>> there were grizz lie bears and black bears there. were were cheat takes. and there were lions and there were tigers. >> schools are closed and residents told to stay inside. we will bring you the latest on this search. apple is hold ago private memorial for its former chief. we will tell you who is expected to attend and why there is new renewed interest in his $6 billion interest "early" this thursday morning, october 19th, 2011. a little wet out there. i'm erica hill. nice to have you with us. >> i'm jeff glor. chris wragge is off this morning and hopeful staying clear of zanesville, ohio. >> wow! >> are you kidding me? >> no. this is the crazy thing. it is truly lions and tigers and bears, oh, my. the overused phrase of the day. >> cheetahs and mules. >> camels. >> it's very serious story and they are canceling school for the day. >> school is closed and stores are closed and people staying indoors as they try to round up of the wild animals on the loose. bring you that in a moment. a look at last night's fiery republican presidential debate. some of the toughest rhetoric so far in this campaign as the candidates didn't wait any time lashing out at each other. jan crawford is in las vegas with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are in front of caesar's palace and hunter s. thompsomho said if you're a loser, las vegas can be the meanest place on earth. in last night's debate, i don't think any obvious losers but one thing was for sure, it was mean. it was the most contentious debate yet. the, changes at times were personal especially with rick perry on the attack. >> mitt, you lose all of your standing from my perspective because you hired illegals in your home and you into knew about it for a year and 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. >> rick, i don't think i've ever hired an illegal in my life. would you please wait. are you just going to keep talking or let me finish with what i have to say? look, rick. >> the republican follow the rules. >> a tough couple of debates for rick. i understand that. so you're going to get -- you're going to get testy. >> reporter: perry has been criticized for his controversial immigration policy giving discounts to illegal immigrants." to draw illegals into the state and giving hundreds of thousand of tuition credit to illegals that come into this country. then you have the big states of illegal immigrants are california and florida the last ten years no increase in the illegal grimmigration. if there is somebody with a record with regards illegal immigration, it's you, not me. >> you stood here in front of the american people and did not tell the truth that you had illegals working on your property. >> we hired a lawn company to mow our lawn and they had illegal immigrants that were working there. when that was pointed out to us, we let them go and said -- >> are you -- >> you have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking and i'd suggest if you want to become president of the united states, you got to let both people speak. >> reporter: perry attacked new front-runner herman cain. >> herman, i love you, brother. go to new hampshire where they don't have a sales tax and you're fixing to give them one. >> reporter: all candidates went after cain for his tax plan. >> the reason i have a plan taxed so much is because lobbyisting, accountants, politicians, they don't to throw out the current tax code. >> reporter: now, herman cain took a lot in that debate and so did mitt romney. i don't either one would qualify as a loser. newt gingrich said at the end of the debate that all of this bickering between all of them was probably not the best path to the white house. erica? >> may not have been but it certainly made for some interesting tv. jan crawford in vegas, thanks. also joining us is cbs news political analyst john dickerson who is up dark and early in las vegas as well. john, take a look at many. as jan said, perhaps bruise inside a lot of cases. a lot of people are talking this morning about rick perry and mitt romney. which did what they needed to do last night? >> whatever they were serving in the debate they are serving in the casinos with the risk taking the gambling the candidates were doing. clearly, rick perry came to press his case and show passion and in mitt romney's face a lot of the debate and sometimes he took the opportunities make a forceful for his energy plan in texas. it seems those are the last two men standing. rick perry in a bit of a tailspin probably a good night to get back into good shape. >> he came out of the gate and gloves clearly off. do you think the message got through to him he needed to be more present in many ways? >> right. the clock is ticking. less than three months before the iowa caucuses and also this is the last debate for three weeks. so this was a chance to kind of show that perry really wants it still. there were some people who said it looked like at the last debate he was kind of sinking into the table, that he didn't really want this prize. he looked like he wanted it last night and that is a beginning of the process for him. he still has got a lot of work to do because he is down in the polls and people are concerned about his record, but this is a start. >> herman cain has been up in the polls the last couple of weeks taking heat last night for his 9-9-9 plan. he seems to tout the simplicity of it but he was challenged on it at times. >> everybody on the stage had a problem with the 9-9-9 plans and national reviews had problems with it and they say 84% of people will see that i taxes go up. cain said these are knee-jerk reactions. go to the website and do math yourself. that is not necessarily a sufficient argument. the question is did it hurt him? a lot of his answers at the last debate were not that substantial but his numbers went up. the more republicans know about him, the more they like him. the interesting split even though his answers weren't very full of protein, he still may capture the hearts of republicans because of his winning style. >> quickly, we do have a three-week break before the next debalt and debate heavy the last few weeks. how do the candidates use the three-week break in many ways? >> they go out and work on their organization and touch people and get in the local media. they may start running ads here as well in this brief period. >> john dicker john, thanks. >> thanks. >> as republicans look for votes the man whose job they are eyeing is finishing a three-day bus tour today in virginia. >> president obama is trying to get support for his jobs bill. on tuesday he vowed to keep fighting for parts of his plan on tuesday. >> i'm everybody's president. i don't care if you're republican or a democrat, this is not the republican jobs act. this is called the democratic jobs act. this is the americans jobs act and everybody will be better off with it passing. >> joining us this morning is the president's chief campaign strategist, david axelrod. good morning. >> good to be with you. >> what did you think of the debate last night? >> it was interesting. look. if you were an american worried about jobs or how we restore security for the middle class there wasn't much confidence. rick perry thinks we can drill the prosperity and mitt romney thinks we need faster foreclosures. one revealing moment in when they were having the exchange you saw on immigration and mitt romney conceded yes, i had illegals working on my property on -- from a lawn service. he said i went to the lawn service and said, for pete's sake, i can't have illegals, i'm running for office. not that it was wrong or not that it was illegal, i'm running for office. i thought that was the most unintentional revealing moment of the debate. >> is romney still your primary focus right now? >> i don't know who the candidate is going to be. he has been bumping along a quarter of the vote in the republican primary and seems to be a resistance to him and i think there is a resistance for him just the reason i said. i think is there a sense there is no core to him. he said last night his program -- we modeled our health care program largely on what he did in massachusetts and now he says i never intended it to be a model for the nation. in 2007 he said this will be a model for the nation. and time and time again, governor romney switches from one position to another apparently because he is running for office. >> let's talk about running for office when it comes to the president. a lot of criticism over the bus tour. is it campaigning? is it not? regardless of what it is, he says he is out there speaking to the american people because he doesn't feel he can get washington to listen to him. he said last night he doesn't feel there is a sense in washington they are moving with the urgency required. what is the president doing then to speak directly, especially to republican lawmakers, to help pass these individual now parts of his jobs plan? because he has to go back to them at some point. >> 63% of the american people support the american jobs act. they want action now to put people back to work and they think that the proposals the president has put forward will work. what he wants to do is enlist the american people to talk to their lawmakers and to talk to the folks capitol hill and tell them to act. >> do you see that happening? obviously, the american people aren't casting the votes in this case. >> they will cast them again and, believe me, the people on capitol hill are arare of that fact. i think you'll see pieces of this bill moving forward. if it's an inside game, we will never make progress. we have to do this together. the president, the american people, putting pressure on congress, on those republicans in congress who have been no, no, no, to everything the president's proposed to say let's move together to start solving problems instead of scoring political points. >> you say you're enlisting the american people but you're doing it in swing states. how concerned are you about some of the states that went your way last time around? >> look. i think it's going to be a close election. we have the wind at our back the last time in 47% of the american people voted the other way. this is a closely divided country. we are in a tough economy. i am very confident we will win because the president has a vision about how we get people back to work but also how we restore the security that the middle class has lost in this country for a long period of time. you watch the republican debate last night, not a whole lot would give you hope if you're a middle class person in this country that they get it, that they understand what is going on in the lives of the american people. >> criticism that the hope they may have had when president obama came into office which he ran on. they are looking for that from both sides this morning. nice to have you in the studio. >> thank you for having me. hunted for dangerous animals in eastern ohio. a crazy story. >> it's incredible from pretty much every angle. schools closed and folks in the area warranted to stay inside. our columbus affiliate wbns is in ohio this morning with more. good morning. >> reporter: -- >> can you hear us? it's erica at the "the early show" in new york. >> on tv. in africa. right now, we are shooting to kill. >> reporter: more than 50 law enforcement officials some equipped with night vision and armed with assault rifles hunted the animals through the night. at last word about 30 chted 48 escaped animals had been shot and killed. staffers from the columbus zoo are on hand to tranquilize the animals and hopeful not kill them. >> there were cheetahs and lions and tigers. >> reporter: the cages were left open. the fences unsecured. the farmers aers owner terry thompson found dead inside. police would not comment how he died but did say several aggressive animals were circling near his body. one neighbor said thompson had recently been in legal trouble from having the animals. >> being here in the past, mr. thompson has brought all types of animals in here. we have dealt with this situation for a very long time and there have been all kinds of animals here, all ages. >> reporter: with the potential to be deadly and dangerous? >> yes, high potential. >> reporter: local residents were told to stale behind locked doors. so far, there have been no reports of injuries to the public. now we are just getting word at this point terry thompson, according to the mayor, he may have killed himself. now how the animals got loose is the next big question. there are signs all over the highways right now warning people to stay in their vehicles until all of these animals are caught. back to you. >> what a morning for you. teen tino, thank you. terrell brown is at the news desk with more headlines. social security recipients will be getting a raise. this morning, the government is expected to announce a c.o.l.a. or tlicost of living adjustment. seniors receiving $1,082 a month will get an extra $37.84. a strike shut down most of greece this morning in a showdown over the country's financial crisis. huge crowds of protesters marched on the greek parliament. votes are set for today and tomorrow on new austerity measures. cbs elizabeth palmer has more from athens. >> reporter: good morning. behind me, you'll probably be able to see the greek parliament and it's surrounded by tens of thousands of people who are on strike. they come from all walks of life. everybody from doctors and dentists and teachers to transportation workers. they want to surround the parliament to stop the politicians getting to work to pass a new round of spending cuts. they would lay off 30,000 civil servants and they would decrease pensions. now, this may look like groundhog day day. similar protests in july for the first round of spending cuts but they weren't deep enough and greece is still in danger of defaulting on its debt but the workers are angry. so far, it's been peaceful but the mood is tense and the hundreds of police deployed here are clearly braced for trouble. >> cbs' elizabeth palmer in athens for us, thank you. federal health officials report 25 deaths in a dozen states blamed on listeria contamination and colorado kant plop deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in this country for 25 years. britain's queen elizabeth arrived in australia for his 16th visit. they want her to be replaced as australia's head of state by a president. a rainmaker in much of the east coast today. two storms will collide. one traveling up i-95 corridor and the other from a ohio river valley and create a large storm expected to bring more than 3 still ahead on this wednesday morning, a key day in the michael jackson manslaughter trial. the prosecution preparing to rest its case. we have an inside look for you at the case and at the defense as it prepares to take over. we are also going to sit down live this morning with the incredible dewey bozella. the 52-year-old who spent 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. he came out of the ring and came out of the jail and won in the ring. >> quite a story. chase freedom gives you 1% cash back. and the largest cash back card only gives you a quarter percent until you spend $3,000 every year. but you know, it's your choice, so... don't' get shortchanged. get your cash back. chase freedom. 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