the shanghai composite all down this morning. the major european markets are in the red as well. u.s. futures are down too. the world is waiting to hear the results of the monthly u.s. jobs reports. that comes out at 8:30 a.m. eastern. on the weather front, just a few days after irene, the weather radar is getting another big workout. a tropical depression is running loose in the gulf of mexico, and it's heading for the gulf coast, packing lots of rain and lots of wind. cnn's jennifer delgado is keeping watch for us. jennifer, this thing popped up pretty fast, didn't it? >> yeah. you know, we've been watching this, really, for the last two days. you're right it did develop quickly. it is still a tropical depression, but we do have tropical warnings in place from pascagoula, mississippi, all the way toward sabine, texas. you're looking at satellite imagery. the winds sustained at 35 miles per hour with gusts up to 45. working into parts of southern louisiana as well as into areas of mississippi. as i show you the graphic there, you see the winds at 35 kilometers. let's track this for you. you can see it looks like getting close to the coastline of louisiana on saturday and then notice thoed winds up to about 60 miles per hour. and then it's going to continue to track over toward the east. i really need to correct myself. it's actually sunday around 2:00 a.m. but certainly wind conditions are going to deteriorate saturday across parts of louisiana. as i show you the graph there, we're going to be watching that. the good news is it is going to stay a tropical storm. look at this graphic right here. the models are showing -- this is actually showing you the warning. there's the warning area for that area including texas over toward areas including mississippi. so we are going to be watching this. i can tell you this, that tropical storm conditions are being reported on an oil rig-off shore. here's the graphic. carol, we really like to see something a little more in agreement. you can see right now the spaghetti moodles are basically it's a bowl of spaghetti. nobody has a definite idea of the track of the system. we're certainly going to be watching it. i can tell you the rain is going to be incredibly heavy. we're talking 10 to 15 inches of rainfall. some locations, 20. certainly this is going to cause some widespread flooding. we're talking flash flooding in some areas. everybody needs to be paying close attention to this. in addition to this we're worried about the storm surge. we can see that roughly 2 to 4 feet in some areas. we're talking into the southern parts of louisiana. carol. >> thanks, jennifer. here's a quick look at other news right now. the authorities in peru have charged joran van der sloot with killing a young woman in a hotel. prosecutors want a 30-year prison sentence and $72,000 paid in restitution to the family. he was once the prime suspect of the senately holloway case in aruba. he was never charged in that case. texas authorities say warren jeffs is out of intensive care. the convicted child rapist had been in critical condition earlier this week and in a coma after going on a fast. he's kurnlly serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting two under age girls he claims are his spiritual wives. crews are gaining ground on the giant wildfire we've been telling you about in north texas. it's about 50% contained now. the fire is burning about 100 miles west of the dallas-ft. worth area. it has destroyed 40 homes so far, but authorities hope they've made enough progress for some evacuees to go back home today. >> crews are actually able to work on some mop-up today. i'm told that containment is estimated at 50% at some point. >> we can do all the work by air as we want but my instructors always told me it's boots on the ground that gets the fire taken care of. >> fires also melted power lines which means several hundred fam ilies and businesses don't have air conditioning. it's 100 degrees out there. texas is so dry the forest industry has responded to more than 200 fires last week. we're learning more about the east coast earthquake. it turns out it shook 25 spent fuel containers in virginia and moved them one to four inches. those containers or kasks weigh 1,500 tons each. they were not damaged and no radiation leaked. cnn's brian todd shows us what could have happens, though. >> a worst-case scenario, a very large shake could make the metal casings inside these kasks crack or break. the plutonium compounds could come together and fall to the bottom and radiation could leak out. >> again, power company officials say that did not happen, but they do admit the plant might not have been designed to withstand a shake that hard. the reactors are still shut down this morning. republicans in tucson, arizona, are defending their fund-raising raffle. 10 bucks will buy you a chance to win a new glock handgun. democrats are upset because this is happening in gabby giffords own county. that hacking group called anonymous, it might be losing some of its anonymity. police in london have arrested two men they think are involved with the anonymous groups. the suspects are 20 and 24 years old. several alleged hackers have been arrested in both the united states and united kingdom for bringing down government and corporate websites and then stealing information. everyone's talking about a certain someone right now. he's someone you've heard of and he's gotten a lot of flack for everything from his political views to his heart problems. do you think you know who it is? the mystery man made an appearance on late-night comedy last night. well, sort of. >> this is incredible, ladies and gentlemen. we were just talking about him. do me a favor. i don't want to embarrass northbound. i'm told in the front row of the balcony, you've never going to believe who's up there, putz your hands together. how about a nice canadian welcome for vice president dick cheney. dick? [ applause ] >> cheney has been everywhere promoting his new book. show some of the shows he's been on. i couldn't believe it. >> vice president dick cheney will be promoting his new book when he visits southern california this week. he's been making the rounds by appears on the usual news shows. he even showed up on some shows you wouldn't expect. >> listen to me very carefully. it's wrong. do you understand that? is there something wrong with you. >> let's put your images up there. see that? >> i must admit i liked the judge judy up there. i think she's the only one who could stand up to dick cheney. thousands of pilots do it every day, fly on auto pilot but some experts warn this could actually be dangerous. first, the yoet of the day. be like a bee, sting and fly and fight across libya, end quote. find out who said this in 90 seconds. seven midgets past the hour. if something is simply the color of gold, is it really worth more? we don't think so. chase sapphire preferred is a card of a different color. unlike others, you get twice the points on travel, and twice the points on dining, and no foreign transaction fees. call now or apply at chasesapphire.com/preferred. with diabetes, it's tough to keep life balanced. i don't always have time to eat like i should. and the more i focus on everything else, the less time i have to take care of me. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help lower a1c. glucerna products help me keep everything balanced. 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[ male announcer ] glucerna. delicious shakes and bars. helping people with diabetes find balance. it is nine minutes past the hour. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." back to the quote, be like a bee, sting and fly and fight across libya. it was ousted leader moammar gadhafi who said this on audio address played on syrian television yesterday. he also said his people will emerge victorious. a major recall just in time for the labor day weekend and the so-called rusty pilot. let's go to kristie lu stout live in hong kong. tell us about this recall. >> well, carol, the consumer product safety recall talks about that which you may have on your patio. it comes in the wake of some pretty serious injuries. 65 people have been burned, some badly, and two have died. flash fires and burns were reported when the consumers add the gel to an already burning pot because this alcohol-based fuel can burn blue or clear. consumers think that the fire is out when it's not. our consumers are advised to stop using these horrible fuel gels immediately. so carol, let's spread the word. >> okay. we're doing that. thank you, kristi. let's talk about that. we're talking about the pilot skills. it kind of makes me uneasy. >> it makes a lot of us uneasy. they found that airline flight crews are simply relying too much on computer controls and auto pilot. these concerns were highlighted by the 2009 crash of air france flight in brazil and the colgan air crash in new york. the colgan pilot had forgotten some key procedures. now this advisory board recommends more manual flight guidance and more actual flying by pilots. carol, back to basics. >> yeah, back to basics, kristie lu stout from hong kong. tharpgss so much. days before the president's major jobs speed the white house is painting a different picture about the economic forecast which could make the president's re-election bid even tougher. but first today in history back in 1969 the first atm was installed in the united states. it was located at a chemical bank in new york. chemical bank advertised the atm by saying on september 2nd, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again. it's 11 minutes past the hour. at usaa, we believe honor is not exclusive to the military. and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. from free checking to credit cards to loans, our commitment to the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. ♪ visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different. usaa. we know what it means to serve. okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? 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[ crunching, sipping ] be happy. be healthy. can i try yours? it's 13 minutes past the hour. time for your political ticker from tim farley live from washington. good morning, tim. >> good morning, carol. how are you? >> i'm grade. as we wait for the august unemployment numbers to come out in a few hours, something that always makes us nervous, the white house has actually downgraded its jobs and economics forecast. we suspect we know what it's about. what does it mean for the country and the president? >> what i think it means right now is there is certainly no sense of confidence in the white house. we're looking at 9% unemployment, perhaps a little bit below that by the end of next year. that's the projection. in addition to that we're seeing unemployment tied with growth. growth is only going to be about 1% to 2% over the next year, and the historical side of this is presidents who have seen an unemployment level, those who are incumbent presidents over 7% are not in good shape when it comes to elections. i'm not sure that it's so much what the number is next november, carol. i think it's more probably going to be the sense of which direction the country is moving in. and certain will if it's moving the same way as it is now, which is not very much and staying at a high level of unemployment and a low rate of growth, we're going to see a very shall we say depressed electorate next year and that's not going to bode well for this president and that's what he's fighting against right now. >> that's why his big jobs speech so so very important. people will be eager to hear what the president says because i think people want to get some sense of 07ty michl. they want some sliver of hope. >> no, i totally agree with you. i'm really a little confused about why this white house chose this particular venue. i've been listening to the white house press secretary. there are going to be more republicans in the room than democrats gimp about the a majority the republicans have in the house. how many people are going to be sitting on their hands when the president says whatever he's going to say about jobs next week, regardless of what he proposes. and then you've gotten the fact that he's probably going to have a difficult time getting anything passed. so i'm not sure. we're going to wait and see what he does next week, but this -- to me it's going to be -- the expectation's waiting so long for this speech and how much needs to be done right now. i'm not sure how he's going to meet that. >> although, if you look at it on the flip side, if republicans do nothing, if they don't pass anything to, you know, to help the economy, even if it's perceived help and not real help, then how are voters going to perceive them? and if the president -- >> that's a good question. >> -- and he wants the country to draw together to find a solution to this crisis and republicans don't even clap for that, how will voters think about them? >> that is the important question and you've just asked the question that will determine who's going to win in 2012. who are they going to blame if things go poorly and who are they going to look to if things are a lot better. for that they'll have to wait for what the american people think. >> speaking of that, there's a new fox news poll. no surprise perry takes over romney in the news poll as well. what did surprise me is michele bachmann's dwindling poll numbers. >> yeah. i don't think they're different from the same pool of voters. what surprises me about this, too, carol, is people are making impressions about rick perry. he's gone so far up in the polls in recent weeks he hasn't even participated in a single debate yet. he will do that next week on wednesday at the reagan library. but it's always interesting to watch these polls and see where they are. at this point in the -- in the cycle. and rick perry certainly is going to probably influence mitt romney. you and i have been talking about this, the campaign strategy moving forward. he's going to the tea party event on monday down in south carolina, which may be an indication he's starting to reach out to the people he more previously shunlted aside. i think that's what we're seeing as a result in this poll, a little shift in strategy. >> tim farley, many thanks. joining us from sirius radio in washington, d.c. prostitutes, wild parties. the italian prime minister, now allegations of blackmail. see who's trying to extort money from silvio berlusconi. 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what's this about? >> well, you know, california is trying -- california is in a big hole financially. to raise money it wants to make sure that all online purchases in california, california sales tax is paid. amazon is fighting back obviously. they say they're going to dangle 7,000 jobs, we'll add 7,000 jobs in california if you'll just delay that collection of sales tax and, you know, governor garry brown or jerry brown according to the "l.a. times" not saying no but, look, we need the sales tax revenue. here's what it's come to. you've about got companies. the best thing they can offer, right, to delay something they don't like, a job. i'll create some jobs. there you go. 7,000 jobs in exchange for delaying that sales tax collection of debt. it doesn't look like it's going to happen. >> they can afford to offer thousands of people jobs because they don't want something to happen at the state government level. but they can't often jobs just because. >> well, yeah, unless they're going to move the jobs from somewhere else in which another state governor is going to get all upset about it. this is how things have changed. it used to be governments offered incentives to create jobs. now companies are offering incentives to governments to not change things that are going to hurt them. >> that's extortion. >> extortion. >> thank you, christine. >> bye-bye. >> i'll see you in a bit. coming up, we'll tell you about a college place kicker who's a senior this year as in senior citizen. he's 61 years old and he's playing with kids one third his age. but first in honor of the millions of people taking to the road this weekend for labor day, check out our get smart question. acco according to aaa, will the number of americans traveling this labor day weekend go up or down compared to last year? 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[ male announcer ] humana. 39 minutes past the hour. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." now back to our get smart question. accord to aaa will the number of americans travels this labor day weekend go up or down compared to last year. b, down. the auto club estimates it will drop by 2.3%. the reason, you can probably guess this one. unemployment, gas prices, and higher hotel rates. let's g it to our political ticker now. we want to bring in political cnn contributor will cain. he's live in new york. good morning, will. >> i want to say good morning but, god, this is early. i don't want to say i'm sitting in my boxers. >> you're so honest. i like that about a man. okay. i wanted to talk tea party this morning because i understand that, you know, the tea party is challenging more mo rat republicans across atlanta in order to kind of like kick them out of office, but the tea party is finding it difficult to find candidates. >> yeah. you know, it's funny to say that considering a year ago the tea party was probably the most influential voting block in the nation, pretty much dictated by tea party voters. you and i talked about this, ircarol. if they're having trouble, i don't think that's necessarily a reflection of lost power to the tea party because you can always look and say they've absolutely changed the course of debate in this country, and they've moved the line of republican positions toward the message they were pushing a year ago almost single-handedly. i would say if you look at the mainstream party, there's the difference. they've changed the mainstream republican party. >> they've certainly changed the dialogue. getting back to the races among the country. the tea party wants to overthrow her. they can't find a candidate. they managed to find one in indiana to compete against the senior senator dig lck lugar wh facing a challenger, the state treasurier, richardrichard. he says lugar is not conservative enough. let's listen. >> dick lugar is not the dick lugar of 35 years ago. if he once got to get bob on the stream court i wouldn't have be here today. he's not the same person. you know, mr. lugar, as i said, is not a bad person, but he's out of sync with the times. >> so this is one of the first campaign ads, but this guy doesn't have much of a chance, does he? ing. >> you know, i want to answer that very carefully because, again, a year ago we looked to a lot of people across the country, a lot of incumbent republicans, long-term incumbent republicans going up against no-name challengers who have been tempted to say they had no chance. look. it's one thing to say a year ago peek were saying who is marco rubio, charlie crist. he's the governor of florida. he easily beat charlie crist. i want to say when we hear the ad challenging lugar, there's still concern beyond whether you're conservative enough or you're rhino, and this is this -- there's a tension with people who have been in washington, d.c. a long time. it's the orrin hatches of the world. you can't say orrin hatch has been in d.c. for a really long time and it might be time for something new. we know that orrin hatch won't be challenged but that's the same kind of sentiment. i think that's really underlying a lot of the movement as well. >> all right. i could talk forever about this, but, then, you know, i'm a political nerd as you are. thank you for waking up with us. we appreciate it. how about some sports now? here's a different kind of football fight. members of a youth football team in florida attacking a referee. one of them tackles him at full speed. apparently some coaches were part of this fight too. all of the players have been suspended so that's pretty much the end of the team. that's just unbelievable. at it probably should be. this sort of thing is illegal in florida, by the way. here's proof that 61 is the new 18. a 61-year-old man will be the place kicker this fall for faulkner university. that's a small christian school in alabama. he was a kicker for a year in junior college and then he went off to vietnam. now he's ready to finish what he started way back in 1968. yes hrks e has made the team and he is a student there as well. ryan braun of the milwaukee brewers got within 75 feet of a home run. so close to an inside-the-park home run. oh, look at that. he got tripped up between third base and home and it was an easy out after that. it was even embarrassing too. huge kuhn crete containers holding nuclear material aren't exactly where they were a few weeks ago. they shifted during the east coast earthquake. but don't worry. everything is safe, but it's enough to get your mind racing, isn't it? we're walking through the worst-case scenario. but first on this day in history back in 1969 -- no, i'm not going to tell you about the first atm again. the internet was officially born on the same day. it happened in ucla when two computers passed information through a 15-foot gray cable. 45 minutes past the hour. at exxon and mobil, we engineer smart gasoline that works at the molecular level to help your engine run more smoothly by helping remove deposits and cleaning up intake valves. so when you fill up at an exxon or mobil station, you can rest assured we help your engine run more smoothly while leaving behind cleaner emissions. it's how we make gasoline work harder for you. exxon and mobil. good morning to you. happy friday. i is september 2nd. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." i'm carol costello joining you live from new york. just a few days after irene the weather is popping again. the tropical depression is running loose in the gulf of mexico. cnn's jennifer delgado is keeping watch for us. i guess, new orleans, watch out. >> yeah. we're really worried about this tropical depression number 13. let's go to the satellite imagery and given you some updated information. over the last couple of hours it has. moved mump at all. you can still see it spinning in the gulf of mexico. right now it's 230 miles south of the mouth of the mississippi. you see that rain working into parts of louisiana. maximum winds right now, 35 miles per hour, but gusts up to 45. in fact, tropical storm winds are already being reported in some of the oil rigs. let's go to this video right now. in fact, bp and exxon mobil started to evacuate some of their workers yesterday because they realized they needed to get the workers out of there now before weather conditions deteriorate when tropical depression potentially developments into a tropical storm like what we've forecasting later on today. let's go back to our weather graphics here. i want to give you an idea on the track. notice it's going to be moving very slowly. sunday morning approaching that coastline of louisiana, notice the winds, 60 miles per hour. and still on monday, still in the southern part of louisiana with the winds at 60 miles per hour and then it's going to weaken into an area f o low pressure. you can see it's going to be a big problem. as it moves slowly, it's going to be producing -- we're talking a tremendous amount of rainfall. anywhere you're seeing in yellow, that indicates the heavier rainfall that's coming down. more to come. we're talking 10 to 15 inches of rainfall. look at parts of new orleans. areas including central parts of louisiana and the area in purple. that's going to be our bull's eye. it's not going to be out of the question to see maybe 20 inches of rainfall. katia is still spinning out in the atlantic. again, it looks like it's going to develop into a major hurricane as we head into the middle of next week. right now we're not worrying about that. we're really focused on tropical depression number 13, which will become lee. just simply lee. i think i need a better name for that. what do you think? >> lee. catya ya katia is strange too. but katrina was retired. that's why we have katia. ousted libyan leader moammar gadhafi, he's still hiding but a voice that apparently bloong taska ga fi promises no surrender. he says the fight will go on even as his regime crumbles. there are a handful assembled in bani walid. there's a strike there targeting a pro-gadhafi military barrack. let's head to max foster live in london. another message from gadhafi, but is anybody listening? >> he's now saying -- the man reported to be him is says he's in sirte. the rebels don't want to go in there and be -- seem to be killing civilians who are just gadhafi supporters. they just want to attack obviously the people fighting against the rebels. and as we understand it, there's no electricity or water in sirte, so we don't know whether people living in sirte are aware that the rebels have take even over most of the country, so it's a sensitive situation. there's another. one rebel commander said tomorrow is the deadline for gadhafi forces to give up their arms in sirte. but he's also suggested there could be an extension of that deadline september 10th because of this sensitive situation with the civilians there. another commander says he's not aware of any extension to the deadline. you're starting to see, carol, a split in the rebel forces here, and sirte can be a very interesting case in point. >> yeah. it could be a very disturbing point as well. that's max foster live in london. thanks so much. authorities in peru have now charged your honor van der sloot with killing a young woman in a hotel. prosecutors want a 30-year prison sentence and restitution paid to the victim's family. he was once the prime suspect in t the disappearance of natalie hall oh way, he was never charged. the convicted child rapist had been in critical condition earlier this week and in a coma after he went on a fast. he's currently serving a life sentence for apparently assaulting two underaged girls. the earthquake last week shook 25 spent nuclear containers at a plant in west virginia and moved them up to four inches. these things are huge. they way 115 tons each. dominion virginia power says the containers were not damaged and no radiation was leaked. let's take a look at the word of the day now, shall we? 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[ crunching, sipping ] be happy. be healthy. can i try yours? it is just about the top of the hour. this your a.m. "wake-up call." now back to our word of the day or phrase of the day, shall i say. it would be waffle house index. here's how it works. when a disaster hits, fema actually uses waffle house as a gauge to figure out how rough if it is. if waffle house is open with a full menu the damage in the area is limited because they have power. yellow means they have amt willed menu and they're running on generator power with low food supplies. red means it's closed with a sign of severe damage in the area. now you know. that squabble between president obama and house speaker john boehner over next week's jobs report, of course it landed in the middle of late-night comedy. >> after pressure from republicans president obama moved his big jobs speech from wednesday to thursday night. obama caved in when he realized he could tivo "jersey shore." >> did you hear about the latest spat between president obama and john boehner. the white house says it will switch its date for the president's speech from wednesday to thursday. republicans have their big debate scheduled for wednesday. apparently a debate nobody's going to watch carries more weight than a speech nobody's going to believe. it's all interesting. you get all caught up. >> ouch. let's go to carter evans for a look at your money. he joins us live from the nasdaq market in new york. it's not looking good so far, is it? >> that's because it's all about jobs today, carol. the indications are we could see anywhere from an additional 73,000 jobs, perhaps as many as 93,000. neither number is very good. you see a lot of red oen the wall behind me from yesterday. there is red on the cnn money.com premarket page as well. dows futures down, nasdaq down. s&p 500 futures down about 9 points. we need to be adding 250,000 or more jobs every month. so we're far behind. >> okay. so what are the headlines on cnnmoney.com? hopefully there's something good. >> well, this one is