Right now, any American can see the humanitarian crises unfolding in Asia. But a continent away, thousands are being tortured and displaced. Some are even murdered. It's not due to nature's wrath - it's due to a dictator's repression.
Zimbabwe - a nation of 12 million - has known only one leader since it declared independence more than a quarter century ago.
For more on this troubled nation, just click on my Notebook.
Seth Doane is a CBS News correspondent based in New York.My boss gave me the opportunity to travel anywhere in the country to look for stories that “we’re not telling." It was as assignment to explore how hard-working folks are struggling to survive. We’re calling it "The Other America.”
I decided to make Mississippi the first stop on my journey because there is a higher percentage of people living below the poverty line in this state than any other in the U.S. Once I landed in Jackson, I headed straight for the Mississippi River Delta – specifically Greenville – because it is one of the poorer parts of this state. The number of people living below the poverty line in Washington County, Miss., is roughly two and a half times the national average.
But where Greenville may lack in economic prosperity, it overflows in richness of culture and local hospitality.
I’d never been to this part of the United States and didn’t know anyone in Greenville, Miss. I knew I’d need a guide. The folks at a food bank in Jackson put me in touch with Greenville resident, Janette Garner. Janette took me under her wing and spent several days with me introducing me to people around town. Janette is a volunteer with St. Vincent De Paul’s local food pantry which is where I met Debra Locket, the mother of Jasmine Lafayette, who is featured in our piece.
Peter Maer is a CBS News White House correspondent.The former oil man in the Oval Office refuses to predict the future course of gasoline prices. In a radio interview with CBS News in the White House Roosevelt Room, President Bush declined to offer his own price at the pump forecast. He recalled the hit he took earlier this year when, at a news conference, he told me that he had not heard about analysts' predictions of four buck a gallon gas. At the time he described the forecast as "interesting." More...
Sharyl Attkisson is an investigative correspondent for CBS News.Perhaps the most puzzling thing about autism and ADD is that more than a decade into this public health crisis, our best, smartest government scientists and public health officials still say they have no idea what's causing it. Scary stuff, when parents having a child today realize there's at least an estimated 1 in 150 chance their child will have an autism disorder (1 in 90 if it's a boy).
While the government has been utterly unable to stop it, or even tell us what is causing it, they say they do know one thing: it's not vaccines. But today, in an exclusive interview with CBS News, Dr. Bernadine Healy becomes the most well-known medical voice yet to counter the government on that claim.
Healy's credentials couldn't be more "mainstream." After all, she once was a top government health official as head of the National Institutes of Health. She founded the first school of public health in Ohio, and then headed both the school of public health and the school of medicine at Ohio State University. She's an internist and cardiologist. And she's a member of the Institute of Medicine, the government advisory board that tried to put the vaccine-autism controversy to rest in 2004 by saying a link was not likely.
Click below to watch a Web-exclusive extended cut of Sharyl's interview with Dr. Healy:
CBS News White House correspondents Peter Maer (top left) and Mark Knoller (bottom left) interviewed President Bush in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.We had to wait nearly an hour for President Bush to enter the Roosevelt Room for our radio interview.
But actually, we’d been waiting more than seven years.
My colleague Peter Maer and I have been pitching the White House to grant us an interview with the president since the year he took office.
Most recently, we were told that Mr. Bush doesn’t like doing radio interviews. He doesn’t think his comments get a fair shake when we only use “snippets” of what he says in our radio reports and on the hourly radio newscasts.
Well, that’s the nature of the business. But through the magic of this podcast, you can hear everything thing he said, in the context in which he said it.
We were given 15 minutes, and tried to wring every nanosecond out of it.
Click here to listen to the entire interview with President Bush.
I thought I'd end the week by talking about something a lot of women in America are wondering about. I refer, of course, to Jenna Bush's wedding.
Tomorrow, she is getting married to Henry Hager at the Bush family ranch near Crawford, Texas. For my thoughts on her wedding day, just click on the monitor.
Be sure to watch Katie's interview with Sen. John McCain and his 96-year-old mother, Roberta, tonight on the CBS Evening News. If you want a taste now, we put a preview up online, so click here to check out a couple of Katie's questions - and the McCains' interesting answers.
Also, Katie posted a behind-the-scenes video on her YouTube channel to give viewers a closer look. Just click below to watch.
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