to salt lake city to see if a gun