california regulators ordering pg&e to inspect its gas lines. hurricane igor is a category four storm and continuing to gain rength. rob will have new information whether the east coast could be in line for a direct hit. and we are also on freed watch this morning. u.s. hiker sarah shourd could head home in hours after more than a year in an iranian prison. and of course the am fix blog is up. lots to talk about. go to cnn.com/amfix. new developments i in the neighborhood decimad by a deadly gas explosion and fires in california. residents in san bruno returning home for the first time and they are finding their block in regulors are ordering a ruins.
prident and bill clinton trying to see if they could get sestak out. but he is the nominee, they want to keep the seat. they are going to do what they can. thweks for that. we ll have an updateo in one hor and r all of the latest political news go to our website, constantly,cnn politics.com. kim clijsters took a break to become a mom, came back to win the u.s. open for a third time. we ll ask the tennis star how she did it next in the cnn newsroom. something shipping with fedex to shanghai. and then you opened a bottle of champagne. that was for a science project. [ man and woman speaking chinese ] i m late for.soccer. rehearsal. [ man speaks chinese ] you and i are cool? i ll be home by curfew. [ male announcer ] we understand.® you need a partner who can help you go global. fedex.
in the meantime it s right out there in plain sight for you all to see how these two twitter enemies are going at each othe in fnt of the world. i don t know what to say. it s so juvenile. one side saying the other has more lobbyists than the other. i want to point out that we look at the lobbyists that everyone has. you do see them across the board. i encourage you to read the story. you might learn a lot. but certainly also see each side rejecting some of the claims that are there. the new york times as well. this is apllso another example w partisan politics becomes the show and somehow they have time for this. getting nothing doneor us. it seems we could put in two teenage gls and they could ha the same conversation on facebook. i hear you. we should move on. just about awe half hour from n we re going to get the latest from the cnn political ticker.
this army sergeant is fluent in japanese language andrt culture. how important is this as a form of communication? very effective. it s everywhere. you see it on the train all of the time, cartoons, and cartoons go from children to adult. reporter: it caughtte the attention of thishi man and his son who stopped to mingle with the army. it s really surprising, he says, i kind of thought, what are they doing? he ll now take the time to learn about the two-nation alliance. getting a message through a medium this country understandsa kyung lah, cnn, japan. the safet debate over natural gas drilling will play out just two hours from now in a packedor auditorium in upstate w york. thousands of people expected at
are being fraked. i m going to play a devil s advocate with you. that s a little bit why they say they are doing this, because this is clean fuel. it s not clean to get. it s a fossil fuel. any fossil fuel, coal, oil, gas, is they don t see the dirty side. this is the dirty side of natural gas. it s clean to burn but it s not clean to get. like bill their well is poisoned. the environmental protection confirmed it and is now forcing the gas exploration company, cabot to truck in clean water. it denies it contaminated anything. a spokesman cite as 2004 study which found only a minimal threat to underground drinking water and told cnn we don t believe therocess is contaminating the ground water. as a technology it s proven and safe. the homeowners don t buy that.