for national unity and vowed to respect the rights of women. more on this election moments from now. tropical storm debby is causing problems for much of the gulf coast. a tornado triggered by the storm killed a woman in florida. flooding is a major threat with some areas getting drenched with up to 15 inches of rain. the latest track has debby slowly headed towards panama city, florida. it could make landfall by thursday. bad news just keeping coming for colorado residents. another new wildfire burning. the entire area of manitou springs, nearly 11,000 residents have been forced to evacuate. very sca. started with manitou avenue north of. we need them to leave when we ask them to leave. he was asleep, so i pounded on his door to get him out. prett scary. it s right there. orange. a lot of orange. crews have zero containment of the tire and are not expegting conditions to improve anytime soon. as we wait to hear the fate of the president s health care reform bill,
member has opened fire on civilians. sarah is in kabul, afghanistan. what can you tell us at this point? reporter: good morning. at this point there s a lot of conflicting information, depending bho you ask, which has been par for the course in this conflict. away we re hearing from the international service assistance force is that they are saying, look, this was one soldier who went off base. it was not a part of any kind of a mission. the soldier left base, walked off the base, and eventually opened fire injuring several civilians. those civilians are being treated at a coalition medical facility. now, that is now being disputed by the taliban and by a villager that we were able to get ahold of in the area. this is happening in an area that has been heavily targeted because it is filled with the taliban, and so it s an area that has seen quite a bit of action, but we need to mention that the taliban is saying that they believe this was many soldiers who attacked one part
from cnn center, this is cnn saturday morning. it s october 29th. good morning. i m ailelina cho. a classic nor easter in october. we ll tell you how bad it will get and where. and breaking news out of afghanistan. a suicide bomber attacks a nato convoy in kabul. we ll get a live report from the region in just a moment. but first, cities throughout the northeast are getting ready for a major snowstorm. an october nor easter is rare, not unprecedented, but rare. here s a look at new york city right now. the rain is coming down. three to five inches of snow is expected when it s all over. the city is among those preparing for the early snow. and the big apple isn t alone. snow is expected from baltimore all the way to boston. and here s what the radar looks right now. one of the biggest problems besides the snow is what happens next? and that s potential power outages. the trees. still plenty of leaves on them. you have forecasters saying heavy, wet snow. high winds. th
that is the lowest level in about two years. got a long way to go. like to see that number go down more and more. martha: great news if you re not one of those 429,000 but better than expected. bill: good orange, i m bill hemmer. martha: nice to see you, i ll martha maccallum, president obama said to michigan, a state hit hard, folks across the country are skeptical given the numbers that the stimulus is really working. bill: all right. what are the numbers telling us? stuart varney, anchor of varney & company, it wastous about how to break this down. how do you read it? the claim that we ve created 3 million jobs as a result of the stimulus plan is being widely knocked this morning mocked this morning, it is flat out not believed, it is a computer model projection. if you look at the hard countable numbers, nontheoreticalby have lost 2.5 million jobs since the