It's ten past the hour, four years ago today, and just about six weeks after the start of
the war in Iraq, President Bush stood on the U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in front
of a banner reading, Mission Accomplished, and declared an end to major combat operations
in Iraq.
When he gave that speech, 139 U.S. servicemen and women had already lost their lives in
the war.
That number is now more than 3,350, and critics, even within the President's own party, are
asking when or even if his mission can ever be accomplished in Iraq.
Joining us with some insight is retired Army Major and CBS News Military Consultant Mike
Lyons.
Good morning.
Good morning, Mac.
So can you answer that question?
Can the President accomplish his mission?
Yeah, the mission at the time was to overthrow a dictator and take a broken state and try
to set it on the right path.
So maybe the initial mission of rolling tanks into Baghdad and overthrowing that dictator
was accomplished, but it really looks four years later that from a military perspective
we really haven't accomplished the mission, which is defying winning and losing.
So what's the mission now?
Well, two missions.
We still have the counterinsurgency mission, the mission of going after al-Qaeda forces
and the people that are looking to disrupt the government in Iraq, and those were part
of the initial plan of why we said we were going to war in the first place.
But then the second mission that the military has is protecting the Iraqi people, one of
security.
The plan has been now to have the Iraqi security forces take that security mission over.
We would go on the counterinsurgency mission, but it just hasn't worked out.
And for us to do both is virtually impossible.
Well, despite the recent troop surge, April was one of the deadliest months in Iraq.
You've seen the troop surge, but do they have a strategic plan to get us out?
No, Meg, I think that right now everything is still very tactical.
We've only added 20,000 troops.
They're not even there yet.
They won't be there until the end of June.
We're going to see how that goes for a little bit of time.
There's no real long-term strategic exit plan on how we're going to leave this country.
Part of the reason why we're seeing the casualties right now is because really for the first
time four years later we're out trying to do the hold and build.
We're trying to hold cities that we were giving up before.
We're taking more casualties because we're out in the outskirts of these towns.
We're not providing the same level of security for our soldiers.
They're on a much more defensive posture.
The enemy knows that they attack us.
We're having high casualties because of it.
Speaking of the casualties and getting up to speed with this recent troop surge, there
have been a lot of investigations.
One recently came out in Time magazine reporting that the soldiers are being trained too quickly
and just they're rushed over there.
How dangerous is that and is that happening?
It's very dangerous considering the culture of the Middle East and the fact that it's
just nothing like we have here in the United States if you're a normal kid going to high
school, going to college here and you enlist in the military to go over and do that.
It's not like the alphabet's the same.
It is very, very difficult.
We've applied NBA type things of just-in-time soldiering, just-in-time manufacturing to
warfare.
It's not a good idea.
They get over there, they're quickly immersed in the environment and if they make a mistake
the first time it could be a very fatal mistake.
Is this basically the next president's problem?
I think it is.
I don't think this president is going to really do anything over the next 18 months to try
to fix it from a strategic perspective.
He sure is not going to talk to the CRNs, he's not going to talk to the Iranians.
He won't engage other countries, at least from an economic perspective.
All he's focused on is winning from a military perspective and I think that you can't win
if we can't hold and build the country up.
We've defined it so much in military terms.
How has the insurgency changed?
How has the insurgency?
Well, you've got a different, a smarter enemy.
You've got an enemy now that watches us, that looks at exactly what we're doing.
They've got improved weapon systems.
They know that they can't defeat us militarily from a great big perspective, but they can
pick us off one at a time and kind of lead us to death.
From a war of attrition perspective, they're staying.
The enemy is going to stay there.
We're eventually going to leave and they know that so that's part of their tactics.
If the next president who comes into power brings in other countries in the region and
they all start talking, how quickly could we see a resolution or a solution?
You can see it within six months.
I think the important thing is the Iraqi people themselves, the Arab nations themselves accept
that I think you're going to have to have this as an Arab solution.
The Egyptians are going to have to get involved, not just the Syrians and the Iranians.
You're going to have to get other countries in the Arab world involved.
This is really an Arab issue.
Islamic fundamentalism is going to have to be defeated by Islam itself.
This is a fact of that religion that the people that are the good people are going to have
to defeat the bad people in that religion.
We only have about 15 seconds left but there's all this talk about a troop withdrawal right
now.
If that happens, how long will it take to achieve peace after that?
This enemy will know and they'll be able to just wait us out and you'll see tremendous
upheavals in the region for many years to come.
All right, CBS News military analyst and retired Army Major Mike Lyons, thanks so much for
being here.
Thanks, Mike.
We'll be right back.
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President Bush is expected to use his veto pen today to kill a bill funding the war in
Iraq on the fourth anniversary of his so-called mission accomplished speech.
The bill, which passed Congress, includes deadlines for a phased U.S. troop withdrawal.
The State Department says terror attacks were 25% worldwide last year over 2005.
And the American Lung Association says the Los Angeles area had the nation's worst air
from 2003 to 2005.
Pittsburgh came in second with Bakersfield, California third.
In overseas trading, Japan's benchmark Nikkei Index closed down 125 points to finish at
17,274.
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CBS News, Money Watch.
It was an April to remember on Wall Street, the best monthly gain for the Dow and the
S&P 500 in nearly four years.
And it was a history-making month that saw the Dow crack 13,000 for the first time.
But stocks closed out the month with a whimper Monday on news that consumer spending slowed
last month.
The Dow fell 58 points, snapping a four-day winning streak.
The Nasdaq tumbled 32.
We'll see if more good earnings news can turn things around.
Today we get reports from Procter & Gamble, Sirius Satellite Radio, and Yum Brands, the
company that owns KFC and Taco Bell.
Google wants to help state governments make public records easier to access online.
The Internet search giant has partnered with Arizona, California, Utah, and Virginia to
allow search engines to access tens of thousands of public records on everything from education
to real estate to healthcare.
And it is clear skies ahead for Delta now that the airline has emerged from bankruptcy
one year ahead of schedule.
Among the changes, a new ad campaign, a new CEO, and a new paint job for its planes.
And Chrysler is giving its hybrid engine some more horsepower.
The Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen SUVs will be available with a hybrid V8 engine
in 2008.
The hybrid engine claims to improve fuel economy by some 40 percent.
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In New York, I'm Alexis Christoforos.
Computer technology has enhanced our daily lives in countless ways, including how we
entertain ourselves.
Internet gaming can be fun and even good exercise for the mind, but a growing number of gamers
don't know when to say game over.
CBS's Daniel Seberg has more on this growing addiction.
Well, that would be a lot of work for you, huh?
To her son Josh, she's just Mom.
In the small Arkansas town where she lives, she's Kay.
But it took years for Kay Johnson to admit who she really is.
A recovering addict.
A former gaming addict.
She's not talking about gambling, but an addiction to computer games.
For nearly four years, Kay immersed herself in a never-ending online adventure game called
Final Fantasy.
Players battle creatures, go on quests, and socialize with others.
For Kay, it was all so alluring, she shut out the real world as her internet addiction
took over.
My children would come up and talk to me, and I'd say, wait, wait, you know, Mom's
busy, I'll be done in just a minute, give Mommy another minute.
Those minutes turned into hours as she played day and night.
It was my world.
It was everything that was anything to me.
My kids, I loved them, and I would be there for them, but this is where all my time went.
Show me.
A problem, considering she has two teenage boys, one with special needs.
It was my best friend at one time.
Kay was playing online around 50 hours a week, but incredibly, her husband was playing even
more.
I have seen the side of my husband's face and the back of his head probably more than
I've seen his face during most of our marriage.
Because he was sitting at the computer all the time.
He was sitting at the computer.
Kay's husband declined to be interviewed on camera, but acknowledged both of them were
obsessed by the game.
She says they were so obsessed, they both stopped working, sending their finances into
a tailspin.
We would take the credit cards and pay like the electric, the light, the groceries, and
the rent, and of course that adds up to a lot of money.
Kay's case is extreme.
Millions play similar online games, including me, and don't get addicted.
And so many games are now coming with a warning, like this one, reminding players to have a
life.
In fact, internet addiction may soon become an official psychiatric diagnosis.
It turns out that internet addiction can be almost identical to other forms of chemical
addiction.
Dr. Eric Hollander treats impulsive behavior and says that some people's brains are simply
wired in a way that makes them vulnerable to addiction, whether it's alcohol, cocaine,
or even the computer, quitting causes withdrawal.
They can experience all kinds of uncomfortable physical sensations when they try to cut back
on their internet usage.
He prescribes counseling and sometimes antidepressants like Lexapro, mood stabilizers like lithium,
and opiate blockers like Naltrexone.
But Kay quit cold turkey, took her anger out on the game.
You actually took the gaming discs and did what with them?
I just crushed them.
Kay has decided to file for divorce and is determined to remain game free.
She also wants to send a message that even what looks like child's play must be taken
in adult moderation.
Daniel Seberg, CBS News, Quitman, Arkansas.
Now a look at your Tuesday morning weather.
The latest satellite picture shows clusters of thunderstorms scattered across the southern
plains, more clouds forming over the Great Lakes and parts of the northeast, and gray
skies along the northwest coastline.
Later today, those northwest clouds will produce some showers.
However, interior sections along with the southwest will be dry and warm.
Meanwhile, the southern and central plains will see more downpours from thunderstorms
while developing showers can be expected across the Great Lakes and portions of the northeast.
In sports, the Cleveland Cavaliers found the NBA's Eastern Conference broom closet.
The Cavs swept the Washington Wizards to advance to the semifinals.
Star LeBron James had 31 points on the night as the Cavs outplayed the Wizards from 97
to 90.
They'll play either the Nets or the Raptors.
The San Antonio Spurs are a win away from sending the Denver Nuggets packing.
The Nuggets blew a 10-point lead in the second half.
Tim Duncan led the Spurs with 22 points in their 96-89 victory.
They can close out the series tomorrow in Texas.
And in baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals got back on the field for the first time since
the death of relief pitcher Josh Hancock.
The Brewers' Prince Fielder hit a solo homer and scored twice for Milwaukee as the Brewers
beat the cards 7-1.
Hey guys, thanks for coming.
Are we in trouble?
No, you're not in trouble.
I just want to set some ground rules.
Like what?
Well, remember last week when you hit Vinny in the head with the shovel?
I do not recall that.
Of course not.
Well it was pretty graphic.
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Thank you.
That's really not necessary.
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Come here.
Hi Mr. President.
My parents believe that eating meals together will make our country strong.
Is it something that you did when you were a kid?
I did eat with my family so long as my mother wasn't cooking.
Not good making fun of your mother, even if you are president.
But it is good to have dinner with your kids.
We know the more often children have dinner with their families, the less likely they are
to smoke, drink, and use drugs.
So simply having dinner together can help your children forever, even if you're not
a great cook.
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Guys, you had to know this was coming.
Actually, we feel blindsided.
We just weren't expecting you to block us.
Well, after last week's episode, what am I going to do?
There are children in this house, Marcelo.
You told me you're all going to go straight and start acting like kittens?
Stop shitting each other in the prison yard.
Shanking.
What?
It's a verb, to shank.
Look, I'm not asking you to change your ways.
I'm just blocking you so the kids can't see.
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18 days after he was critically injured in a car accident, New Jersey Governor John Corzine
was released from the hospital Monday.
His SUV, driven by a state trooper, was traveling 91 miles an hour at the time of the crash,
and Corzine was not wearing a seatbelt, both violations of state law.
I also understand that I set a very poor example for a lot of young people, a lot of people
in general, and I certainly hope the state will forgive me.
It's not clear when Corzine will return to work.
One man who was back on the job Monday was White House Press Secretary Tony Snow as he
continues treatment for colon cancer.
CBS's Jim Axelrod reports.
The President's spokesman came back to work and promptly had trouble stringing two sentences
together.
I want to thank everybody in this room.
You guys.
Sometimes, silence is the most expressive form of communication.
Anybody who does not believe that thoughts and prayers make a difference, they just won't.
And for those who are used to seeing members of the press at me or me going back to members
of the press, we'll have that entertainment again, trust me.
He'll start chemotherapy this Friday, but his doctors say his new drugs are less debilitating.
They may affect his hair a little, but his performance?
Not at all.
They agree on how to approach it.
We'll keep a close watch on it.
We'll be really dogged and keeping an eye on things, and if something changes we need
to adjust, we're going to adjust.
At 51, on his second bout with cancer, you might think back to work is the last place
Tony Snow would be heading.
There's certain jobs that just give you a zest for everything you do, and this is one
of them.
But you'd be wrong.
I won't tell you how it's going to work out because I don't know.
In my case, I'm unbelievably lucky and unbelievably blessed and really happy to be back.
If, as he puts it, the key to beating cancer is heart, then cancer best get ready for a
whipping.
Jim Axler on CBS News, the White House.
We thank you for joining us this half hour.
This is CBS News Up to the Minute.
Good morning.
It's Tuesday, May 1st.
From CBS News in New York City, I'm Meg Oliver.
Here's what's happening.
Today Democratic leaders in Congress will send President Bush a war funding bill that
sets timetables for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
The timing is no accident.
It was four years ago today that the President stood on an aircraft carrier under the banner
Mission Accomplished and declared major combat operations that Iraq had ended.
Speaking at the White House Monday, the President repeated that a U.S. troop withdrawal from
Iraq is not an option.
I have made my position very clear.
The Congress chose to ignore it, and so I will veto the bill.
That's not to say that I'm not interested in their opinions.
I am.
I look forward to working with members of both parties to get a bill that doesn't set
artificial timetables and doesn't micromanage.
But the Senate's top Democrat says the news is not getting any better in Iraq.
Nevada's Harry Reid is urging the President to reconsider his veto threat.
In Iraq, nearly 100 people were killed in the latest series of attacks across the country.
The deadliest was in Deyala, where a suicide bomber killed 32 people attending a funeral.
April was a deadly month for U.S. forces, 104 dead.
3,351 American servicemen and women have been killed in Iraq since the invasion four years
ago.
Despite Bush administration claims of success in the war on terror, a new State Department
report finds terror attacks worldwide are up 25 percent.
The death toll up 40 percent.
Overall, 58,000 people died in terror attacks last year.
Most of the 14,000 attacks took place in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There aren't mounting calls for a public inquiry in Britain this morning following the end
of that country's biggest terror trial.
Turns out British intelligence was aware of connections between the five defendants and
the deadly attack on London's transit system in 2005.
correspondent Sheila McVicker reports.
They were cruel and ruthless, said the judge.
They betrayed their country.
The five British-born defendants were all found guilty of plotting a massive terror
bombing campaign.
We stopped a mass attack on the mainland by what we refer to as homegrown terrorists.
That's a great success.
We saved hundreds of lives in my view.
It was Britain's most intensive surveillance operation ever.
Investigators bugged more than 90 phone lines, sifted through 27,000 hours of video and audio
intercepts and logged more than 33,000 hours watching the conspirators.
The group bought hundreds of pounds of fertilizer, discussed bombing a shopping mall and were
taped talking about blowing up a nightclub.
Senior police officers said they linked the would-be bombers directly to Al-Qaeda commander
Abdul Hadi Al-Araqi, now in US custody in Guantanamo.
But the sentences are little comfort to the families of the 52 people who died in the
deadly attacks on London's transit system on July 7th, 2005.
That attack occurred more than a year after the fertilizer plot was first exposed.
During that investigation, Britain's domestic security service MI5 videotaped, followed
home and listened in on two of the men who ultimately became suicide bombers on July
7th.
The head of MI5 said today it was impossible to follow up on everyone who appeared at the
quote, horrifery of an investigation.
But the families of the victims of 7-7 are demanding to know why British intelligence
failed to act.
Sheila Miklick, CBS News, London.
President Bush continues to back and battle World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz.
The president says Wolfowitz should be given a fair hearing about the way he arranged a
promotion and pay raise for his girlfriend.
Wolfowitz refuses to resign, saying he's the victim of a smear campaign.
The bank's 24-member born is expected to decide his fate later this week.
Meanwhile, President Hugo Chavez has announced Venezuela is pulling out of the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund.
The move is symbolic because Venezuela has paid off its debts to both institutions.
There is a lot of anticipation in Cuba.
Reports there say Fidel Castro may lead today's May Day celebration.
He's been out of the public eye since he had intestinal surgery nine months ago.
Correspondent Laura Logan is in Havana.
Just as Cubans are hoping that Fidel Castro will make his first public appearance since
falling ill nine months ago, people here have been enraged by the reemergence of one of his
oldest and most hated enemies.
Luis Posada-Cariles is to Cubans, Veresama Ben Laden, accused of blowing up this plane
in 1976 when all 73 people on board were killed, and for a string of other hotel bombings that
claimed innocent lives in what was supposed to be a fight against Fidel Castro.
Watching the former CIA agent and aging exile walk free from a U.S. prison was the last
thing Cubans wanted to see.
Even though he's in Miami awaiting trial for entering the U.S. illegally, Cubans want him
to face terrorism charges.
Outraged, they've taken to the streets here in silent protests day after day.
Camilo Royo was five when he lost his father on the airline bombing.
Posada showed no regret, and now he says he sleeps like a baby, but I haven't slept that
way since he killed my father.
He told us, people here accuse the U.S. of hypocrisy, asking how America can condemn
countries who harbor terrorists while refusing to hand over Cuba's most wanted terrorists.
Cubans say if there's one thing that could get Fidel Castro out of bed and into public
tomorrow after so long, it's his anger at the idea that Posada could get off scot-free.
Laura Logan, CBS News, Havana.
Five weeks after the surgery that found cancer had spread to his liver, White House Press
Secretary Tony Snow was back on the job.
Snow told reporters, it's great to be back, and acknowledged the support of the often
adversarial White House press corps.
Anybody who does not believe that thoughts and prayers make a difference, they're just
wrong.
The 51-year-old starts chemotherapy on Friday, hoping to throw the cancer into remission
and transform it into a chronic disease.
Governor John Corzine of New Jersey is out of the hospital 19 days after he was critically
injured in a car accident.
Corzine was not wearing a seatbelt, a violation of state law.
As he left the hospital, the governor was emotional and apologetic.
I set a very poor example for a lot of young people, a lot of people in general.
And I certainly hope the state will forgive me.
And I'll work very hard to try to set the right kind of example.
Corzine faces a lengthy recovery.
He broke his left femur, his sternum, and 11 ribs in the accident.
We're back in a minute.
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That's a common use additive for wheat gluten exported from factories like this one in Shandong province to the US for pet food.
Melamine is a cheap way to fake high protein levels in wheat gluten.
The Chinese government, moving to protect its multi-billion dollar exports of fruits and vegetables,
has now banned melamine and shuttered plants that may have used it.
China insists every container with agricultural products is inspected.
expected, but the reality, experts tell CBS News, is that serious spot checks are rare.
So buyers and even the government come here, perhaps the most sophisticated private lab
in the country for checking foods, especially for pesticides, the number one problem. Here
they believe that foreign companies buying the goods have more leverage than the government.
If I am a supplier in China, I'm going to react much more if my customer tells me I
need to improve what I'm doing and they want to make sure I am doing a safe job.
Most farms are tiny, a third of an acre, selling to a world where every country has different
regulations like how much and what kind of pesticide can be used. It's not just what
Chinese farmers are putting on their crops, it's also what this country's industry is
spewing into the air and dumping into the water that is threatening China's food supply.
Ten percent of China's arable land is now badly polluted. Cities like this one let
chemicals run in the streets and clog up the rivers.
What's in those rivers is largely industrial and that then is being used to irrigate crops.
China wants to be food exporter to the world, an ambition that may falter if it cannot convince
the world its products are as safe as they are cheap.
Barry Peterson, CBS News, Shandong Province, China.
On this morning's CBS Health Watch, things that are safe and cheap could be hurting your
children's teeth. After declining for 40 straight years, the number of preschoolers with tooth
decay has risen to 28 percent. The government's study blames processed sugar snacks, juice
boxes, and using bottled water rather than tap water, which contains fluoride.
Also on this morning's Health Watch, a warning for older people with implantable defibrillators.
The devices have allowed thousands of people with heart problems to live longer, but the
new problem is some defibrillators are breaking down with age.
CBS' Dr. Malika Marshall explains.
Implantable defibrillators can be a lifesaver for heart patients. The tiny battery pack
is implanted in the chest, powering two electrical leads in the heart. When the heart beats abnormally,
the lead sends it and shock the heart back to a normal rhythm.
Ten years ago, Charles Carter got one and believes it saved his life more than once.
I've had this shock about maybe about eight times probably.
Now a new study from the American Heart Association is delivering a different kind of shock. Researchers
found those leads that fire life-saving electricity can break down over time.
The incidence of lead failures in this single center study was quite high, and I think they
may be higher than many of us have anticipated.
It seems the older the leads, the more likely the malfunction. When researchers looked at
patients with ten-year-old leads, they found that one out of five had become defective.
The good news here, a simple diagnostic test like this can detect a defect. And St. Luke's
Dr. Jonathan Steinberg says newer devices come with remotes that can alert patients
of a problem 24-7.
Even if these malfunctions do occur, they can be picked up in advance of causing any
serious problem to the individual patient.
Replacing the leads requires surgery, which offers its own risks, but in most cases that
risk is outweighed by the reward of having a defibrillator that works properly.
The bottom line is defibrillators save lives.
Charles is living proof of that. Dr. Malika Marshall, CBS News.
We'll be right back. You're watching CBS News. Up to the minute.
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Republicans looking to move into the Oval Office when George W. Bush moves out will
face off in their first debate Thursday.
Last week, eight Democratic candidates took the stage in South Carolina for their first
debate.
Among those watching the South Carolina State University Theater was Vaughn Berbers, Senior
Political Editor of CBSNews.com.
Vaughn joins us from our Washington Bureau with more on that and a look ahead at the
GOP contest.
Good morning, Vaughn.
Good morning, Meg.
Before we get to the Republicans, how did the Democrats do and do you think anyone really
stood out from the pack?
Well, I'm not sure that anybody really stood out and made a difference.
I think what it did was reinforce sort of the idea that a lot of Democrats in South
Carolina and around the nation have already of a field that is pretty heavily set at this
point in time with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as the sort of two front runners.
Edwards not too awfully far behind those two.
And then some pretty heavyweight candidates even there.
When I talked to voters and delegates to the state convention, which was also held in South
Carolina this weekend, everybody told me over and over again whether they were a supporter,
lukewarm or strong of one candidate or another, all commented on basically the strength of
the field saying that, well, they may prefer Obama or Clinton.
They really felt like most of these people could do the job and they were very, very
excited about this field that they have and the position that they find themselves in
their party right now.
Well, do you expect the Republican candidates to begin to break with the Bush administration
this Thursday and do they need to?
I don't think you'll hear a lot of overt breaking.
These candidates have already distanced themselves to some degree from particularly the war in
Iraq when it comes to the way that the war has been managed.
Nobody's been more of a supporter or more of an opponent of that mismanagement than
John McCain in his view.
And so you'll hear probably a little more emphasis on the mistakes that have been made,
but I don't think you're going to hear a lot of people outwardly distancing themselves
on many issues.
Immigration might be an issue where you're going to hear a lot of different voices and
a big, wide gulf of opinion.
A recent Quinnipiac poll of swing states had some good news for Rudy Giuliani and for Al
Gore, who has not announced his candidacy.
First, do you think Giuliani will further cement his perceived role as frontrunner Thursday
night?
And second, would a Gore announcement surprise you?
Well, you know, we keep hearing these rumors about Al Gore, putting out feelers or people
close to him out there sort of gauging the temperature of the waters.
We haven't seen any evidence at this point that he's really seriously considering it,
but he is a camp, he is somebody who could get into this race very late in the game,
late in the fall.
How late, Paul?
Probably as close, you know, even up to maybe Halloween.
I think we'll probably be seeing the New Hampshire filing deadline a little bit before that
point in time, maybe late October.
He can wait all the way almost until the filing deadline in New Hampshire to get in.
The longer it goes, however, I think in the less sort of concrete steps he takes, I think
the less likely that's going to be.
Rudy Giuliani, like all these other candidates in the Republican Party, John McCain, Mitt
Romney especially, have a lot of convincing to do to core members of their own party.
Rudy might be leading in these polls at the moment, but there still remains this undercurrent
of unease about the people in the field.
That's why, again, today we heard more reports coming out and yesterday and the day before
about a possible candidacy by Fred Thompson, the former Senator from Tennessee, and that
indicates to me that there really is some unease still and they're still searching around
for some candidates.
We might see more people in the Republican field instead of the Democratic field.
Switching gears a little bit, the White House says it will veto the war funding bill today,
the fourth anniversary of the President's mission accomplished speech ending major combat
operations in Iraq.
When do you expect we'll see a funding bill that will get signed?
Boy, I don't know.
The President says he wants to sit down with these Democrats.
Democrats feeling sort of in high gear right now, feeling like they might have the cards
to put on the table a little bit.
It's hard to see how this one doesn't get done at some point.
You've had some Democratic leaders in the Senate saying that this is going to be funded
one way or another and they're going to get this thing done.
I think what this does is it may ratchet up the pressure on the administration.
We heard some talk earlier over the weekend that they were going to look at the results,
how the surge is going sometime in September.
Now we're starting to hear administration officials say even closer to that.
So it may ratchet up the pressure on the administration for that.
All right, get up to the minute news about the race for the White House at CBSNews.com.
Senior political editor, Von Berber, thank you.
Thanks, Meg.
One of the hot button issues this campaign season is the environment
and our need to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels.
Answering that call, there are already several electric cars in development in the U.S.
But a particularly powerful one that's already on the market is spinning heads while it burns rubber.
CBS's Manuel Gallegos checked it out.
Amid the noise and congestion of New York City, it whizzes down Park Avenue quietly and Ferrari fast.
And there's no gas, no exhaust.
The Tesla Roadster is electric, Silicon Valley's bold first step into the auto industry.
It's not a gimmick and it's not a sort of niche car.
Just, you know, sell a few of them and call it a day.
We really are a business model and our business plans are to be a major car manufacturer.
The company believes the time is finally right for an electric car,
finally battery technology that supports a plug instead of a gas cap.
This car runs on a 900 pound lithium ion battery, the same kind of battery as in an iPod.
A full charge takes about seven hours, but for the first time you can plug into a regular home socket.
I'll plug it in right next to my Blackberry and my Macintosh.
The price tag is jolting for the little sports car, nearly $100,000.
Still, some 400 of the Hollywood and Silicon Valley who's who have put down deposits
from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the founders of Google.
Very nice. Here we go.
30-year-old Josh Kazam will be one of the first New Yorkers to get one this fall.
I just think it's the wave of the future.
His vision for a new generation, a less smoggy, less noisy Manhattan filled with recharging stations,
a big green apple taking a bite out of the gas guzzlers.
Manuel Gallegos, CBS News, New York.
Moving over to the slow lane, a high school competition in Indiana has produced vehicles
that not only do not guzzle gas, they barely sip it.
These lightweight three-wheeled vehicles average over 1,000 miles to the gallon.
One of them even topped out at 1,600 miles to the gallon.
As you can see, these cars aren't built for speed.
Each competitor had to make at least 10 laps around the oval, averaging just 15 miles per hour.
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Today is the deadline for high school students to choose which of their college offers to accept.
For them, it's the end of a high-pressure race.
However, it's also apparently the end of a career for one respected dean of admissions
who advocated taking the heat off of students in the application process
and found herself coming under fire last week.
CBS's Randall Pinkston has the story.
On the campus of MIT, the revelation that Dean of Admissions Marylee Jones had repeatedly lied on her resume
first shocked, then angered, students.
I mean, once I'll call it a mistake and I'll give you that, but she never came forward
and she never fixed it and she had plenty of years to do that.
For her first job, MIT says Jones didn't need a college degree but claimed to have one.
As she moved up the career ladder, eventually becoming dean of admissions, Jones never revealed the truth.
In her resignation statement, Jones wrote,
I misrepresented my academic degrees when I first applied to MIT 28 years ago
and did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job or any time since.
I want us to start another revolution tonight.
But it's not her resume that brought Jones to national prominence.
It's her unconventional message to parents and students about the college admissions process.
I think the whole system has gone a little bit haywire.
Jones believes students are under too much academic pressure at an early age.
Last year, she told correspondent Russ Mitchell, her epiphany came from her own daughter.
She's a seventh grader and I'm going on about you're going to get into college, you've got to get into college,
and within a few weeks she started to get stomach pains.
Guidus counselors welcomed Jones' message then and hoped that it won't be lost in the uproar over her credentials.
Telling us to let students know to enjoy their lives now,
that it's okay to make a mistake.
And colleagues at other colleges believe her perspective will survive.
The message is not lost at all, even in this turn, because the message is bigger than Merrily Jones.
Merrily Jones' message is also about human frailty, that no one is perfect.
That message too now part of her legacy.
Randall Pinkston, CBS News, New York.
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We've stopped a mass attack on the mainland by what we refer to as homegrown terrorists.
Five would-be bombers are convicted in Britain's biggest and longest terror trial.
I would ask the press and the media to put aside the titillation of the who's whose list.
In Washington, it's a Washington sex scandal as an accused D.C. madam releases her phone record.
Good morning from CBS News headquarters in New York.
This is Up to the Minute. I'm Meg Oliver.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias has some explaining to do.
After he was identified as one client of a multi-million dollar escort service,
accused of supplying sexual services to Washington power brokers.
Tobias was in charge of U.S. foreign aid until he abruptly quit his State Department job Friday.
He claims he was paying for massages, no sex, he says.
The woman accused of running the prostitution ring has turned over her phone records to journalists.
The list of customers reportedly includes a Bush administration economist, lobbyists, military officials,
a top CEO and the head of a conservative think tank.
CBS' Bob Orr has more.
In a city that runs on rumors and caters to clout, Deborah Jean Palfrey is an emerging force.
The so-called D.C. madam is accused of running a high-class prostitution ring,
netting two million dollars by providing call girls to the powerful and the connected.
Now her phone records have customers shaking in high places.
I would ask the press and the media to put aside the titillation of the who's whose list.
That chance. After failing to sell the phone logs in an effort to raise money for legal fees,
Palfrey now has given four years worth of records to a national news organization,
hoping reporters can match the numbers to names.
Jean never kept a black book, she kept telephone records.
And from those records, significant resources are required to call the identities of the individuals
who are making the phone calls.
Palfrey's hoping some of those individuals will be witnesses who can refute charges
that she ran a sex-for-sale operation by phone from this house near San Francisco.
The government charges Palfrey worked as a prostitution broker, putting callers from the D.C. area
in touch with available escorts, more than 130 women over 13 years.
So far, two of Washington's powerful have been outed as alleged customers.
Deputy Secretary of State Randall Tobias, who resigned on Friday,
and Harlan Olman, a military consultant who helped create the shock-and-awe strategy for the Iraq War.
The case is reminiscent of so-called Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
She was accused of running a prostitution ring, servicing stars from the world of entertainment.
Fleiss eventually went to prison for tax evasion.
Now Palfrey is trying to beat her own wrath.
She denies trying to blackmail former clients, but makes no apologies
for asking the media to help her identify her own customers.
I must rely upon your acumen and talent here in the press and the media to uncover the truth.
But in doing that, other big names may still emerge,
so the Capitol now is waiting for the next high-heeled shoe to drop.
Bob Orr, CBS News, Washington.
Also in Washington, President Bush's threatened veto of a war funding bill could come as soon as today.
Congress has approved another $100 billion to fund the conflict through September.
But come October 1st, U.S. troops would have to begin a phased withdrawal.
A possible compromise includes benchmarks the Iraqi government would have to reach
for continued U.S. military and financial support.
A new report by the State Department shows the United States could be losing the war on terror.
Worldwide terror attacks are up 25 percent over last year, which at the time set the record.
CBS' David Martin reports.
Figures compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center,
the organization created to lead the war on terror,
provide a discouraging answer to the question, are we winning?
More than 14,000 terrorist attacks reported in 2006, up 25 percent from the year before.
More than 20,000 killed, up 40 percent.
The number injured, up 54 percent.
Nearly half the attacks occurred in Iraq.
The vast majority of the victims were innocent civilians, and the majority of them were Muslims.
Attacks on children were up more than 80 percent,
as you can imagine, with more than 1,800 children killed or injured in terrorist attacks in 2006.
The report claims tighter border controls have limited the movement of terrorists,
but says Al-Qaeda is changing its tactics.
Instead of infiltrating teams like the 9-11 hijackers into a country,
it now relies on homegrown terrorists for operations like the London Heathrow bomb plot against airliners.
The report also notes a dangerous new tactic, putting chemicals into some of the bombs going off in Iraq.
If you don't count the more than 900 U.S. troops killed last year,
the number of Americans to die in terrorist attacks is relatively small, 28 mostly in Iraq.
But in his 60 Minutes interview, former CIA Director George Tenet told of a plot to stage a gas attack
on the New York City subway system that was called off by Al-Qaeda's number two man, Iman al-Zawahiri,
quote, because we have something better in mind.
In an unaired portion of that interview, Tenet revealed what that something might have been.
I've got people telling me in 2003 that Al-Qaeda is looking for a Russian suitcase nuke in Saudi Arabia.
There's no evidence Al-Qaeda ever got one of those suitcase nukes,
but there is evidence every day in Iraq that if it ever does, it won't hesitate to use it.
David Martin, CBS News, The Pentagon.
The British government is claiming a victory in the war on terror with the conviction of five would-be bombers
who were arrested before their plot got off the ground. CBS' Charlie Dagata has details.
A haunting image of an Al-Qaeda terrorist inspecting a deadly concoction designed to devastate Britain.
1,300 pounds of fertilizer to pack bombs targeting a crowded shopping mall, power plants, and a famous London nightclub.
Planned revenge for Britain's support of the United States after the September 11th attacks.
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The British nightclub is in central London.
Now, no one can even tell the IMF what they were doing.
Those secret MI5 recordings were part of 35,000 hours of evidence that helped convict five British Muslim men
plotting to kill their fellow citizens.
We stopped a mass attack on the mainland by what we refer to as homegrown terrorists.
That's a great success. We saved hundreds of lives.
But counterterrorism agents failed to stop another plot, the deadly 2005 bombings on London's transit system.
There are links between the fertilizer gang and at least two of the suicide bombers.
At a training camp in Pakistan, Omar Khayyam, the fertilizer bomb plotter, and 7-7 suicide bomber Mohammed Sadiq Khan
were taught how to use guns and explosives.
Back in the UK, there were more meetings between the terror cells, some recorded by MI5 agents.
Police say at the time there was no way of knowing the subway bombings that killed 52 people were being planned.
And although these terrorists will spend life behind bars, the trial revealed how closely linked al-Qaeda groups can be,
raising fears that plans for another attack could already be underway.
Charlie Daggett of CBS News, London.