earthquake, major damage reported, major damage we can see in the video, but no reports of deaths. good morning to you all. 10:00 a.m. where i statistic here in atlanta, georgia. from the cnn center, this is your cnn saturday morning. i'm t.j. holmes. so glad you could be here with us. also coming up, muslims are getting the word out trying to sway public opinion with a new ad campaign. we'll talk to the man behind the message. also, this is something you don't see every day, current and former gang members holding their own news conference to criticize the police. are the gang members now the victims? we'll be talking to a former gang member this morning. sxhoo also, the disappointing unemployment numbers no doubt bringing hand wringing at the white house, but the president has a message of hope. you'll hear that ahead. but first, let's talk about it storm. earl was a hurricane, it's tropical storm now p about it's weakened, still there's a severe