he will let you pay a flat 20% or stick with the current tax system. the centers for disease control is recommending boys ages 11 and 12 get vaccinated for the human pap loma virus or hpv. currently girls are vaccinated to cut the risk of their cervical cancer. the cdc says vaccinating boys will help slow hpv, which is spread by sexual contact. libya's new rulers say moammar gadhafi was buried in an unmarked grave today in the desert. his body was on display in a cold storage unit for several days. the national transitional council says he was captured during his crossfire, but there are strong indications the long-time dig tear or the was shot at point-blank range while in custody. hurricane rina could get a whole lot meaner. it is already pushing 100-mile-an-hour winds and forecasters say it could be a major category 3 hurricane when it swipes the mexican yucatan, probably thursday. the hurricane is then expected to loop around towards cuba. rescuers pulled several family members out of the earthquake wreckage in eastern turkey today. this 14-year-old baby girl and her mother were among those saved from the crumbled apartment building. turkish officials say the number of people killed in sunday's quake stands at 366. police in the dallas area are searching for a serial rapist today. they released this surveillance video showing the suspect. four women in their 50s and 60s have been attacked over the last year, all were members of the same sorority, delta sigma theta. the owners and players aren't talking so the nba is reportedly ready to cancel another two weeks of games. that means no basketball until the end of november at the earliest. the owners cannot agree on salaries and how to divvy out the billions the nba brings in each year. the northern lights put on a spectacular show of green, pink and purple. the solar flare that created the display was so powerful that people in memphis and atlanta saw the lights. the phenomenon happens when a burst of the sun's radioactive energy suddenly bombards the earth's magnetic field. so how often does this happen? chad myers is going to come up to tell us shortly. herman cain gave us 9-9-9. today rick perry is unveiling his economic plan, cut, balance and grow. he'll lay out the plan in a speech in south carolina that begins any minute now. we will bring you his remarks live. right now we'll bring in jim acosta in south carolina where perry will be speaking. and alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. jim, perry is calling the plan cut, balance and grow. what exactly does that mean? >> reporter: that's right. well, i think he's hoping that this will grow his poll numbers, joe. cut, balance and grow, it basically -- you can slice it into three parts like cutting nestic spending to 18% of gdp, to see a balanced budget attempt and to grow the economy. he wants to grow the economy with a really radically different tax code than the american people are used to. he's talking about going over some of these details right now unveiling in the wall street journal. a 20% flat tax that would be offered to individuals that they could choose from, they could either have the flax tax or stay with their current income tax rate. he would lower the corporate tax rate to 20%. wipe out taxes on long-term capital gains and dividends and social security benefits. it is a radical plan. as you mentioned, it is sort of borrowing the page a little bit from herman cain's 9-9-9 plan very popular among the republicans minus the 9% sales tax where a lot of republicans think herman cain misfired on the sales tax, rick perry doesn't do that. folkslike dick army and a big tea party conservative say they like rick perry's economic plan. now he's going to be giving this message today with a bit of a distraction to his campaign over the weekend. as you know he gave the interview to "parade" magazine to resurrect the birther issue talking about the president's birth certificate, raising doubts as to whether that certificate is authentic, and meeting with donald trump to talk about the issue with the real estate mogul. he gave an interview this morning with cnbc in which he said basically he's not that worried about the president's birth certificate but likes to poke some fun at the president on this issue. and it is obviously an issue he thinks is going to resonate with conservatives. he's trying to woe many of the conservatives who like this campaign to come back to his campaign. the lone star governor is trying to avoid becoming a shooting star in this campaign, one that burns brightly on its assent but then fades out falling back to earth. >> jim, as you know there are people already saying that rick perry has now stepped on his own message by rolling out the tax plan on the same day he starts talking about birthers, but we'll get on to that in a bit. allison now at the new york stock exchange, we'll talk about the flat tax component of perry's plan. it has come up again and again in national politics, but for those who don't remember, lay out for us what a flat tax is. >> reporter: okay. flat tax 101, here it comes. it is one tax rate for everybody. the current tax code when you look at it has six tax rates depending on what your income is. that's the biggest difference. but there are also other nuances here. both the current system and the flat tax maintain the standard deduction. that's what you deduct based on your family size. in a true flat tax system that's the only deduction you get, but if you look at perry's modified plan it will allow for mortgage interest and charitable givings. there's another difference as well. how the flat taxes would treat savings and investment gains. capital gains and dividends are tax-free under a flat tax. this whole idea here behind the flat tax essentially is to free up cash for people to invest their money. joe? >> i know all of this hasn't been gained out yet and we'll hear a lot about it, but generally speaking who benefits from a flat tax? >> and that's a tough question to answer at this point because like when herman cain handed out the 9-9-9 plan, perry has only put out a little bit of his plan. just by looking at this from what we have, the poor, they are going to be hit the hardest by the flat tax because many don't pay income tax right now because their income is not high enough. so under a flat tax their tax rate would actually go up. so what it means is that the wealthy would benefit the most because their tax liability would go down or stay the same. joe? >> yes, that's pretty easy when you just look at the math. there are people up in the 29% to 30% tax rate and theirs would come down to 20%, but people in the 15% tax rate would actually go up. one of the main criticisms about the current tax code is that it is too long and too complicated and one of the advantages of this is that it is very easy to explain. but do you think a flat tax would be simpler in the long run? >> if you look at the proponents of the flat tax, they say one tax rate is simpler, clear and simple right there. it makes it much easier to do your taxes. it would also make it tougher to cheat on your taxes because there would be fewer loopholes, but critics of the flat tax actually say a true flat tax actually gets rid of a lot of deductions. but if you look at the perry plan it is not as simple as a true tax is expected to be. that allows them to benefit it the most to keep deductions alive for wealthy ridge. also implementing this system is costly. early analysis indicate that is revenue collections with the flat tax plan may not add up. the revenue may not be coming in and we end up having the debt troubles, the deficit troubles, so there's a lot that needs to be flushed out. we need more details at this point on perry's plan. >> yeah, it just seems like it is really hard to get the predictability factor into the tax code if you don't know who is going to opt in or opt out, but anyway we can talk about that a little bit later down the road. thank you so much, allison cost i can and jim acosta in south carolina. here's your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. today's question, should president obama bipras congress to help the economy? carol costello is joining us live from new york with more. >> reporter: hey, joe. president obama went from, yes, we can, to we can't wait. the president is going rogue instead of waiting for congress to act. he's implementing a series of executive actions like new rules aimed at making it easier for homeowners to refinance. >> we can't wait for an increasingly dysfunctional congress to do its job. when they won't act i will. the barrier will be lifted that prohibits responsible homeowners from refinancing if their home values have fallen so low that what they owe on their mortgages is 25% higher than the current value of their home. >> reporter: that will not be enough to solve the housing crisis. republicans say it won't solve anything and that the president is simply using political gainsmanship to get around congress. >> we are ashamed to mention any of the things they do with republicans because it steps on their storyline. the storyline is there must be some villain out there keeping this administration from succeeding. >> reporter: what is clear? unless congress acts in a big way the economy will continue to suffer. and congress does not appear likely to do that. so president obama is moving forward on his own. monday the home mortgage plan, tomorrow a plan to help with student loans, the president's intent is to show americans he's doing something and to shame congress into acting. so the tough question for you today, should the president bypass congress to help the economy? facebook.com/carolcnn, facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> thank you, carol. here's a rundown of some of the stories ahead. first, the big vote today to decide whether the cdc will recommend vaccinating some of your sons against hpv. then police make dozens of arrests in oakland after occupy movement demonstrators refuse to back down. also, rescued from the rubble in turkey. a baby is pulled out alive. details from the quake zone. and this -- >> there was a cutting backstage, there was -- i believe i was taken away in a straight jacket. >> a "saturday night live" comedian who made us roll with laughter describes painful memories of childhood abuse. uth is, nyquil doesn't un-stuff your nose. really? 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[♪...] >> announcer: now get a $250 airfare credit, plus save up to 65%. call 1-800-sandals. certain restrictions apply. a government panel just voted to recommend boys being vaccinated against hpv. the shot is already on the centers for disease controls vaccine schedule for girls. and that has sparked some controversy. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here to explain. elizabeth, why is it that now they are talking about actually giving this to boys? >> right. hpv vaccine is for human pap loma virus. it says if guys get the shot it could prevent them from genital warts in the future or certain cancers in the future. and it can prevent them from giving that virus to girls when they are sexually active later in life. >> is there going to be an option here or do parents have to do this if they move forward? >> this is the interesting part. the cdc committee has now said we think boys aught to get this shot at age 11 or 12. then each state gets to decide whether they make it mandatory for school attendance, whether you have to get the shot to go to school. in the case of hpv for girls only one state in the district of columbia made it mandatory for attendance. 49 other states don't have it on the list. >> whenever the vaccines come out just for kids is, is it going to make my child sick? >> you will see controversy politically on this, you will see controversy among some online communities, there's really no controversy among doctors. in the medical world they say this is a safe vaccine giving it to millions of people around the world. we have not seen serious consequences. >> good to see you again. >> good to see you. you just heard republican presidential candidate rick perry lay out his economic plan, a corner stone of the plan allowing you to choose between your current income tax rate and a 20% flat tax. perry also wants to lower the corporate tax rate to 20% and cut capital gains and inheritance taxes. we want to drill down on the politics and economics of perry's plan. to help us do that, we'll bring in senior analyst david gergan. before we do that, let's just pop in and take a look at the rick perry event in south carolina because i hear he may be starting. >> thank you very much. it is an honor to see you here. he was one of the great conservative senators in our country, that's jim de mint. i want to thank the films for allowing you to have me here today. we will discuss a plan to get america working again. you know, today i lay before the american people my cut, balance and grow plan. it cuts taxes and it also cuts the spending. it balances the budget by 2020 and it grows jobs and it grows the economy. it neither reshovels the status quo nor does it expand the ways that washington can reach into your pocketbook. it reorders the way they do business in washington by reinventing the tax code and getting our nation back to a physical health through balanced budgets and entitlement reform. central to my plan is giving every american the option of throwing out that 3 million words in the current tax code, i might add the cost of complying with all of that code, in order to pay a 20% flat tax on their income. [ applause ] >> the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that's represented by this palate right here and the reams of paper. that's what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is the size of what we are talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that. and each individual taxpayer will have a choice. you can continue to pay your taxes as well as the accountants and lawyers and under the current tax system that we got, or you can file your taxes on this postcard with the detuxs deductions for your charitable giving, your state and local taxes, and then deduct those and send it in. under my plan you are no longer going to have to worry about paying taxes on social security when you retire. or your family members. yeah. [ applause ] >> or your family members paying the debt tax when you're gone. you can save -- you think about that, he's worked hard. he's going to pass this on to his family one of these days. and the idea that the federal government is going to take half that is nonsense. you may also wave good-bye to the capital gains tax as well as taxes on dividends. we'll increase the standard exemption for individuals and independents to $12,500. that means that families in the middle and on the lower end of the economic scale will have the opportunity to get ahead. you know, taxes will be cut across all income groups in america. and the net benefit will be more money in americans pockets with greater investment in the private economy instead of the federal government. now on the corporate tax side i'm offering an equally bold reform. i plan to close the corporate loopholes and end the special breaks for special interests and stop the gravy train of lobbyists and tax lawyers in washington, d.c. in exchange for a corporate-free or a corporate tax-free carveout of exclusions, i offer a much lower rate of 20% that represents the average corporate rate among the developed nations. and it will make our corporations much more competitive on the global scale. we'll shut down the cottage industry of corporate tax evasion by creating a tax that is broad and fair and low. and my plan also offers incentives for corporations to invest in america again with two major reforms. first we'll transition to a territorial tax system on corporation income that's earned overseas. what this means is that the companies that pay the appropriate taxes in the country where that income was earned but aren't taxed a second time when that income gets moved back to the united states. and i secondly -- all quarter profit that is are currently langishing overseas, i will offer a one-time reduced rate of 5.25% for a limited period of time on those dollars, to bring those dollars back to the united states. the u.s. chamber of commerce says that this one-time tax reduction would bring back over a billion dollars in capital back to the united states, creating up to 2.9 million jobs, and increase the economic output in this country by 360 billion dollars. in other words, it's the kind of economic stimulus that president obama could have achieved if he wasn't so hell-bent on passing big government scheme that is have failed american workers. now today's america combined corporate tax rate of 39.2% is the second high nest the developed world. it's time to overhaul our tax cuts so that companies like isopoly film can invest more in their people and products. tax rates have consequences. the liberals myopically ignore the reality of human nature. they think raising rates will raise revenues. what they don't understand is that large employers have choices. and i might add so do wealthy individuals, and that includes moving money offshore. when they tried to take -- when the federal government tries to take too much, they end up hurting the very people they supposedly seek to help, the working class. we need tax policy that embraces the world as it is, not what some liberal idealogue issues it to be. the goal of my cut and grow plan is to release job recreation while generating a stable source of revenue to address our record deficit and put our fiscal house in order. my plan should not be viewed in a vacuum, but in comparison to the continuation of the status quo. it provides employers and investors certainty, which is critical, john, in getting capital back into the economy. you know, the president's plan, it provides temporary tax relief, which it does nothing to encourage long-term investment because it doesn't provide the private sector any certainty. the way to stimulate the economy is not through temporary tax relief or government spending. it is to stimulate private spending through permanent tax relief. you see, the flat tax will unleash growth but growth is not enou enough. we must put a stop to this entitlement culture that risks the financial sovereignty of this country for future generations. i mean, the red flags are alarming. [ applause ] >> our children are born with a $46,000 debt, debra. every young child that's born has a $46,000 debt to the federal government. our credit was downgraded for the first time this past august in part because of the lack of seriousness about deficit reduction. you know, according to the white house office of management and budg budget, by the end of the year our debt will exceed the size of america's economy for the first time in 65 years. we are on the road to ruin paved by states served them. we need to free our children from financial disaster and it requires the courage to reform the entitlements. and my plan is establishing firm principles to preserve medicare and social security for today's beneficiaries while saving it for tomorrow's generations. i'm putting forward five principles to save social security for the long-term. first, we w