thousands. and delta destruction. flooding ravages communities along the mississippi, forcing thousands to evacuate. and threatening to destroy entire towns. we re live as the forecast calls for more rain early this thursday morning, may 12th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs good morning. sun just coming up there. i m erica hill in washington. good morning to you, erica. good morning to you at home. i m chris wragge in our new york studio. we have a lot to get to including details from osama bin laden s public diaries. we are going to start things there. let s go back to you. chris, we have. you can imagine, the diaries, a hot topic of conversation here in the nation s capital. we on the set of face the nation. one day after our town hall meeting here in washington talking all about the economy with president obama. we are going to bring you that in our next hour. a fascinating day. the president answering important questions from the audience and people at home an
workday. on this bike to work thursday morning. i m eric thomas. and i m kristen sze. top story, new lelgsz that the former head of the contra costa drug task force. in addition to charges of selling drugs, he now has been accused of running a brothel out of a business park. terry mcsweeney is there live. reporter: it appears private investigator chris butler is rolling over on his former friend. together they ran a brothel in this business park. name of operation, miami divine skin. enough said. 34-page report coming out of chris butler. what he is saying that he and former contra costa county narcotics officer norman wielsch ran the brothel. they were once on the police force together. they have been charged with selling drugs taken from the police evidence lockers. attorney says the story is not believable. he says he ran the place and collected the money but it wasn t me and i gave all that money to other people. i didn t keep just a small part of that. if you wan
and heading out. we ll tell you more about bike- to-work day coming up on mornings on 2 good morning. i m dave clark. i m tori campbell. topping our news he s been behind bars for nearly a quarter century for committing nearly for committing a horrific crime and now he s expected to be released. claudine wong joins us with more. reporter: we re at the main gate of san quentin. any minute we re expecting to see earnest morgan. he s been here searching a life sentence for second-degree murder. he will be released on parole sometime after 7:00 this morning. the road to parole has been very controversy. in fact, former governor arnold schwarzenegger tried to stop this. since his conviction and imprisonment, he s apparently been a model prisoner, earning his get and working without ged and working with without recuse. back live out here in front of san quentin state prison. why all of the controversy? well, obviously this is the killing of a family member and it
the big news will be on the weekend. that will come up in about five minutes. now an update on traffic. good morning. traffic looking good on the san mateo bridge heading out to the high-rise with no major problems. traffic looks good if you re on the golden gate bridge heading south. at 5:00 let s go back to the desk. sal, thank you. topping our news right now san rafael police are investigating a deadly stabbing. it s tied to violent street gangs. ktvu s kraig debro tells us it happened yesterday evening in the usually peaceful gerstle park neighborhood. reporter: this is b street next to the san rafael community center. you can see down the street there s a 7 eleven on the street and across the street a safeway. it all started here. from here two groups of men in cars drove up a dead end street. a man got out of one of the vehicles bleeding. he struggled to a neighbor s door and asked for help. but he later died. at a hospital san rafael police have not identified a
a lot of people here from montana? how many? wait, wait, wait. who is left in montana? [laughter] i look forward to your letters. that s it. we re out of time. but let me just assure you that these e-mails will be filed and i ll get around to them. geoff: he s lying! craig: we ll see you tomorrow. good night, everybody. ,,,,,,,,,, learned: the >you re watching cbs5s5 eyewititssssewewininhigh dedeninion. a a top cocoarrestededfor llllg e drugs he took. now we have learned the investigation expands to include not just drugs but sex for sale. bay area women out for a jog now have to deal with a creep with a weird fetish. the trails he is targeting the state pulled most of their funding but at one school parents, students and a special teacher proved where there is a will there is a way. every student in this academy is going to college. and good evening. i m ken batista. . i m dana king investigators looking into accusations that not only was a cop selling drugs b