at the top of the hour here, this is your cnn sunday morning. i'm t.j. holmes. thank you for being here. we want to give a special good morning and welcome to the men and women of the armed forces watching now on the american forces network. thank you for being here. thank you for what you do. let's start with what we saw yesterday in new york. an extraordinary scene really. the brooklyn bridge is, again, open this morning after protesters shut it down. police took away as many as 700 demonstrators who had taken to the bridge as parts of a wall street protest. they're calling this thing the occupy wall street. that's what they call themselves. look, they did occupy wall street for a time and other parts of new york city. they've been gathering in new york for more than two weeks now. this has been a loosely coordinated effort to protest what they say a financial system that favors the rich at the expense of everybody else. this is the biggest disruption we've seen in the two weeks of their protests. police have been trying to keep the protesters away from wall street up to this point. they set aside alternate protest areas that were not being used. the protest movement has spread to other cities. demonstrators turned out in los angeles, chicago, denver, as well as a couple of other cities. president obama now, he called out his palestinian rivals. every single -- his republican rivals. every single one. he said it's time to stand up. he was talking about the don't ask, don't tell policy and the reaction to a gay soldier's question at the last republican debate. listen to the president. >> we don't believe in a small america. we don't believe in the smallness that says it's okay for a stage full of political leaders, one of whom could end up being the president of the united states, being silent when an american soldier is booed. [ applause ] >> we don't believe in that. [ applause ] >> we don't believe in standing silent when that happens. we don't believe in them being silenced. you want to be commander in chief, you can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the united states even when it's not politically convenient. >> you hear the president there. again, talking to every single one of the republican candidates. if you don't remember the moment he's referring to, here's the incident. >> in 2010 when i was deployed to iraq, i had to lie about who i was because i'm a gay soldier. do you intend to circumvent the progress that's been made for gay and lesbian soldiers in the military? [ booing ] >> yeah. i would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place -- >> the republican candidates were largely silent about that reaction that the audience had, even though rick santorum, who you saw, put out a statement saying he didn't hear the crowd reaction and was certainly defending the men and women who defend this country. also, president obama's comments came during a speech too the human rights campaign, a major advocate for equality to the gay and lesbian community. he talked about his opposition to the defensive act but stopped short of openly endorsing same-sex marriage. governor rick perry is prepared to send american troops into mexico to battle drug cartels. the texas governor and gop presidential candidate made the comments at a campaign event in new hampshire. >> the way that we were able to stop the drug cartels in colombia was with a coordinated effort. it may require our military in mexico working in concert with them to kill these drug cartels and to keep them off of our border and to destroy their networks. >> now governor perry went on to say that the u.s. and mexican governments should meet after the 2012 election to discuss possible strategy. there is a new alert this morning for you, for americans, for all americans traveling anywhere. the state department issued the worldwide travel alert due to the fears of retaliation attacks over the government's killing of a key al qaeda leader, anwar al-awlaki, killed in a ceo drone attack in embassy not last week. earlier the fbi and department of homeland security sent out the same warning to local law enforcement. also, another top al qaeda bombmaker may have been killed in the drone strike. a u.s. official sells cnn indications that are ibrahim hasan al-azri was killed but that has yet to be confirmed. he is suspected of being behind the plot to blow up a plane in detroit. that was underwear bomber case of christmas, 2009. there was also a plot to blow up cargo planes last year. investigators think he was involved in that, as well. the man who shot president reagan may be closer to getting out of the mental hospital where he's been for the past 30 years. the hospital says john hinckley should be allowed longer trips away from the facility leading up to his eventual release. federal prosecutors say he is still a threat, that his mental condition hasn't improved enough. hearings on the hospital's request are scheduled for late november. we're at six minutes past the hour. good morning to reynolds wolf. how you doing, sir? >> a-okay. how are you? >> well. we're both doing well. >> it's this time of year that many people want to explore and see the fall colors. you can see the brilliant reds and orange and all that kind of stuff. guess where there's a new color that people will be seeing in parts of the country today -- white. snow in parts of pennsylvania and new york. we're going to talk about that specific white color coming up in a few minutes. let you know how long it may stick around and an update on the tropics. another full plate, a weather pot pourri if you will. >> snow, i didn't see that coming this morning. >> a curve ball coming at you. >> i shower sent the note you sent -- i should have sent the note you sent to the team. >> really? you didn't read it? >> i usually do. thank you. reynolds and i in a good mood. the tigers, razorbacks pulled off a good victory yesterday. we know it's a physical sport. sometimes it goes -- i don't know, a little sideways. we've got video you've got to see of a new method of tackling in college sports. grab the ponytail. going to show you in a second. also this morning, a lot of people going to be drinking coffee. ladies, drink up. two, three, four, maybe even five cups. yes, it will give you a jolt this morning but could possibly give you a long-term jolt in life. i'll explain why coffee is so good for you. if insurance were sold in the grocery store, it'd be easier to compare. you think these all cost about the same. they all give safe drivers a discount. but what's this? only allstate gives safe drivers something more. a bonus check every six months you drive accident-free. so what's it going to be? eenie, meanie, miney... or more. shop less. get more. make one call to an allstate agent. [ female announcer ] call allstate now and you'll also get a free lifetime membership in good hands roadside assistance. similar but different. >> nine machines painutes past . there's bad tackling in football, but sometimes you got to do what you got to do. last night -- you see that? the game between ucla and stanford. josh smith returning the kick. you know, sometimes you can't get hold of the guy and you grab whatever you can. and if the guy has hair coming out the back of his helmet, you do what you got to do. >> you know, i don't think he did it on purpose. i think in the speed of the game you're trying to get the carrier down any way, shape, or form. it just happened. >> and that could be awfully dangerous. they do have the horse-collar penalties they put into the game a few years ago actually. a lot of guys have the longer hair sticking out from the back. and it, frankly, can be dangerous in my opinion. a lot of guys have it. >> do you think the ncaa is going to outlaw that at some point? >> the hair? >> you have to tuck it in the jersey or something? >> it unfortunately is probably going to take somebody getting seriously injured and -- or too many incidents like this before something is done. we hope it doesn't get to that. that's dangerous. >> it seems like only yesterday that i had to get rid of my dreads because of the same thing. walking from the weather office to the set, snaggeded it on something, took down light fixtures, half the studio, it was bad news. >> we have the pictures. he's not kidding. >> the dreads, i love them, but you have to do what you have to do. crazy like that. today is one of those days it might be a bad hair day for people in parts of the northeast. the reason why is because of all the moisture. we're talking about the rainfall, but something more. we have the chance of seeing snow in a few places. that is precisely what we are seeing compliment of an area of low pressure off the eastern seaboard. with that wrap-around moisture, you've got a couple things going on. first and foremost, moisture coming in from the atlantic. something else is going to happen. cold air is funneling right in the same time, moving at it with the cold base of air and the overrunning moisture. guess what you got. as we zoom in, you see a little pink popping up on the radar, especially altuna, along i-80. rain drops, snowflake. a couple of those. you might see that stick around through the afternoon before that low eventually lifts out. what you can expect up and down the eastern seaboard, rain is going to end when you get to washington, d.c., southward. things are going to improve. sky conditions will be better. at the same time, you'll have a lot of cool air, it will feel fantastic. warmer toward the west. say san francisco northward to the strait of juan de fuca, near seattle. you can anticipate scattered showers and possibly some rainfall over parts of the four corners. your temperatures -- 60s for seattle, portland, 84 in salt lake city. still warm in billings with 86. with the trough, here's where the cooler air is building. washington, d.c., 53. 63 in new york and boston. atlanta with 67. very quickly let's wrap it up as we look at your forecast out toward the tropics. bermuda, thankfully, you've got hurricane ophelia moving away. still heavy surf. rain is moving out, too. as the system churns north, it will begin to weaken considerably. as soon as it interacts with cooler waters, that could be a difference-maker. the other system in the atlantic, this storm is falling apart. still has deep convection, but the structure looks horrendous. we anticipate that it's going to curve north and perhaps back to the northeast as we fast forward to tuesday, wednesday, and friday, with winds of 65 miles per hour. and then as we get to later in the week, friday, do saturday, it should become part of history. that's the latest. >> reynolds, thank you, kind sir. we will be checking in with reynolds plenty throughout this morning. at 12 minutes past the hour, imagine this -- you use your debit card to buy a bottle of water that costs $1, it's actually going to cost you $6 because of a $5-a-month fee that bank of america is about to charge you for using that debit card. can you get around this? not sure if you can. stick with us. and quarter past the hour on this cnn sunday morning. good morning to you, atlanta, georgia, headquarters. the cnn world headquarters here in downtown atlanta. hello to you all this morning, though. something we've been telling you about. bank of america has a new plan. tp it wants to start charging customers $5 a month for access to your own money. that is, if you use your debit card to purchase something. other banks trying this fee, other fees, as well. our financial analyst says there are ways to avoid the charge, but it's going to take some effort on your part. >> this is what everybody's talking about. now it's like the david and goliath. goliath is now stepping again on the small guy. and people are feeling it. they've got a lot to say about it. >> their explanation for why they -- they almost say they need to do this. >> yes. what's happening is the regulations changed. they've been handed a new mandate that says they cannot charge retailers as much as they used to charge for the debit fees that they usually get. >> they're saying they're out of money. we need to make it up. >> they'll make it up with you. it's almost $3 billion that we're talking about that they'll make up with the $5 charge that adds up to $60 per person per account, that's about $3 billion a year. the trend is here. we're seeing suntrust, wells fargo, trying it out. we're seeing people bring it in. $5 is higher than what we've seen in other banks. we've seen the trend happening. >> okay. is there any way you can get around this? >> well, one of the ways -- they talk good on line. for $8.95, you can to all e-banking. do all your statements, banking on line. also you can go to the atms. they're saying you only get charged the fee if you use the debit card at a store. >> you can't walk around with that much cash. we don't do it. >> we don't do it. it's not realistic for a lot of people depending on what you're doing. everyday purchase, it may be normal. sometimes we spend less than $100 a day. if that's the case, you may be able to be prepared. >> here's the other problem. people saying i'll give up the debit card, use the credit card. but you might get hosed because -- >> you're paying interest. what you really have to look at and people are saying that they're smaller bank. people don't realize that the smaller banks, less than $10 billion in assets, are doing the majority of the loans. the community banks, credit unions. >> they're not doing it now. could they eventually? >> could in the future. >> is this a bad sign? if the biggest dog on the block is doing it, everybody's going to fall in line. >> with the big banks -- that's why people have problems, they got bailed out. they've got the bank bailouts and we're paying for it. our tax dollars help them get out this mess. now they're hitting us again with this fee. people are having a hard time swallowing it. >> other people are saying i'll switch banks, stick it to bank of america. that's not easy. >> especially if you have direct deposit, accounts already set up. it's not easy. there's a lot of red tape and hurdles to jump through. bank of america have an enhanced account as well as a premium and platinum account. platinum is for people with an investment with the bank. they have a minutes mun-- minim. >> most don't have it. so carry cash or look into smaller banks' credit unions? >> that's what i say now. >> how much cash you got -- we don't carry that much cash. >> nothing there. >> man, always good to see you. >> the pleasure's mine. >> thank you very much. 18 minutes past the hour now. it is morning. so for a lot of you, you got to get that morning cup of coffee. ladies, for you especially now, go ahead, drink up, drink as much as you want. at least that's according to a new harvard study. it says that women who drink coffee have a lower risk of depression. now they studied this thing over ten years. women who drank three, four or more cup of coffee just had a lower risk of getting depression over the long term. yes, of course we know it does have an impact. so your instant jolt you get from drinking a cup of coffee. again, this could also have a long-term jolt. now they believe even though men weren't studied in this particular study that you could have the same effects if you're men. it's important to note here, they don't necessarily say if you drink ten cups of coffee you decrease the risk. so maybe around three, four, five cups is the effect you're going to get. again, doctors say, ladies, go ahead and drink up. 19 minutes past the hour. and coming up tomorrow, we could see amanda knox, the american in italy, finally get out of an italian prison after all these years. she is getting up in front of a court tomorrow and is going to speak herself to try to convince a jury to set her free. ♪ [ cellphone rings ] cut! 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