many are inside. >> we will be back with u.s. 6:00. >> pelley: tonight, the president's secret trip to afghanistan. >> we have a clear path to fulfill our mission in afghanistan while delivering justice to al qaeda. >> pelley: norah o'donnell has breaking news. on the first anniversary of the killing of bin laden, a question for the man who ran the mission. was there ever a notion of capturing osama bin laden in this mission? >> yes. >> pelley: the f.b.i. says anarchists tried to blow up this ohio bridge. john miller has details. which way is the economy heading? rebecca jarvis has new evidence. and the life and times of mike wallace memorialized today. >> mike loved being mike wallace. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: and this is a special western edition. good evening. president obama addressed the nation tonight from afghanistan. he made an unannounced trip there today to mark the first anniversary of the death of osama bin laden and to sign a security agreement that pledges continued u.s. support for afghanistan after u.s.

change his schedule at all, despite this security breach. >> pelley: they usually keep those things secret until the president lands. norah, i wonder, with the speech being scheduled tonight on the anniversary of bin laden's death, one might ask whether this has been carefully timed for the u.s. presidential election. >> reporter: well, there are some republicans who are going to charge that-- and have charged-- that president obama is exploiting the death of bin laden for political gain. but this trip to afghanistan was part of a long-planned trip because they've been actually working for 20 months on this strategic partnership agreement. and, remember, it also sets up this big nato summit in chicago later this month where they will talk about transitioning u.s. forces out of a combat role and training afghan security forces. >> pelley: norah, thanks very much. it's important to remember the context of the president's trip. he's traveling to afghanistan at one of the worst moments in u.s./afghan relations. in recent weeks, a u.s. soldier was arrested in the massacre of 17 afghan ci

new-age communications. the web company breathing new life into a bay area landmark. >> >> pelley: breaking news: america's largest bank admits to massive losses. j.p. morgan says risky trades and exotic investments have cost it $2 billion, maybe more. anthony mason has the fast- developing details. new revelations today in the hazing death of a drum major forces a big resignation at florida a&m. mark strassmann is covering. mitt romney apologizes for doing what he calls "stupid things" after he's accused of bullying a high school classmate. jan crawford on the political fallout. and byron pitts with the principal who is teaching kids the way out of poverty. >> he is an inspiration. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're beginning tonight with breaking news that will rattle the struggling financial markets. j.p. morgan chase, america's biggest bank, just admitted it has suffered massive trading losses that cost the company $2 billion. the head of the bank says it is the result of "sloppiness and bad judgment." s

>> pelley: tonight, the monsignor takes the stand. the highest ranking catholic church official ever charged in the child abuse scandal blames a higher power, the former cardinal of philadelphia. the head of the secret service speaks out for the first time about the prostitution scandal. >> these individuals did some really dumb things. >> pelley: but was it an aberration or a pattern? nancy cordes on a contentious senate hearing. he helped the u.s. track down osama bin laden but now he's being sent to prison as a traitor. bob orr has his story. and death at the top of the world. brian rooney on this week's traffic jam on mount everest. >> some people have a mindset of oh, i'm going to go conquer everest. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: tonight, the monsignor takes the stand. the highest ranking catholic church official ever charged in in a philadelphia courtroom today, the first catholic clergyman to face criminal charges for covering up child sex abuse said he was following the orders of a cardinal. monsignor william lyn

& >> pelley: tonight what wall street didn't tell investors before they bought facebook. >> there's no debating, this is a misadventure of epic proportion. >> pelley: anthony mason on the facebook fiasco. the first private ship heads to the space station. we'll talk to the entrepreneur who launched it. how much of your personal fortune have you poured into this? >> $100 million. pelley: an auction house is selling what it claims is the blood of ronald reagan. >> outraged. pelley: and one year after the tornado, ben tracy tells us joplin is preparing for the next one. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. facebook is all about sharing information, but it turns out that banks did not share all that they knew about the company before investors spent billions of dollars on its stock. stock that has been falling in value since the day it went on sale. facebook shares lost nearly $3 today to close just over $31. the stock was supposed to be priced so that it would go up, but it hit the market at $38 and now it is down 18%. t

>> pelley: tonight, how the etan patz case was cracked. as the child's admitted killer is charged with murder, john miller has learned the identity of the man who turned him in. the facebook fiasco. anthony mason on how a nasdaq screwup cost investors a fortune. >> we got punched in the nose pretty good. >> pelley: man versus mountain. brian rooney on one man's sacrificing his attempt to climb mount everest to rescue another. and steve hartman "on the road" with tourists chasing tornados. >> okay! whoo! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the man who confessed to killing six-year-old etan patz more than three decades ago was charged today with second degree murder. pedro hernandez could get 25 years to life if convicted. he was picked up yesterday at his home in new jersey by new york city police acting on a tip and today we learned that that tip was called in by his own family. all of this is happening on a sad anniversary for the patz family. john miller has been covering this story from the very beginning back i

and ford-- built for the road ahead. >> pelley: tonight on this special edition of "60 minutes presents," honoring our troops. >> martin: did you think you were going to die? >> i didn't think i was going to die; i knew i was. >> martin: you knew you were going to die. >> i knew i was going to die. >> martin: dakota meyer was awarded the medal of honor by president obama for his almost insane bravery after his patrol was ambushed in afghanistan. what makes the honor unusual is that the mission was a failure, even though meyer helped save dozens of lives. >> you either get them out alive or you die trying. if you didn't die trying, you didn't try hard enough. >> pelley: why did you come back here? >> to try and let it go, something that haunts me every day. >> pelley: steven cornford was awarded the silver star for valor after fighting in iraq. he's one of the many young americans wounded in body or spirit who were invited back to the war zone for a new kind of therapy. >> my wife brought up a good point when i told her i wanted to do it. she said, "what if it makes it worse? wh

>> pelley: tonight, a chinese puzzle. u.s. diplomats hand over an escaped human rights campaigner. but has china reneged on its promise to protect him? david martin reports from washington. holly williams is in beijing. 13 people are charged in the hazing death of a florida a&m drum major. mark strassmann is covering. andy pettitte throws a curve babble in the perjury trial of baseball great roger clemens. chip reid was in the courtroom. and did you ever wonder what the artist was thinking when he painted this? seth doane tells us as "the scream" goes up for auction. >> the presence that that painting has you could just gaze at it for hours. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. what looked like a deft dry yum of american diplomacy has in to an international incident with no end in sight. at the center of it is chen guangcheng, the blind chinese dissident who escaped from house arrest in beijing last week and sought sanctuary in the u.s. embassy. this morning he walked out of the embassy hand in hand with american di

>> pelley: tonight, financial fears spread west. stock prices head south. europe's debt crisis has american investors dumping stock. anthony mason looks at what's next for our economy. a new massacre in syria today. should the u.s. get involved now? reports from allen pizzey and nancy cordes. more people are doing it. dr. jon lapook reports science is zeroing in on what it takes to live past 100. >> reporter: have you ever had a heart attack? >> no. >> reporter: ever you ever had a stroke? >> no. >> pelley: and ten years ago today the cleanup at ground zero came to an end. jim axelrod catches up with the everyday heroes who helped america heal. >> that was the only job. that was the one i was trained to do. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. more investors decided today that it's time to get out of the stock market while the getting is good-- or before it gets any worse. here's how bad it got today. the dow fell more than 160 points closing at 12, 419. it's still clinging to a small gain for the year of 1.66%. that

>> pelley: tonight, catching a terrorist. new details about how u.s. and other intelligence agencies stopped a plot to blow up a jetliner headed to the united states. john miller has the latest on the investigation. he once said g.m. should go bankrupt. now mitt romney is claiming credit for saving the company. we'll talk to political director john dickerson. the immigration mess. bill whitaker with american children forced to move to a foreign land. >> i was scared. i was shocked. i was nervous. >> pelley: and byron pitts with a former crook now doing the lord's work. >> i used to love money and use people. now i love people and use money. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. there are late-breaking developments this evening in that alleged bomb plot in which al qaeda allegedly tried to put a bomb on an airplane bound for the united states. the "new york times", the los angeles times, and the associated press are all reporting that the would-be bomber, the man who was to carry the bomb on to the aircraft was

unemployment rates fell in nearly all of the largest u.s. cities. >> pelley: so anthony, with investors getting out of stocks and oil, where's the smart money going? >> reporter: into the safe haven of u.s. treasuries, u.s. debt, scott. the yield on the ten-year treasury plummeted to the historic low of 1.62% which means the cost for borrowing for the u.s. government is diving. >> pelley: thank you very much. in syria there was a second mass execution uncovered today. just yesterday we told you more than 100 people were executed over the weekend, mostly women and children. the u.n. suspects supporters of the dictatorship killed them. well, today bodies started showing up with hands tied behind their backs. the violence began 15 months ago when syrians rose up against the dictator bashar al-assad. allen pizzey has the latest. >> reporter: opposition activists posted another gruesome video today. this showed bodies of 13 people apparently shot dead in eastern syria, their hands tide behind their backs. the victims were said to be defectors from the syrian army. with access for f

>> pelley: tonight, the jury comes back in the john edwards trial. they say not guilty on one count of campaign fraud but they can't decide on the rest. reports from anna warner and erin moriarty. the highest court yet strikes down the national law that denies same-sex marriage. nancy cordes on what's next. america's biggest city plans to ban super-sized soft drinks. michelle miller on one mayor's crusade against obesity. and norah o'donnell with a familiar face at the white house. >> as you wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to gails at this portrait and ask, "what would george do?" ( laughter ) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. with a former vice presidential mom nikkei couple of millionaires, a thief and a mistress, the john edwards trial had all the elements of a novel bit, apparently, not the elements of a conviction according to the jury late today. edwards was acquit of one count of campaign finance fraud in connection with his run for the 2008 democratic presidential nomination. the jury rep

, one of the few, scott, to emerge from the financial crisis with its reputation intact. >> pelley: this is late breaking, but is there any indication at this point that other banks might be in trouble? >> reporter: on that conference call diamond was asked that very question point blank. he said not that he's aware of. in his words, just because we were stupid doesn't mean anyone else was. >> pelley: these are the kind of exotic financial engineering investment got the world in trouble in 2008. did they not learn anything? >> reporter: well, that's the question i think a lot of people are asking and the scary part of this is people thought that chase was the best-run bank maybe on wall street. if they're doing this, what else does it mean? and it remains to be seen. >> pelley: anthony, thank you very much. it is possible that history will be made this evening with what is expected to be the first drug approved to prevent hiv-aids. the aids epidemic has killed 30 million people around the world, but now, an f.d.a. panel is deciding whether a drug that's already being used to treat aids p

left the comment-- they left the courthouse tonight without make anything comment. >> pelley: anna, thank you very much. erin moriarty of "48 hours mystery" has been watching the testimony in the courtroom. erin, what appeared to be the central flaw in the government's case? >> reporter: i think simply put it's andrew young, the government's key witness. the government built its case on his testimony. he's the one who said that john edwards solicited the money from the two wealthy donors, then used it to hide his girlfriend from the american public as part of his campaign. but during cross-examination, andrew young had to admit that he used more than $1 million of that money for his own house, and i think his credibility was sedamage add the that point. >> pelley: he used that money to build his open house. he essentially stole it is what he said. >> reporter: he did. and he was double dealing. he told one donor he owed money and he had already paid that with bunny melon's money. >> pelley: can the prosecutor try again? >> reporter: they can and we saw nathat in the roger clemens c

>> the cbs-tv news is coming up >> pelley: tonight, reason to worry about thousands of our troops. there's new evidence today america's combat veterans are suffering the same brain damage sometimes seen in pro-football. dr. jon lapook has the story. in another brain breakthrough, a woman runs a robot arm with nothing but her thoughts. >> we were all breathless. you know, no one was moving, no one was doing anything. >> pelley: george zimmerman says trayvon martin spoke to him in the moment before he died. mark strassmann reports. and an overdue honor for an american hero. david martin with a story that was almost lost to history. >> what he did that day is almost indescribable. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we're beginning tonight with two important stories involving the brain. first, a study out today that may affect hundreds of thousands of american troops. in recent years, more than 200,000 of them have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries, including concussions. the question for researchers is whe

years in prison. >> pelley: elaine, the monsignor took the stand today in his own defense. how risky was that for him? >> reporter: you know, it was a risk, legal analysts says, because prosecutors now have a chance to poke holes at monsignor lynn's defense. some here say this trial could go on for another two weeks and if that's the case, that would then give his defense team an opportunity to repair any damage. >> pelley: elaine, thanks very much. in washington, the director of the secret service appeared publicly for the first time to address the biggest scandal ever to hit the agency. mark sullivan told a senate hearing that his agents and officers who caroused with prostitutes in cartagena, colombia, did what he called dumb things but he said their mistakes did not represent the culture of the service. nancy cordes was at the hearing and joins us now from capitol hill. nancy. >> reporter: scott, good evening. the director tried to convince members of the homeland security committee that this was a one-time incident, but they weren't buying it, especially now that they know more

with. >> pelley: so, john, where does the investigation go from here? >> well, they're going to back go back and talk to those family members and find out how many family members he said it to, how many times, what exactly did he say, over what period of years. it's interesting our produceer there who's been talking to the brother-in-law had a conversation with him today where he said "in your mind, is there any doubt he's the killer?" he said "no doubt about it. he said he did what he did." he asked was it a relief for him and the family and he said for him, everyone, and everyone in the family. >> pelley: that's what the brother-in-law said? >> that's right. >> pelley: john, thank you very much. we are hearing tonight that iran has made more progress than we thought toward the capability of building a nuclear bomb. new evidence turned up in an inspection by u.n. specialists and david martin found out what they learned. >> reporter: the uranium enrichment facility dug into the side of this mountain is the ground zero of iran's nuclear program. and it just became more radioactive. li

coming up next >> the latest news and weather are always o >> pelley: tonight, shakeup at america's biggest bank. j.p. morgan chase ousts a top executive after the $2 billion investment debacle. are more shoes about to drop? anthony mason has the latest. they protect the rest of us from crime, but now bob orr tells us more cops are becoming victims. how the other half lives. jim axelrod on the 50% of recent college grads struggling to find jobs. and two wonders of aerospace. >> at first off you don't think it's possible. >> pelley: chip reid with the story behind the space shuttle and its closest friend on earth. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, heads are rolling in a wall street debacle of the kind that few expected to see again so soon. stock in the nation's largest bank-- j.p. morgan chase-- continued to fall today. it has lost $19 billion in value since friday, more than 12% of its total worth. late last week, the bank shocked investors with a $2 billion loss in its trading department. j.p. morgan chase had ma

>> pelley: tonight, what will become of that chinese dissident? his fate is more confused than ever as we elsewhere the dramatic details of how the u.s. rescued him, then gave him up? >> we engineered almost a maneuver out of "mission impossible" to bring him into the embassy. >> pelley: late developments from david martin. holly williams has an interview with the dissident. the bin laden papers-- bob orr on how he struggled to keep al qaeda from falling apart. a medical researcher is killed by a rare bacterium in just 17 hours. ben tracey is investigating. and chip reid with an artist who brings a healing touch to wounded vets. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we have a much clearer picture tonight of how a leading chinese dissident wound if you want u.s. embassy in beijing, setting off a diplomat crisis, and it is straight out of hollywood. with the blind dissident escaping house arrest, american diplomats rescuing him, and then racing him to the embassy with chinese secret police in pursuit. the story is coming

>> pelley: tonight, a top government panel says the test for prostate cancer is bad medicine. the recommendation late today has set off a medical controversy. dr. jon lapook reports. getting america out of afghanistan. >> we agreed that afghan forces will take the lead for combat operations next year. >> pelley: norah o'donnell is with the president at the nato summit. allen pizzey reports from the war zone. the sun and the moon team up to put on a show for the earth. and ben tracy in joplin one year after the tornado. lessons of life, love, and loss. >> you don't really realize how much your parents do for you until they're not here for you anymore. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we're beginning with a major government recommendation that is just coming out this evening. it could affect virtually every man in america. a top panel of health experts says that men should no longer get routine p.s.a. tests to screen for prostate cancer. the reason, it says, is that the tests may lead to treatments that do more ha

are always on cbssf.com. >> >> pelley: ton >> pelley: tonight, j.p. morgan chase admits mistakes were made. but were laws broken? the s.e.c. is focusing on the bank and that $2 billion blunder. anthony mason is covering. a quarter of a million americans ene about to lose their unemployment benefits this weekend. john blackstone reports. thaff sergeant jeremy cooney returns from the war and can't believe the miracle waiting for him. and on the road, steve hartman with a teacher who is lifting kids out of poverty by reaching for the stars. ( cheers and applause ) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. t >> pelley: good evening. the lessons of the great recession didn't last long. tonight, the nation's largest bank and one of the nation's biggest energy companies are both reeling-- reckless investments in one case, questionable management in the other. j.p. morgan chase said yesterday tsat it lost at least $2 billion in investments it called stoegious." today, j.p. morgan lost $14 billion in stock value. chesapeake energy lost as billion of its

have an update at 6:00. we will see you back at 6:00, >> >> pelley: tonight, new evidence the economic recovery is slowing. job creation numbers fall for the third straight month. >> you think, at 50, you should be settled. and here i am at 50, and i'm not. >> pelley: reports from anthony mason and elaine quijano. they appear to have a deal in that diplomatic standoff over a hinese dissident. reports from david martin, in washington, and holly williams in beijing. five american priests are removed by the church. seth doane with more on a widening investigation. and "on the road," steve hartman with the man who is using a brush to put smiles on every in tin town. a it's just amazing what a little bit of paint will do. captioning sponsored by cbs captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the word economists were using to describe today's jobs numbers is "disappointing. we suspect other words might be use pie the 12.5 million americans who are still unemployed, many of them for months, if not years. the labor department

>> the latest news and weather is always on cbssf.com. & >> pelley: tonight, the evidence against george zimmerman. the first look at what prosecutors will use to try to prove he's guilty of trayvon martin's murder. mark strassmann has the documents. a new report today suggests good cholesterol may not be as good as it's cracked up to be. dr. jon lapook has the new findings. a hospital has told a mother her newborn has died, but she doesn't believe it. >> i think that my baby was stolen. >> pelley: mark phillips on criminals who traffic in stolen babies. and the death of donna summer. anthony mason remembers the queen of disco. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. we have late-breaking news in the trayvon martin case. for the first time, the court has released the evidence gathered by prosecutors. it includes information about injuries to the man charged with murdering martin, george zimmerman, and about marijuana use by martin. zimmerman shot the unarmed teenager one night in february. this is a picture of-- that w

>> pelley: tonight, the president endorses same-sex marriage. will it cost him politically? where d do americans stand? reports from norah o'donnell, bill whitaker, and elaine quijano. u.s. intelligence tells us more al qaeda bombers are training to strike u.s. aircraft. john miller has what story. a millionaire angry at congress starts a campaign to throw out members of both parties. nancy cordes finds it's working. and the pentagon's top combat photographer with striking images of americans at war. >> so the truly, truly capture war is to capture war on the face of the soldier next to you. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama's stand on same-sex marriage completed its evolution today, changing from opposition to support. in 2004, running for the u.s. senate, he said marriage should be between a man and a woman. later, as president, he said his position was evolving. today, he endorsed same-sex marriage. his declaration does not change any law. 41 states ban same-sex marriage, including north carolina

>> pelley: tonight, the u.s. stops an al qaeda plot to blow up a u.s.-bound jetliner. agents recover a sophisticated new bomb. john miller on the plot, norah o'donnell at the white house, and mark strassmann on what it means for airport security. a shortage of cancer drugs. why can't congress fix it? dr. jon lapook goes to washington. >> reporter: why does it take months and months? why not today? >> pelley: and david martin on afghan allies who turn out to be enemies. >> it just does sting a little bit more that it was by the same people he was trying to help. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, we have late-breaking news on an al qaeda plot to blow up a u.s.-bound jetliner. sources tell cbs news that a would be suicide bomber was intercepted by the c.i.a. recently. the bomb is now in the hands of the f.b.i. for analysis. it is said to be a more sophisticated version of the underwear bomb that was used in an unsuccessful attack on a u.s. airliner in 2009. we have reports from the white house, a look at what t

commenting on this obviously because. >> pelley: understood. the associated press at least is reporting that this man has been removed from yemen and apparently is safe. this may go a long way toward explaining why authorities said yesterday that the bomber was no longer considered a threat. it may well be now that he was actually working with the c.i.a. all along. you've been doing a lot of reporting today about al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and the outfit that put this bomb together. >> that's right. scott, since 2009, intelligence... u.s. intelligence officials have had a laser focus on a.q.a.p., al qaeda of the arabian peninsula. it's a highly capable group made up of experienced leaders, battle tested terrorists and a very talented bomb maker. this is is training video of al qaeda of the arabian peninsula or a.q.a.p. this latest plot serves as a stark reminder of their primary mission. bring down an american plane. a former f.b.i. agent who has questioned more members of a.q.a.p.than anyone. what makes al qaeda of the arabian peninsula, out of all the al-qaeda affilia

repair the damage. >> pelley: jon, there was a study of n.f.l. football players that was released about three years ago that said that they were 19 times more likely to develop dementia like alzehimer's disease than people of a similar age. now, do our troops have to worry about that now? >> reporter: well, i think they do have to worry about an increased risk of dementia. we don't know what percentage increase and alzehimer's disease is totally different than c.t.e. but it tells us what's going on inside of the brain cells and once we know that maybe the treatments for alzheimer's, for example, to get friday of that tau protein we talked about in the piece can be used to treat c.t.e . >> pelley: jon, thank you very much. now an astounding development in the brain that we first brought you on "60 minutes." today researchers are reporting that a woman who is completely paralyzed has used a robotic arm controlled with nothing but her thoughts. it's a triumph of neurobiology and computer science that you have to see to believe, as we found out when we met that woman, kathy hutchinson, in 2

>> the cbs evening news is coming up next. >> pelley: tonight a slaughter of innocents. syria's massacre of dozens of civilians including many children draws worldwide condemnation. norah o'donnell on the u.s. response. cyber wars-- david martin on the discovery of the most sophisticated computer virus ever found. the confessed killer of etan patz. did he admit his crime to a church group decades ago? seth doane has the late-breaking developments. and john blackstone on the west coast where the legacy of the japanese tsunami is washing up on shore. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. entire families were shot in their houses. that is how a united nations official describes the massacre of more than 100 people, mostly children, in syria over the weekend. today the united states and nine other nations expelled syrian diplomats from their capitals. the u.n.'s lead negotiator met with the syrian dictator today and warned that syria has reached a tipping point. the family of bashir al assad has ruled syria for 42 year

for meddling in their internal affairs. >> pelley: thank you, david. we're joined now by long-time asia correspondent holly williams of our british partner sky news. she's covering the story and joins us from beijing. holly, what's the state of playwright now? >> well, we understand that chen guangcheng is still in hospital here in beijing. he's being treated for some kind of stomach complaint. late in the day here in china one of his friends spoke to him over the phone and then started tweeting and she said that mr. chen told her that he had been forced to leave the u.s. embassy because chinese officials had told him if that if he didn't his wife would be returned to their village where she would be beaten, persecuted and he, apparently, feared for her life. what this does is raise one very big question and that's the extent to which the chinese authorities can be relied upon to live up to these guarantees that they've made about chen guangcheng's safety going forward. >> pelley: tell me, what is it that chen did in his human rights work that made the chinese government so angry w

>> pelley: tonight, a drug designed to prevent alzheimer's. the government announces a $100 million experiment to see if it works. wyatt andrews is covering. america's most sophisticated warplane is restricted after a pilot says this on "60 minutes." >> i am not comfortable flying in the f-22 right now. >> pelley: david martin has the story. your credit card number can be stolen at the gas pump. fill your tank, empty your bank account. sharyl attkisson investigates. and dean reynolds find a bank that's in it for the people. short on risk, long on heart. >> there were no closing costs? >> none. >> reporter: down payment? >> no. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening, alzehimer's disease cannot be cured butting k it be prevented. today the government announced a major study to test a prevention drug in just one family. prevention is almost impossible to measure because scientists can never know which healthy people will develop the disease. but now they have found one family in which nearly everyone develops alzehimer's di

that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> pelley: mr. obama has often said he was in favor of civilians of gay and lesbian couples and in favor of equal rights. norah o'donnell, our chief white house correspondent is at the white house tonight. norah. >> reporter: scott, advisers admit it was not the president's plan to announce his support for same-sex marriage today. ironically, his hand was forced by his own vice president and by gay and lesbian financial supporters who felt it was time the president clarify exactly where he stands. >> i had hesitated on gay marriage, in part because i thought civilians would be sufficient. >> reporter: today, president obama became the first sitting president to declare that he believes gays and lesbians should be able to legally marry. up until now, he has been unwilling to support same-sex marriage. >> you know, my feelings about this are constantly evolving. i struggle with this. >> reporter: advisers claim they've been discussing for a few months about when to make an announcement, but then vice president biden cemetery

pockets. >> pelley: thanks very much, anthony. now we mentioned a moment ago that the drop in the unemployment rate is bad news. here's why-- if someone gives up looking for work, he's no longer counted as unemployed. the drop in april isn't because people found work. it's entirely because 342,000 americans quit looking. our research department came up with this-- starting in 1981, this shows the percentage of americans in the workforce, meaning they have a job or they're looking for one. the number grows steadily, until 9/11, and then it starts to drop and really picks up steam independent great recession. today the percentage of americans in the workforce is down to where it was 30 years ago. we asked elaine quijano to tell us about some of the folks who are still searching for work, and she decided to look in rhode island where the unemployment rate is about 11%, one of the highest in the nation. >> there's so much unsettleat this point, and you think at 50 you should be settled. and here i am at 50, and i'm not. >> reporter: for 20 years, gilda paul worked at this chemical man