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Because i dont really care what everybody else is doing all the time. i dont mean to be old and cranky. facebook and twitter both play a valuable role in politics and political reporting, to be serious for a moment, because its a way of getting information out and getting it out fast. well, the new media world was fun, but now ive got to go back to our-- between the old and new media newsroom-- and write something for tv. tv is not considered new media anymore, but you know, ive got to keep the ...

Midwest. heavy rain hit from arkansas to missouri and north toward illinois, indiana, and ohio. but in the south, isaac left a trail of death and destruction. seven dead, more than 400,000 still without power, and insurance claims that could top $1 billion. hardest hit were southern parts of mississippi and louisiana. thats where manuel bojorquez is. >> reporter: well, chip, officials in st. tammany parish have just ordered a mandatory evacuation for residents living near a canal. an area of abo...

Over a deal can go sour. >> details are terrible. the details are extremely complex. >> reporter: the devil is in the details. >> expect long negotiations on the details. >> reporter: the e.u. leaders have declared victory and left town, but if this really is victory, another politician far away wins, too-- an american president seeking re-election. without a european recovery, an american recovery continues to stumble. good times here, if they return, mean more chance of good times at home. >> ...

Rise much faster than the rest of the world. philadelphias up 3.7 inches. new york, 2.8 inches. ben strauss studies rising sea levels for the nonprofit climate central. >> sea level rise is like a creeping tsunami. it goes almost imperceptibly year by year, but its gaining a tremendous amount of strength and its going to have an enormous impact on our coasts. >> reporter: strauss blames global warming for melting polar ice caps that, in turn, slows the gulf stream, creating a traffic jam of wate...

Melting glaciers and contributing to the rise in sea levels around the world. but there is one place where the ocean is rising more rapidly than just about anywhere else-- the eastern united states. how could that be? heres jim axelrod. >> reporter: in coastal norfolk, virginia, ed and julie guyton hate to think about the constant threat of flooding they face. >> weve had three floods from tidal surges from storms that entered into our home in the first floor-- at least seven inches, up to ten i...

Feet below sea level right now, and first floors of new buildings must be constructed three feet above the sidewalk. could jersey city exist with the water levels being another three or four feet higher? >> it could exist but not as were doing business today. >> reporter: the best guess is rising sea levels could cost the major cities on the east coast at least $300 billion by 2050. jim axelrod, cbs news, jersey city, new jersey. >> pelley: chinas most ambitious space mission ended as a capsule ...

>> reporter: sabrina fulton has waited nearly a month for what she calls justice-- an arrest for the killing of her son trayvon martin. >> to me it was no question. it was definitely a murder. he was murdered. >> reporter: shot in cold blood? >> shot in cold blood. >> reporter: 28-year-old george zimmerman says he shot martin in self-defense february 26. he remains free. zimmerman, an armed neighborhood watch leader, saw martin walking inside a gated subdivision near orlando. he thought the 17-y...

Home in sonoma county. this is near the russia river taking down wires and then the pole. >> the storm also flooded roads in wine country. this is the intersection of highways 121 and 12. at its peak this morning that water was up to a foot and a half deep. >> mobile5 in contra costa county. right now in orinda, pg&e crews busy dealing with this tangled mess of trees and power lines. nearly 40 customers without power in the area now. >> we have a team of reporters keeping an eye on the storm. fi...

>> reporter: in nearby pasadena, police say 23 square miles are littered with trees and power lines. at least 40 buildings are damaged beyond repair and half the city doesnt have any water. >> whoa! >> reporter: its not just california. outside salt lake city, the national weather service reported a gust as high as 102 miles per hour. its all the result of two pressure systems at war with one another and, as kcbs chief meteorologist josh rubenstein says, the west is sandwiched in between. >> you...

>> some people say steves with ta marketing guy. he was deeper than that. he had a very pro found aesthetic sense of what people want. >> reporter: even as the public phase of apple, jobs was extremely protective of his privacy. but in a 2005 commencement speech at stanford university, he spoke revealingly of his early life and birth, in 1955. >> my biological mother was a young unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. >> reporter: regrew up south of san francisco in wh...