hi, everyone. welcome to "the early show" on a saturday morning. the one story everybody seems to talk about every weekend she does something on a friday that makes news on a saturday, lindsay lohan, in jail, out of jail, in rehab, outs of rehab, on probation, not on probation. now, guess what, yesterday a judge ordered her to go directly to jail until another hearing in october but then late last night pacific time another judge steps in and lets her make $300,000 bail and lets her go and you saw the pictures, she left jail last night. >> a new mug shot. >> a very interesting story later in the program about the facebook founder mark zuckerberg just gave 100 million dollars in the public schools in new jersey. we have the person who wrote the story on him who is basically opening up the doorss to all his secrets. >> the accidental billionaire, newark, new jersey, very happy to hear they'll get -- >> $100 million. >> we have breaking news out of sweden a pakistani jetliner with 373 people on board made an emergency landing. a passenger is accused of preparing to sabotage the flight. our correspondent mark phillips is in our london bureau with the very latest this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a bomb scare so far involves no bomb but plenty of drama, a tack staen international airways flight due to fly from toronto karachi, diverted to stockholm sweden. you can see the picture of the passengers being evacuated here. that circle shows a couple of policemen apparently pulling one man out of the line of passengers and taking him back toward the plane. that man is the suspect. he was suspected of planning to sabotage the plane after a phone tip was called in after the flight left toronto. no explosives were found on the man. the police have been searching the plane and have found nothing on the plane so far. the man and plane did clear security before leaving. the man is being held under suspicion but, so far, has not been charged. chris. >> all right. mark phillips for us in london, thank you for that update. we appreciate it. now to the floods in the upper midwest. residents in parts of minnesota and wisconsin trying to dry out this morning but the flooding may not be over yet. heather brown of our minneapolis station wcco is live from owatonna, minnesota with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. the rivers have started to go down here but the water is still here. scenes like this gas station are common across southern minnesota, the water stuck in these areas. at this point, we don't know how much all of this will cost but the governor has said he will ask for a special legislative session to figure out how to pay for it, all of this because of record rainfall in just a single day. streets turned into rivers, back yards into lakes. across the upper midwest schools flooded and bridges washed away as heavy rain led to rivers overflowing their banks. as much as 10 inches fell in 24 hours in areas of wisconsin and minnesota. the rain let up friday and some rivers are receding but many forced out of their homes can't return. power stations were flooded and roads closed. the water rose so swiftly, many people had little time to protect their homes. now, they are salvaging what they can. >> a mess. everything down there is shot. >> reporter: towns like arcadia are reopening for business but many parts of the city are still off limits as officials watch the river rise. >> there's a lot of water coming down. >> reporter: more rain is expected this weekend. state officials are keeping the sandbags in place as they cast a wary eye on the raging rivers not yet shire they are out of the woods. certainly not out of the woods yet closer to minneapolis and st. paul. the storm system that caused all this is expected to cause flooding in the suburbs as early as next week which could boengsly affect many more people. chris? >> heather, thank you. for more of an update on that weather in the midwest right now let's join lonnie quinn at the weather wall for arch update on conditions they can expect. >> the wet weather is now making its push through the dakotas. it will continue to push to the east but not going to be the kind of rain like they had yesterday. we are talking about places like iowa city, columbia -- while some rivers have recede not all. some have yet to crest and we'll be dealing with flooding conditions in this portion of the country through wednesday. even though the rain is letting up, that tough situation continues. we'll have more on your weather in a bit. rebecca, back to you. >> thank you. iran's volatile president mahmoud ahmadinejad again put his talent for stirring things up on full display in new york and president obama was drawn into the controversy. our senior white house correspondent, bill plante, has this story. good morning, bill. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. ahmadinejad doubled down on the suggestion the u.s. might have been behind the 9/11 attacks and drew an outraged response from president obama. but ahmadinejad also met with sarah shourd, the american woman who was just released from an iranian prison after being held there more than a year. shourd and her mother asked ahmadinejad for the release of jane bauer and josh fattal, still held in iran. shourd called it a very positive experience. >> i'm hopeful that the president will -- will try to advocate on my fiance and my friend josh's behalf and i really feel very happy with the gesture and graciousness shown today. >> president obama in a bbc interview aimed at iran expressed outrage at ahmadinejad's claim earlier in the week at the u.n. most people in the world believe the united states was behind the september 11th attacks. the u.s. and allies walked out. >> it was offensive. it was hateful. for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable. >> reporter: at a news conference later, ahmadinejad did not back away. >> translator: don't you feel that we -- the time's come to have a fact-finding committee? >> reporter: but ahmadinejad also claimed iran would consider ending uranium enrichment if sent fuel for medical reactor and ptd he is ready for respectful talks. now, ahmadinejad's suggestion that he may be ready to talk about the issue came as a surprise to u.s. officials, mainly skeptical taking a wait-and-see attitude. >> bill plante, thank you. a real eye-opener for lawmakers on capitol hill when xhom dee central's steven colbert testified a day picking beans along undocumented farm workers. listen to this. >>. of course, he's not the only comedienne taking a stand on serious political issues these days. let's talk about it with our con summitant. good morning, mark. >> good morning. >> when i say he is not the only one getting in on the act. of course we've haurd from bill mahr two weeks in a row releasing videotapes of vis teen o'donnell, the republican senate candidate in delaware. what do you think is proved by all this and is bill mauer kind of doing a shock therapy on america? >> well, i think principally, bill mahr feels a bit aggrieved christine o'donnell is not recognizing the fact when she appeared on his "politically incorrect" show back in the '90s, essentially, he says he made her into what she is now, whatever that might be and wants as bit of recognition and i think he wants her to appear on his shore, which would be for ratings but i also think there is a serious purpose to this. >> mark, i want to just make sure that we get to see the bite from last night so we're going to play it. take a listen then we'll talk about the seriousness of it. >> sure. >> evolution is a myth and even darwin himself. >> evolution is a myth? >> have you ever lked at a monkey? >> well then, why aren't machine keys still evolving into humans? >> it takes a long time. >> so, mark, on a serious note, what's he accomplishing with this? >> well, i think he's trying to ridicule christine o'donnell and, you know, make her look bad. the clip he released last week of her talking about her flirtation with witchcraft became a national story. and i think that testifies to the power of sattirisst, i would separate them from comediennes meaning they want to be funny at first but a serious purpose in mind versus comediennes. i think their power who have an audience unlike someone like bill mahr who can impact elections and the debate. >> would it have an impact on the would-be o'donnell voters, people who would have showed up to vote for her in the first place. >> i doubt it will have an impact on people convinced they would vote for her. if you look at her level of support in a place like delaware and the audience, the people who support her, are not the type of people will look at something bill mahr, a well-known liberal, an atheist says about a conservative christian like christine o'donnell but what it will do is, perhaps, inflame the passions, at least pique the interests of those who don't know who they're going to vote for and that might influence the election. >> can the likes of a steven colbert, jn stewart and bill hahr, can they really impact the end game, what we see as the end result, will they get people to get out and vote for particular can dants? >> steven colbert and jon stewart are hosting a rally on the 30th of october in the end game of the election. if they're able to get 90 to 100,000 people out, their demographics, young voters, digs illusioned voters, the millennial generation, obama voters turnoff by this election if they can get them out and interested in the election, it could prove to be a bit of a positive for the democratic party. certainly, these sattirsts are doing what democratic politicians haven't been able to do, generating interest in the campaign. >> mark, we appreciate you being with us today. >> my pleasure. >> for another look at the morning's other top stories, randall pink ston at the news desk. good morning. >> good morning. the fbi is hunting three men who staged a dramatic bank robbery in coral gables, florida. the heist began friday when the thieves vapd what they said was a bomb to a bank teller. george es they vest is in coral gables, florida. i'll get it right, george. how are you today? >> doing well. a little rainy here yesterday and also the same situation overnight. the fbi released the bank teller cleared of any suspicion. hard to believe for hours yesterday though at this same bank here, as you said, he was at the center of a standoff. it had the appearance of a dangerous standoff, s.w.a.t. teams surrounding a bank, inside reports of a teller with a bomb strapped to his chest, a lone hostage in a bizarre robbery ending four hours after he was led out of the bank in handcuffs and no sign of the robbers. >> we were able to secure the bank, secure the safety of the individual and be able to deactivate the device. >> reporter: are the teller 25-year-old diego uscamayta claims it began friday after midnight when armed men broke into the apartment he shares with his parents. >> they said we have a remote, you know, triggering device. we want you to get as much money as you possibly can and bring it out to us. >> reporter: police say the robbers got away with an undisclosed amount of cash in his car but questions remained. how was he able to free himself from the bomb and when did the alleged third robber get away? and there's one more question the fbi at this point will not say how the three robbers on the loose right now knew the bank teller or knew he worked at this branch. randall. >> of course, thanks a lot. in cast zik stan this morning a picture perfect return from space, a russian space capsule with an american astronaut and two cosmonauts came down under a huge parachute. the capsule kicking up a cloud of dust as it landed. the three crew members spent more than six months on the international space station. technical problems delayed their homecoming by one day. for the second time in a month a judge ruled the don't ask, don't tell policy on gays in the u.s. military is unconstitutional. a federal judge in tacoma washington, ordered margaret whit to be reinstated. she was a highly decorated flight nurse discharged because of a lesbian relationship. finally in los angeles, a gem of a court battle over one of the world's largest emeralds. at least six people claim ownership of it. the boulder-size jewel weighs 840 pounds and valued upwards of $400 million. the first of the claimants said he paid $60,000 for it in 2001 after it was mined in brazil but his proof was lost in a fire. about 15 minutes after the hour. time for lonnie quinn with our first check of the weather. first weekend of autumn. >> you betcha. in new york city, we get summer to begin this weekend, fall to end the weekend because the hot temperatures are in place for us this weekend. i want to talk about your headlines looking all over the country, a light rainy day for the midwest, nothing like the big deluge yesterday but not helping the situation. thunderstorms in the tennessee and mississippi valley, it is warm and dry out west. why? big old high pressure system setting up right around idaho going to bring in butteful weather for a good chunk of the country. let's go over everything. seattle, boise, san francisco, everybody catches lots of sunshine today. low humidity. that situation will hold true for you the pacific northwest, beautiful through sunday. a quick look at a portion of the country. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >> make it a great day wherever you are and where we are in new york city, i said, you know, summer-like day, fall-like day tomorrow. today the 80s, tomorrow the 60s, maybe 70s. you get one more beach day. >> great. enjoy. thank you. coming up on the show, lindsay lohan like we mentioned yesterday back in court was ordered to go to jail. guess what? late last night east coast time she was released and now out on $300 bail. plus an inside look at bob woodward's new book, notorious for getting the inside scoop on d.c. politics. we'll have a look to it when we come back. this is "the early show" on cbs. of ves gays tiff reporter bob woodward's new book is behind the scenes sxloe say detailing the obama administration's handling of the war in afghanistan. the book is making headlines with explosive revelations. joining us is cbs news consultant and presidential historian douglas brinkley. good to have you with us this morning. >> good morning. >> so, what gets woodward this kind of access. >> well, his track record. he's the famous journalist part of the team with carl bernstein who broke the watergate story and actually led to richard nixon being brought down. he's a deep washington insider. he lives there. he has a rolodex, where he doesn't just know senators and congressmen and people at the pentagon but has their cell numbers, a good gum-shoe reporter, a hard worker and historic figure. i would put him as one of the two or three most influential journalists of the 20th century and turns out whenever he has one of these books come out it makes immediate news >> of course, big focus in this one is the war in afghanistan. president obama is quoted in the book as saying i can't let this be a war without end and i can't lose the whole democratic party. that's a quote from obama's war in woodward's book you see there on your screen. douglas, tell me, what's new about this, what new revelations can we take away from the statement? >> well, there's a lot. i mean, the port trat that's being painted by bob woodward is of a president who wants out of afghanistan. he started to get us out of iraq and would like to get us out of of afghanistan sees these as losing propositions in many ways right now. but these were bushes wars and it takes some time. the book is about the infighting if you like the voe biden worried about afghanistan and thinks we might have to extricate ourselves and troops from them -- >> of course, were, were he has from general david petraeus, as well. he says i don't think you win this war. i think you keep fighting. >> and the problem with those kind of quotes when you just extract them from this book, how do you want to be the young person who goes over to fight in afghanistan because you are getting ready to extract yourself from there? we are losing a lot of soldiers. i think this book has a corrosive effect. some say it might be helpful but can't be great for the morale of the troops seeing they are fighting in afghanistan at that time when most of the leaders in the white house and pentagon don't think what they are doing is winnable in any way. >> also the president is quoted saying we can absorb a terrorist attack. the administration is happy with the representation of obama in this book. >> that particular line has not bothered me at all that part of it. i think the president is simply talking about a terrorist attack is always a possibility and we overcalm 9/11 and our country is so great we'll overcome anything. president obama comes off very well in the book when he is being interviewed it is some of the snide comments of other people in the admin aimed at rahm emanuel and jim ax xel lod -- called a loner with five million friends. we'll take a look at look at mark zuckerberg from the new movie and the book it is based on. you are watching "the early show" on cbs. nothing wrong with that, friday the facebook founder appeared on the oprah winfrey show announcing a hundred million dollar donation to the newark new jersey public schools association a few hours before last night's premiere of "the social network." this morning we turn to the man who literally wrote the book on him, author of "the accidental millionaires" which the movie is based on. good morning. >> good morning. >> essentially -- you kind of portray him as kind of an loner. >> he's an interesting guy, very unique. i spent a year writing about how facebook got founded. this genius, very socially awkward didn't have a lot of friends and really wanted to be part of something bigger and get into the finals clubs, these secret societies and created his own which was facebook. >> you wrote this book about him, a movie about him and received very well and say it doesn't necessarily portray him in a negative light but he will not sit down and talk you with and officially authorize it with him. does that bother you at all. >> i spent a year trying to talk to him and -- almost like waiting for goodeau. i wish he had. a lot of people field betrayed by hip and in the end he decided not to. i would have loved if he had talked to me but i think it was a very fair portrayal. overall, the book and movie actually come out in a very positive way. >> what do you think about the donation to the new york public school system $100 million right on the tip of the premiere right there, what about the timing? >> it's wonderful for him to give that kind of money to the schools. any time a school system gets $100 million it's a wonderful thing g. for mark, he's a kid who has never really cared about money. it's never been a big part about why he did anything. to give away what really is a significant amount is really great. >> do me a favor, stay right there. you're watching "the early show" here on cbs. four years ago, bob ehrlich got fired as governor of maryland. for good reason. first, he protected tax loopholes for giant cable cable companies. then, he let utilities jack up our rates 72%. and for the last four years, he worked as a hired gun for big corporations, even a bank that took billions from a taxpayer funded bailout. ehrlich sides with corporate executives again and again and again tell bob ehrlich big banks and billionares don't need help. middle class marylanders do. in case of everyday emergencies... guys, go get changed! ...or soccer practice, it's important to be prepared for dinner. that's why i've prepared my perdue perfect portions fresh ch