1. Sisters survive deadly attack at Utah cabin
Tricia and Linea Tiede (Tiede family)
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48 Hours Live to Tell: Two sisters who survive a deadly home invasion share their journey to hell and back.
(CBS News)
Produced by Gail Zimmerman and Stephen McCain
OAKLEY, Utah -- When the Tiede family headed off to spend a snowy Christmas at their remote family cabin, they had no idea what the trip would bring. Two sisters who survive a harrowing home invasion share the terrifying story in their first extended television interview.
Linae Tiede: My family owns a beautiful cabin in Oakley, Utah. The sound of the river, the horses that are down in the pasture, the birds -- it's absolutely heaven on earth to me.
My mom had given it a name: "Tiede's Tranquility," because of the serenity and peace.
Trish Tiede: The cabin was an awesome place to go to.
As a young child, I loved going up there, bringing aunts and uncles, and cousins.
The cabin was about 2-and-a-half miles off the road....And you have to snowmobile in during the wintertime. It was an escape from the world for our family.
Trish Tiede: It was the winter of 1990.
Linae Tiede: I was 20 years old. And my little sister was 16.
Trish Tiede: It was Christmastime. We're off for the holidays.
Trish Tiede: There's a large Christmas tree with lots of gifts around it.
Linae Tiede: My mom even had our Christmas stockings hung under the fireplace mantel, ready for Santa to come (smiles at the memory).
Three days before Christmas, our family had to finish up our Christmas shopping and head back up to the family cabin.
My mom and grams and I arrived at the cabin...first.
And my hands were freezing. ...it was a bitter cold winter that year. I asked my mom to hurry...and unlock the door. I needed to run in and run my hands under some water and I would be right back down to help her.
I got to the top of the stair...and I saw a gray flash...go behind the refrigerator. And the first thought that popped in my mind was, "Oh, a cousin's here already" ...and was going to jump out and say boo! ...It didn't turn that way.
Behind the refrigerator came...a frizzy headed man...in a gray sweatshirt with his pistol pointed at me. I assumed that he would just want to rob us. And be on his way.
As soon as my mom came to the top of the stairs, out from the back bedroom, another robber...with really thick, coke-bottle glasses on was pointing a g-- gun at my mother.
My mom was saying to 'em, "What is it you want? Why are you here? I'll give you anything." ...Seconds after she had said that, gunfire started imploding, exploding, explosion. From everywhere I saw my mom go down. I turned at that point. And looked over my shoulder to my Grams. And saw her get shot in the head. And blood spray everywhere. ...I heard her gasp for some breath.
And then it was just dead silence. I felt pretty certain that they were dead.
My thoughts were turned...to knowing that within minutes my dad and sister would be coming.
I can remember hearing snowmobiles coming in the distance. And my heart sinking to my gut. Knowing that [emotional] that was my dad and sister.
1. President Obama: The economy, the Congress, the future
(CBS News)
Steve Kroft interviews the president on a wide range of critical topics, including Obama's performance in office; the U.S. economy and the state of unemployment; congressional gridlock; and the mounting deficit. President Obama also sizes up his competition in the 2012 presidential race as he begins his own quest for re-election.
The following is a script of "President Obama" which aired on Dec. 11, 2011. Steve Kroft is the correspondent, Frank Devine and Michael Radutzky, producers.
After months of listening to attacks from Republican presidential candidates and congressional leaders, President Obama took off the gloves this past week and emerged in full campaign mode.
It began with a major speech in the nation's heartland, with a vigorous defense of his economic policies, directed at the middle class. And it spilled over into the White House Press Room with a contentious response to Republican criticisms of his foreign policy.
On Friday morning, in the White House Cabinet Room, we sat down with the president and questioned him about his record, his leadership, the economy and his prospects for re-election.
Steve Kroft: We have a new CBS poll, which is out this weekend. And I'll give you the news that's good for you first. People like you. They respect you. They think that you're working hard. And they realize that you faced an enormous amount of trouble and problems, many of them inherited. And your approval rating is four times higher than the Congress.
President Barack Obama: That's a low bar, I gather.
Kroft: But they're not happy with the way you're doing your job. You've got 75 percent of the people in the country think it's headed in the wrong direction. Seventy-five percent. And 54 percent don't think that you deserve to be re-elected. I mean, those are not good numbers with 11 months to go before the election.
Obama: Well, look. We've gone through an incredibly difficult time in this country. And I would be surprised if the American people felt satisfied right now. They shouldn't feel satisfied. We've got a lot more work to do in order to get this country and the economy moving in a way that benefits everybody, as opposed to just a few.
On Tuesday, we accompanied the president as he took that message to the middle of the country for what's been called the unofficial launch of his re-election campaign. In Osawatomie, Kansas, where Theodore Roosevelt unveiled the basic tenets of the Progressive Movement just over 100 years ago, President Obama spoke out against the growing economic inequality he says is destroying the middle class.
[Obama in Kansas: This is a make or break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Because what's at stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, secure their retirement.]
The president, in laying out the broad themes for his re-election bid, said the system has been rigged against the middle class. And he blamed the Republicans for fighting tougher regulations on the financial industry and opposing higher taxes for the wealthy.
[Obama in Kansas: Their philosophy is simple: we are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules. I am here to say they are wrong.]
Obama: Steve.
Kroft: Mr. President.
Obama: Good to see you, sir.
Kroft: Good to see you.
We spoke to the president immediately following the 55 minute speech, which he wrote mostly himself, clearly drawing the battle lines for the next election.
3. Once tiniest premature babies beat odds, grow up healthy
Madeline Mann, shortly after birth (left) in June 1989, and in an undated photo at 22 years of age.
(Credit: AP)
(CBS/AP) What happened to the tiniest babies ever born? One is a healthy first-grader and the other grew into an honors college student majoring in psychology. Both girls once entered the world weighing less than a pound - and are now thriving, despite long odds.
But both girls are also the exceptions to the rule and shouldn't raise false hope, according to the doctor who resuscitated the infants at a suburban Chicago hospital.
"These are such extreme cases," said Dr. Jonathan Muraskas of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. They should not be considered "a benchmark" to mean that doctors should try to save all babies so small, he said. Most babies born this small do poorly and many do not survive despite advanced medical care.
The two girls who are featured in the medical report - which was published in Monday's issue ofPediatrics - are Madeline Mann, born in 1989 weighing 9.9 ounces, then a world record; and 7-year-old Rumaisa Rahman, whose 9.2-ounce birth weight remains the world's tiniest.
Two other babies born since 1989 weighed less than Madeline, and a German girl was born last year at her same birth weight.
The report addresses a question that was hotly debated when Madeline was born 22 years ago, and remains unanswered to this day: "What is the real age of viability? No one knows," said Dr. Stephen Welty, neonatology chief at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
Most newborn specialists, including Muraskas, consider babies born after 25 weeks of pregnancy to be viable, or likely to survive. They suggest these babies should receive medical intervention if necessary to breathe. Normal pregnancies last about 40 weeks.
Some U.S. doctors will attempt to save babies at 22 weeks, but that is not done routinely, said Dr. Edward Bell, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Iowa. Bell runs an online registry of the world's tiniest babies, born weighing less than about 14 ounces, or slightly less than 1 pound. Since 1936, 124 have been listed. The registry is compiled from doctors' voluntary reports and so does not represent all survivors.
Bell estimates that about 7,500 U.S. babies are born each year weighing less than 1 pound, and that about 10 percent survive.
Sometimes tiny babies with zero chance of surviving show signs of life at birth, and may be able to breathe for a short time if put in an incubator and hooked up to a breathing machine and intravenous treatments. "But even so, if it's a baby that doesn't have a chance, we don't want to put the baby and the family through the discomfort," Bell said.
Muraskas says his report highlights a sometimes overlooked fact: the fetus' age is even more critical for survival than size.
Rumaisa and Madeline were both palm-sized, weighing less than a can of soda - the average size of an 18-week-old fetus - but they were several weeks older than that. Their gestational ages - almost 26 weeks for Rumaisa and almost 27 weeks for Madeline - meant their lungs and other organs were mature enough to make survival possible. Both still required intensive medical intervention.
Their mothers had developed severe pre-eclampsia - dangerously high blood pressure linked with pregnancy - so they were delivered by cesarean section more than a month early. Both babies needed breathing machines. Madeline had mild brain bleeding, common in tiny preemies, but with no lasting effects. Both girls got treatment for an eye condition common in preemies called retinopathy, which in severe cases can cause blindness.
What are the girls like now?
Madeline has asthma and remains petite - 4 foot 8 and about 65 pounds at age 20, the report showed. Rumaisa at age 5 weighed 33 pounds and was 3 1/2 feet tall - smaller than about 90 percent of kids her age.
Current information was not available in the report. Madeline is now 22 and a senior at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill.; Rumaisa is 7 and attends first grade in suburban Chicago.
Jim Mann, Madeline's father, said having a baby born so small was "terrifying" at first. But other than asthma, the only lasting effect his daughter has mentioned is having trouble finding age-appropriate clothes because she remains so small, he said. That she has done so well is a source of pride, and wonder, her dad said.
"I don't know why, we were just extraordinarily lucky," Mann said.
SOURCE:http://www.cbsnews.com/
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3) The United States is approaching a tumultuous and game changing election year. In a new pole, Republican primary voters picked Gingrich at 40 % and Romney with 23%. Majority of Republicans do not consider Romney to be conservative. In another pole there was a comparison of the 2 leading Republican candidates against current President Obama. The pole indicated if done right now, Obama would beat Romney 47% to 45% and Obama would beat Gingrich 51% to 40%.
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