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and mark phillips on the queen's 60th anniversary. a smile has been her umbrella through a steady reign. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it's getting more dangerous by the hour in syria. so dangerous today that today u.s. diplomats evacuated the country, the embassy is now closed and britain recalled its ambassador. this is the city of homs, captured on cell phone video, under bombardment by the government. the 40-year dictatorship of the assad family. the uprising began in syria 11 months ago. the u.n. estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed, many of them civilians. why does syria matter? have a look at the neighborhood. what happens in syria will have big implications for neighboring israel and for the u.s. the government of bashar al-assad does not want the outside world to see what's happening inside syria. reporters are not welcome. but our clarissa ward managed to get in to introduce us to some of the rebels who are rising against the government. >>

today phillips called gingrich's campaign a disaster. former house majority leader dick armey, who has not endorsed a candidate, is equally blunt. >> i think he's digressed into a state of taking a second-rate campaign and turning it into a first-rate vendetta. >> reporter: gingrich says he is retooling his campaign to draw a sharp contrast are with romney, defining himself as the true conservative candidate, a message that worked for him in south carolina. >> the elite media would love to talk us into nominating another moderate. >> reporter: gingrich think it is tide will turn in his favor in march when more southern states are voting like georgia and tennessee beginning on super tuesday. but now with gingrich's stumbles romney is turning his fire to rorp. he's been campaigning hard as the conservative alternative to romney and, scott, the polls show he could edge gingrich in the three states that vote tomorrow. >> pelley: and those states are colorado, missouri, and minnesota. thanks, jan. in this winter that wasn't, natural gas price

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what is interesting here is this is amme phillips. "girl in a red dress." he has cats and some have dogs. or he makes some which are actually boys on the left side. he also changes the color of the garment on others. in other cases, he drops the child on to the lap of her mother. what he has really done is developed a formula. these are formulaic images. they have similar shapes and designs. he has these formulas. it is a repetition which allows him to work efficiently. i think it is really quite striking. the girls all sit with their arms crossing their bodies diagonally. they have a kind looking dog lying at their feet. it really stands out. i think what's important here as you can see from the quotation is that john vanderlind says this is a way in the 1820s of making a living. the people in the provincial area are so eager for the goods that there is a fellow here moving through the countryside meeting demand. unlike an urban station where you have a painter in a studio where customers come to him, these are moving throughout the country side to find cu

matched only by 88-year-old prince phillip. whenever they go off on a trip together like that, the lord chamberlain always accompanies to the airport, and phillip turns around and waves at him and says, mind the shop. [laughter] i got a real sense of how much in sync phillip and elizabeth are with an expert choreography sort of like fred astaire and ginger rogers. i also saw aspects of him that contradict his caricature of brashness and insensitivity. he always watches the queen intently to see whether she needs any assistance. i once saw him bring a little child over to greet her. he often spots people in the crowd who can't see very well, and he'll walk them out to give them a better vantage point. when the queen needs a boost, he's also there with a humorous aside such as don't be so sad, sausage. [laughter] on the last night in trinidad, i also witnessed at close range what i had heard about from several people, that the queen doesn't perspire even in the hottest temperatures. the british high commissioner was hosting a gar

what is interesting here is this is ammi phillips. "girl with red dress." he makes lots of girls with red dresses, and some have cats and dogs. some just have cats, i'm sorry -- yeah, and some which are actually boys on the left-hand side. he also changes the color of the garment on others. in other cases, he drops the child sort of miniaturizes her and drops her onto the lap of her mother. what he has really done is developed a formula. these are formulaic images. which all have similar shapes, similar decorative designs. he has, they are formulas. it is a repetition which allows him to work efficiently. i think it is really quite striking. the girls all sit with their arms crossing their bodies diagonally. they have a kind looking dog lying at their feet. it really stands out. i think what's important here as you can see from the quotation is that john vanderlind, who is an academic painter, says this is a way in the 1820s of making a living. the people in the provincial area are so eager for the goods that there is a fellow here who is moving through the

never. >> but when phillip mails his letters, they never travel outside the prison walls. his girl friend, connie, is also serving time at hasselt. >> 14 years together. >> while the hundreds of letters symbolize their love, ironically it was a bonnie & clyde like robbery spree of post offices that brought them here. >> we are so close that we going together in hell, you know. we give our life for each other. >> since belgian post offices also offer banking services, they were the couple's prime target. >> i told her many times, i say, connie, you know, we have to be careful. it's bad luck to be caught, you know? she said, yeah, we have to stop. and then i say yes. and after i say, no, we need the money, you know. >> on their ninth robbery, they were not only caught, phillip accidentally shot himself in the leg trying to escape. but the pain was more than just physical. >> i failed to my promise to her, you know, to give her a better life. >> fortunately for connie and phillip they're incarcerated in a nation that understands the power of love. the couple is allowed to see

phillips'. we have some rain on the way. what an amazing winter season this has been in the chicago area. the first 15 days of february have averaged about 11 degrees warmer than last year. we had some sunshine this morning and that was kind of nice. and now we have the clouds ... a weather system is heading in our direction. it will still be a measurable amount of rain showing up this evening. this was an interesting statistic ... 10 days this winter have had more than 1 in. of snow on the ground and we had way more last year as we remember. >>this is a very interesting temperature map the arctic air mass has made a full-scale retreat well up over the border toward hudson bay. but it does it feel with the wind chill that it is 23 degrees but we are eight degrees warmer than we were 24 hours ago. the wind is blowing south ... some weather systems shift trained to snow but our dew point is above the freezing temperature level so that won't be happening tonight. we are in the low 40's at midway airport ... the normal high this

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commander, the smaller vessels under commander samuel phillips lead as high as vicksburg. these force the surrender of baton rouge. when lee reaches vicksburg and demanded its cupitchulation the governor sent a cheeky reply. mississippians don't know and refuse to learn how to surrender to any enemy. if they can teach them, let them come and try. farragut would soon come and try. he decided to take most of the fleet up to vicksburg, including a large sea going sloots of war at a fairly high stage of the river. and that's late spring. but he was not happy about this prospect. in letters to his wife he complained of the navy department's pressure on him in ignorance of the difficulties he faced. they will keep us in the river until the vessels break down and the reputation we made is evaporated. the government appears to think we can do anything. fighting is nothing to the river. to secretary wells farragut reported the elements of destruction to the navy in this river are beyond anything i have encountered. more anchors lost and vesseled ruined than any i have seen in a lif

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phillips'. >>shepard: millions of americans feeling the effects of the foreclosure crisis but today we got word of a massive settlement that could ease the pain for homeowners in 40 states. the five largest mortgage lenders on the screen here have agreed to spend $17 billion if relief for americans who owe more money than their homes are actually worth. those companies will also hand out checks worth about $2,000 each to people would lost their homes in a foreclosure. this comes after bad lending practices came to light including what we know as robo signing, a system where banks approved certain loans without going through the prop verification. but a few states have not yet signed on to the settlement including new york, california, and nevada. the attorney general in nevada says the homeowners there deserve a better dole. and now the founder and c.e.o. of a firm that advises and a professor of american military university. how good is this? >>guest: great if you are a bank. we have not gone t

phillips'. >> jeff: the extreme cold snap continues in europe. london's heathrow airport canceled roughly half its 1300 scheduled flights today because of snow. nine days now of bitter temperatures across europe are blamed for more than 200 deaths. the snow is also piling up in colorado and that increases the risk of avalanches. john blackstone tonight reports one snowboarder stuck in a dramatic snow slide is thank a safety device for saving her life. >> reporter: what began as an exhilarating ride down a colorado back country slope suddenly turned to horror for professional snowboarder meesh hytner. of me ripple. it was really unsettling to see the ground ripple. it was just like, like the earth was breathing. there is nothing you can do in that situation. once an avalanche has you, you're not going anywhere. >> reporter: what saved her was an avalanche escape device, an air bag worn in a backpack. when she pulled the chord it kept her on top of the snow as it cascade down the mountain. at $800 the air bags are something few snowboarders carry w

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mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> pelley: and that's the end of our story tonight. for our story at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is 9news now. >>> our winter weather roller coaster is about to hit one big drop. the road crews are out there pretreating the highways. the threat of winter weather is moving in. tomorrow about now, parts of our area could be under an inch or two of snow. it's hard to believe how nice it's been today. >> our temperature is in the mid 50s with lots of sunshine, but things are going to be changing quickly. we have clouds moving in tonight ahead of the area of low pressure. we have the cold air in place for tomorrow. and then we'll see that chance for some snow coming into the area. here's a look at our satellite and radar picture. the area of low pressure is already dropping to showers out towards st. louis and nashville and tennessee. is

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they don't want to know wendell phillips. they don't even want to know lymon trumble. and i'm saying that we ought to teach young white children wendell phillips' name, who said -- and 94 years before king, 133 years before mandela that he wanted to create a rainbow nation composed of the learned and the ignorant, the old and the young, the black and the white, paying an, christian, jew -- pagan, christian, jew, all in one great procession, marching toward a rainbow land. he said that 100 years ago. that ought to be taught if we're gog to overcome the madness in this country. going back to abigail adams, who really were in favor of the liberation of black people, we need to know black people like frederick douglass, etc. >> again, my facts may not be right on the money, but a couple of weeks ago, president inton std in front of the anderson cottage out here at the old soldier's home, $750,000 to repair it. i think he mentioned it was in this cottage that abraham lincoln wrote a lot of the emancipation proclamation, implying that's very positive, very good. kind of conn

phillips'. florida tea party congresswoman allen ashley webster -- webb has strong opinions. >> i can see personally, absolutely. we don't need a fight. but people need to say this is who i am. and these are the viable solution . and allow the people to decide who is best to go in the aren a. >> you foresee it going all the way to the convention? >> it will be entering on super tuesday in march. right now it is a fluid atmosphere and volatile. i think tuesday will give an indication. >> i know you have concern the controversy with the white house over contraceptives and religious institutions, why do you think that this white house is pushing this issue right now in >> the white house listens in itself and you look at key stone exhale issue and makes no sense. there is an inner circle that the president is listening two and they don't understand the constitution. pilgrims came here to escape persecution . the federal government has no right to man date things to individuals contrary to the relig

phillip, downtown l.a. pretty much clear, we are picking up a few clouds through the area, mid-level clouds, 50 degrees now downtown riverside, that should be 45 -- i don't know why they continue to misreport but they do, 50 oxnard, 52 santa monica, 40 burbank, long beach at 50. a little front pushing through the area as we anticipated with the ridge building in, coinciding with each other. there's the front, washing through, that's where the clouds are and it be more sunny than not so don't worry about it, then the ridge kicks in over the next couple of degrees, 68 riverside, anaheim, 67, two, three, 4 degrees in some spots, 65 downtown, 65 high deserts, 66 north ridge, santa clarita, 66, you look great, thousand oaks coming in at 65. here is the 746 -- seven-day powered by accuweather. look at tomorrow, we start to bump it up, more on friday, saturday, sunday, promising to look nice. we'll get winds for about a day on friday, maybe late thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, we'll be stuck through the extend

phillips'. developments out of the middle east monday. u.n. weapons inspectors went back into iran today. this their second visit in less than a month. president obama will indeed sit down with the israeli prime minister in early march. meanwhile, iran and israel, as we all know, have been exchanging heated rhetoric. especially in recent weeks. there's renewed violence elsewhere in the region. yemen seeing an escalation ahead oaf the election to replace their current president, who has ruled more than three decades. and if that wasn't enough, republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham calling for the u.s. to consider arming syrian opposition forces. it wasn't long ago that we were talking about the same thing with libyan rebels. lots to talk about with the panel. imogen lloyd webber, tim carney. one, american energy independence. we have to get out of there. we have to get out of there now. that's not going to happen for a long time no matter what i say. the second factor, with the hypocrisy, who is paying who and this nonsense and dep

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phillips'. >>> welcome back. with the economy getting better, republicans are desperately looking around for a new talking point to use against the president. they think they found one. gas prices. >> his policy has been outrageously anti-american energy. the high price of gasoline is a direct result of obama. >> if he's re-elected, he'll continue to put the hold on natural gas and oil and coal. >> the president of the united states, when he ran for office, talked about -- talked about how we need higher prices for gasoline. >> but today the president hit back in a big way. >> they are already dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas. and i'll save you the suspense. step one is to drill and step two is to drill. and then step three is to keep drilling. the american people aren't stupid. they know that's not a plan. especially since we're already drilling. that's a bumper sticker. it's not a strategy to solve our energy challenge. >> the president is right. we can't drill our way to lower pr

phillipe. tonight these forts mounted 126 big sea coast guns, most of them bearing on the river to try to blow out of the water any fleet attempting to come up the river. in addition the confederates have put together a fleet of eight gun boats from river steam boats, one small iron clad and another large but uncompleted iron clad, the css louisiana which had its guns in place but didn't have the engines in working order so it was anchored near the forts as a floating battery. the fleet was supported by an army of 15,000 union soldiers commanded by major general benjamin butler, probably not much of a military asset for the union effort. and, indeed, the public expected the navy to do the heavy work, just as a fleet had done at port royal, south carolina, five months earlier. iowa senator james grimes, a member of the senate committee on naval affairs told assistant secretary of the navy, fox, the country looks to the navy. don't wait for the army. take new orleans and hold it until the army co