they also met. what's also interesting, kyra, rick perry met with three of donald trump's children. you know, i spoke to michael cohen who is trump's top political adviser. i just got off the phone with him and cohen said he spent some time with perry, as well. they talked about the economy and jobs and talked about family. all topics we would expect to come up during the conversation with donald trump. what is the take away from trump? cohen tells me that trump likes him as an individual and also likes what perry has done in texas, as far as creating jobs and also to make it a pro-business state. but donald trump is not ready to make any endorsements yet. as i said, mitt romney will be in new york in a couple weeks to meet with donald trump. kyra? >> he hasn't ruled out his own presidential bid, right? >> no, he is leaving that on the table. donald trump, if he endorses in this presidential election and that person gets the nomination and, of course, he says he won't run. but cohen tells me that they are preparing for trump to run in june of 2012, if you can imagine that. just a few months before the election would actually take place. that would happen after the apprentice comes off air on nbc. trump would run as an independent. however, at this point, though, i think trump is seriously surveying the field and the chance of him really running right now, i think, is slim, kyra. but as donald trump always does, he leaves everything on the table and, in fact, michael cohen has a website up called shouldtrumprun.com. kyra? >> mark, thanks. meanwhile, the attacks are getting much sharper between rick perry and michele bachmann, but the most damage against the congresswoman may come from a member of her inner circle. shannon travis in des moines, iowa. shannon, what exactly do we know about this insider? >> this insider his name is ron kerry, he's michele bachmann's former chief of staff. now, let me just set this up. you know that rick perry and michele bachmann basically almost trying to play to their supporters who's more conservati conservative. michele bachmann criticized rick perry on monday at our tea party debate about the 2007 executive order that he signed requiring young texas school children, girls, to get this hpv vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. okay, michele bachmann has been hitting him on that saying, you know what, basically implying would a real conservative do this? on tuesday on "today" show michele bachmann went on and said, i heard from a woman who told me that her daughter took this hpv vaccine and then suffered from mental retardation afterwards. now, health experts say that that's just not possible. so, it this sounds like a gaffe from michele bachmann. but take a listen at that former chief of staff that i just mentioned, take a listen at what he had to say about his boss. >> her impulsive nature coupled with the fact that she sometimes doesn't digest information as carefully as she should leads to the impulsive statements that are sometimes just off the mark enough that it makes her into a more provocative, controversial figure. >> now, that's what her former chief of staff had to say. the bachmann campaign released a statement to cnn, kyra. i'll read it here. governor perry abused his power of the executive order and imposing mandatory vaccines on 12-year-old girls and engaged in crony capitalism in sealing the deal deal, that's the truth. notice, kyra, they did not address this linkage that congresswoman bachmann made between the hpv vaccine and mental retardation which health experts tell us is not true. one last thing bachmann mentioned crony capitalism. perry denies that. at issue there, a former chief of staff of perry's who worked for the drug manufacturer that made that vaccine. kyra? >> shannon travis, thanks so much. john boehner will formally swear in the two newest members of congress. bob turner and mark amodei won special elections. now, republicans say the victories are a clear referendum against president obama and his policies and now one democratic guru says the administration needs to recognize the sobering reality. it's time to "panic." democratic strategist james carville has strong words beginning with this, "fire somebody. no, fire a lot of people. this may be news to you, but this is not going well. for precedent, see russian army 64th division stalingrad." our panel will weigh in and debate on this. for all the latest news go to our website, cnn.com/politics. two people are dead after fire engulfed a cruisesh ship right off the coast of norway. max, what do we know? >> we think the two people that died are crew members. this started in the engine room of a cruise ship. horrific images coming out from norway right now. the fire took hold in quite an isolated area. so, what you have is a situation with the local fire department, a town of only 40,000 people and a local fire department tried to deal with this. two people have died. none of the passengers, none of the cruisers, as it were, were injured or hurt. there are more than 200 of them and they are trying to get them home. but a dreadful situation for this cruise ship company and the local area and people from all over the world were traveling on this ship, kyra. we're trying to get more details. that's what we have so far. two people have died and nine injured. a fire on the cruise ship in norway. >> max, let us know when you get more. appreciate it. also overseas a banking giant says one of its traders went rogue and blundered away $2 billion in unauthorized deals. christine romans is following it for us out of new york. this raises questions about a lack of oversight, once again, in the banking industry. >> when you're talking about a potential $2 billion hole, that's an awful lot of money. how could this happen? they're calling it unauthorized trading from ubs. they aren't using the term rogue trader. so, a lot of people are looking to see what we can learn more about this 31-year-old person who has been arrested here. but we have a long history of some very big gaffes, frankly. when you hear rogue trader stories. here's a couple infamous rogue traders. this was a story of a few years back. that was a $6 billion trading scandal. there was another one that was a metal trader scandal. that was $2.6 billion, as well. you might not remember this one. about 1999 and this is in the '90s barings bank nick leeson became a household name. a $1 billion trading fraud, basically. took down an entire bank. i mean, you think of that. that one person, you know, sitting there at the computer could take down a whole bank. so, ubs says it will have to post a loss, kyra, but the health of the bank is still in tact. something interesting, as well, ubs logo is three keys, confidence, security and discretion. >> talking a lot more about this story for sure. christine. the search for moammar gadhafi still in full gear and right here in the u.s., the pentagon is still concerned that the fall of this ousted leader could lead to a rise in terrorism. barbara starr following that for us. barbara, what exactly do we know about this possible terrorist infiltration? >> well, kyra, what pentagon officials and defense officials are telling us is they're growing increasingly concerned that al qaeda and other terrorist groups may be trying to gain a foothold in libya now that gadhafi is gone and this new transitional council still doesn't have a firm dwrgrip on country. this is an analysis. they say they don't know for sure. they don't think thousands of fighters from al qaeda are moving into libya, but they are worried that perhaps dozens of fi fighters are getting an organization and a network going while the country there remains so uncertain. you know, this is the perfect time for them to set up shop, keep a low profile while there's not a firm, central government in control and gain their toe hold. of course, in libya the concern always is there's thousands of weapons, basically, floating around that country now with no real government control. that's the kind of thing, they don't want terrorists to get a hold of. kyra? >> there's concerns that terrorists could be working on the inside within the national transitional council. >> well, there is concern that terrorists with sympathies are part of the tmc, and, again, they don't see any kind of evidence of any official linkage at this point. but even just yesterday, the top u.s. general in charge of u.s. military relations with africa said he was concerned about the growing terrorist hold in africa everywhere from nigeria across the west, libya. so a lot of concern that africa, itself, may be becoming the highest. the highest military decoration and today the president awards the medal of honor to a u.s. marine. dakota myers saved the lives of two dozen comrades and braved withering gunfire to try to cover the bodies of four marines that died in the 2009 shootout. he'll accept sh medal of honor, the men he call his brothers. >> every single day i think about what happened and how i'll carry on my life and honor those guys and i think what it does, it gives you an extra, it gives you an edge to everyone else because, you know, it's not just me, you know, i'm not just going around for myself now, i'm doing it for other people. once you have that instilled in you, it's not, it gives you an extra edge. if i can't look down and have a reason to push on, i have four reasons on my wrist. that's why i keep their names on my wrist. >> he met with the president over a beer yesterday on the patio. the 23-year-old kentucky native is the first living marine to receive the medal for actions in afghanistan and iraq. that mysterious light that lit up the sky and later 911 switchboards. we'll investigate. and a bicycle shop in california gets an unexpected drive through window and it's all on tape. 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[ engine revs, tires screech ] mom? ♪ well, checking stories across country now. phish was back in their home state last night. thousands of people turned out for the show. find a parking space with the help of social media. so far more than 500 people have signed a. from mission viejo, california, the store was just remodeled last week may need a little more updating now. sheriff departments across the southwest got a flood of calls overnight from people wondering exactly what was that bright light they saw hurdling through the sky. rob marciano. aliens. >> everyone has a camera phone. we get so much stuff that 10, 20 years ago we would just say, we got reports, there were calls. so at least now we can look at it and analyze a little bit better. let's show it to you. these pictures out of arizona. i believe this is at a football game near phoenix around 7:30, 7:45 p.m. this fireball just streaked across the sky. so, most people there saw it. obviously, some folks had their video cameras handy. at the point you could see it could be green or purplish and then we also have some stills shot in chandler shot south of phoenix. also california, southern california. >> what is your take? get to the nitty-gritty. what is it? >> it's a ufo, which is an unidentified flying object. we haven't identified it. it's probably a meteor because they have these colors, green and purple and things like that, that tells you there could be magnesium or nickel in there and when it's orange it tells you that it's streaking through the atmosphere at a certain speed. >> not just random debris. >> actually, there's a satellite, a nasa satellite, old one. we have used it for upper atmosphere measurements. that's supposed to fall through the atmosphere here through the next couple months and we expect that to land in the ocean. we don't think that's what this was. that would come across a little bit more, maybe celebrated. >> got it. >> no worries. i saw a movie last night that showed aliens coming to earth through meteors and then fighting people, it was a horrible movie, but, anyway, just happened to coincide with this report. >> ironic. we'll follow it. well, pack of dogs jump ropes into the record books. go from meteors to jumping dogs. that's right. we'll tell you about the guinness book's whacky new entry next. plus, the new jackie kennedy book is out. we can't get enough of the first lady's personal revelations. her thoughts on the cuban missile crisis, straight ahead. all right. let's get to your showbiz headlines. white house party crasher and real housewife michelle salahi has not been kidnapped. she is actually on the road with the band journey. she is "good friends" i with one of the guys. scarlett johansson's lawyer has reached out to a bunch of sites demanding they remove the "stolen copyright protected private pics." the fbi confirms it's on the case. the medical drama "house" is appointment tv for a whole lot of people. star hugh laurie is named the most watched actor in the guinness book of world records. he bumped david hasselhoff off. max? >> let's first introduce you, kyra, to a 36-year-old social worker. he's from new orleans and he's also got rather large afro. the largest natural afro in the world. check that out. taken 12 years to grow. and it's an incredible 4'4" in diameter. circumference, rather. >> okay, that's disgusting. >> fingernails. fingernails. 1'02" on her left hand, would you believe? she hasn't cut her fingernails since 1990. how does she do anything? here in the uk we're a bit more sober, as you know, kyra. here is our world record this year. the cucumber. it is 47 inches long and is an armenian cucumber and belongs to clare pierce. look how proud she is. but, we have to go to asia for our last one. this is a pretty unusual one. they have a particular trick and here it is. >> you say this is an unusual one and what makes the others not unusual? please explain. >> 13 dogs skipping. we just have to dream something up, kyra. >> i'm seeing this being added to the 12 days of christmas right now. max, thank you very much. facebook's ipo is expected to be one of the biggest ever but stock on wall street that the company is pushing it back. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. i'm sorry, i'm still laughing. >> the nails. ewww. >> that's all we have to say. one word. ewww. >> all right. so, you want to know about facebook. so, we're not getting, we're not getting an official word from facebook about its ipo, but wall street had expected facebook to make its public debut late this year, early next year. facebook is pushing it back to the end of next year. mark zuckerberg is the head of facebook. he wants to wait to keep workers focused right on product development because the fact is, if the company goes public, employees with shares could cash out. they could get a big payout and who knows, maybe wouldn't return to work after that big payout because shares are selling in the private market right now, they're valuing facebook right now at $65 billion. kyra? >> well, what's the advantage to going public and what's the rush? >> you know what, going public is a way to raise cash. gives more room to expand, to hire, to develop new products. but analysts say facebook doesn't really need the cash and doesn't want the big headaches that go with it, too. they would have to answer to shareholders. not such a great time to go public. look at the economic environment. "wall street journal" says most ipos are trading below their initial offer price. still, facebook looks like it could still go public next year because, you know how it is, cash is king. >> speaking of cash. the markets. a lot of economic reports coming out this morning. what do you think? how will things look say 4 1/2 minutes from now? >> right now stock futures are much higher. a bunch of reports came out that weren't good. one down beat report on manufacturing and anothert on w jobless claims showing they rose more expected last week to a total of 428,000. it's the highest level since june. that's not good news. once again, dow futures are up about 90 points. europe is really driving the action today in the markets. new liquidity measures to help the situation in europe. the focus on wall street today is on europe and that's why we see stocks looking at a higher open in about four minutes. kyra? >> we'll talk more, alison, thanks. another potential default in europe could push the u.s. economy into a tailspin. christine romans talking more about that with us. we were talking about this on friday and how it has impacted the markets through the week. also, he's on death row and only hours from his scheduled execution. today human rights group fight for troy davis' life. we'll have have the latest. (screams) when an investment lacks discipline, it's never this obvious. introducing investment discipline etfs from russell. visit russelletfs.com r a prospectus, containing the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other information. read and consider it carefully before investing. checking top stories now. the lawyer for two imprisoned american hikers said he filed the paperwork for their release on bail, but josh fattal and shane bauer may have to wait until saturday for an iranian court to rule. a bank's $2 billion loss. the swiss bank ubs is investigating it may have to post a trading loss for the third quarter. foreclosure filings jumped 7% in august. expert says the rise is due to lenders finally pushing through foreclosure paperwork following the robosigning. christine romans part of our cnn money team. christine, before we talk about greece, though, let's quickly mention this week's jobless numbers. >> yeah, want to tell you about those. jobless numbers were worst than expected. 428,000 first-time unemployment claims in this country and that was something that was the big story until about seven minutes ago and now everyone is talking about this emergency innovation federal reserve. the bank of japan, the swiss national bank injecting money into the european system and you've got european markets soaring right now. european stock markets up right now, i don't know, maybe 4%, 5%. the story has switched from being very concerned about the job situation in the u.s. and the data from the u.s. concerning, showing more people laid off, first time unemployment up 428,000. but now back to the big international picture, kyra. how do you make sure that greece doesn't take down the european union, the concerted effort by the european central bank and the fed here and five central banks altogether coming together and putting in emergency measures to support the european system. that's what the big story is at this minute, kyra. >> merkel and sarkozy trying to figure out a rescue plan because this zil a huge impact on us. i hope we won't see the protests and the rallies like we did months ago. >> our futures are up pretty sharply here, you can look for a bit of a rebound here this morning. three days higher and a lot of people talking about a greek relief rally and the central banks coming in just after three higher days in stocks to put more confidence into the system and more money into the system and i think you're going to see a pretty decent reaction this morning in u.s. stocks. so, as we get more details about what looks like a coordinated effort, they're calling it a dollar intervention. what it basically means is injecting support and injecting money and injecting confidence from the federal reserve from all of the big central banks