researchers believe you may be doing yourself more harm than good. it is tuesday, october 11th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." i'm carol costello joining you live from new york. president obama's $447 billion jobs bill faces its first vote in the senate later today. in a warning to republican critics, the president's senior campaign strategist says that voting against the measure could cost them the election. next year in a member row release the by the obama campaign david axelrod wrote "the more people know about the american jobs act, the more they want congress to pass the plan." axelrod also takes aim at critics of the bill's millionaires tax quoting "while republicans claim it is class warfare, the american people are seeing right through their opposition to asking the wealthiest to do their part." some democrats have doubts and while they control the senate there is no guarantee the bill will get the 60 votes needed to clear tonight's procedural hurdle. the occupy wall street protest is on the march, uptown where a lot of the rich people live. organizers plan to visit the homes of such money men as jpmorgan chase, news corp ceo rupert murdoch among others. the new york police department puts the tab at $2 million in overtime as for the protest. >> we are the united states of america. >> reporter: overnight in boston things got tense when police say demonstrators refused to leave a downtown area. 60 people who did not comply were arrested. if you're a pro basketball fan now may be the time to find another sport to follow. the nba commissioner david stern canceled the first two weeks of the regular season. the reason, of course, management and players are still at loggerheads over a new labor agreement. >> we now know where we are and where the players are. we don't have to guess about it and we part on good terms with the negotiators. we just have a gulf that separates us. >> right now, we're not at that place where a fair deal could shall reached between ourselves and the nba and, you know, at this point we're not sure how this will proceed. >> stern says no further talks are scheduled. he says the league lost some $300 million last year and is seeking cost-cutting help from players. for their part players are calling for an average salary cap of $7 million which would be an increase of $2 million above their current average salary. surveillance video captured a gun battle inside a houston gas station. take a look. two suspects are seen dashing into the station and opening fire on two clerks who ducked for cover. look at that. one clerk is shot in the leg as one of the suspects jumps over the counter and looks for money. suddenly the other clerk opens fire hitting the suspect twice in the upper body as he jumps back over the counter. oh, geez. both suspects managed to get away. it wasn't long before the wounded suspect was arrested. the other suspect remains at large. as for the injured clerk he is recovering at home. turning now to the battle for the white house, herman cain is surging in the polls among republican leading voters. in a new "washington post" bloomberg survey he came in second before mitt romney. romney was the favorite of the -- of 25% of those questioned. cain followed with 16%, next was texas governor rick perry with 13%. texas congressman ron paul got 6% and michele bachmann was favored by 4%. the other candidates received lower figures. the pot was conducted ahead of tonight's republican debate. that debate will be held in new hampshire. it could be a harbinger of what happens on wall street this morning. right now markets in asia are surging, but not so much in europe where stocks fell in early morning trading. investors there are focused on slovakia's parliament. the dow gained 329 or almost 3% to close at 11,433. that was the biggest one-day surge in two months. the big rally was due in large part to a pledge from european leaders to produce a plan for solving the eurozone's debt crisis by the end of the month. let's head to atlanta now and jacqui jeras. wow, some dreary weather heading for parts of the south. >> it's really ugly. not a fun drive in for me. it was like at 3:00 in the morning. unfortunately, you know, it's going to be like people starting heading in rush hour, lots of clouds across the southeast, it's kind of on and off. light and misty and heavy dow p downpours. we could see 1 to 3 inches in parts of the carolinas, into tennessee and the central apartment layings and look at that cloud deck already starting to spread into the northeast and we'll watch those clouds thicken up there as we head into the afternoon so that's why we're going to start to see delays. major delays expected over an hour in atlanta today. d.c., metro and charlotte will have delays probably just under an hour. kansas city, a lot of fog there this morning. be careful driving and flying. seattle and portland expecting rain and wind and that fog in san francisco as we take a look at the big picture, the nation's midsection is seeing the best weather today but we will see a few spotty showers from the great lakes towards the gulf coast. it's really the northwest and southeast seeing the worst of the weather. all right, carol, check out this story. this is amazing to me. anybody who runs a marathon in my book is huge, right? try running a marathon when you're 38 1/2 weeks pregnant. there you can see that's baby june. june miller was born right after the marathon. her mother made it through. her doctor gave her permission to do this, by the way. he said run half the marathon and then walk the second half. she said she paid for it. so she was still pregnant. she was going to run it. good for her. mom and baby are both doing well, but i still say pregnant or not pregnant i'm not doing a marathon. >> that's like insane. i saw her interviewed right after she had the baby and she looked great. it was like nothing to her. so the secret to having an easy birth is to run a marathon before you give birth. >> she said she started having contractions before the end of the race, so -- >> that's just a little crazy, don't you think. >> help those things along a little bit. >> hopefully the baby will become a runner. who know. >> she's got to be an avid runner. no way you could do that unless you're running marathons for year. >> or either that when the baby grows up she'll hate running. some republican voters became deflated after the news chris christie would not run for president but jimmy fallon has ideas an how to energize the gop. here's your punch line. >> after chris christie and sarah palin announced they weren't running it seems like republicans are trying to hard to keep people excited. take a look at this promo for tomorrow's debate. >> eight republican presidential candidates will go head to head. newt the gingrich that school chris ma'am. rick the corn dog perry. michelle i'll be bachmann and ron paul. slandering, arguing and some of the most 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>> well, according to polls, most people seem to enjoy what or support a lot of elements of it. what is key here, though, it seems that the white house is saying and this is part of a strategy session they had friday with democratic senate members and the caucus and that is that they will accept portions of this, so we'll see exactly which portions will be passed. i guess the ultimate answer to your question, though, carol, will be determined at the polls next november as to whether or not this argument does or does not work and where we are in the economy at that point and who the republican candidate is and all those other questions that have yet to be answered and only time will tell. >> kind of makes your head want to explode. tim farley host of morning briefing on sirius potus radio. thanks for joining us. torturing detainees to get a confession. that's the finding of a new united nations report. the troubling details for you next. first go ahead and celebrate you today as we mark it's my party day. your party can be as simple or elaborate as you want it because, remember, it's your party. it's 21 minutes past the hour. 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