live from new york this morning. we begin with what may be the occupy wall street move's biggest target so far, the iowa caucuses. cnn learned protesters plan to disrupt the first of the nation contest on january 3rd. organizers hope to have enough demonstrators on hand to occupy the campaign offices of president obama and all the republican candidates. they say their goal is to get them to start talking about the issues facing the 99%. also in tennessee, a federal judge has now ordered officials to stop arresting occupy protesters. the temporary restraining order blocks a curfew imposed by the governor last week that limited the time protesteders could gather at a popular downtown spot in nashville. the order will remain in effect for three weeks. republican presidential candidate herman cain is denying allegations of sexual harassment. he came out swinging yesterday regarding issues of inappropriate behavior while he was head of the national restaurant association in the '90s. cain has discussed details, not once, but several times. in an interview on pbs news hour, cain acknowledged he knew an agreement had been reached with one of the women. >> i was aware that an agreement was reached. the word settlement versus the word agreement, you know, i'm not sure what they called it. i know there was some sort of agreement. but because itnded up being minimal, they didn't have to bring it to me. my general counsel and the head of human resources had the authority to resolve this thing, so it wasn't one of those things where it got above a certain authority level and i had to sign it. if i did, and i don't think i did, i don't even remember signing it because it was minimal in terms of what the agreement was. >> on two other occasions yesterday cain said he was not aware of any settlement, any settlement at all that had been reached with either women. politico says the two women agreed to settlement packages, each in the five-figure range. dr. conrad murray has until the start of court today to decide whether he will take the stand in his own defense. in testimony yesterday an expert defense witness said that no amount of money could have convinced him to do what murray did, sedate jack sol nearly every night at home with propofol. the trial is ex-expected to wrap up this week. a nation just emerged from eight months of civil war, but that's what the new interim prime minister is doing. here is a little more information about him. al kind represented tripoli, he lived in the united states since 1975. it's unclear exactly when he returned to libya. a former professor of engineering at the university of alabama. he received his bachelor's degree from university of tripoli, his master's from the university of south earn california and his phd from north carolina state university. water everywhere. that is the dire situation this morning for much of thailand including parts of the capital bangkok. this is a live picture of bangkok right now. officials say the monsoon triggered flooding in the city could have been much worse. more than 370 people have died. a major concern are diseases like diarrhea, malaria. sara sidner explains just how bad it is. >> reporter: what you are looking at is a road. the road is covered with water. what we're seeing is people getting boats, anything that floats basically and taking their belongings out of their residences. this is a residential neighborhood. there are shops along this neighborhood as well. people are seeing this water rise and rise and rise. there are people that had to be res can you tell. people are getting into boats. that's the only way to make it across this stretch of the freeway. >> officials in bangkok says they're especially concerned about the lack of food and drinking water in communities isolated by the flood waters. here in the united states things are improving ever so slowly for parts of the neeftd pounded by the freak snowstorm. temperatures are expected to be on the rise today. nearly 2 million people are still without electricity. officials say it could be friday before power is back on everywhere. at least 13 deaths have been blamed on the storm. let's head to atlanta now and check in with meteorologist rob marciano. hopefully it's a brighter day all across america. >> yes, and warmer weather on the way for the folks in the northeast. if this was january or february like our typical ice and snowstorms, that would be a big issue. but temperatures have rebounded. it's not so much that they're in the freeze. it's that all those trees are down because of the leaves and the way it was snowing. another storm? another nor'easter? well, trying. here it is on the radar scope. thankfully it's going to go out to sea and not pass center anybody much more than the next couple hours. a little wind on the back side. maybe low clouds in philadelphia and d.c. that may cause some delays. we don't have much red on the map. we don't expect to see delays much over an hour in some of these spots. if you're traveling through miami, orlando and tampa, gusty winds along with chicago. our next storm system will be dropping over canada we have winter storm watches posted for the more typical areas above 7,000 feet or so. eight to 14 inches of snow with this. 77 in kansas city, 64 in chicago and 56 degrees in new york city and 54 in boston. tomorrow's high temperatures are similar. those numbers getting close to the 60 degree mark. as you know, trick-or-treating last night across america, well, it was not as smooth across the northeast with all the power outages and the trees in the roadways. so they had a solution. in will burn, massachusetts, they basically had a trunk or treat. everybody came to the parking lot and popped open the drunks and that's how people went around and got their treats that way. good solution to the problem. looks convenient. >> trunk-or-treat? >> yeah. >> somehow it's not the same. >> did you have any trick-or-treaters last night? >> no. i'm temporarily staying in the heart of new york city. there aren't many kids there any way. >> you can get some people dressed in really weird clothes. not sure whether they're dressed for like a normal day. you do see some strange kind of people in new york city or if they're dressed for halloween. >> we hope everybody had a happy halloween. good times in atlanta. good weather and good kids in my neighborhood. >> awesome. since we're talking about halloween, are you ready for halloween punchlines? here is comedian jay leno. >> president obama invited trick-or-treaters to the white house saturday night. a very scary party they hollywood. sat in a sishlg, turned off all the lights and the kids read the president his poll numbers. ooh! a bunch of rich kids came to my door and took all the candy, the other 99 kids in the neighborhood are occupying my front law. i saw a woman wandering around with her. she seemed confused. i asked who are you supposed to be? michele bachmann. one kid wanted five bucks for me to give him candy. i said, who are you supposed to be? he said bank of america. get out of here. the fbi being forced to release video and documents connected to the case that led to the arrest of ten russian spies last year. lit be hard to turn away from these incidents caught on camera. we'll she you more. first, our quote of the day. quote, sometimes things don't work out as planned, end quote. a simple phrase but generating a lot of international buzz this morning. find out who said it in 90 seconds. it's nine minutes past the hour. for you. one more thing.... those pj's you like, i bought you five new pairs. love you. did you see the hockey game last night? 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[ female announcer ] only from aveeno. it is ten minutes past the hour. this is your wam wake-up call. back to our quote of the day. this is the quote, quote, sometimes things don't work out as planned, end quote. that came from kim kardashian describing her marriage in part of a statement she released yesterday. as you probably know by now, she filed for divorce from nba basketball player kris humphries after just 72 days of marriage. she went on to say the two remain friends and, gosh, they only wish the best for each other. halloween is over, but we're still hearing of new ghost stories. that's the name of a ten-year fbi investigation that targeted russian spies here in the united states. cnn foreign after first correspondent jill doherty has more on these newly released documents. >> reporter: the fbi releases a treasure trove of videos, photos and heavily edited documents from operation ghost stories, an undercover peak at how a russian spy ring collected and passed on information, how the fbi trailed them and finally cracked the operation. in one video from january 2010, anna chapman, the red-headed bombshell who later went on to fame in moscow as a tv host sits in a new york coffee shop wearing designer sunglasses, unknowingly talking with an undercover fbi agent about problems with her laptop that she uses to communicate with russian officials. you are ready for the next step, okay? he asks. okay she says. this is not laptop to laptop, this is person to person, the agent says. in another video, the classic spy technique, a brush pass. as another spy trades off a bag full of cash with a russian official as they pass in a train station. the fbi was forced to release the material recorded over the decade the fbi had the ten russians under surveillance as part of the freedom of information act request. it looks just like a spy movie. including one russian digging up a package of money from what in spy lingo is called a dead crop. this spy ring is over, but the fbi says it's not the end of the story. >> the u.s. remains the target of most of the world's spying. again, as long we have policy information, technology and research that the rest of the world wants and foreign intel services want to gain a strategic edge against us, we'll continue to be a target. >> anna chapman and others were sent home in a spy swap next year. their techniques live on. jill doherty, cnn, the state department. >> fascinating. gop front-runner herman cain is fighting back against allegations of sexual harassment. yes, he remembers, finally remembers some new details. seems the more he talks about it, the more his answers change. we'll be back. kind of broadbandy kind of broadbandy committed to improving lives with honest, personal service, 5-year price lock guarantees and consistently fast speeds. ♪ sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. 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yes or no? have you ever been accused of -- >> i'm trying to -- >> have you? have you, sir? >> that was the last question. thanks. thanks. >> have you ever been accused of sexual harassment. >> if the restaurant association did a settlement, i am not even -- i'm not even aware of it and i hope it wasn't for much because nothing even happened. if there was a settlement, it was handled by some of the other officers that worked for me at the association. so the answer is absolutely not. >> i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i hope it wasn't for much because i didn't do anything. but the fact of the matter is, i'm not aware of a settlement that came out of that accusation. >> i was aware that an agreement was reached. the word settlement versus the word agreement? i'm not sure what they called it. i know there was some sort of agreement. but because it ended up being minimal, they didn't have to bring it to me. >> time now for our political ticker with tim farley, host of "morning briefing" on sirius potus live from washington. good morning. >> good morning, carol. this seems like what you would call a developing story, developing all the time, is it not? >> yes. it developed quickly throughout the day. early in morning he was saying, i don't know, there was no settlement. two hours later he said oh, yeah, there was a settlement. the big question for herman cain is how will this affect his campaign and does he need to release more information about what happened so many years ago? >> it struck me as you were speaking earlier that this relationship with the united states and maybe republican voters have with herman cain, maybe going the same way in the graphic arc as kim kardashian's wedding, 72 days, right? he's run right to the top of the charts. the problem is the way people look at this, they see herman cain is either not in command of the facts or he's lying about them. he's either fudging or he just can't remember. neither sounds good because if you're talking about even a case that took place 15 years ago, a case where you were being accused of sexual harassment, that would seem to me to be pretty prominent in your memory. either -- i think what he needs to do is figure out exactly what the story is, get out there, sit together with his advisers, find out what exactly he needs to say and say it so he can leave it behind. these changing stories never work for anybody. you have to come out with something and finally definitively say it. either apologize and say this is what it was and you decide. >> the interesting part -- i was talking to two lawyers who represent women in sexual harassment claims, a couple of interesting things just to throw by you. one, it's not unusual for women to settle cases in this way. most women don't like to take their cases to trial and don't like to report to it the eeoc because they don't want to be branded this woman accused of sexual harassment. i'm not saying these women were sexually harassed by herman cain. i'm saying that's a normal way to settle things within companies, within organizations. two, herman cain probably isn't tied to any confidentiality agreement when it comes to those settlements. the women are, but not him. he can give us every single detail. he's not tied in anyway legally to not giving anybody information about exactly what happened. and thirdly, these women say it's important that he do this, even if he is not guilty of sexual harassment because, as president of the united states you're in charge of the biggest body of employees, what, in the united states. you have to set the gold standard as the boss of all of these federal employees now under your care. it's important that he just clears the air so that people know where he's coming from. >> exactly. to your points, a settlement does not indicate guilt. and, as you said, he doesn't have to abide by any kind of confidentiality agreement. he can say what he needs to say. the problem is he keeps saying different things. for example, now he remembers even the gesture that he made according to one of the interviews he did last night, what exactly may have led to one of these accusations of sexual harassment. and the standards have changed over the past 15, 20 years to the point you just made though. he needs to lay out exactly what the case is, tell people, look them in the eye and say this is what the case s. he's done that several times. the problem is he's looked them in the eye and said different things. that doesn't play well. by the way, by leaving some factors ourkts i think he's telling people what they need to know, what he thinks is important for them to know. i don't believe people like to be told that. they want to be given the facts so they can decide what's important and not important about this. herman cain needs to do that and do it very quickly i think. >> even the amount of the settlement. if it was $10,000, most people would say this is a nuisance case and they wanted her to go away. if it was $95,000 maybe that says something different about the case but we don't even know those facts. >> sure. let people know what the case is and let them decide for themselves. that's what herman cain needs to do. he hasn't done that so far. he shifted his story. that never looks good for somebody running for office, let alone the presidency of the united states. >> i'm sure you'll have a dpas nating show tim farley. host of "morning briefing" on sirius morning radio. a former guerilla fighter wins a top elected post. more on the man who went from working against the government to being part of it. first, gather your favorite book and have the family galther around. it is national family literacy day first held in 1994 and designed to showcase the importance of parents reading to their kids. it's 21 minutes past the hour. ...was it something big? 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