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new york yankees shortstop derek jeter is putting his manhattan bachelor pad up for sale. the 5,000 square foot apartment lists for $20 million. reports say jeter bought it in 2001 for $12 million. not a bad profit if you ask me. rumor has it tiger woods is kind of tooling around manhattan for his own bachelor pad. maybe he ll move there. what do you think? well, tiger knows how to tool around. that s for sure. why is derek jeter moving out of the bachelor pad? i think he has better options, perhaps. i can just imagine. all right, alison. thanks. you got it. well, the midterm elections are less than two months away. that means it s been two years since candidate barack obama won support across party lines. in indiana, for example, he became the first democrat to win the state in 40 years. this morning t.j. holmes is in indianapolis. he s traveling with the cnn election express talking to every day people across the
world will be that islam is under attack. and coming up next hour, we re getting perspective from muslim scholars, religious leaders and commentators. we ll dissect what the imam said, whether he changed any minds, and if scrapping building plans now could threaten national security. it s coming up next hour in the cnn newsroom. what is left of tropical storm hermine is heading to the midwest after smacking texas. and the pictures are compelling. more than a foot of rain triggered the flooding. swift water rescue teams trying to get motorists to dry land. one driver is still missing after his car was washed away. that also spawned four tornados in the dallas area. one injured this trucker. you need help?
same think in d.c. and philadelphia. memphis and dallas, you may see a few more showers and thunderstorms. seattle and san francisco, low clouds and cool. forgot about this. here s igor. here s africa. we don t have to deal with igor for a while. 40-mile-an-hour winds at this point, becomes a hurricane, two weeks before it even gets close to the u.s. if it makes it that far. fingers crossed it doesn t do anything. have to wait to see, rob. thanks. this morning s top story just a few minutes away. including the imam speaks the man behind the mosque ground zero talks exclusively to cnn and why he says it must be built and why our national security, in his opinion, depends on it. most passengers now saying he s no hero. there wasn t even a scuffle on board. why flight attendant steven slater may be living a lie.
cnn.com, political ticker. and now joe arpaio, america s toughest sheriff, may have his sights set on the white house. in new hampshire, his adviser says arpaio gets thousands of messages each and every week, urging him to run for president. he s one of the democrats top guns when it comes to campaigning. former president clinton is going to ohio to campaign for ted strickland. you see him trailing his republican opponent by double digits. and with the gop according to make big gains in november, new hampshire. governor haley barbour is urging them to stay on message and avoid premature celebrations. ba barber is the candidate in 2012 and he s giving all his