had spent much of his career in nairobi and then after several days we drove from her nairobi across the highway up west to one of the most unforgettable drives of my life and the experiences were so different from nairobi. the point was twofold. to find as many people as i could and interview them. he's a great young >> guest: i ended up doing about 40 or 45. most of them during those two weeks. a few of them over the phone later and a few of them where people were not available so i provided the questions and he would conduct the interviewst afterward.r a >> host: booktv traveled with you to gideon conducted an interview there as well and we want to show you that now. >> david maraniss its january 15, 2010. we have been in western kenya for today's and you've been working on your new book "barack obama: the story," correct? >> guest: yes. >> host: has it been worth it to be in western kenya?t what has it been like? >> guest: i would save these days are a source of of but face it remind me why i do what i do. everything about it from morning to do. zrom morning to night it nightes b

yes to go back to nairobi. he called himself doctor from then o on the even though he ner finished his dissertation. she followed him a few months later. she showed up in nairobi not knowing what she was getting into. >> host: back to your book, "barack obama: the story," you write what barack learn was devastating, disillusioning. >> guest: it's quite amazing to think about and done him -- ann done him and her dealings with her son, barack. and why she told him the stories she did, purely out of love. she never said any word about barack obama, sr. because she didn't want to destroy this little boy who had enough other things to deal with in his life. i find it completely understandable why she created this mythology about him. year by year, as he grew, he started to understand, to some degree, that the reality have to be different from, from what he had been told. but it wasn't really until he got to kenya himself that he knew. >> host: in the introduction to your book, you write without dismissing the anger

. >> reporter: kennedy odede was born in the slums of kibera, nairobi. it's now home to his wife, jess. kibera is one of the poorest places on earth. when you say the poverty is worse on this side of the track than the other side of the track, what does that mean? >> the houses are more like tin and mud. >> reporter: homes, cobbled together from scrap metal and mud. kibera is a crowded and dangerous place to live for an estimated 1 million people. the government's not really here? >> no, the government is not here. >> reporter: no one collects the garbage. there are no roads, no sewage pipes, no electricity, no public schools, no hospitals. what is here, malnutrition and disease. kibera is home to nairobi's so-called forgotten children. but there are exceptions. like here at the kibera school for girls. built by kennedy and jess, the school is their labor of love, a vision to give 100 little girls like vanessa their best chance to beat hopelessness. at only 8 years old, vanessa is already a survivor, having battled both malaria and cholera. she's one of

in 1999, admiral crowe and i chaired the hearings after our embassies got bombed in tanzania and nairobi, kenya. 200 people dead, 4,000 wounded and injured. many of the same recommendations that were made by the most recent accountability review board were made back then, so it's a matter of implementation and leadership, which seems to be lacking. and we really still don't know what the secretary knew prior to september 11, 2012. we know what she did afterwards, that's what she talked about today, but there are huge questions about security requests that our ambassador in libya had made to the department. did she know about it? those answers still are forthcoming and they have not come. >> well, one of her points today, i think, in answer to senator mccain or one of the critics is that it's congress that's held back money. let me play a little bit of that. >> sure. >> since march 2011, congressional holds have been placed on programs for many months for aid to libya. we've had frequent congressional complaints, why are we doing anything for libya, it's a wealthy country, it has oil, dis

. >> 400 kilometers away lies kenya's capital nairobi. the certificates are sold from here through a partner company and this man, tom morton. morton sells the certificates mainly to businesses in europe and the u.s., companies that want to offset their own carbon emissions. he passes on most of the money to vestergaard-frandsen, about 10 million euros in the past year. tom morton considers the water filter project highly sustainable because it's stringently controlled. >> carbon finance is about being paid for outcomes. and if you get it wrong then you are not paid. and so there is a much greater incentive to have a very robust system in place. >> back to western kenya -- to a sporting field. vestergaard frandsen's employees are spreading good cheer. they've organized a football tournament. football is very popular, especially with young people. the occasion is used to acquaint them with the water filter. vestergaard frandsen wants to expand the project in africa. janet, his instructor, is prepared to go abroad if she's needed. >> as lon

>> 400 kilometers away lies kenya's capital nairobi. the certificates are sold from here through a partner company and this man, tom morton. morton sells the certificates mainly to businesses in europe and the us -- companies that want to offset their own carbon emissions. he passes on most of the money about 10 million euros in the past year. tom morton considers the water filter project highly sustainable because it's stringently controlled. >> carbon finance is about being paid for outcomes. and if you get it wrong then you are not paid. and so there is a much greater incentive to have a very robust system in place. >> back to western kenya -- to a sporting field. vestergaard frandsen's employees are spreading good cheer. they've organized a football tournament. football is very popular, especially with young people. the occasion is used to acquaint them with the water filter. vestergaard frandsen wants to expand the project in africa. janet, his instructor, is prepared to go abroad if she's needed. >> as long as i am going to do the

have read or what i hear in the hearing or what i have seen visiting the ambassador 'presidents in nairobi, i am speaking from experience. when i speak about issues facing the inner-city, i am not looking at it from a distance. i am speaking from somebody who has worked in public housing projects and dealt with trying to find sex felons a better life for themselves. - ex felons a better life for themselves. tavis: people do not really like hillary clinton. one could argue that dig deep in the numbers, people really do not like hillary in the numbers suggest that she is not the most electable democrat. with two or three people on the other side. what do you make of that? >> the question is can we get beyond the gridlock that we experienced during the 1990's? who was in the best position to point forward? part of the reason, when i have said, should we do this race? we had three questions. could our families survive it? since my wife is exceptional and our children is above -- are above average, it would work. is there something i can do that no other candidate can do? what i believe is the

cbs news, nairobi. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest from capitol hill on the fiscal cliff negotiations. we'll get an update from nancy cordes. >>> plus, a look back at some of the more intriguing interviews from 2012. we'll hear from former florida governor jeb bush. >>> and grammy winning country group band lady antebellum stops by. that and more later on "cbs this morning." that is "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. happy new year, everybody. this tuesday. happy new year, everybody. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com c.com i'm grace lee. michelle has the morning off. >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> >>> good morning on this tuesday. happy new year to everyone. i'm grace lee. michelle has this morning off. >> happy new year. you're -- what's your name again? >> grace. you might remember me. >> just checking in. hi, everybody. i'm frank mallicoat. it is nearly 4:30. we're going to kick it off with a little weather with mr. lawrence karnow. >> happy new year. surprised to see who came in today. look what'

sanjayan, cbs news, nairobi. >> and that is the "cbs evening news." for scott pelley, i'm rebecca jarvis. and for all of us at cbs news, happy new year. good night. >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm brian hackney. allen is off tonight. put simply, it was a brutal year on the streets of oakland, violent crime surging, city leaders looking for solutions and ultimately admitted they needed outside help. but before any answers emerged, in 2013, oakland will mourn another victim. cbs 5 reporter ann notarangelo has that top story. good evening, app. >> reporter: hey, good evening, brian. you know, if no one is killed tonight, oakland will have seen 131 homicides this year. that's a 26% increase over 2011. and the latest victim, 15 years old, jubrille jordan. a somber annual memorial to remember oakland's homicide victims this year. the newest cross for 15-year- old jubrille jordan gunned down yesterday afternoon in an apartment complex near 66th avenue. a 14-year-old boy in the group was also sho

this elephant orphanage in nairobi has rarely been so busy. some are very young, others old enough to have the tiny tusks that may someday make them as valuable as their parents were. this is a terrible reflection on the state of elephant poaching right around east africa. whilst the populations in the wildlife sanctuaries and national parks are falling, here in the orphanages, they're rising and fast. the woman that rescued them is searching for solutions and wants governments to do much more. >> they better start thinking about elephants rather than trade. they've got to vote to ban the sale of all ivory, whether it's legal or illegal. forever. everybody can live without a trinket. >> reporter: governments will meet at the cites conference in march to discuss the ivory trade, but they know that somehow they need to cut consumer demand. >> in the 1980s, people in europe -- america didn't think twice about buying ivory, it was a normal thing for them to do and through a lot of campaigns, attitudes were changed. quite quickly. how quickly that

this elephant orphanage in nairobi has rarely been so busy. some are very young, others old enough to have the tiny tusks that may someday make them as valuable as their parents were. this is a terrible reflection on the state of elephant poaching right around east africa. whilst the populations in the wildlife sanctuaries and national parks are falling, here in the orphanages, they're rising and fast. the woman that rescued them is searching for solutions and wants governments to do much more. >> they better start thinking about elephants rather than trade. they've got to vote to ban the sale of all ivory whether it's legal or illegal. forever. everybody can live without a trinket. >> reporter: governments will meet at the cites conference in march to discuss the ivory trade, but they know that somehow they need to cut consumer demand. >> in the 1980s people in europe -- america didn't think twice about buying ivory it was a normal thing for them to do and through a lot of campaigns attitudes were changed. quite quickly. how quickly that can

embassies in nairobi that resulted in 224 deaths, including 11 american citizens. in its first year, it funded the construction of 13 new facilities, followed by 11 in 2006, 9 in 2005. nearly every year since, fewer facilities have been built than in the previous year, due to both funding decreases and the fact that the allocations to the account have never been indexed to inflation. costs in the construction industry worldwide have risen tremendously. at the current anticipated funding rate for fy 2013, the department estimates it will be able to construct just three new facilities, despite the fact that there are a couple of dozen posts that have now been designated as high-risk, high-threat posts that need replacing right now. but the lessons of benghazi aren't only about adequately resourcing our security operations. this is also about the flow of information between the department and our foreign facilities. within the department itself, among all the agencies engaged in international work, and between the department and congress. the department should be asse

samples were sent to nairobi for analysis, and within a few days the diagnosis was confirmed. it was indeed cholera. at that point, the lives of the "doctors without borders" team and their mission, changed dramatically. iv bags of fluid, antibiotics, and chemicals to purify the water and prevent the spread of cholera were airlifted to the site. one of the most devastating problems with cholera is it can go quickly amongst patients who are immuno-suppressed, like our children with malnutrition, and it can cause high, high mortality in this population. so we quickly had to isolate the kids and adults who had cholera. we built a center with beds and iv bags hanging from the roof for the patients who were suffering that were adults. we removed the children with tuberculosis from our isolation tent, and put our children with cholera in this tent. then we built a chlorine bath all around. we burned all their clothes-- anything that potentially could have cholera, we burned it. we built a special latrine for their waste. and we tried to isolate them as much as possible while, at the

on the job focused like a laser beam on embassy security, i wrote the law in '99 after we got hit in nairobi. we put huge amounts of diplomate security enhancements and important including personnel. we were getting unbelievably frightening statements from our embassy, from the ambassador about this worsening situation. secretary of state hillary clinton didn't even read the cables. that's the take away. >> on that point she did talk about how many cables they received and she talked about 1.5 million. they might come in and she didn't read every single one. that was her defense. >> that's her answer. i think that was flawed, t.j. >> let let's both and let the viewers listen to shg she eluded to and pointed to as part of the problem with security that has to do with funding. let's listen. >> since march 2011, congressional holds have been placed on programs for many months for aid to libya. we have had frequent congressional complaints. why are we doing anything for libya. it's a wealthy country. it has oil, disagreement from some sources that we should have never been part of any u.n. missi

embassies in nairobi and salam that resulted in 224 deaths including 11 american citizens. in the first year it funded construction of 13 new facilities and 11 in 2006 and nine in 2005. nearly every year since fewer facilities have been built than the previous year due to both funding decreases and the fact that the allocations to the account have never been indexed to inflation. costs in the construction industry worldwide have risen tremendously. at the current anticipated funding rate for fy-2013 the department estimates it will be able to construct just three new facilities despite the fact that there are a couple of dozen posts that now have been designated high-risk, high threat posts that need replacing right now. but the lessons of benghazi are not only about inadequately resourcing our security operations. it is also about the flow of information between the department and our foreign facilities. within the department itself among all the agencies engaged in international work and between the department and congress. the department should be assessing and regularly

and wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in johannesburg, south africa; nairobi, kenya; accra, ghana; new york city; atlanta, georgia; jackson, mississippi; or memphis, tennessee the cry is always the same "we want to be free." [applause] and another reason that i'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we're going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demand didn't force them to do it. survival demands that we grapple with them. men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. but now, no longer can they just talk about it. it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence! [applause] that is where we are today. and also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. [applause] now, i'm just happy that god has allowed me to live in t