it was a jungle out there. lions and tigers, monkeys and bears, wolves and baboons, all kinds of wild animals, dozens of them on the loose in normally quiet zanesville, ohio, once known as the pottery capital of the world and home to 25,000 people. one of those people had kept these animals on his farm, and last night, the police say, for reasons we may never know, he set the animals free and then took his own life. then it got very dangerous, very fast. who was this 62-year-old man? we asked cynthia bowers in zanesville to find out. cynthia. >> reporter: good evening, scott. terry thompson, who opened this exotic animal farm had a number of run-ins with the law, many of them animal related. out of the more than 50 exotic animals he kept here, only four had state permits for black bears. this was the headline this morning in central ohio, and this is how jack hanna, director emeritus of the columbus zoo, put it. >> this is like not just a nightmare. it's like noah's ark, wrecking right here in zanesville, ohio. >> reporter: the sheriff said the animals kept on a private farm had been set loose. among them: >> one baboon, three mountain lions and 18 tigers. >> reporter: the animals' cages cut open by the owner terry thompson who then apparently committed suicide. he left no note. a vietnam vet whose fascination with animals is said to have begun in 1977 when he gave his wife a lion cub as a gift. many of his animals were purchased through exotic animal auctions. neighbor sam kopchak spotted the animals and made the first 911 call. >> i said we have a major big problems. there are animals out. i said i don't know how many. i know there's a lion, i know there's a bear. >> reporter: it was getting dark by the time police arrived and deputies were given the order shoot to kill. >> we are not talking about your normal, everyday house cat or dock. i gave the order on the way here that if animals looked like they were going out, they went down. we could not have animals running loose in this county. >> reporter: by the end of the day, animal carcasses were piled on top of each other, and police had to justify their actions. >> we just had a huge tiger, an adult tiger, i'm estimating 300 pounds, that was very aggressive. we did get one of the vets close enough, unbelievably so, within 10 to 15 yards, got a tranquilizer in it, and this thing just went crazy. it started to take off. it headed away from us to the wooded area. and our officers put it down. >> reporter: joel harris shot this cell phone video of a bear. >> a wolf comes from the fence that the bear is in, and comes up to the fence and then just pops right through the fence. >> reporter: thompson was well known to local law enforcement here. he had just gotten out of prison after serving a year on federal firearms violations and had been visited numerous times following complaints about his menagerie. >> we've handled numerous complaints here. we've been to mr. thompson's house for some sort of problems with the animals, from animals running at large to not being treated properly. so this has been a huge problem for us for a lot of years. >> reporter: terry thompson's widow asked police to help her bury all the animals in a mass grave on their property. included in the carnage, scott, endangered species. bengal tier, only 2,400 left in the world, 18 of them died here. >> pelley: cynthia, thank you. 49 animals killed in all today, and we just found out the firearms charge that sent terry thompson to prison last year involved possession of five illegal machine guns. watching all of this unfold today, we wondered how someone ends up with his own dangerous animals at home, and it turns out some states make it easier to keep a tiger than a dog. we asked ben tracy to look into this. >> reporter: where do most of these animals come from? >> predominantly they were somebody's pet. >> reporter: martine colette runs the wildlife way station, a sanctuary outside los angeles for nearly 500 animals, everything from chimps to alligators to tigers were once in people's homes or backyards. >> it may be a wonderful thing for an individual to have them as a pet, but it's a miserable life for an individual animal. it's not who it's supposed to be. >> reporter: they end up here when most owners inevitably realize they are not like other pets. >> it is not a dog. it will never be a dog. you can love it like you love your dog, but a tiger is a tiger. and a lion is a lion. >> reporter: the problem is that's getting exotic pets is all too easy. >> how much they going for? >> reporter: they are sold at animal auctions like this one caught on hidden camera in alabama. and also in the classifieds of animal magazines. $8,000 for a baby tiger, $30,000 for a snow tiger. 28 states ban ownership of the most dangerous exotic pets-- lion, tigers, bears-- 15 others require a license to own them. the humane society says missouri, nevada, north carolina, ohio, and oklahoma are the most lenient when it comes to allowing dangerous wildlife as pets. in some places there are more laws about having cats and dogs than there are mountain lions. martine colette says an animal psychology is often damaged by having been someone's pet and then abandoned. what happens to these animals? >> unless we find a good quality zoo or park for them to go to, they remain here for the rest of their lives. >> reporter: in 35 years, she has cared for 76,000 rescued animals. >> pelley: the financial crisis in greece has had a ripple effect on markets all around the world, including wall street. today, government plans for more budget cuts and tax increases set off a riot in athens. elizabeth palmer was there to try to make sense of the mayhem. >> reporter: rocks rained down on riot police guarding greece's parliament. inside, lawmakers were working to approve one more round of deep spending cuts. outside, a small group of young men went on the attack. and the police fought back with stun grenades and tear gas. all around, tens of thousands of protesters joined in today's general strike. doctors, teachers, construction and transport workers, all of them hurting from the last round of salary cuts and tax hikes last june. this family is typical. an accountant and father of three whose government salary was slashed. >> reporter: he's not alone. after new cuts, the average greek family will lose $7,700 in income this year. >> reporter: but in spite of today's furious backlash, greece's government says it must push through yet another round of punishing austerity measures to qualify for billions of dollars in bailout loans from european banks and the international monetary fund. without that, the government says, it will literally run out of cash to pay salaries by next month. the greek government passing those new austerity measures, scott, is central to a much larger european refinancing plan due to be put together this weekend and unless it all falls into place, world financial markets could be headed for yet more turmoil. >> pelley: elizabeth, reporting in a mob like that is pretty dangerous stuff, and you had a run-in with the crowd today, too. tell the folks at home what happened. >> reporter: some of those young men that you saw earlier surrounded our cameraman, smashed the camera and then took it away. it just shows what kind of anger there is against the establishment, and that includes the main stream media. people blame the establishment for causing this huge mess in the first place. >> pelley: liz, thanks very much. there were hot tempers in las vegas last night, too, but this was the republican presidential debate. it seemed like the candidates could just feel time running out on the race as the top contenders pulled no punches. >> the idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you're strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy. >> governor romney? >> rick, i don't think i've ever hired an illegal in my life so i'm afraid-- i'm... i'm looking forward it finding your facts on that because that doesn't-- >> i'll tell you what the facts are... >> rick, again, i'm speaking, i'm speaking. >> pelley: that, of course, was mitt romney and rick perry on immigration policy but the trouble was in the debate, there was so much more heat than light, so we asked wyatt andrews to tell us what these candidates actually proposed to do about illegal immigration. >> reporter: underneath all those heated exchanges on the subject of immigration-- >> you knew you had illegals working-- >> are you just going to keep talking? >> reporter: ...two very different republican visions of immigration have emerged, especially in the showdown between governor rick perry and former governor mitt romney. perhaps the biggest difference-- romney would complete the wall along the border between mexico and the united states. perry sees the wall as a waste of money. >> you can build a fence but it takes anywhere between 10 and 15 years $30 billion. there's a better way and that's to build a virtual defense zone. >> reporter: another disagreement is how to treat illegal immigrant college students. perry signed a law granting them in-state tuition on the theory that most will become educated citizens. romney vetoed a similar bill and calls in-state tuition a magnet for illegal immigration. >> you turn off the magnets like tuition breaks or other breaks that draw people into this country illegally. it's not that hard. >> reporter: this fight, to be seen as enforcer-in-chief, is partly why the showdown got personal. >> you hired illegals in your home. >> reporter: perry raised charges from 2006 that romney hired a landscape company that used undocumented workers on the grounds of his boston home. romney claims he never knew the status of the workers, but it took two exposes as by the "boston globe" newspaper before romney fired the company. >> i'm running for office, for pete's sake. i can't have illegals. >> reporter: romney hit back claiming that 40% of all new jobs in texas are going to undocumented workers. independent analysts, however, have disputed that estimate. texas has a problem with illegal workers, but, scott, one expert told us today it's nowhere close to 40% of new jobs. >> pelley: wyatt, thanks very much. fallout from the lockout. taxpayers who spent billions on n.b.a. arenas are being left on the sidelines. citigroup is fined more than a quarter billion dollars for one part of the financial meltdown. and apple stores close as employees remember steve jobs when the "cbs evening news" continues. ( >> pelley: n.b.a. owners and players' representatives were back at the negotiating table today trying to settle their differences and end the lockout. taxpayers don't have a seat at the table, even though they have spent more than $2 billion on arenas in the last 10 years. and with 100 games already canceled anna werner reports that cities are starting to hurt and one may even sue the n.b.a. for lost revenue. >> reporter: the oklahoma city thunder was supposed to play denver friday night, but the entire pre-season schedule has been canceled. >> i think they need to wake up and play basketball because this isn't a season we can lose. >> reporter: taxpayers here spent $210 million for construction and renovating at chesapeake energy arena and a practice gym for the city's only major league team. >> it's all about quality of life. >> reporter: mick cornett is a former sportscaster. now he's the city's mayor. >> our citizens paid tax dollars to renovate the arena. now there's no basketball at the beginning of the year and i'm concerned about the rest of the season. >> reporter: voters approved a 1% sales tax to build the 20,000-seat arena six years before the seattle sonics moved here in 2008. >> surely, these n.b.a. owners and players can get together and operate this business without public help, but the idea that oklahoma city would have one of these teams without public help is a little bit ridiculous. >> reporter: oklahoma city is one of eight cities that have foot the entire bill for the construction of n.b.a. arenas since 1990. memphis, which spent $200 million on the fedex forum, is now exploring a lawsuit against the n.b.a. to recover revenue lost during the lockout. but mayor cornett argues oklahoma city's money was well spent. >> it's over $1 million a game of economic development that the city believes it derives from having the n.b.a. team. >> if the mayor were to take $200 million in $20 bills fly over oklahoma city in a helicopter and drop it out, he or she would create far more jobs. >> reporter: university of chicago economist allen sanderson has studied the impact of pro sports on cities. >> most of the fans are local, and if they're not going to a thunder game, they're doing something else in the greater oklahoma city area, spending the same amount of time and same amount of money. >> reporter: here in dallas, scott, home of the defending champion mavericks, taxpayers just finished paying half the cost of this arena, $210 million. >> pelley: anna thank you very much. the government made official today what we told you about last night-- come january, 55 million people who get social security checks will get a cost of living raise of 3.6%. to help pay for it, the government will raise taxes on folks who are pretty well off. right now, earning subject to payroll tax comes to $106,800. that will be going up to a little over $110,000. what the customers didn't know. citigroup pays a big fine to settle charges that it sold investments betting that they would go bad. that's next. california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a world where tobacco kills more people... than aids, drugs, alcohol, murder and car crashes... combined. we have a lot more work to do. >> pelley: as anti-wall street demonstrations continue around the world, one target of the protesters' anger got hit with a heavy fine today. citigroup will pay $285 million to settle a civil fraud case. citi is accused of miss leading customers who invested in complex mortgage securities. here's anthony mason. >> reporter: as the housing bubble was about to burst in 2007. citigroup, the country's third biggest lender, set up a duplicitous deal. the s.e.c. says citi sold securities backed by risky sub- prime mornings. then without disclosing it to investors, citi bet those mortgage-related assets would decline in value. in one e-mail, the s.e.c. says a citi manager comments, "the portfolio is horrible." within months the securities defaulted. investors lost virtually all their money. the $285 million fine is the third largest since the financial crisis. the biggest, $550 million, was paid by goldman sachs to settle similar charges. while citigroup is paying the fine, it has not admitted any wrongdoing. the s.e.c. has also brought charges against the employee behind want transaction but no bank executives have been charged. >> pelley: anthony, thank you. steve jobs, the charismatic head of apple, was remembered today by the people who worked for him. by the hundreds, they arrived at company headquarters in california for a private memorial. apple stores all around the world closed their doors so workers could watch a webcast of the service. these bases are loaded with the bravest ballplayers you will ever meet. their story is next. ?5x ,, gasoline. meet the brave woman who jumped in and saved his life. next on cbs 5 >> pelley: the first game of the world series is being played tonight, the st. louis cardinals hosting the texas rangers, but we close with a different team of veteran ballplayers. mark strassmann tells us they've all worn the uniform, and every one is a hero. >> go to first. half these guys are marines, half are army. and the minute they met they're like best friend now. >> reporter: dave van sleet is the wounded warrior's coach and creator. he has spent 32 years working at v.a. hospitals fitting prosthetic limbs on wounded soldiers. >> let's have fun here tonight, okay. >> reporter: what started as a pickup game in arizona last march has turned into a national tour. >> when i saw what was coming back from iraq and afghanistan these young guys and the shape they're in i think they needed to get back into sports. that's what they were in before and that's what they need to get back into now. >> reporter: is it important for america to have this team? >> we are america's new favorite team. >> reporter: shortstop matt kinsey was a sergeant with the 82nd airborne in afghanistan. he lost his foot when he stepped on a land mine. >> the thing for me is i played sports growing up, and when you lose a body part you wonder if you're ever going to be able to play again. >> i use to play this game six nights of the week, before i joined the marine corps. >> reporter: josh wegge was a marine lance corporal in afghanistan in 2009. a bomb exploded under the armored vehicle he was riding in. >> it's a very surreal feeling. i was 19 at the time, and looking down and seeing that-- the weirdest stuff goes through your mind. i just bought a stick shift car and i was like, oh, man, i won't be able to drive that. it wasn't even death. it was i won't be able to drive my stick shift car. how am i going to play sports. >> he plays first and pitches for the warriors, the team's only double amputee. >> i love playing this game and to keep playing means the world to me and i know it does to these guys. >> one, two, three, warriors! >> reporter: the warriors play to boost moral, playing against only able-bodied teams in exhibition games. private donations pay for their tour, including this game in panama beach, florida, against a team from tyndall air force base. the warriors have played 17 games so far and won 10 of them. they lost this game, but they won the crowd. >> it's very emotional. >> reporter: for you, too. >> yeah. >> reporter: what's the emotional part of it for you? >> that they had to go through what they did for our country. they've gone through extensive rehabilitation. they've learned to get back into society. it's amazing. it's just amazing. >> it's a very humbling experience to be able to play on this team, travel to some awesome places and play the game we all love. >> make the best out of a bad situation. >> reporter: that message is reflected in the wounds warriors' team motto-- life without a limb is limitless. ( cheers and applause ) >> you are the man! >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, panama city beach, florida. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all goound the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org gang members, picking up paychecks at a bay area city hall. where the money's coming from... and who's really benefiting. christin live tease christin live tease to do what . the images are unforgettable but few remember how it began. we're taking you to the origin point of the oakland hills firestorm. you would have had something here worse than any oil spill in this country. >> some say it's like the wreck of noah's ark. lions, monkeys, bears, tigers let loose and hunted down. we wanted to find out how easy is it to own an exotic pet in california. good evening. dana is off tonight. i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm allen martin. a little known agency in richmond is suddenly getting a lot attentio