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good morning to you. it is tuesday, august 23rd. this is "am: wake up call." i'm carol costello live in new york. let's get started with that big storm crashing through the atlantic ocean right now. irene is getting ever more powerful and may be heading toward the united states. people in south carolina already getting ready for irene. the hurricane is near the dominican republic right now. take a look at the storm from the international space station. irene is now a category 2 hurricane, but jacqui jeras says it could become an enormous category 4 later this week as it gets closer t...

C-net.com. >> good morning, alex. >> we are talking about the tablets being the thing to replace pcs, and that would include steve jobs who says it's the post pc eche -- pc era. >> the hype may be a little bit overblown. i love tablets, but that does not mean they will replace computers in your house or office. >> it's something created, but not sustainable. >> the ipad is a good device, and know other tablets have broke through the mainstream. >> and what about other markets affected by the shift? there seems to be business, industry, things like that. are you seeing that kind of a shift as w...

Television. they may as well take a seat. >> elbow out. take it easy. >> get the cold shoulder. seems the ipod innovator apple is under attack. first president obama took a shot at a college commencement speech. listen to this. >> with ipods, ipads, xboxes, playstations, none of which i know how to work, information becomes a distraction, a diversion, form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment. >> now wii maker, nintendo's company facing the first shortfall in six years telling top executives to go after ap. saying apple is, quote, the enemy of the future. tough tack. senior edi...

From $5,000 cash from an unidentified person who owned it. gizmodo owned by gawker media, protects journalists from having to turn over sources or material to police during a search. joining me live, executive editor of c net.com. people are debating online if he's a blogger, a journalist, if there's a difference. in the meantime you have a raid that took place at his home. did people expect it to go this far? >> yes, gizmodo with apple were going to get spanked. the question is how hard. in this situation we're finding out. the issue, too, not so much whether he was a blogger or not. there's ...

To be careful about being too vindictive. right now the jury is split whether gizmodo did the right thing to buy this thing. there's a lot of apple fans out there. if they go too far, they are seen as too much on gizmodo and gizmodo becomes the underdog. >> is there any proof the early review or release of the iphone, that it would hurt the sale, future sales? >> if you know apple and visit cnet.com, you know apple is putting out another iphone out in june. that's what they, do tend to put products out on a yearly basis. if you didn't know to that, you should come to these tech sites and look....