íh> i'm scared i won't be able to go home. >>,÷ we'll bring you the latestn = search for private bowe bergdahl. one small step fors ñ man, giant leap for mankind. >> 40 years ago today, man's first1ñfootsteps onto the moon. this morning we remember the men and the mission of[réz apollo 1. and from the moon landing to the vietnam war. offensive began, the firing still goes on. >> remembering trust and our friendy;k walter cronkite "earl this monday morning, july 20th, 2009. captioning funded by cbs good morning. i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez. julie is in los angeles. good morning, julie. >> good morning, guys. remember the 40th anniversaryí!f 2íç foro4v÷ mankind, the great mission of apollo 11, and ime, one of the space program's biggest fans, walter cronkite. lots to say this morning about all of that. >> we will get to that. first this morning, the u.s. military is condemning the hostage video released over the weekend of a captured american soldier being held by the taliban. cbs news mandy clark is in kabul, afghanistan, with the latest on private first class bowe bergdahl. mandy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the family of the kidnapped u.s. soldier is hoping for his safe return. the u.s. military is saying it's doing everything it can to find him. now the biggest ongoing operation in the eastern afghanistan is the hunt for private first class bowe bergdahl. they're heartbreaking images for a family to watch. in the 28 minutes of footage, a nervous looking private bergdahl says he's scared and misses his friends and family. >> i have my girlfriend, who i was hoping to marry. i have a very, very good family. >> reporter: the u.s. military have condemned the video as taliban propaganda. >> we're very unhappy with the exploitation, public exploitation of a prisoner and the humiliation that goes with that. it violates international law. >> reporter: the soldier from idaho went missing last month. in the video he says he was captured lagging behind a patrol, and prompted by his captor off camera, he gives a message to the people of america. >> please bring us home so that we can be back where we belong and not over here. wasting our time and our lives. >> reporter: the taliban says it's willing to consider a ransom for his release, but the u.s. military insists there will be no negotiating with terrorists. his father bob bergdahl thanked the american people for their support and asked them to continue to pray for his son. maggie? >> cbs' mandy clark in kabul, afghanistan. thank you, mandy. joining us from hailey, idaho, is bowe bergdahl's former boss at a local coffee house, sue martin. we only know the private from the tape, a man who chokes up when he speaks of missing his family. what can you tell us about him? >> i can understand him being very emotional right now. he's also a very capable young man and very diverse and intelligent, very intelligent young man. >> what is your feeling this morning knowing that your friend is being held in these conditions? >> it's a struggle for everybody. it's a very difficult situation. i'm concerned, obviously, for bowe and for his family as well. >> have you spoken with them? how are they doing? >> i spoke with bob, bowe's father, yesterday. they are appreciative of their request to remain in privacy at this time. they've asked me to be this person to answer your questions and give a glimpse of bowe and to also allow our coffee shop to be a location for community and people to express their support. >> knowing bowe as well as you do, what do you think will keep him hanging in there during this ordeal? >> bowe is a very strong man. he's capable of being very athletic and outgoing physically as well as joined the ballet. so i think his internal strength will help him. i think, if there's any way for our country and other countries to let him know that we are supporting him, it will carry him as far as he needs to go. >> sue martin, we thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> joining us now is jere van dyk, a cbs news security and terror consultant. good morning, jere. >> gchl. >> you spent many months in afghanistan with the taliban, you know their code. what are they doing with this8y video? >> they're sending a message to the united states and its allies, and equally they're sending a message to the afghan public. we can treat soldiers, we can treat prisoners better than the americans are treating us. there was arpae story about prir abuse, americans abusing prisoners in afghanistan. what they are saying to the afghan public is that we can do a better job. do not be afraid of us. >> because he's clean. the place look like he's being fed. they're taking care of him. >> that's a signal there. he's wearing nice clothes. he's being fed. he has a cup of tea there. this is ancient tribal code that predates islam. we will protect to the death a guest in our home. he is in someone's home right now. my belief is, my hope, of course, is and my cautious feeling is that he will be protected, he will not be harmed. >> because we all have that horrible image of daniel pearl being killed. that was al qaeda. the taliban and al qaeda are two different things. >> al qaeda killed daniel pearl. there have been eight kidn kidnappin kidnappings, some we know about, someb3uk secret, i have spept along the afghan border there, most of the hostages have been released. >> appreciate it. now over to you, julie. this morning we are remembering legendary cbs news anchor walter cronkite. he passed #óu(v on friday at th age of 92. cbs news correspondent randall pinkston is on manhattan's east side with the latest on his funeral arrangements. we are outside st. barth ol mu's church where funeral services will be held on thursdayvan>h#o walter cronkite. they'll be private for his family and invited guests. walter cronkite's deaths occurring on the 40th anniversary of one of the most favorite stories of his career. it was 40 years ago today that walter cronkite reported on one of man's greatest journeys. >> oh, boy. boy. >> reporter: space was cronki cronkite's passion. >> when that vehicle landed on the moon, i was speechless. i really couldn't say a thing. >> reporter: cronkite is remembered as a man who made a difference. he interviewed a young president. >> mr. president, the only hot war we've got running at the moment is, of course, the one in vietnam. >> i don't think that, unless a greater effort is made by the government to win popular support, the war can be won out there. >> reporter: and told the nation it had lost its leader. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time, some 38 minutes ago. >> walter became not only everybody's anchorman, he was everybody's minister, priest, and rabbi. >> reporter: and on the rarejñ occasions when cronkite voiced an opinion like vietnam, the nation took notice. >> it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate. >> because in an era beforen5ef blogs and e-mail, cell phones and cable, he was the news. walter invited us to believehr? him, and he never let us down. >> and that's the way it is. >> and that's the way it is. >> and that's the way it is. >> and that's the way it is. >> reporter: many wonderful memories of a legendary journalist. there are plans underf< úç way public good-bye forpxa cronkite. it will be held later this summer here in manhattan. harry? >> randall jfybñpinkston, thank. joining us now is the x anchor the "cbs evening news," katie couric. >> hi, harry. >> you had the opportunity to have dinner with walter. walter did, in fact, give his blessing to your broadcast. what was that like for you to then follow in his footsteps? >> well,uxf ñ obviously, it was extraordinarily daunting. just talking about walter cronkite and seeing hissed body of work these last few days makes it even more so1 f[ todayn it was three years ago when i took on this job. but he was very supportive.]3vxy of my becomingp>ptr the anchor e ô told me he had a lot of confidence in me, and we talked about a lot of things during that dinner, about covering the nuremberg trials, what that was like for him. various assignments through the years. he started at united press, as did my father, so we had a lot of wire service stories we exchanged. we talked about "american idol," believe it or not, because it was sort of at its zenith then. and he also talked about being fair and impartialç&":q objective, and said that he got grief from both sides of the aisle, as have i, during the reer., it made me feel much better about some of the criticism you position. >> so much of what he taught us, though, was about going to the story, and it seems like you have takenxn that very seriousl. >> well, i think, like walter, i love reporting. so when a big event happens, i lovem,÷ to be on the scene. he set the standard in so many ways, ú9harry. i thought it was very moving when roger mudd said, when he extraordinary washington correspondents back in the day, that he said walter cronkite made them all proud to be tv journalists because, at a time when tv was in its infancy, he really shaped the medium in a way that i think no one else could have. and i think we owe2y him a huge nz doing that for emphasizing things likeh&h@ accuracy, fairness, objectivityá to the story and making the news more important than the person delivering it. you know, a lot of things have changed, obviously, and the media landscape is much more there are a lot of other pressures that i think were not necessarily taenant to the news in that day although iqzf think there were some certainly. juy person first, i think. and an extraordinary journalist second. >> you know, one of the first stories i did at cbs, i found myself -- it was the 50thu@tñ anniversary of a disaster in texas. as i'm going through the archives, i found the first story reports that had been filed by walter cronkite, and he was right so often about so many things. but he worked so hard at that. it wasn't frivolous. it wasn't,rjkñ oh, this is -- h life was dedicated to this. ñ committed to his craft, i think, every single day. and i think, again, it's very inspiring to read about that. and for the people who actually got to work with him directly, what a thrill and honor that must have been. but i think -- one thing that i think is wonderful about celebrating his mark is that a lot2 of young people who may hae heard the name walter cronkite but i think who didn't experience his work directly, far younger than we are. so didn't see his coverage of the kennedy assassination or of watergate or vietnam, are learning about this man, many i believe probably for the first time, and the impact he had and the value he brought to television news. i think that's a wonderful thing for everybody. >> his legacy lives on in youred broadcasts every night. try. it's something to strive for. i think even striving for it is an important aspect of what we do every day. i know you care deeply too. >> noble call. katie, thanks for coming in this morning. >> good toci(s see you, harry. as we've been discussing this morning,an(ae another lege event walter cronkite covered july 20th, 1969. it had always been a dream, but in 1961 it became a mission. >> i believe that this nationpi should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> eight years later. >> good morning. it's t minus one hour, 29 minutes, and 53 seconds and counting. >> three, two, one, zero. all engines running. liftoff. we have a liftoff. >> four days andqfu÷ 250,000 mi later. z standing by. over. >> the night of july 20th, 1969. >> the eagle has landed. >> leaving men and women across the country speechless. >> boy. >> we're going to be busy for a minute. $brñ p.m. eastern time. >> man on the moon, neil!,é;÷ armstrong, 38-year-old american standing on the surface of the moon. >> that's$á one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> there it is. a u.s. flag on the surface of the moon. >> the astronauts returned to y8r'j and a nation was reminded that, in spite of great challenges, even the heavens were within reach. >> we now know that we're notu9 invincible and there are limits ining moment in 1969, anything seemed possible for america.:,,ñ >> i was just out of high school we'll talk more about that later. >> buzz aldrin is here as well and now they're going to pitch the president to go to mars. >> if you didn't watch that cronkite retrospective and not shed a tear on one or two occasions, simply looking backq at some of those great historic moments in our country's history and think that hopefully we have many more ahead. let's walk on over to the weather wall and let's see what's happening all across the country. come on over. looks like we are going to see a return of humidity for the eastern seaboard rolling off the atlantic. boy, the southeast had an incredible weekend with below normal temperatures. that's all going to change. we'll see a return to showers developing. in the the plains. but good news, much of texas has been below 100 degrees. we'll keep in mind, though, today we could see strong storms rolling through. gorgeous day as we head to the+ west. very nice conditions with temperatures againq about 110 o more in areas of the southwest. nice weathere3ez plenty of sunshine in the northwest. showers for hawaii. nice weather in -- actually, showers in >> that's a quick look at your weather. cleveland, make it am great day. 80 degrees it's going to be. julie, out to l.a. we go. >> thanks a lot, dave. com9ak$e qb&up, the battle michael jackson's bk6;ñchildren. will his sister janet play a large role in raising them? nur@h&l have the latest. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. ♪ the $9 icebreaker. walmart announces select eyeglass frames for just $9 -- and 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