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is not earned. insult where it was not deserved and apology where it is not due. mitt romney begins a high-profile trip abroad. >> he arrives in london today. the first stop on the three-nation overseas trip. >> president obama will visit israel during his second term in office. of course, when they heard the second term part, israel was like, we'll put you down as a maybe. >> in colorado, starting to learn more about what happened inside the theater as the shooting unfolded. >> i'm hearing him yell. the rounds are going off boom, boom, boom. >> batman star christian bale flew in to personally meet with survivors. >> a fine i miracle gave birth as her husband struggles to survive. >> i command you to disperse. >> in anaheim, california, police and protesters. this is on the heels of two shootings over the weekend. >> these go are so corrupted. first look at video of a killer whale nearly drowning a sea world trainer. >> this happened in san diego back in 2006. a mother is accused of leaving her child in a cart after police tried to stop her from shoplifting. ziejts hit by a pitch. >> all that. >> there is breaking news. if your child sits in front of the television, plays with a computer, eats skittles, it will be fat and have high cholesterol. >> i got this suit off canadien pep.com. sherman hemsley, star of the jeffersons, has died. >> i'm ready to listen. but not now, i had a rough morning. >> on "cbs this morning." kate gosselin signed up to look for new love on a tv dating series. >> it's like the bachelorette series. >> it's like the bachelorette meets the deadliest catch. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." mitt romney is starting his seven-day visit to europe and the middle east. trying to show the world that he is ready to be president of the united states. >> before leaving the u.s., romney told the world why the current president doesn't deserve a second determine. jan crawford is in london which is romney's first stop on the trip. good morning, jan. >> good morning erica and charlie. romney is now here in london. but before he left the united states last night he delivered a blistering attack on the foreign policy of president obama. he was speaking with several thousand veterans and he criticized everything from the way the president has handled iran, dealings with russia, even the recent leaks that are allegedly coming out of the white house. he didn't offer much in the way of alternative vision. >> this is a national security crisis. >> romney sharply criticized president obama for allegedly leaking classified intelligence information for political gain. reinforcing his argument that the president is putting his reelection in front of -- >> it's contempt i believe, betrays us and compromises the men and women in the field. >> he's referring to the osama bin laden raid and successful u.s. drone strikes. the obama administration denies any responsibility. but on monday, he, democratic senator dianne feinstein who chairs the intelligence committee said the white house is connected to the disclosures. >> i think the white house has to understand that some of this is coming from its ranks. >> the next day, feinstein down played her remarks saying i shouldn't have speculated. i don't know the source of the leaks but the damage was done, her accusation gave romney ammunition. >> what kind of white house would reveal classified material for political gain? i'll tell you right now, mine will not. >> the speech was part of a full frontal assault on a president's foreign policy, which romney argues has weakened the united states' standing. but romney gave few specifics on what his alternative would be. he criticized the president for announcing a withdrawal day for troops in afghanistan, while also advocating the same timeline for ending combat operations in 2014. speaking at the same venue monday, the president argued that romney's criticism lacks specifics. >> there are those who argued against a timeline for ending this war or against talking about it publicly. but you know what, that's not a plan for america's security either. >> now, why would romney go on the attack last night before he came here to london? that's because he says he respects this long held notion that politics really stops at america's shores and that he would never come here meeting with these foreign leaders and criticize the president or american foreign policy. charlie and erica? >> jan crawford, thank you. david axelrod is here with us from chicago. good morning, david. >> good morning, charlie. >> contemptibli conduct, a betrayal. where are we? >> i think what we heard was a bunch of bellicose, bellicose language from governor romney with nothing behind it. a bunch of bellicose bloviating from john bolton's pen. when you get beneath it, as jan mentioned, there's no vision for american policy, his critiques were nonsense. he wants to talk about anything other than the fact that this is the president that responsibly ended the war in iraq, who focused attention on al qaeda and destroyed its leadership, brought osama bin laden to justice and rebuilt our alliances. that's a very, very proud record and the american people know that. the only news in the speech was what jan mentioned, which was after months of hammering the president for his decision to bring our active combat involvement in afghanistan to an end by the end of 2014, governor romney endorsed his decision yesterday in front of this group. >> let me speak to this question of contemptible and leaks out of the white house. senator feinstein, you know what she has said, perhaps the white house isn't coming forward with information about how it is connected. >> you heard what she said yesterday. she has no information about where these leaks came from. the two authors of the books in question said that their leaks didn't come from the white house. and there are active investigations going on right now. so we'll know the answer to that. governor romney sent out a man to represent him or a statement from a former official to the bush administration who was involved in the scooter libby leak scandal. now he says he won't engage in leaks. this was a diversionary tactic, because it's very hard to talk about the president's leadership on national security, on foreign policy and criticize what he's done. >> all right. here's what governor romney said on monday. the president talking about president obama, when he called me and congratulated me on the presumptive nominee, said america who benefit from an important and healthy debate. i haven't seen that coming from the team. it's been almost all attack ads on all sorts of peripheral issues. when will this campaign become positive and an important debate about america's future? >> charm i, this debate is all about america's future and about whether we're going to have policies that will promote and build and rebuild the security of the middle class in this country. whether we're going to go down to the top down economic policies of the last decade that led to disaster. that's what this debate is about. i would point out that much of our advertising has been positive. we've been from the very beginning of this campaign, we've been the target of hundreds -- more than $100 million of negative ads from governor romney and his colleagues. he's the one and you heard it in his speech yesterday, he's not offering a positive alternative. by the way, on the speech, charlie, how can you speak to a veterans organization, never mention al qaeda, make a foreign policy, never mention al qaeda and speak to a veterans organization and never talk about veterans and what you're going to do for them. governor romney isn't meeting the test. >> erica hill is with me. >> quickly, david, to the point of negative advertising. be honest here, both sides have plenty of negative advertising out there. it's starting to impact voters. wall street journal polling says four out of ten have a more negative or less favorable view of candidates and you're fighting for a smaller portion of undecided voters. 8%. how concerned are you that you're turning those people off? >> if you look at the ads we're running now, erica, it lays out a specific choice about how we're going to lead our economy forward. wee spent a full month laying out the record of the last 3.5 years in television and the battleground states. i have yet to see governor romney match that in his own advertising. but yes, we are going to call -- governor romney has many questions to answer about what he'll do in the future and about what he's done in the past. he hopes not to talk about any of it. that's not going to happen in a presidential race. >> david x thank you for joining us this morning. >> good to be with you. the first funeral is scheduled today for a victim of the movie massacre. family and friends will remember gordon cowden, a 51-year-old father of two, one of the 12 people shot dead on friday. >> as anna werner reports, investigators are still gathering evidence against james holmes, the 24-year-old suspect. anna, good morning. >> good morning, erica and charlie. the lights are still on here at the century 16 theaters. there's been a chain-link put up around the building. authorities are expected to return the theater to its owner sometime this week. no word when that will happen. lawyers for holmes are expected to get their chance to go through the building soon. prosecutors got a chance tuesday to look inside the theater where james holmes allegedly went on his violent and deadly rampage. they left after spending more than an hour inside building their case. the team, including lead prosecutor karen pearson, also combed through holmes' 800-square foot apartment as investigators look for any possible motive, survivors are offering new details about that terrifying night. >> i'm hearing him yell at people and then you just hear the rounds going off, just bm boom, boom, boom. >> stephanie davies saved her friend allie young from bleeding to death. she told reporters holmes would shout, what are you doing? i said stand up. he would pick people up she said. i saw him stand over someone. i just see hair and him holding the shirt and boom. weeks before the shooting, holmes failed part of his first-year exam at the university of colorado and dropped out. he had been living on more than $26,000 in government and school grants. though it's not clear whether he used that money to fund his purchases of guns and ammunition. >> it's the national standard for supplying living spy pends to ph.d. students to devote 100% of their effort to research. >> at an aurora hospital where victims are recovering, batman himself, christian bale, made a surprise visit tuesday. the star met with hospital staff and the survivors who had been watching his movie the night of the shooting. afterwards, he and his wife took time to place flowers at a nearby memorial for those killed. >> and as you said, a first memorial service is planned for today. family members for the 12 victims are beginning to prepare for their final goodbyes. many memorial services taking place throughout the week. erica and charlie, back to you. >> anna werner, thank you. senior correspondent and former fbi assistant director john miller joins us. take us to the crime scene. what are they looking for? what do they hope to find? >> as anna told us, they're going to release it, the plan was to give it back today. but the defense wants to look at it. that's going to take time. authorities want to do much more advanced crime scene work using the newest tools to figure out bullet trajectory but also to be able to go back to the crime scene virtually as many times as they need to and literally ask questions. what does that mean? yesterday i talked to how sherman and -- from the nypd crime scene unit. they use a nikon 360 -- nikon station tool or the lika version where they go in and map the evidence points in a scene like this one. we used the theater as a backdrop to show what they would do. then they can take that mapping, which is measure digitally with lasers and they can take, say, ballistic evidence and where the shell casings are to show where the gunman was standing, snap that tool on and it will show them the trajectory of the bullets. then they can take the witness statements, add in where people say they were and what they were doing and you can turn this around 360, you can flip this from different views. you can do exact, precise measurements showing everything. when you get in front of a jury and you have those witnesses testifying when you're doing your ballistics, all of this can be enormously helpful. >> it's important to make the case in court? >> it's important to make the case in court. but it's also important to learn what happened. henry lee, one of the premiere forensic scientists ever, says with a lot of things in life, you get many chances, marriage, two, three times. but with a crime scene you get one shot. what these kinds of tools do is they give you a second and third shot to go back to the scene with a 360-degree digital image that sees the whole thing. you can look at it from any angle. you can measure from any angle. you can go back and literally add scenarios in and take them out. for instance, a person says i was standing here when i saw this. you can tell from the reconstruction, if you were standing there, could you have seen that and so on. >> fascinating stuff. there have been a lot of questions about the money used to purchase the guns and the bullets. you have more information on that this morning. >> so we got the return from our freedom of information request from the national institutes of health, which is a federal agency in bethesda. they broke down the grants for us. nih gave our suspect $21,600 in the total grant. he also got $5,000 from the university of colorado. the idea is when you're working on a ph.d. you are so intense, you don't have time to have a job. this was dispersed in monthly stipends of $2,216.67. this was his only known income. so this brings up, you know, in the most unintended consequence possible, what you have here is the specter of a federally funded shooting. because this appears to be the money he had access to during the time he was planning this. >> there's a gag rule in effect now? >> there is. the district attorney sat down with authorities. the judge gave a rule saying you had to stick to the conservative rules of what you could say in a regular case. but the district attorney is going beyond that and asked them mott to say anything. all comments will come through the d.a.'s office. >> as far as we know, nothing has come from the mouth of the suspect? >> i've been looking around this case from other angles and you know, they had high hopes for that computer. they were just able to mirror that hard drive on monday, which means their first real chance to start to go through it was yesterday. no headlines out of that. they have more computer forensics to do. but from the computer examination so far, no sign of a motive. from the interviews of friend and associates, while there are different theories of things that could have come together to make a motive, there's no one that exceeds another. it's still unclear as to why this happened. >> thank you, john. this morning, russia's foreign minister is accusing the united states of justifying terrorism in syria. he spoke out after hillary clinton said the u.s. would work closely with the rebels as they take control of more territory. i spoke with the ambassador to the united nations who said u.s. policy is just making things worse. >> the american policy that's disastrous is confrontational assault on the assad regime is not working. it's causing more and more violence and i think the danger of major destabilization in syria and beyond is very great. they need to shed the blame. it's russia. and now they keep coming up with various arguments to blame russia for it. russian sale of arms, then why doesn't russia take us and why doesn't the uk take assad. british and -- family ties. it's not serious conversation which you like to engage in. >> meanwhile, opposition leaders say two more of syria's ambassadors defected this morning. there were violent protests in anaheim, california overnight sparked by recent police shootings. police fire pepper balls and bean bag rounds to demonstrators outside city hall and reportedly arrested five people over the weekend. police shot two men to death, one apparently unarmed. city officials want the u.s. attorney to investigate. the family of one of the men filed a $50 million lawsuit. it is time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. new orleans time picayune reports on a deal to reform the city's a police department. eric holder announced a wide ranging agreement yesterday. it will overhaul the department's use of force, training, interrogations. los angeles city council voted to close the medical marijuana shops. it affects 762 shops much the city is considering allowing some of the original shops to remain open. the wall street journal reports on faster passenger trains in the midwest. trains in illinois and michigan will become the first outside the northeast to travel more than 100 miles an hour. new tracks, stations and train cars are in the works. officials hope it will boost local economies. usa today reports shopper can say goodbye to long lines at the cash register. more stores are using mobile devices at the checkout. j.c. penney wants to eliminate cashiers and cash registers by 2014 and salespeople will use the ipod touch to check out customers or tell shoppers to use the self-checkout lane. new nasa signal satellite images on a huge sheet of issa cross greenland. the ice melted in four this national weather report sponsored by big lots. big savings. a 2006 video is released showing a near fatal incident at sea world four years before a trainer's death led to big changes. we'll hear what sea world is saying this morning and show you what is at stake for the whales, their trainers and the company. and the public weighs in on new york city's proposal to ban super-sized sugary drinks. >> what will the government be telling me next, what time to go to bed, how big my steak should be, how many potato chips i can have? 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