michelle miller explains. >> reporter: it's another sweltering 0-degree -- 0-degree day on this farm. but pete's not sweating about his beaches. >> the fruit is looking good. >> reporter: the summer's sizzling temperatures come with a silver lining for some farmers and consumers. every crop from beaches to tomatoes to corn should taste better this year. >> everything we eat has sugar in it, natural sugar, and the drier it is, the sweeter it's going to be. >> reporter: new jersey was one of three states that had the warmest month of june on record. in all 34 states stretching from the northeast to the southwest had above-average temperatures in june with no signs of changing any time soon. >> we've got this area of the high pressure that is stuck right over the central and southeastern part of the country. >> reporter: so if the heat means misery for most people, some farmers are looking at their best season in years. >> and a lot of people are talking about how hot this year is. this is like an old-fashioned summer. this is what summer is all about. >> reporter: but there is a down si

but as michelle miller tells us, wait a minute. >> what happened on the plane, steven? >> reporter: since monday, steven slater has been riding a wave of praise as a working man's hero pushed to his limit. >> thank you all so much. it's been amazing, the support. >> reporter: but now passengers are challenging his account, saying he was repeatedly rude and unprofessional. >> not a hello, not a smile, nothing. >> reporter: howard deneroff, a radio host in new york, claims slater was testy. >> he reached over, hit the button himself, and smacked the back of the seat to pull it up but it didn't go anywhere, as i had told him, it was already up. >> reporter: loren wood told our affiliate kdka by phone she felt mistreated. >> he literally just walked away from me. he was so rude the entire flight and a lot of other passengers that i spoke to said the same thing. >> reporter: slater claims his forehead was knicked by a passenger either closing a door or moving her luggage. several on aboard saw the injury but none who have spoken saw how it happened. >> honestly, when i first

>> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, new orleans. >> that is the "cbs evening news." for katie couric, i'm erica hill. i'll see you in the morning on the "early show." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org homeowners blame electrical currents from muni... so - who >>> it's the leak that will not die. home owners blame electrical currents from muni. who will pick up the tab for the latest busted pipe? >>> how about this as a keepsake for your trip to northern california? your plane on fire. >> a bay area sewage leak much worse than first thought. >>> good evening, i'm allen martin. the news starts now. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good evening, i'm dana king. it is an ongoing mystery that we have been reporting on now for three years. a san francisco neighborhood where residents believe stray electric current from muni is causing water pipes to rupture. last night we saw it again, multiple gushers. don knapp joins us from 15th ave

as michelle miller reports, the parish is still rebuilding. >> reporter: when the surge stopped and the winds waned, peggy martin's home and garden she spent a lifetime cultivating were gone. >> inside was chaos. but it was totally -- it looked like hiroshima. >> reporter: katrina made landfall in lower plaquemines parish, accessible mostly by ferry and 65 miles south of new orleans. three people died, two of them martin's 80-year-old parents. >> they found them in the front yard over here. both about 50 yards apart. >> reporter: before katrina, about 15,000 people lived on the parish's east and south ends. today, it's about 3500. some low-lying communities look like ghosttowns. nearly 700 families are still living in mobile homes and fema trailers. oystermen gary lost his home and boat. he didn't return to the east bank fishing village for three years and says little has been done. >> this community is still devastated. >> reporter: the bulk of the more than $600 million in federal recovery money has gone to the more populated north section of the parish, leaving those in the lower sec

michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >>> in suburban chicago an unusual sister act. three sisters gave birth within hours of each other in the same hospital on friday and saturday. two girls and one boy. what are the chances of that? their obstetrician says it wasn't planned that way. to add to the happy news, a fourth sister living in california gave birth to a boy on monday. the mothers say they are happy the cousins will grow up together. sounds like a lot of diapers. >>> this morning on "the early show," back to school fashions. i'm betty nguyen. this is the "cbs morning news." there's oil out there we've got to capture. my job is to hunt it down. i'm fred lemond, and i'm in charge of bp's efforts to remove oil from these waters. bp has taken full responsibility for the cleanup and that includes keeping you informed. you may have heard that oil is no longer flowing into the gulf, but our spotter planes and helicopters will keep searching for any oil. we use satellite images, infrared and thermal photography to map and target the oil. we're finding less oil every

michelle miller reports. >> what happened on the plane? >> reporter: since monday steven slater has bony riding a wave of praise as a working man's hero pushed to his limit. >> thank you all so much. it's been amazing the support. >> reporter: now passengers are challenging his account saying he was repeatedly rude and unprofessional. >> not a hello. not a smile. nothing. >> he literally just walked away from me. he was so rude the entire flight. a lot of the other passengers that i spoke to said the same thing. >> reporter: slater claims his forehead was nicked by a passenger either closing a door or moving her luggage. several on board saw the injury, but none who spoke saw how it happened. >> honestly when i first saw it i thought he just cut his head and was on his way to the bathroom to wash it and bandage it and he didn't. i just thought, that's weird. something's not totally right here. >> reporter: in fact, law enforcement officials tell cbs news they've interviewed 70% of the passengers on board and they have yet to corroborate an

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here's michelle miller. >> reporter: with his partner by his side today, steven slater seemed to be taking his strange new celebrity in stride. >> relieved. >> reporter: what are you going to do today? >> i've got a lot of things to do. a lot on my plate. >> reporter: exactly what happened on jetblue flight 1052 is still in dispute, but that didn't stop animators in taiwan from animating the confrontation with a passenger. and slater's dramatic exit on the plane's evacuation slide beer in hand. after unleashing on the unruly passenger on the intercom. >> he said "[no audio] just told me to [no audio], go [no audio] it's been a great 28 years, i'm out of here." >> reporter: he's become a folk hero to some, surprising even himself, as he told the "new york times". >> for 20 years we've thought about it but you never think you're going to do it. >> reporter: there's no denying the chord he struck. from 140,000 facebook fans to the "free steven slater" t-shirts, even a song. ♪ flight attendant and hero... >> reporter: it's even reached into the white house where press secretary robert gibbs

michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> couric: and in the gulf, so close yet so far. on day 113, drilling of a relief well was stopped just 30 feet from completion. a strong storm is headed toward the b.p. well site and could become a tropical depression, drilling could be delayed for three days. meanwhile, more federal waters were reopened to fishing today, more than 5,000 square miles along the florida panhandle. no oil has been spotted there since july 3. and coming up next here on the "cbs evening news," the las vegas most of us never see-- below the famous strip. and later, the new toast of times square is a pop-tart. [ susan ] i hate that the reason we're always stopping is because i have to go to the bathroom. and when we're sitting in traffic, i worry i'll have an accident. be right back. so today i'm finally going to talk to my doctor about overactive bladder. [ female announcer ] if you're suffering, today is the day to talk to your doctor and ask about prescription toviaz. one toviaz pill a day significantly reduces sudden urges and accidents all day and al

we're joined here in jackson square by michelle miller. you lived here how many years? >> nine years here. nine years. some of the best years of my life. >> absolutely. and your husband's roots run so deep here. >> very deep. we got married in that very church. >> it's emotional for you just standing here. >> it is. it really is. to be here to tell the story about this amazing band called the roots of music and to talk about them is to talk more about the marching band itself. they are part of an after-school program. its goal is to really keep these kids focused, keep them off the streets. so many of them, well, awful them, lived through the nightmare of katrina. >> one of new orleans levees has been breached. >> nothing done about it. >> reporter: johnny schwartz was 6 years old, his brother jonathan 8, when hurricane katrina hit. >> we was living in a two-story house. in the morning, the whole downstairs was flooded. i was like oh, my god. >> reporter: with the waters rising, the whole family got in a boat and made their way out. >> i remember we slept on the bridge

michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> mitchell: there is more disturbing news this sunday about an iowa egg producer involved in the recall of more than a half-billion eggs. the eggs have been linked to as many as 1,300 cases of salmonella poisoning. barry peterson has the latest. >> reporter: the recall centers on a company with a long list of legal woes owned by austin jack decoster, who turned a farm with 125 chickens into an operation with 15 million hens. decoster's troubles go back to 1997 and a $2 million fine. then labor secretary robert reich said workers were forced to live in rat-infested trailers and handle manure and dead chickens with their bare hands. in 2001, the iowa supreme court called decoster a "repeat violator" of state environmental laws for his hog operations. and in 2002, the company paid a $1.5 million settlement in a sexual harassment case over women who were subjected to sexual assault and rape by supervisors. most recently, the company's main operation was fined after it was secretly filmed by an animal rights group showing workers breaking the necks of

michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> there's never a dull moment, is there? >> jennifer aniston, how dare you? i mean, you think any -- i mean, it's just a movie, right? i understand, i guess, both sides, but i think it's a little much about -- >> much ado about nothing? we're probably not done of it yet. we'll hear a little more today. we've got you caught up so now you can talk about it at the office. >>> more to come. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. for strong bones, i take calcium. but my doctor told me that most calcium supplements... aren't absorbed properly unless taken with food. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. citracal. [ female announcer ] maybelline redefines plum. [ woman ] the color of elegance. [ female announcer ] color sensational from maybelline new york. pure pigments for richer, crisper color. honey nectar for our most luscious feel. color sensational. [ woman ] maybe it's maybelline. try the first great-tasting, zero-calorie... natural sweetener borne fro

. >> michelle miller at jfk this morning. thanks. joining us live in our studio this morning is phil catelinet who was a passenger on the plane. what did you see and heard on the plane and remember no expletives, please. >> somebody got upset about a bag. i didn't see anything happen. i didn't hear anything happen only i was waiting to get off the plane. i was about halfway back. and somebody -- one of the flight attendants made this announcement where he swore at a passenger and we -- the few of us that were still waiting to get off thought that's weird, nobody ever swears on the intercom. somebody's going to be in trouble. and then i didn't know there was more to it until i got out of the -- off the plane into the terminal and heard people talking about the emergency slide. and i got to the air train and saw it guy sitting there and, you know -- >> and did you recognize him as a member of the crew? >> i it. i recognized him from the flight. >> so you see him, you're both there, what was his demeanor, did he seem upset, did he seem

it's a dilemma played out in living rooms and the tabloid as michelle miller reports. >> reporter: in hollywood, parent-child relationships can run the gamut from friend to manager to party pal. dina lohan took best friend parenting to a new level, often hitting the party scene with daughter lindsay, who just finished her second stint in jail and is currently back in rehab. >> maybe she shouldn't have been out there so much and lindsay would be on a straighter path. >> reporter: in contrast, country music star taylor swift is by most accounts a well adjusted 20-year-old. >> my mom, you're my best friend. >> reporter: she acknowledged her close relationship with her mom andrea at this year's grammy awards. but striking the right balance between friend and disciplinarian goes well beyond hollywood. >> do you know where the line is drawn? >> i'm learning it. i don't know if anybody ever knows. >> when some parents become more of a peer to their child, i think that's where you run into trouble. >> that's part of the role of parenting. you have to be friends with your kids or your kids won

harry. >> michelle miller in queens this morning. thank you. joining us now is cbs news legal analyst jack ford. jack, good morning. >> good to see you, harry. >> let's talk about these charges, criminal mischief, wreck less endangerment, trespassing. this is not minor stuff. >> it's not minor stuff right now. the question is going to be how is it going to work out down the road. sometimes the toughest decision for the prosecutor is not what am i going to charge somebody with, it's should i charge them in the first place and then where does this case go. i think you're going to see a lot of conversation, negotiations. right now these are not insignificant charges. >> it gets a little confusing. in a statement this guy, slater says, he said basically that oh, yeah, i did this. i'm responsible for this. at the same time when he was being -- you know, getting his bail, he said, well, i'm not guilty. so you have -- at one point you have what it tantamount to a confession. on the other hand you have not guilty. how do you get through all this stuff.

because michelle and one of the daughters is away in spain. and the other daughter is at camp. so, he'll be celebrating solo tonight. >>> that's the news for this >>> hunt for hackers. why power plants and industries could be at big risk, as agents investigate a major cyber threat. >>> then, shocking rampage. what may have driven a gunman to go to his workplace and open fire. >>> and dangerous dozen. warnings about 12 kinds of vitamin supplements. >> liver damage. liver failure. kidney damage. heart attacks. >> it's wednesday, august 4th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> that story's so crazy. people think staying healthy. they're popping the vitamins, getting what they need. and it turns out, they may not be good for you. kind of frightening. >> these are 12 common dietary supplements. it's story you want to stick around for this morning. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. federal agents are investigating what may be a security threat to power plants and industries. >> the threat comes from computer

. >> ifill: jonathon miller of independent television news has an update on the floods in pakistan that have killed more than 1,000 people his weekend. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown has a book conversation with ocean explorer jean-michel cousteau about his famous father, jacques cousteau. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the president boasted of progress in iraq today as the american combat effort, if not the diplomatic one, winds down. mr. obama spoke to a disabled veterans convention in atlanta. >> as a candidate for president i pledge to bring the war in iraq to a responsible end. >> reporter: and today addressing the disabled american veterans, president obama declared the american-led war is nearing its end. >> shortly after taking office i announced our new strategy for iraq a