. >> i'm like thomas edison. he invented the light bulb but ge made it better. that's what we do. >> reporter: you're calling yourself the thomas edison of mutton busting? >> absolutely. who else does this? we have four arenas giving the kids the time of their lives. >> here we go. come on. >> reporter: tommy travels the country putting on these shows and says he'll launch 10,000 kids into the ring this year alone. up from 2,500 a few years ago. you're on the road, you and your sheep. >> yeah, me and the girls. >> reporter: he talks like he's been hanging around sheep a little too long. >> it's the toughest sport on wool. >> reporter: you need some new slogans. what else have you got? >> no fluff is too tough. we're the mutton mafia, know what i mean? nobody messes with us. >> reporter: we didn't witness any injuries, but the sport is clearly not without risk. so why do it? worried at all? >> about? >> reporter: safety? >> no, kids heal. there's no point in overprotecting them and raising a bunch of sissies. they need to be boys. >> reporter: 5-year-old dylan ha

thomas edison. here is a document which biographers would naturally want to quote. however, i noted he liked to smoke cigars in private. why did he write this diatribe against cigarette smoking? because henry ford, the recipient of his letter, happened to be fanatically opposed to smoking. he had obviously written to edison to ask him to write a letter on a subject that he could use to promote his cause so edison wrote for his friend apparently sincere condemnation of smoking. in other words, he inflicted his letter towards the desires and sensibilities of his correspondent. is that document a true reflection of the way edison thought about tobacco smoking? no. it is not. so the barter for has to take into account the fact that every document is going to have an agenda of some sort or other. when i was writing my biography of theodore roosevelt, it was one of the most articulate of writers. he was a gifted, perpetuating machine. constantly pouring out his soul. in 150,000 letters during his short life, 40 books, count was magazine articles, no biographer has been ab

and i found this letter, handwritten, in 1914 by thomas edison to his big buddy, henry ford. and it's about smoking, and he says something like your ford, dear friend ford, he said, in his exquisite handwriting, the damage done by cigarette smoking is largely due to the paper in which cigarettes are wrapped. the burning paper creates a chemical compound called something something, i've forgotten the words, which lodges in the lungs. and will lodges in the lungs of young people, it forms an uncontrolled habit and a disease which is ultimately fatal. and for this reason i never employee cigarette smokers in any of my factories. signed, thomas edison. so here's a document, which biographers would naturally want to quote. however, i know that he liked to smoke cigars in private. why did he write this diatribe against cigarette smoking? because henry ford, the recipient of his letter, happened to be fanatically opposed to smoking. e. had written to edison to ask them to write a letter on the subject that he could use to promote his cause, so edison wrote for his friend, apparently

what do you think thomas edison would think of all this? >> i think thomas edison would say, what took you so long. >> reporter: but fans of edison's finest disagree and are crying, let there be light later on sunday morning. >> osgood: then on to a young singer who is going places and has come a long way already as tracy smith will show us. ♪. >> reporter: his music has taken him all over the world. his indomitable spirit has taken him to even more surprising places. you repeled down a 3-story building. >> yeah. what a treat. >> reporter: singer/songwriter justin hine later on sunday morning. >> osgood: christopher plummer is a veteran actor of great ability and durability who by his own account is only just getting started. anthony mason has paid him a visit. >> the enemies of my friends are my enemies. >> reporter: with a key role in the girl with the dragon tattoo, christopher plummer's now appeared in more than 90 films. in many ways it feels like you're in the prime with your movie career. >> extraordinary. i work harder and more fr

edison in ven toro del bombinll de electricidad, todo fue por un mÉtodo de reciclar que tanto ayudÓ a su comunidad. >> liliana ch tiene la historia. >> lejos del elegante estrado en londres donde recibiÓ la medalla a la innovaciÓn encontramos a albina ruÍz recorriendo los barrios mÁs pobres de lima. >> desechos que esta peruana convirtiÓ en un negocio rentable transformando la vida de 11 mil recicladoras tratando de buscar algo que pudieran vender por centavos. >> definitivamente van a tener enfermedades a la piel, respiratorias. >> les propuso crear micro empresas de recoger basura no de los boto ders de las casas. >> no le llamamos basura, le llamamos residuos sÓlidos es materia prima para otro proceso. >> aquÍ hay dinero. >> y eso lo saben recicladores entrenados por albina, venden el cartÓn, botellas y vidrio directamente a empresas que les pagan por toneladas que re utilizarÁn. >> ahora somos nosotros mismos los empresarios. >> fuera de los ingresos muchas recicladoras ganan un dinero extra haciendo estos delicados adornos con las botellass plÁsticas o madera que reco

it's basketball season, thomas edison, tc williams on the list, hill versus stevens agnes, three yes deer roosevelt versus baloo. you can catch the vote at high school sports.net. >>> finally tonight it was the rams 49ers game on sunday. that's alden smith running to the side. >> he thought "i'll just go sit down and be a good boy." >> which he did. >> that's it for us. >> good night, everybody >>> >> pelley: tonight, a surprise decision from the obama administration. young teenagers will not be allow to the buy the morning after pill without a prescription. wyatt andrews on what's behind the decision. anna werner reports fired penn state coach jerry sandusky has been arrested again on 12 new charges. inside syria-- charissa ward takes us to an underground hospital where rebels, wounded by assad's army, are treated in secret. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

an old friend fading out, why thomas edison may be turning in his grave. megyn: it could be the end of the old fashioned light bulb as we know it. in the 19th century thomas edison changed american history when he lit homes using an incandescent bulb. on january 1st, 2012 the federal government will tighten its grasp on how you light your home. gerri willis is here. >> reporter: they are phasing the bulb out over several years. that is when the 100 watt incandescent bulbs will no longer be manufactured in this country. then a year later the 75 watt bulbs go. 2014, 60 and 40 watt incandescent bulbs will be history in this country. reality is that retailers can continue to sell them as long as they have them but it's all about if they get manufactured and when they go out of business with that. megyn. megyn: so you are not going to be able to buy these bulbs within a few years. how can you get them now before it's too late? are they still going to be on the shelves. >> reporter: you bet, that is right. that is the good news, retailers are still stocking them

edison's company in about 1893. and what would happen is people would come up and they would pay 25 cents to see a row of five of these, and it would show about a minute-long movie. so, if you want to come around, you can take a look in here. [ old-time piano music plays ] wow! that's so cool! that's so cool! what's next? >> let's go. so, over here, we have all the work and craft that goes into making special effects, so for things like "nightmare on elm street 4," but what of course i want to show you is yoda, which is very popular among teens and kids and adults. >> hi, yoda. [ chuckles ] yoda looked so real, i thought he might actually wave back. next, we stopped by the automated dialogue replacement booth. actors use rooms like this to fix movie soundtracks when there are problems with the original recording. >> my mom called us all the same. >> and what was that, dear? >> she -- she called us all "babe." >> you have three lines to replace. first, you will rehearse. then, you will record. >> the results come out

thomas edison versus t.c. williams. all boys game for the girls and osbourne also girls. >> get a will the of exciting action coming up at the end of the week. >> that's it for us now on 9news now at 6:00. the cbs evening news is next. >> derek is back at 7:00. you can always find us at wusa9.com. good night. >> pelley: tonight, inside syria. clarissa ward travels to meet syrian army defectors who refuse to fire on their own people. >> reporter: we left at night and were blindfolded in the backseat as the car twisted along back roads outside of damascus. >> pelley: the battle for iowa. our new poll tonight finds newt gingrich opening a wide lead. dean reynolds is there. in the investigation of a possible death by hazing, florida a&m defends itself but anna werner speaks to the victim's parents. and the final days. jim axelrod is with american soldiers as they get ready to leave iraq

check out these games, thomas edison, stevens, st. agnus. dunbar, that's the girls game. and osbourne versus hilton. that's also a girls game. >> all right. exciting game. >> a lot of stuff going on. >> that's it for us. the cbs evening news is next. good evening, everybody. >> pelley: tonight, what the dictator doesn't want you to s see. clarissa ward gives us a rare first-hand look at the revolution aimed at syria's bashar al assad. the protesters have a message for him. >> leave now. you've got enough of our blood. >> pelley: the postmaster general delivers a bundle of bad news. nancy cordes reports it includes slower mail and thousands of jobs lost. a woman is raped and then forced to marry her attacker. mandy clark on a case raising calls for justice. and byron pitts with the story of the u.s.

did thomas edison make too much? did henry ford make too much? did steve jobs make too much? does bill gates make too much? no, these people who did not make the nation poorer by them ving done well. they made the nation richer. they made the middle-class better off. the course... if your course in life is to say "how do i keep those top people are from doing so well?" you'll find a nation that's poor. the right course is to say "how can i get more people to do well? how can i encourage more risk takers?" that's the answer. >> rose: we end th appreciation of vaclav havel, former president of check reap, dissident playwright who died yesterday at his vacation home in the north of the czech republic. >> ( translated ): the world of today is a multipolar and multicultural world. and it's necessary to respect different identities. to have understanding and be tolerant. but at the same time, one should know precisely the specifics and (inaudible) and it seems to me that the united states cannot lie its way out of its obligations to be a certain barrier to evil. >> rose: governor a

podrja haber sido, con su ingenio inventivo un thomas edison pero algo dentro de Él, lo llevÓ a un destino diferente. un accidente en la fÁbrica le dejÓ ciego por varios meses. cuando recuperÓ la vista, muir dejÓ su mundo de trabajo para caminar mil seiscientos kilÓmetros hacia florida... persiguiendo su pasiÓn por las ciencias naturales estudiando plantas y flores, y comenzando a escribir un diario que escribirja por el resto de su vida. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ cuando muir comenzÓ esa caminata pensaba llegar hasta sudamÉrica y encontrar el comienzo del amazonas, construir una balsa y flotar hasta el final del rjo. por suerte, debido a una fiebre, posiblemente malaria que lo habja debilitado mucho, reflexionÓ que era mejor irse al oeste por lo que habja escuchado sobre el yosemite. al bajarse de un bote en san francisco, le preguntaron adÓnde querja ir. muir contestÓ: "a cualquier lugar salvaje". y caminÓ. la esencia de john muir es el john muir que camina. inmediatamente cruzÓ el pacheco pass a travÉs del valle central hasta yosemite. y es la acciÓn de caminar la que realmente crea

after thomas edison invented the phonograph in 1877, there was a rush of competition to make sound recording commercially viable. >> edison and the bell had settled on the cylinder as the format. >> alexander graham bell, inventor of the telephone was part of the competition. he sent several sealed tin boxes to protect himself in case of a future patent challenge. the recordings have stored in the smithsonian since the 1880s but with no device to play them, they sat on the shelf. enter karl haber of lawrence berkeley national laboratory. >> we can use the camera to take a large number of pictures of the item and create a very, very detailed digital representation of the structure of the surface. i'm going to rotate the record now. you'll see this starting to move up and down as if a needle was riding up and down. >> around 18,000 optical images are taken for each rotation of the disk. then the computer does its work to play back sound from the images. >> this kind of bowl is the groove that the stylist would sit in. >> there is a reading from shakespeare's hamlet. >> to be or not to be. >> a

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the big leap came in the 1880s when thomas edison lit homes across america with the bulb. for the next 130 years, incandescents ruled the night, the road, and especially the christmas tree. but today, the last glowing filaments are burning out. beginning with the new year, federal law will require all lightbulbs to be 25% more efficient. leaving edison's beacan late night fun in the dark and to the compact fluorescent. >> you may install a lightbulb when your kids are born and it will still be burning when they go to college. >> this one is about $9 and this runs about $2. >> concerns over prices have even reached the campaign trail. >> i believe in liberty for lightbulbs. >> many consumers complain the newer bulbs don't look right. >> there's a push back from a lot of people who say i'm sitting in my living room. i want a warm comfortable light. i want it to be warm. >> some of the early compact products, they were not ready for prime time. they buzz. they had lousy color. they made everything grayish green. >> so while they aren't winning any prizes. >> this lightbulb do

he is more like henry ford or thomas edison. he really cares about the country. patriotism has become kind of a cheap word. ross perot was kind of a superpatriot. he wants to do what is right for our country. this comes out of his naval academy background. his constant service to our country looking for pows and mias during vietnam and constantly supporting our special forces. you just ran tells you that in 1992, perot was always on the central issue of our national election. today we are at 15 trillion dollars in debt. what he was talking about that great sucking sounds of the jobs leaving america due to nafta outsourcing, it is probably on the left of the issue that most disturbs middle-class americans. that jobs have gone overseas and many middle america accounts are languishing. >> the issues he talked about in his campaign are being echoed by the tea party people on the right in the occupied wall street people on the left. >> exactly. he is a centrist. you cannot look at ross perot as the paradigm of typical politics. we often want to label people as right o

soon it will be against the law to sell thomas edison's incandescent lightbulb. the symbol of american innovation. this kind of government intrusion in our lives has left many americans in the dark about what's next. government invasion in our lives is only increasing. since the federal government has take the power to choose away from americans, people are flocking to the local wal-marts to hoard the last of the incandescent light bulbs. government controls so much of our live notice name that government is smarter than we are. but for now, it's turn out the lights, the party's over, for thomas edison's incandescent light bulb and that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, the national move to interfere with voting rights of eligible citizens is deliberate. in 2011 the number of states requiring strict forms of government-issued i.d.'s has ne

edison were people that inspired him in business. >> taylorsville, illinois. this is ed. hello. ed, are you there? >> yes. from taylorville, illinois. >> yes, sir. >> i voted for perot in 1992. and i believe that's how clinton got elected and bush didn't seem like he cared whether he got elected or not. >> thanks very much. do you think that ross perot was responsible for the election of bill clinton, carolyn? >> i do. and i think there were two impacts. one is he -- similar to teddy roosevelt, he split the republican vote. and in that way, roosevelt denied taft a second term. perot split the conservative vote. and denied bush a second term. but he did another thing, i think, by getting in the race, and beating up on bush all along the way, kind of softened him up for clinton to come in and make the kill. so i think it was sort of a two tiered effect there. and i do -- i'm not sure how the campaign would have played out without him. but i certainly think that part. impact of his being in the race was that clinton was elected. >> next call is from rick in memph

he is more like henry ford or thomas edison. he really cares about the country. patriotism has become kind of a cheap word. ross perot was kind of a superpatriot. he wants to do what is right for our country. this comes out of his naval academy background. his constant service to our country looking for pows and mias during vietnam and constantly supporting our special forces. the clips you just ran tells you that in 1992, perot was always on the central issue of our national election, the debt. today we are at $15 trillion in debt. what he was talking about that great sucking sounds of the jobs leaving america due to nafta outsourcing, it is probably on the left of the issue that most disturbs middle-class americans. jobs have gone overseas and many middle america towns are languishing. >> the issues he talked about in his campaign are being echoed by the tea party people on the right in the occupy wall street people on the left. >> exactly. he is a centrist. you cannot look at ross perot as the paradigm of typical politics. we often want to label people as righ

the big leap came in the 1880s when thomas edison lit homes across america with the incandescent bulb. for the next 130 years. they ruled the roads and especially the christmas tree. but today they're burning out. beginning with the new year, federal law will require all light bulbs to be 25% more efficient, leaving edison's beacon of late night fun out in the dark and flipping the switch to its more frugal counterpart, like the long-lasting compact fluorescent. >> you might install a light bulb in your foyer when your kids are born and that light bulb will still be in there working no problems when the kids go off to college. >> reporter: but not everybody is thrill would the change. for one thing, the alternatives are more expensive up front. >> this runs about $9 and this runs about $2. >> reporter: concerns over prices have even reached the campaign trail. >> i believe in liberty for light bulb. >> reporter: many consumer complain the newer bulbs just don't look right. >> there is a pushback from a lot of people who say, i'm sitting in my living room, i want a warm, comfortable li

after thomas edison invented the phonograph in 1877, there was a rush of competition to make sound recording commercially viable. alexander graham bell, inventor of the television was part of the competition. he sent early prototypes of recordings. the recordings have been stored in the smithsonian since the 1880s, but with no way to play them, they sat on the shelf. >> we can use this camera to take a large number of pictures of the item and create a very, very detailed digital representation of the structure of the surface. i'm going to rotate the record now and you'll see? starting to move up and down, as if a needle was riding up and down on it. >> as many as 18,000 optical images are taken. >> this kind of a bowl is the groove that the stylus would sit in. mary had a little lamb. >> at that point, the first part of the record ends. something apparently went wrong. it's probably the first recorded example of somebody being disappointed. >> reporter: the digital imaging system -- the smithsonian has about 200 audio recording from alexander graham bell. so far they have used the optical im

andrew carnegie, alexander graham bell, thomas edison were all immigrants or sons of immigrants. so we got to get an immigrant policy that helps people like me build businesses in america by attracting the world's best minds. immigrants don't take jobs. they make jobs. >> clayton: you mentioned steve jobs and in bringing in some of the best and brightest engineers in the country, but also spending money on research and development and improving that work force, how do you continue to improve a work force when you might not have a lot of money to do it? >> what i believe is this, is that over the next decade, i mean, governor romney said essentially we got to get back to american exceptionalism. i believe america will get back to american exceptionalism and that will create the jobs that 20 million americans right now are so desperately waiting for. one of the things we have to do is to educate them. education isn't just a college degree. more than half the jobs we will create in this next decade are technical jobs, jobs like i need, machine operators, cab operator, cnc operators.

>> reporter: after thomas edison invented the phone graf in 1877 there was a rush of competition among scientists to make sound recording commercially viable. >> edison and the bells had settled on the cylinder as the format. >> reporter: alexander graham bell, inventor of the telephone, was part of the competition. he sent several sealed tin boxes to the smithsonian institution with early prototypes of recordings to protect himself in case of a future patent challenge. stored since the earl 1880s. with no device to play them they sat on the shelf. enter carl haber of lawrence brookings laboratory. >> use this camera to take a large number of pictures of the item and create a very, very detailed digital representation of the structure of the surface. i'm going to rotate the record now and you'll see this starting to move up and down, as it the needle was riding up and down in it. >> reporter: around 18,000 optical images taken of the disc, then the computer does its work to play back sounds from the image. >> this kind of bowl is the groove that the stylist would sit in. >> reporter: t

. >> apparently his grandfather was a master electrician, he spent time with thomas edison himself so he might know a few things about electricity, light bulbs, etc. the new candescent is different, it slips through the loophole of incandescent bulbs that could survive. >> it's like a light bulb in a subway station. it's a little tougher than being in your refrigerator or something like that. he's figured a way, he loves the glow that the incandescent light bulb gives out rather than those light bulbs made in china and have murky in them as well. >> cheap and long lasting may be the answer they're looking for in this debate. >> way to go. >> rest of the headlines. president obama apologizing for the nato air strike that left 24 pakistani soldiers dead. he called the president and let him know the u.s. will conduct a full investigation. president obama's apology comes after u.s. personnel began leaving the air force base this weekend. pakistan ordered them off the base following the deadly attack. >> u.s. postal service announcing more bad news with major cuts today. it's slowing servi

edison were people that inspired him in business. >> taylorsville, illinois. this is ed. hello. ed, are you there? >> yes. from taylorville, illinois. >> yes, sir. >> i voted for perot in 1992. and i believe that's how clinton got elected and bush didn't seem like he cared whether he got elected or not. >> thanks very much. do you think that ross perot was responsible for the election of bill clinton, carolyn? >> i do. and i think there were two impacts. one is he -- similar to teddy roosevelt, he split the republican vote. and in that way, roosevelt denied taft a second term. perot split the conservative vote. and denied bush a second term. but he did another thing, i think, by getting in the race, and beating up on bush all along the way, kind of softened him up for clinton to come in and make the kill. so i think it was sort of a two tiered effect there. and i do -- i'm not sure how the campaign would have played out without him. but i certainly think that part. impact of his being in the race was that clinton was elected. >> next call is from rick in memph