>> rooney's funeral will be private but a memorial service is expected to be scheduled. former heavyweight boxing champ joe frazier has liver cancer. frazier's manager says the 67-year-old is seriously ill and currently in hospice care in philadelphia. he was diagnosed just last month. fight fans will remember that frazier was the first man to meet muhammad ali back in 1971 but then he lost two later bouts with ali. thousands of connecticut power and light company customers can expect another cold night without service. that freak fall snowstorm that hit the northeast last sunday left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the dark. and as of this morning, some 215,000 of them are still without power. the utility vows 99% restoration by tomorrow night. and a little more breathing room for greece which has been teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. prime minister george papandreou met with the country's president said just hours after narrowly winning a vote of confidence. he says he will do whatever he can to form a coalition government. his next objective, to push through approval for an international bailout package. civil action groups urged americans to take their money out of big banks today. these protesters in washington went to a bank of america branch and closed their account saying, i did it, when they left. the move, your money and bank transfer day movements were started by people fed up over fees. a national survey shows against 650,000 customers joined credit unions after the bank of america announced that it had plans to impose debit card fees. the bank has since reversed that decision. tiger woods' former caddie is apologizing for a racially charged remark aimed at his old boss. steve williams was in china at an award dinner for caddies when he made the comment. woods fired williams this summer after 13 years together. the golfer's agent says the comments were regrettable. on his website, williams says he never intended to offend woods or anyone else. that brutal storm that hit the northeast a week ago is still testing the patience of hundreds of thousands of people. connecticut was among the hardest hit states. and many residents there are still without power. cnn national correspondent susan candiotti is live now in west hartford where all those downed tree limbs tell the story of why so much power is out. >> reporter: they sure do. hi, fred. more utility crews than ever before are working feverishly to get people back online. for example, in west hartford, connecticut, twice as many crews working here as we've seen in many days. this is what they're up against. this old tree next to a house, snapped off right at the top, the branches came down on top of these power lines. you can see that it is leaning right over the road. and this is what takes the extra time to repair. people are really pretty much fed up and are more than anxious to get back online. at nearly every turn, fallen trees, twisted limbs and tangled lines. leaving hundreds of thousands of connecticut residents in the dark more than a week after a freak storm. >> at night, we come home and do the best we can, with little -- with no heat and cold water. >> no generator. >> no. we don't have one. >> reporter: you just have to handle up? >> we have to handle up. we haven't bundled up like that in years. >> reporter: what do you have here? >> inflatable bed. >> reporter: audrey and bob are keeping their fireplace going, sleeping on an inflatable bed in their den. >> i'm cold. oh, my god, do we have to go through another day like this? >> reporter: residents are fed up waiting for power to come back on. the state's attorney general is investigating whether the utility company failed to properly prepare. west hartford's mayor is frustrated. >> i'm running out of words to describe how furious i am about it. this has been -- it's been hideous. there's -- >> reporter: she agrees with you. as we spoke, a resident chimed in. >> i'm furious. this is ridiculous. >> and she should be. >> yeah. we've been without heat since saturday. the house -- it's cold. and where are the trucks? where are they? >> reporter: connecticut light and power crews are hard at work, now getting help from 22 states and canada and the national guard. do you think you were prepared enough? >> i do. i think we were as prepared as we could have been for this storm. it has hit us a bit harder than we anticipated. but i think we have ramped up our workforce just as quakely as we can. >> reporter: governor dan malloy is keeping an eye on the clean-up and the utility's promise to get 99% of its customers back online by sunday night. >> i'm worried that they're not being realistic about it. that's why certainly i'm out here. >> reporter: bob and audrey are skeptical, too. >> forget it. >> we'll believe it when we see it. >> reporter: for now, they're holding on to hope and each other. the numbers certainly are improving. the latest we're hearing from connecticut light and power is that they're down to 15% of their customers who remain in the dark. remember, they're trying to make a goal of having 99% of their customers back online by midnight tomorrow. let's see if they make it, fred. >> yeah, let's hope so. and we fall back one hour. they have an extra hour in which to do so, right? susan candiotti. >> reporter: that's right. >> thank you so much. andy rooney won many awards during his long career with cbs. but first and foremost, he considered himself to be a writer. today as we remember the passing of the legendary journalist, we wanted to take a look back at his last commentary. it was delivered just over a month ago. >> a writer's job is to tell the truth. i believe that if all the truth were known about everything in the world, it would be a better place to live. i know i've been terribly wrong sometimes, but i think i've been right more often than i've been wrong. i may have given the impression that i don't care what anyone else thinks. but i do care. i care a lot. i have always hoped that people will like what i've written. being liked is nice, but it's not my intent. i spent my first 50 years trying to become well known as a writer. and the next 30, trying to avoid being famous. i walk down the street now or go to a football game and people shout, hey, andy, and i hate that. i've done a lot of complaining here. but of all the things i've complained about, i can't complain about my life. my wife, margie, and i had four good kids. now there are grandchildren. i have two great grandchildren, although they're a little young for me to know how great they are. and all this time, i've been paid to say what is on my mind on television. you don't get any luckier in life than that. this is a moment i've dreaded. i wish i could do this forever. i can't, though. but i'm not retiring. writers don't retire. and i'll always be a writer. a lot of you have sent me wonderful letters and said good things to me when you meet me in the street. i wasn't always gracious about it. it's hard to accept being liked. i don't say this often, but thank you. although, if you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner. moammar gadhafi's final hours on the run from one of his top lieutenants, we'll talk to a man who was in the car with the libyan tyrant the day he died. but did you know they're good for you too? they're high in vitamins and potassium. and idaho potatoes are now certified to carry the heart checkmark from the american heart association for foods low in saturated fat and cholesterol. so they're good for my family, and for yours. heart smart idaho potatoes. always look for the grown in idaho seal. we've seen the graphic pictures of moammar gadhafi's final moments before his death. now you're about to hear about the former libyan dictator's final hours on the run from someone who was very close to him. >> reporter: they call them the black box of the gadhafi regime, he was one of the former dictators, top security officials who remained by gadhafi's side until his final hours. we met with him at a detention facility in the city of misrata where he's being held. he was in the car with gadhafi during the chaotic escape from their final hiding place, their hometown of sirte. >> translator: he wanted to go to his village, maybe he wanted to die there or spend his last moments there. >> reporter: he remembers a frantic scene after their convoy of more than 40 vehicles was struck by nato jets twice, followed by an escape on foot that ended with heavy fire from fighters who had surrounded them. he says he lost consciousness after he was hit by slab nellhr his back and does not know how gadhafi died. it was two days before anti-gadhafi forces entered tripo tripoli. he later followed the former leader to sirte. he says their living conditions went from bad to worse in the besieged city. they moved around abandoned houses every few days. they survived on the little food they could find. and towards the end, they had no power, water or communication with the outside world. he says gadhafi spent his final days writing and reading books he had stacked in suitcases. but the situation got to him. >> translator: he was have worried and erratic. this could be because he was afraid. >> reporter: he says gadhafi believed he could remain in power. some members of his inner circle tried to convince him to leave the country since march, but it was his sons who refused. >> translator: it's not easy for someone who has been in power for 42 years to believe that it is all over in a minute. >> reporter: he says gadhafi felt betrayed by world leaders he considered allies. some of the friends gadhafi said let him down. with the regime he served for decades now history, he awaits trial by libya's new rulers. he says he's being treated well, but says he has not gotten a lawyer yet. he says he regrets being part of the regime, not specifically about the crimes he's accused of. >> translator: sometimes i regret everything. i have even regretted being alive. but unfortunately you sometimes regret when it is too late. >> reporter: cnn, misrata, libya. perhaps you need another reason to exercise. well, a new study says moving around can help prevent cancer. we'll take a closer look in a few moments. that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the peace of mind of owning a 2011 iihs top safety pick. the all-new volkswagen passat. aspercreme breaks the grip, with maximum-strength medicine and no embarrassing odor. break the grip of pain with aspercreme. time is running out for greece's finances. but first this, a new reason to get up and move. research shows many cases of cancer could be avoided if people just exercised. earlier this week, i talked with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen about that. take a look and then, maybe take a walk. time to get up out of your seat. a new study says people who spend a lot of time sitting could be more likely to get cancer. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here to explain all this. so draw the correlation for me, now. cancer and sitting too much. >> yes, the data that exercise is good for you, not just for your heart but also for cancer is so strong that we're going to take a walk while we walk. >> let's do it right now. >> get up off our seat. >> let's go. i'll lead the way. this is called the walking meeting. we're having a walking meeting. >> power walking. >> power walking. even just walking a little bit a day can help. of course, we'd like for people to get more. but this new data shows that nearly 100,000 cases of cancer could be avoided if people had more physical activity. so -- >> period? just exercise, work it? >> do something. do half an hour at least four days a week. that's what we want people to do, or even more. but we know that's not always possible. so go for a quick walk. do what you and i just did. even a quick walk. get up from your chair a couple of minutes an hour. >> break it up throughout the day? >> yeah, break it up. >> ten minutes here and there? >> yeah. >> take the stairs? >> that's one of ours -- not the elevator. there we go. have walking meetings. if you have to sit and talk to someone, you might as well be moving. that's important. and then the other thing you want to do is exercise in your office. i know this sounds crazy. but even if you're in a cubicle -- >> like with the chair? >> leave weights in your cubicle or do stretches against the wall. even that kind of thing can help. also if you're on the phone, we all spend tons of time on the phone, get on your cell phone and walk around with it. use your headpiece and walk around while you're on the phone. go to cnn.com/empoweredaction. >> what is it that cuts the risk of getting cancer? >> probably several different ways. here's one of them. 1yus keeping your weight down can cut down on your risk of getting certain types of cancer. just losing weight and especially that belly weight. that belly weight can be really bad. that's one of the reasons exercise is so important. >> men or women? >> both are good. >> work it into the whole family regimen. >> right. a doctor once told me, i wish i could write a prescription for exercise. it's more powerful than a prescription for drugs. >> and in the end, it makes you feel so good when you do keep yourself moving. >> it does. make it a priority. >> elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. >> elizabeth and i did a little walking. jacqui and i doing a little stretching, some lungs. >> how about some toe raises? >> how's it going? >> it helps to keep you warm. >> it does. keep moving. >> absolutely. unfortunately, there's still a lot of people. >> it is not a laughing matter. it's very uncomfortable, it's cold. 200,000 people without power. but maybe, according to the governor, maybe tomorrow -- >> by midnight tomorrow night. not tonight. they're hoping to meet that deadline. they're less than 300,000 without power. still a lot of people, unfortunately. >> i'm going to take my lungs out here. >> she's going to exercise while i do some weather. feel free to do that at home as well. temperatures in the upper 50s and upper 40s in the northeast. if you don't have power and you don't have heat, it's definitely uncomfortable. that continues to be a concern for these folks. we take a look at the five-day forecast for hartford, for example, we have warming temperatures. that's the good news. tonight, we could drop down around the freezing mark. but that's it. the rest of the week looks a lot better. and dry weather expected all through the week until thursday. that's a big storm we're going to be watching. not just for hartford but the entire country, in fact. that storm right now, we're calling it storm number 2. first, we're going to talk about storm number 1. this is affecting millions of people across the plain states and the rocky mountain states bringing in incredibly strong winds and heavy snowfall. we have winter weather advisories and warnings. this is the fourth storm for colorado in two weeks. looking at 4 to 8. we'll see significant accumulations at the higher elevations, 8 to 16. makes it happy for the people who are still able to ski out there. we're getting incredible wind reports. i've seen some wind reports pushing 100 miles per hour. but that's in some of the passes, though. keep that in mind. 60-mile-per-hour gusts are going to be more widespread. it is possible with winds that strong, you guys could see power outages. talking from the dakotas all the way down into parts of texas and new mexico where we have those wind advisories in effect. we'll talk about storm number 2 and what this thing is doing, it is bringing in rain across parts of the west. there you can see the snow beginning to move into parts of the cascades. we have some warnings in effect as well for parts of the sierras. that's where we're expecting to get as much as a foot-plus of that snowfall. taking a look at tomorrow's map, as it moves toward the plains, it's going to pick up moisture from the gulf of mexico and we could see an outbreak across the middle of the country. that's monday and into tuesday. last but not least, don't forget, before you go to bed tonight, set those clocks back one hour. >> i like that extra hour. >> everybody gets extra haur of sleep. except for those of us who have children and get up with the sun no matter what. >> bedtime is one hour earlier, too. >> sure. works for me. >> thanks so much, jacqui. greece, the nation is near bankruptcy. and now the prime minister wants to form a new government. why does this matter here at home? 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