john blackstone, cbs news, livingston, california. >> mitchell: and this is the "cbs evening news." i'm russ mitchell in new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org the sexual assault of girl. >>> a quiet berkeley neighborhood, rocked by a horrible crime. the man police are seeking for the sexual assault of a young girl. >>> would you submit to one of these pat-downs? >> not if i could avoid it, no! i mean, who would! >>> questioning security tactics, even at the top. what holiday travelers can expect after the outcry over personal screening procedures. >>> and a rat rescue brings hundreds of the creatures to the bay area. what kind of rodent relocation effort? cbs 5 eyewitness news is next. ,,

as john blackstone reports, many will be hitting black friday sales online this year. >> reporter: it's not even thanksgiving, and robin kane has already done much of her holiday shopping online. a big change from the days when she joined the crowds of early morning shoppers the day after thanksgiving. >> i used to go to the black friday sales. my mother and sister and i would get up really early friday morning, every year. my father thought we were crazy. >> reporter: an american tradition, the rush to the shops for black friday bargains is in transition as retailers offer steep price cuts online. >> black friday for me is online at home. >> reporter: last year, online spending on the day after thanksgiving leapt $61 million to $595 million in a single day. up 11% over the previous year. but now, retailers are putting their black friday deals online on thanksgiving day. many for the first time. last year shoppers spent $318 million online on thanksgiving. a 10% increase. and this year, that number is expected to be even higher. you're going to have sales on thanksgiving day? >> it's ki

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john blackstone, cbs news, livingston, california. >> a turkey hasn't been pardoned at my house yet. just saying. coming up later on "the early show," tsa administrator on possible tweaks to security procedures at the airports in response to growing complaints. advice on making healthier eating choices at thanksgiving dinner and a special live performance by jessica simpson. she'll sing some old and some new holiday tunes. all of that and more coming up on "the early show." that's the "cbs morning news" on this monday. thanks for watching, everybody. take care. have a great day. i'm terrell brown. we'll see you tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. >>> due to the evidence and a very courageous victim, we have been able to identify the suspect. >> a brazen rapist on the loose accused of attacking a teen in her own bed but this morning,

while the army may find the carp quite the opponent john blackstone says one civilian fisherman believes he's found the answer. >> reporter: when outdoorsmen chris bracket sets out on a fishing trip he comes armed for combat. >> let the battle begin. >> the river looks deceptively calm but one by one, then two by two the enemy makes itself known. meet the asian silver carp, scourge of the illinois river, imported to keep fish farms alge free. the carp escaped during midwest floods and now dominates many waterways. vibrations from outdoor motors scare the carp setting off their notorious and frenzied flight. >> it is one of those deals to where a redneck says watch this. >> reporter: like any good river rat chris bracket saw an opportunity. >> i hit the first fish and knew immediately it was going to be something school. >> extreme aerial boat fishing. >> reporter: a sport was born. >> pretty much when you draw. >> reporter: what began as a goof among friends is now a thriving charter business. >> here is your weapon. >> it's awesome. the thrill of it. >> reporter: country music star crai

john blackstone, cbs news, redmond, washington. >>> fascinating. coming up a little bit later on "the early show" more on the cargo plane bomb plot as we hear from the head of the transportation security administration. also, a warning about new shopping scams as we get ready for the holiday gift buying season. and, they made a huge splash with their youtube video. the band, atomic tom, performs live for us. that's the "cbs morning news" if this monday morning. thanks for watching. i'm betty nguyen. thanks for watching. i'm betty nguyen. have a great day! -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com center.. we're live with how it could impact the morning commute. >>> breaking news out of san jose, a four alarm fire at a recycling center. live with how it could impact the morning commute. >>> a developing story halloween violence nearly turned deadly the shooti

while the army may find the carp quite the opponent john blackstone says one civilian fisherman believes he's found the answer. >> reporter: when outdoorsmen chris bracket sets out on a fishing trip he comes armed for combat. >> let the battle begin. >> the river looks deceptively calm but one by one, then two by two the enemy makes itself known. meet the asian silver carp, scourge of the illinois river, imported to keep fish farms alge free. the carp escaped during midwest floods and now dominates many waterways. vibrations from outdoor motors scare the carp setting off their notorious and frenzied flight. >> it is one of those deals to where a redneck says watch this. >> reporter: like any good river rat chris bracket saw an opportunity. >> i hit the first fish and knew immediately it was going to be something school. >> extreme aerial boat fishing. >> reporter: a sport was born. >> pretty much when you draw. >> reporter: what began as a goof among friends is now a thriving charter business. >> here is your weapon. >> it's awesome. the thrill of it. >> country music star craig morgan w

katie. >> couric: john blackstone in san diego, john, a happy ending, relatively. so thanks very much. turning now to politics. nine days after the midterm elections, americans have a message for the new congress and president obama-- work it out. a cbs news poll out shows 72% want republicans in congress to compromise on major issues. 78% say president obama should compromise, only 16% want him to stick to his positions. and what are the key issues? more than half want congress to focus on the economy and jobs, far more than health care or any other issue. 40% of americans tell us they're pleasedly with the results of the midterm elections and their expectations for the 112th congress, about four in 10 expect the house and senate to accomplish more than usual, about the same number expect them to accomplish less. president obama, meanwhile, is in south korea, day 7 of his asian trip. he had some tough talk for the north on this veterans day, but on the issues of job, trades, and taxes, it was a day of disappointment and confusion. chip reid who is traveling with t

john blackstone, thank you. this may be remembered as the election in which twitter and other social media really came of age. so what's everyone tweeting about? here's tonight's campaign 2010 hot sheet. this graph appearing on the "new york times" web site tracks tweets about individual candidates. kentucky's rand paul and other tea party candidates such as alaska's joe miller and delaware's christine o'donnell have seen a surge of interest in the past few days. but o'donnell hasn't abandoned traditional media. >> i'm officially asking for your vote. >> couric: her campaign put together a 24-minute infomercial to air on public access t.v. in delaware. >> i want to go to washington and do what you would do. >> couric: unfortunately for her, the ad didn't air the first two times it was scheduled. according to o'donnell, the station forgot to run it. but the producer who booked the time said her campaign delivered the video too late. not to be outdone... >> of all the scary things you'll see today. >> couric: o'do

there are just 32 shopping days until christmas, and john blackstone reports more people than ever are doing their shopping from the comfort of home. >> reporter: is not even thanksgiving, and robyn cain has already done much of her holiday shopping online. a big change from the days when she joined the crowds of early morning shoppers the day after thanksgiving. >> i used to go to the black friday sales. my mother and sister and i would get up really early friday morning every year, my father thought we were crazy. >> reporter: an american tradition, the rush to the shops for black friday bargains is in transition as retailers offer steep price cuts online. >> black friday for me is online at home. >> reporter: last year online spending on the day after thanksgiving left 61 million dollars to 595 million in a single day. up 11% over the previous year. but now retailers are putting their black friday deals online on thanksgiving day. many for the first time. last year shoppers spent $318 million online on thanksgiving, a 10% increase. and this year that number is expected to be even hi

katie. >> couric: john blackstone in san diego, john, a happy ending, relatively. so thanks very much. turning now to politics. nine days after the midterm elections, americans have a message for the new congress and president obama: work it out. a cbs news poll out tonight shows 72% want republicans in congress to compromise on major issues. 78% say president obama should compromise, only 16% want him to stick to his positions. and what are the key issues? more than half want congress to focus on the economy and jobs, far more than health care or any other issue. 40% of americans tell us they're pleased with the results of the midterm elections and their expectations for the 112th congress, about four in ten expect the house and senate to accomplish more than usual, about the same number expects them to accomplish less. president obama, meanwhile, is in south korea, day seven of his asian trip. he had some tough talk for the north on this veterans day, but on the issues of job, trades, and taxes, it was a day of disappointment and confusion. chip reid who is trave

john blackstone shows us how it is played. >> ready? >> reporter: at the hubble family home near seattle, the near future is on view. because dad works for microsoft, they are testing the soon-to-be released edition to the company's xbox game system. it's a $150 add-on called kinect, and five-year-old devon could be writing ads for it. >> i like to kinect because you get to move your body around instead of using a controller. >> reporter: with kinect there is no controller, no joystick, no wand. it could be the wave of the future. >> makes me feel like tom cruise. >> and that is what we went for. >> reporter: it was alex kipman's idea to do away with controllers. >> while everybody else is putting gadgets and gizmos in your hand, look for ways to make technology disappear. >> reporter: it sees and even hears what players are doing. >> hello there, system. you might ask what are joints like mine doing in a game like this? microsoft's breakthrough with kinect is in finding a way to identify player's joints so that the game can follow ever

john blackstone reports on literature's latest chapter. >> reporter: in the busy aisles of electronics stores, shoppers are encountering a dramatically expanded selection of gadgets offering to replace books. >> i sell them all here, i have everything you need. >> reporter: from amazon's $139 kindle to apple's $500 ipad, tech stores are turning literary. have you become a bookstore as well? >> we have not... well, i guess you could say that, right? a digital bookstore. >> reporter: walk into a real bookstore-- barnes & noble-- and the first thing you're likely to see isn't a book, it's a nook! barnes & noble's own version of an e-reader. >> we have over two million books available. >> reporter: the big bookstore chain calls it the future of reading, and the reason is clear. in september, sales of hard- cover books in america dropped by 40% to $180.3 million worth. but sales of e-books rose by 158% from a year earlier to $39.9 million. price is one factor driving e- book sales. best-sellers that can cost $25 in hard cover can be purchased for less than $10 as an e-book. thousands of wor

there are just 32 shopping days until christmas, and john blackstone reports more people than ever are doing their shopping from the comfort of home. >> reporter: it's not even thanksgiving, and robyn cain has already done much of her holiday shopping online. a big change from the days when she joined the crowds of early morning shoppers the day after thanksgiving. >> i used to go to the black friday sales. my mother and sister and i would get up really early friday morning every year, my father thought we were crazy. >> reporter: an american tradition, the rush to the shops for black friday bargains is in transition as retailers offer steep price cuts online. >> black friday for me is online at home. >> reporter: last year online spending on the day after thanksgiving leap to $61 million to $595 million in a single day. up 11% over the previous year. but now retailers are putting their black friday deals online on thanksgiving day. many for the first time. last year shoppers spent $318 million online on thanksgiving, a 10% increase. and this year that number is expected to be even hig

>> john blackstone in san diego, thank you, john. joining us on the phone is danny cole, a passenger aboard the carnival "splendor." good morning. >> hi. good morning. >> how are you all holding up? >> well, spirits are pretty high. we're happy to be getting off the ship pretty soon. >> i bet. let's go back to monday when this all began with the fire in the engine room. were you aware, danny, there was a problem. >> yes, the whole ship started to shake violently when it happened and, you know, as you can maj, everything in the rooms started rattling around and i'm pretty sure it woke up all the passengers. it certainly woke up me and my wife. >> were you scared? >> yeah, i -- well, i was definitely uncomfortable and then pretty soon after that happened, we started to smell smoke in our cabin and we're on the eighth floor so we're pretty far away from the engine room and i think the smell was a lot stronger on the lower decks. so, as soon as we smelled that, we jumped out of bed, threw our clothes on and thought, you know what, we bet

i had been reading blackstone since i was 10. so i went to the court and i pled my own case and won. then, after that, mr. fultz decided he needed to go on to greener pasttures and he left so i realized that i was going to be the court of myself and my children. so i decided now is my chance to be a lawyer. why couldn't i be a lawyer? well, it is right there in the code. you have to be of good moral character. i'm that. you have to be over 21. i'm that. and a white male. so i simply took the code, took out white male, put in person and called it the laid lawyer bill and off i went to -- the lady lawyer bill and off i went to sacramento. there i was. now i had very little money so i was able to talk a conductor of one of the trains into taking me in the caboose for free but i got to sacramento. when i arrived there at the state capitol it was a constitutional convention and i never saw so many men, so well -- throwing tantrums over a little woman like me just wanting to be a lawyer. well, their faces were as red as turkey gobblers

he says he'll vote against a deal to sell dynegy to the blackstone group. instead, he's offering the company a $2 billion line of credit and that helped the shares move higher. and that's tonight's market focus. installment of "inkonomich david gillette." david's an emmy-award-winning illustrator and essayist at twin cities public television. tonight, he takes a bite out of the inner workings of the economy. >> hey, everybody, look up in the sky. it's a cartoonist on a continuing expedition to figure out the economy. today a blitz on academia. but first some lunch. suburban buffet, a chicken finger basket and a cherry coke. total cost, $12, multiplied by everybody in the restaurant, and what do you know, another lesson in the fluidity of global markets. all of that lunch money gets beamed up to the appleby's mother ship. after that, who knows. wall street for mortgage bonds, china for internet filtration. it's tough to follow. that's the economy. a system we participate in, but mostly don't understand. how come the average citizen doesn't understand the eco

tonight, john blackstone has the story on a complex-three-way race. >> reporter: on election night in anchorage, the lisa murkowski campaign took a victory lap through the chilly streets, confident that murkowski had made history by winning a senate seat as a write-in candidate. >> yes, we can! >> we embarked on what the people on the outside said was absolutely impossible-- you cannot win a write-in campaign. and yet, here in alaska, we are making it happen. >> everyone wanted to see lisa win, and here we are tonight doing the impossible. >> reporter: but did she win? that battle is heating up as joe miller, the republican candidate who beat mur cowsk net party primary, refuses to concede. the count so far shows that miller got 34% of the vote compared to 41% who marked their ballot for a write-in candidate. the question now, did most of those voters write in lisa murkowski's name clearly enough to be counted? >> lisa m., or handwriting that's hard to read, or a really mangled spelling of murkowski. there could be those. but if somebody writes murkowski it's going to be very difficul

i had been reading blackstone since i was 10. so i went to the court and i pled my own case and won. then, after that, mr. fultz decided he needed to go on to greener pasttures and he left so i realized that i was going to be the court of myself and my children. so i decided now is my chance to be a lawyer. why couldn't i be a lawyer? well, it is right there in the code. you have to be of good moral character. i'm that. you have to be over 21. i'm that. and a white male. so i simply took the code, took out white male, put in person and called it the laid lawyer bill and off i went to -- the lady lawyer bill and off i went to sacramento. there i was. now i had very little money so i was

john blackstone on how critics say the cruise skirted tough regulations. >> reporter: the splendor cruise ship sits in the harbor while there is assessment of damage. and the national transportation safety board said it would initially that it would lead the investigation into the engine room fire that shut down virtually all of the power on the ship but now that won't happen. >> carnival's argument is that the united states government doesn't have the jurisdiction. >> reporter: that is because the ship is registered in panama and critics say cruise ship operators use the flag of convenience to skirt tougher regulations in the united states. so officials from panama will be taking the lead with two experts from the ntsb assisting. >> they have tried in the past to investigate an accident, and carnival challenged that in the past, in federal court, and won. >> reporter: in fact, there was no law that addressed safety and security on board cruise ships operating in the u.s., until president obama signed the cruise line safety act in july. >> we still have a long way to go. because it is sti

john blackstone, cbs news, san diego. >>> after a theater pulled a provocative award-winning documentary, it appears the show will go on. the lark theater in larkspur had yanked the film daddy i do which is about teen pregnancy and how to prevent it. they said it was pulled because theater board members told her it wasn't pertinent because it featured latina and african- american mothers. the lark theater is apologizing saying we made some mistakes about it. we feel horizontal about it. it will now screen at the larkspur theater. >>> >> what prototype voters put what bidders put up for a piece of history. >>> and a beatles exhibition here in the bay area. >>> high pressure building in, temperatures going to really heat up tomorrow. we'll talk about that coming up. >>> all news altogether the time. 24 hours a day. all news at 740 and now fm 106.9kcbs online at kcbs.com. i don't go anywhere without her. car pooling to work... mmm hmm. ...shopping. it's great! and, when we need gas... i love gas. i usually stop at whichever's on my side of the street. yeah. well, they're all pretty much the

>> john blackstone in san diego, thank you very much. joining us exclusively ginger and mark kay lan and their 9-year-old daughter parker. good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> smiles on everybody's faces. >> we're all happy. >> i have to say we enticed you with, what, a piece of pizza, pamburger, hot shower. >> everything hot. >> you said, okay we'll get on a plane and come to new york. >> and a trip to new york. >> you got in early this morning so we appreciate you coming in to share injure story. tell us a bit more about when you first knew something was terrible wrong on the ship. >> it woke us up, actually. >> okay. >> we were in our cabin. we happened to be on the first deck, which was right over where the independent happened, actually. so, it felt like a loud and rumbling vibration. >> right. >> i sincerely forgot where i was and i woke up and i thought, oh, it's an earthquake. then i realized we were on a boat. >> doesn't work so well out to sea w. you afraid, ever really afraid? >> no, not initially. i mean, it sounded l

john blackstone talked about some of the people on their rough ride. >>> it was early monday morning, when the smell of smoke awoke many passengers. chris harland had his camera going, as thick, black smoke rose near the stern. >> where does that thick, black smoke come from? >> reporter: the passengers were told, despite the smoke, there was no fire. >> no fire. >> you know, everybody around is saying, okay, there's just smoke, but no fire, huh? >> they tried to calm everybody down by saying it was a flameless fire. >> did anybody believe that? >> no. not at all. >> a flameless fire? [ laughter ] >> soon there was no denying, the fire or the extent of the damage. the ship lost power, leaving passengers with little to do. >> we were bored. we were hungry. it wasn't very sunny. so we couldn't even lay out and get tan. >> reporter: and there were no fancy meals. >> started to eat peanut butter, which everyone was excited about. you don't know how much we love peanut butter. >> we didn't even know how much we loved peanut butter. >> yeah. >> ashley and josh vest say they were on their se

john blackstone, cbs news, san diego. >>> to discuss the impact the carnival "splendor" fiasco will have on the industry, cbs news travel editor peter greenburg. great to have you here. >> good morning. >> as you listen to his piece he talks about the new law signed in in the summertime to help make sure boats are more safe but then we have this happen, 4500 people on board and the u.s. handed the reins over to panning ma for the investigation. what's the thinking there. >> first of all the law obama signed is about cruise ship safety and crime and reporting of it because there is no database to let you know how safe is your ship. when you have a passenger of four or five thousand people on a ship that's a small town. do they have a jail or a police officer? no, they don't. that's what that law was about. what's happening here, where the ships are registered. most cruise ships are not registered in the united states, almost none, registered in pan marks liberia and the bahamas. when something like this happens it goes into the area where the flag is flown. in this case the liberian or pa

cbs news correspondent john blackstone has the latest. >> reporter: it is now believed whoever shot ronni chasen in her mercedes may have used a .9 millimeter handgun according to a coroner's report obtained by an l.a. tv station. she was at this beverly hills intersection and shot at least five times through the passenger side window. >> there were shots directly to her chest. this was clear al shooter of some degree of marksmanship. and it seemed to suggest this was maybe even a hit. of. >> reporter: that's also the belief of those who attended chasen's funeral last weekend, like fellow publicist howard brag man. >> most of us believe that it was a hit, that it was an intentional murder, it wasn't a drive-by, it wasn't road rage. we think that it was intentional. >> reporter: even if police conclude how she died, the bigger mystery is why. >> we have two great fears in hollywood. one is that somebody murdered ronni as a course of business. and the second fear is that we'll never find out what happened. >> reporter: nor do investigators seem any closer to finding out who pulled the trigg

john blackstone reports for wjz with their story. >>> it was early monday morning, when the smell of smoke awoke many passengers. chris harlan had his camera going. >> where does that come from? >> the passengers were told that in spite of the smoke, there was no fire. >> no fire. no fire, they said. just lots of smoke. >> everybody around was saying, there's just smoke, but no fire, huh? >> they tried to calm everybody down by saying it was a flameless fire. >> did anybody believe that? >> no. not at all. [ laughter ] >> soon, there was no denying the fire or the extent of the damage. the ship lost power, leaving passengers with little to do. >> we were bored. we were hungry. it wasn't even sunny, so we couldn't even lay out and get tan. >> reporter: and there were no fancy meals. >> we started eating peanut butter, which everyone was excited about. you don't know how much we love peanut butter. >> we didn't each know how much we loved peanut butter. >> reporter: many on board were celebrating special days like anniversaries and birthdays. ashley and jonathan were on their second ho