, north carolina, home of nascar and one of the most spectacular skylines in the south. it's a city that's exposed in a big way to housing. the crash crushed bank of america but a bailout and a housing recovery have helped its shares. lowe's has been on a high, too, stock up about ten bucks in a year. spx, carlyle companies, family dollar and sonic auto also standouts. over the past 12 months, charlotte area stocks up an average of 22% making it the second best city in america for stocks since last november. >> you're watching a special edition of street since live from the naz naz car hall of fame in charlotte, north carolina. here now is brian sullivan. >> all right, welcome, everybody, to charlotte and the nascar hall of fame. i tell you what out of the "street signs" team, i certainly have the better end of this gig today and i am in my element. we are at the spectacular nascar hall of fame in downtown charlotte, north carolina. as you say from the top, folks, charlotte can lay claim to having the second best city in america for the over the past year. you heard some of the names, not

the nascar challenge racing some of the fastest cars on earth. yesterday we showed you the warm-up. this morning, the winner. >>> hey, good morning, everybody. i don't want to give anything away, but we do have the results of an exclusive abc internet poll. who do you think won the big "gma" nascar race? bianna golodryga, sorry to tell you this, only 13%. >> that's cold. >> i'm not far ahead of you. dan harris at 18%. ron claiborne clocking in at 29%, and our big winner, according to public sentiment, this has nothing to do with the actual winner, but ginger, 40% think you won. flattering. >> that is flattering. and i haven't driven in a long time. maybe they forgot that. we'll see. >> you're flattered. i'm depressed. just because i'm a mom. i didn't bring the baby with me. he was not in the car. i thought i was a fast driver. we'll see coming up later on the show. >>> also, this morning, family crime. a father, son and teenage daughter who allegedly went on a bank robbing spree hitting several banks in two states. how did a once seemingly well-adjusted family make such a downturn,

anchor desk to the driver's seat for a daredevil nascar race with some of the sport's biggest stars. >> bring it on. i'm ready. >>> good morning, everybody. we all did a certain amount of trash-talking. but i will admit, i've covered some dicey stories before. i was nervous. it was scary. >> i was petrified. i thought, this is taking it a bit too far. >> ginger, you were actually scared. >> i was scared. i don't get scared. this one did it. i was so nervous. and it was mostly learning to drive a stick shift. >> you and me both. >> dan was learning to drive a car. >> picking up on what ron just said, this little experiment turned out well for some of us. not so well for others. we'll reveal the results, coming up. >>> also on the show, we have the latest on the disastrous oil rig explosion in the gulf of mexico. just 85 miles from that bp disaster. the search for the missing workers intensified overnight. and we have the latest details. >>> and we all love finding money crumpled up in the pockets of old jeans or between the couch cushions. but this guy found an old lottery ticket in

across the snags? >>> racing rage. a crash on the track and the golden superstar of nascar says he did this as pay back. sparking a huge brawl afterwards. and tonight, the hammer comes down. >> i had it and i got him back. >>> and on this veterans day weekend, the outpost. our jake tamer with powerful lessons from some american men who became heroes for country and for each other. >>> good evening on this veterans day monday. and as we come on the air, new details are pouring in about the man in charge of so many of the nation's secrets, general david petraeus, forced to resign. and what about the woman at the center of his story? tonight, new questions, as well, about what was really going on and when and the avalanche of e-mails now beginning to emerge. abc's martha raddatz reports in now. martha? >> reporter: diane, an official tells abc news tonight,s the fbi discovered hundreds, if not thousands, of e-mails between david petraeus and paula broadwell on her computer, an affair that petraeus is claiming did not begin until he left the army. a friend close to petraeus says the genera

delicious. pigs in the blanket. >> greg: we've had enough. coming up, nascar race devolves to chaos. what triggered the massive nascar brawl? well, if you leave now you will never know and how will you live with yourself? you won't. so don't. that simple. ♪ ♪ where others fail, droid powers through. introducing the new droid razr maxx hd by motorola. now more than ever droid does. [ male announcer ] it's that time of year again. medicare open enrollment. time to compare plans and costs. you don't have to make changes. but it never hurts to see if you can find better coverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. ♪ open enrollment ends dember 7th. so now's the time. visit care.gov or call 1-800-medicare. ♪ ♪ >> juan: what a crew we have in the house tonight. nascar race in phoenix turned in to a boxing match this weekend. it all started when legendary nascar driver jeff gordon purposefully ran clint bowyer's car in last lap. after gordon jumps out of the car he is jumped from behind by crew mesneman of bowyer. full on

: they're delicious. pigs in the blanket. >> greg: we've had enough. coming up, nascar race devolves to chaos. what triggered the massive nascar brawl? well, if you leave now you will never know and how will you live with yourself? you won't. so don't. that simple. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the way it moves. the way it cleans. everything about the oral-b power brush is simply revolutionary. oral-b power brushes oscillate, rotate and even pulsate to gently loosen and break up that sticky plaque with more brush movements than manual brushes and even up to 50% more than leading sonic technology brushes for a superior clean. oral-b power brushes. go to oralb.com for the latest offers. ♪ ♪ >> juan: what a crew we have in the house tonight. nascar race in phoenix turned in to a boxing match this weekend. it all started when legendary nascar driver jeff gordon purposefully ran clint bowyer's car in last lap. after gordon jumps out of the car he is jumped from behind by crew mesneman of bowyer. full on full brawl between crews ensued. nascar has not said anyone involved in the fight

radiation could be doing to unborn babies. >>> and the nascar track turned hockey rink. a collision turned into an all-out brawl. a racing legend accused of starting it all. >>> good morning, everyone on this veterans day. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm sunny hostin in for paula faris. new details are unfolding in the scandal surrounding david petraeus, the former head of the cia. >> talk of washington, that's for sure. we now know the women at the heart of the investigation that led to petraeus' downfall. she was apparently perceived as a threat. >> the secret affair may have remained threatening if not for the threatening e-mails his lover sent to his woman jill kelly. officials say she was not romantically involved with pet tray but a family friend. kelly contacted the cia. initially there were concerns that the cia director's e-mail had been hacked. >> the original complaints was harassment that possibly could have gone to e-mail hacking but there was no substantive information that this had anything to do with national security. >> reporter: but those e-mails were linked back to pa

each other. >> divided drivers. tonight a scene that looked like a hockey brawl more than a nascar race. punishment for a bay area native;x ♪ ♪ we're lucky, it's not every day you find a companion as loyal as a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. sz. >> nascar race that turned into a brawl. late today 4 time nascar champion vallejo native jeff gordon fined 100,000 dollars and docked 25 points for deliberately wrecking clint boyer at phoenix international race weigh. he was also placed on probation through december 31. more on the road rage at nascar tonight from david wright. >> mayhem in the late lap. >>reporter: intentional accident at more than 100 miles an hour. move so controversial it all ended up in a brawl. >> somewhere in the middle of that is jeff gordon. >>reporter: look again. watch the no. 24 car jeff gordon slowing down and deliberately pushing the no. 15 car driven by clint boyer into the wall. wrecking boy's car and his chances. other drivers are outraged. >> retaliation is out of control in this sport. it's going to get somebody hurt. >>reporter:

season. >>> and watch out. a pit road brawl. rival nascar crews throw punches after a hit and run on the track. track. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello from washington. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for being with us on this monday morning. this morning a sex scandal tarnishing one of the most respected names in washington and raises questions about one of its most secretive agencies. three days after that extramarital affair forced general david petraeus to resign as director of the cia, lawmakers are demanding answers. why didn't the fbi inform them of the investigation? and what does this mean for this week's senate hearing on the tedly attack in libya? barbara starr is at the pentagon. barbara, general petraeus was to be a primary witness in that closed door hearing. what now? >> well, by all accounts he will not appear at this week's hearing. the man who will is mike morrell, his deputy and ci airks, now essentially the acting director of the agency. mr. morrell, a highly respected intelligence professional, has been with the agency

thoughts. >> what's nascar all about? >> sunshine, palm trees everywhere. perfect place for a championship. >> watters world goes to the big nascar championship. >> do you guys ever watch bill o'reilly on the fox news channel. >> i thought bill o'reilly was on the food network. >> bill: we have revved up report. >> caution. you where to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. a tale of two americans, california and texas. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. over the thanksgiving weekend i was down in austin in houston, texas doing shows with miller. it's been a while since i had visited the lone star state and i took a good look around. next week i will be going tout to california the state with the largest population. texas is second. fascinating to compare the two places because they signify the clash, the clash that's taking place in america right now. texas voted for romney by about 1.3 million votes. california voted for obama by about 2.3 million votes. texas conservative stat

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through the end of the year. >> it's being called the most chaotic nascar race of the year. sundays brawl broke out after road rage came to a head. boyer says he got too close. deliberately before you're out. >> i had had it. you know? this set up a bit. >> the pit crew attacked boyer from behind. he ran in to get in on the action he was held back. >> it's embarrassing. you know? what i consider one of the best to act like that is ridiculous. >> the crowd loved it. one posted we should thank jeff gordon for making nascar watchable again. >> sport made on site. >> these guys just tried to kill each other. >> this brawl may have a seek qeel do you think there is a retaliation due him? >> nascar says fighting on and off the strak fighting nascar, what happened was so blatant penalties will be almost certainly be handed down. >> is this double edged sword? a rubins racing. and fans love it. but then, you don't want these guys crashing into each other. >> it's dangerous.ibwuw >> still ahead, super storm sandy battered the east coast two weeks ago today. recovery and progress, there is still a

neighborhood. >>> and nascar nastiness. brawls break out in the pit during sunday's race after two of racing's biggest stars have a run in on the track. >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, november 12, 2012. >>> good morning. good to be with you. i'm terrell brown. we begin with the resignation of cia director david petraeus. lawmakers want to know if national security was compromised by the extramarital affair that forced him to step down and why they weren't told sooner. it was harassing emails allegedly from petraeus' mistress to another woman that triggered an fbi probe. tara mergener is in washington with details. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. jill kelly took her concerns to the fbi several months ago eventually exposing the affair. now congress is demanding more details. cbs news has learned this woman 37-year-old jill kelly triggered an fbi investigation leading to the resignation of cia director david petraeus. petraeus resigned friday after word got out he was having an affair with his biographer paula broadwell. his resignation caught many on

"sportscenter" update. and nascar has a new champion. to homestead we go, brad keselowski, jimmie johnson. lap 213. j.j. comes to pit. now, johnson's crew leaves a lug nut loose and nascar official calls the 48 car back in to fix the problem. johnson had to come back down pit road. chad knaus gets the news from nascar. and johnson off, smoke is actually seen inside the cockpit. the 48 crew goes under the car. and knaus pulls the 48 car to the garage, hendrick is disappointed. brad keselowski remains on the track. the 48 car in the garage, the 48 car out of the race and finished 36th. final lap now, jeff gordon wins the race, but keselowski finishes 15th which means he wins his first championship. roger penske also gets his first sprint cup championship. >>> big battle in the afc north. steelers/ravens. first quarter, baltimore 10-3, jacoby jones has been phenomenal for baltimore. returning it for 63 yards to the house. jones, ravens on top, 7-7. byron leftwich getting the start because ben roethlisberger has a bad shoulder. the final score, 13-10. "monday night football" tonight, bears visitin

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brawl after a nascar race. the fallout from yesterday's debacle on the track. that's coming up. >>> alarming results of a new study on pregnancy shows moneys to be have a much greater chance of having a child with autism. researchers out of denmark found that children of women who had the flu while they were pregnant had doubled the risk of being diagnosed with autism by the age of three compared to kids whose mothers did not have the flu. they also found the risk tripled for moms who had a fever for more than a week while pregnant. critics say the study's findings are questionable because they did not look at the medical records and just relied on their memories. >>> lots of smokers have kids. even though many don't smoke at home. a new study shows almost half do smoke in their cars even with the kids with them. researchers from massachusetts general introduced hundreds of parents who smoke. 70% say they don't have a policy about smoking in the car. >> when you're smoking in a car or a closed in space, what they've found is there's a third hand smoke component which is the res

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the communities still in the dark. >> there is no fighting in nascar. don't tell that though these drivers. turned a pit stop into a real brawl. a lot of people talking about this. as we go to break let's take a look at the gas prices. the new national average is 3.43. that's unchanged from yesterday. if you live in this area you might not be able to get that gas so easily. ♪ fare thee well ♪ farewell ♪ mr. gloom be on your way ♪ ♪ though you haven't any money you can still be bright and sunny ♪ ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >> wheehere's what you missed w you were sleeping. a 17-year-old colorado student walk nude a movie wearing a joker mask and walked out in handcuffs. he told cops he wanted to scare his friends. he's facing five charges of misdemeanor menacing. a dangerous inmate escaped from an arizona jail is caught. cops say this guy 26-year-old aiden ardorno was found near his mother's house. they believe he was stuffing empty milk boxes under his sheets and then escaped during the ceiling duct. (chanting) >> well, people in this area are g

gentlemen. it's a nascar race. jeff gordon and clint bowyer's pit crews got in a fist fight after gordon intentionally wrecked both of them. gordon was upset bowyer had bumped him earlier. nascar is thinking of disciplining both drivers for the brawl. >> nascar is big where i come from in richmond. nascar racing is pretty significant. i've always heard that jeff gordon is not one that non-jeff gordon fans can like very much. i wonder what the backlash will be against him on this one. >> let's check the forecast now. 6:21. time for weather and of course t traffic on the ones. >>> gorgeous sunrise under way. a little thin crescent moon above that. 50 at reagan national. we have it in the 40s in the rural areas where there's some patchy fog, and it's turning more humid. milder, all these areas in green in the 50s and 60s out of the mountains. that's ahead of a front that's going to be coming our way later today. we'll have that front moving in tonight. before then, we'll warm to the upper 60s by midafternoon with increasing clouds. before midnight, ought to have the rain sweeping int

talking raiders and diners at a big fight in nascar. we'll start with the niners in candlestick park yesterday. taken on the rams and the outcome expected, a tie. alex smith made it has 38th straight start. he takes off down the field but its levels at the back of the house met and neck area by late john dunbar. it looks like he just hit him with his helmet but no penalty was called there. sustained in the game for a while and in the second quarter with a short pass to crabtree. he doesn't for the touchdown that was 47 g of fat point. smith complained of blurry vision and was diagnosed with a concussion. 7 yd touchdown run midway through the fourth, barely getting in and. there up 2421 when david acres tied the game of the 33 yd field goal. but 2 of overtime and akers missed a field goal. we had another missed field goal in the overtime period as well from st. louis. the game ended in a tie. most people forget nfl games could end in a tie and it was the first one and more than four years. with that side niners are still in the lead in the nfc west right now. no one is happy with that

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. >>> well, they had a wild time of it yesterday at the nascar race in phoenix, when two drivers got into it on the track and then both race teams got on into it in the pit. jeff gordon and clint bowyer don't like each other, gordon had enough of it, put clint bowyer into the wall, sparking the event. though this came nowhere near the all-time standard for us nascar fans, when yarbrough and bobby allison went after it at the daytona 500. >>> and we're not necessarily talking about the left lane, women have passed men on the road in a very important way. we just learned today for the first time, more women now have driver's license, this reverses a long-time gender gap behind the wheel. the experts are predicting this will affect the american auto industry, because women drivers are more likely to demand smaller, safer and more energy-efficient cars. >>> lance armstrong has cut his remaining ties with the charity he founded. back in october you will recall he resigned as chairman of livestrong. but he kept a seat on the board. well today, he gave that up. and on his way out he posted

o. 81 68. nascar has a listening tradition of drivers swapping paint but jeff gordon went way over the line in phoenix yesterday. this was ridiculou ridiculous. 4 time nascar champion and vallejo native fined 100,000 dollars for deliberately crashing into can children bonnie ton much of the season. most race pwroing ensues he was steer us you race hard and i get called a bleep for raising hard and called with a defendant wish. just pisses me off. i'm not yelling at you like but it's their and they should have the shame. does he have a driver's licens license. >> he looks right. they have to be careful because you are going 200 miles an hour. >> this is sufficient. yes they have taken it too far. >> that's

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first pga tour event by two strokes. that's a newborn child. >> nascar in phoenix, two races left in the chase for the cup. jimmie johnson, tire failure, hits the round. jeff gordon and clint bowyer, going at it all day. escalated with two laps to go. gordon intentionally wrecked bowyer. joey logano gets caught. bowyer's crew went after gordon. check it out. the two sides balled in the pits. kevin harvick won the race. keselowski one race away from the championship. this is all that will be remembered from today. went to a nascar event and it turned into world wrestling. >> a crazy day in the nfl. tonight at 9:00 and 11:00. >> and forget charles and diana, >> ama: join my tonight on cable 13. we'll find out which bay area city is the most zen in the nation. then at 11:00, forget condoms and the pill. the bay area entrepreneurs new technology that can give men a new method of birth control. all coming up. >> as we celebrate the 50th 50th anniversary of james bond, the new film is a blockbuster, earning a record $87 million. that lifts the worldwide total to $518 million since it began

over her husband with an suv for not voting. we're serious. >>> plus, nascar's jeff gordon will be writing a very big check over this fight. sports is next. >>> plenty of other stories making news early today in america. we begin with new developments surrounding a deadly explosion that decimated an indianapolis neighborhood. investigators believe natural gas played a role in the blast but stopped short of labeling it as the official cause. over 2 dozen homeowners are being kept out until the investigation is complete, but on monday were allowed to return for an hour to salvage what they could. >> i'm a retiree and with heart problems, this is the last thing i needed. >>> next to arizona where a six month pregnant woman nearly killed her husband for not voting on election day. listen to these 911 calls. >> somebody just got ran over here. >> this woman just ran down her boyfriend or husband in the parking lot. we just had a kid get hit by a car. >> somebody got hit by a car. >> police say the 28-year-old who blames president obama for her family's woes became irate after learning h

, danella. >>> even nascar drivers get a little road rage every now and then. take a look at yesterday's advocare 500 in phoenix. jeff gordon apparently ticked off he'd been bumped by fellow racer clint bowyer earlier in the race, intentionally caused that crash. a fight broke out between gordon and bowyer's pit crews. nascar met with both drivers after the incident to discuss what happened. they decided it's too soon to decide if either driver will be suspended. >>> d.c. united lost last night. that means united must win by at least two goals because the match series is determined by total goals. no foul was called late in the first half when a dynamo defender took down united's rafael augusto. >> what can i say? everybody in the stadium, everybody on our bench, everybody on their bench, everybody at home saw that it's a red card. if it's a takeout, it's a red card. i don't know what to say about it. >> d.c. united takes on dynamo in leg two of the series sunday at 4:00 p.m. at rfk stadium. go, d.c. united. weched wa the game with my kids. they were losing their minds, of course. they t