"on the road" with steve hartman. why did steve go to sandusky, ohio? >> i don't want to say it's all because of me, but it is all because of me. this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley reporting tonight from birmingham, michigan. >> pelley: good evening, we're coming to you from the town square in birmingham where we caught up today with mitt romney. more on that in a moment. but we will begin the broadcast tonight with another mass shooting in america-- this time in the heart of new york city. it left two people dead, including the alleged gunman and nine others wounded. elaine quijano has the story. >> reporter: the gunfire erupted just after 9:00 a.m. at the peak of the morning rush. it began when 58-year-old jeffrey johnson walked up to a former coworker around the corner from the empire state building. it ended a few minutes later when police shot johnson dead on fifth avenue. n.y.p.d. commissioner ray kelly. >> during a downsizing at the company about a year ago johnson was laid off. in front of the building, johnson produced a pistol an

and "on the road" with steve hartman. a man spent his whole life helping his neighbors. >> he's the epitome of something dear. >> schieffer: now it's their turn to say thank you. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening. scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. well, it's happened again-- two american military men were killed in afghanistan today by an afghan policeman. it happened in a village in afghanistan's far west where u.s. troops have been teaching the afghans to take over their own security. this is just the latest attack by afghans who are supposed to be our allies. they took the lives of 12 americans in 2010. last year that number doubled and already this year there have been 25 who have been killed. david martin has more on today's shooting and this troubling trend. >> reporter: it happened at a graduation ceremony like this. villagers trained by americans to serve as a local police force. a brand new policeman stepped forward to receive his weapon

and steve hartman "on the road." if you paint it, they will come. >> look at that mob! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott is off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. hardly a day passes that we don't show you pictures of the great drought of 2012. but the government put out a report today that brings home just how severe it really is, and it's not just farmers and stockmen who are affected. it's going to mean higher priceses for everyone. nearly one quarter of the country is now in extreme or exceptional drought. today for the second month in a row the agriculture department said that means corn and soybean production will be down again. corn down 13%, soybean production down 12%. beef production will also be down 4%. what this means, of course, is that as food production goes down, food prices go up. anthony mason is covering this story. >> reporter: the worst drought in half a century sent corn prices to a record high on the floor of the chicago board of trade today. >> this is not inflation. we don't

and "on the road" with steve hartman. a silent soldier hears the call of duty. >> 660 years later. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, the storm cleared over the gulf coast today and the full impact of hurricane katrina is now becoming clear. the first hurricane to hit the u.s. this season left at least five people dead. more than 20 inches of rain combined with the storm surge left whole neighborhoods underwater in louisiana. the power is still out for more than half a million homes and businesses and the damage could top $2 billion. our mark strassmann has been talking with some of the people who have lost nearly everything. >> reporter: for the first time today we were able to look from the air at the abandoned neighborhoods in plaquemines parish, swamped by five feet of isaac's storm surge. crews have begun cutting as many as 10 holes in its levees east and west banks to drain the water and in brathwaite, 19 miles south of norlts, residents are frustrated just as they were after katrina. a flood wall as high

zero heartburn. >> pelley: a while back, steve hartman introduced us to a man who decided to spruce up his community by painting everything in sight. well, the idea has really caught on. so tonight steve lays on a second coat of "on the road." >> reporter: after jim cotter lost his wife last year he set out to paint the town. but don't judge him too harshly for that, not until you hear the rest of his story. >> i miss her. and this just gives me something that keeps me from missing her more. >> reporter: as we first reported earlier this year, the town jim set out to paint is glouster, ohio, population 2000. once a thriving coal community, it's been both peeling and unappealing for years. >> pretty bad. >> reporter: jim said he always wished someone would fix it up. >> the buildings have become dilapidated. >> reporter: after his wife died, he decided to be that someone. he started by painting this fire hydrant. moved down the road and dill the guardrail, then hit a home stretch. >> one, two, three... >> reporter: he painted house after house. business after business. >> gift shop. >>

steve hartman introduces us to an ohio man who really is painting the town. we'll share some laughs with phyllis diller and a lot more. but first here are the headlines for this sunday morning, the 26th of august, 2012. and we begin with that tropical storm, isaac, which is gaining strength as it moves through the florida straits. isaac should be a full-fledged hurricane by the time it hits the florida keys later in the day. its winds are now clocked at 65 miles an hour. so, what's next? meteorologist david bernard is watching the storm. he's at our cbs miami station, wfor this morning. david, good morning. >> good morning, lee. we're getting the worst of isaac right now in south florida. the heaviest of the storms are getting ready to move through the keys and the miami fort lauderdale area. isaac is 135 miles east-southeast of key west florida moving west-northwest at 20. on this track it's projected to be a category-2 hurricane on the northern gulf coast tuesday night and wednesday and anywhere from new orleans to as far east as pensacola and tallahassee i

from steve hartman we'll hear about one town's tribute to a neighbor who always delivered and more. but first here are the headlines for this sunday morning the 19th of august, 2012. we begin in london where the latest chapter in the saga of wicky leaks julian assange is now unfolding. kelly is with us from the front of the building where assange has taken refuge which houses the embassy of ecuador. good morning, kelly. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. no sign of julian assange just yet but we have heard from one of his lawyers who came out to speak to reporters less than an hour ago. he said assange has no plans to surrender. in fact they're mounting a new legal challenge. no details on what this legal challenge might be. assange has been fighting extradition to sweden to answer questions on a couple of sexual assault cases. that's because he fears the country will then send him on on on 0 to the united states where he believes he's face trial, possibly the death penalty for releasing those secret documents on his website. the ecuadorians have granted him asylum but the british

town really stood out, when steve met him in january, he knew that there would be one more chapter to the story, and he founded on the road. >> on a high ridge above the columbia river just down from heaven, we found an angel on a front-end loader. as we first reported a few months ago, we beat davis was kind of a jack of all trades who never made much money. but definitely earned his wings. >> he is the epitome of something gear. >> to you get paid for everything he did? >> i would not say that. >> you cannot hand him money. >> he had always been so generous and kind, always waiting to everyone. last year people in town decided to return some of that goodwill. they started by cutting and stacking his firewood for winter. a few guys fix up his pickup truck and someone built him a beautiful wood box and invited the whole town to sign it. >> did you know how much the community care for him? >> not to the degree i do now. >> his son says that all the work he did for people has been repaid tenfold. >> bill gates could not come to town and by this. he cannot buy the love that people have p