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well, hey, there, everybody. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn saturday morning for this september 3rd. hope you re getting off to a good holiday weekend. i m t.j. holmes. and this has been a slow, but strong tropical storm that is making a mess for people on this holiday weekend. now, six years after hurricane katrina, new orleans directly in the path of this storm. we re live with you. and the title of a new book making a lot of controversy. it s called is marriage for white people? and it suggests that interracial dating may be the answer for black women. you ll be hearing from the author. also if there s something anti-mexican about what i said, then i apologize for the anti-mexicanness of it. comedian katt williams goes on what some are calling a racial rant. but he says he won t apologize for defending his country, even though someone put out a statement on his behalf saying he apologized. we ll work through all of that this mor ....
and he did it in perry s home state. thank you. thank you. during a speech to the veterans of foreign wars convention in san antonio, romney pointed to his own business resume and then took a shot at people he called career politicians. i m a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics. dealing with real problems in the real economy. career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply don t know how to get us out. get ready for even more romney versus perry. late this afternoon we learned romney has changed his mind, and now has decided to attend a candidate forum on monday in south carolina. rick perry, of course, has already announced he ll be there. and here to talk over the latest developments, cnn political contributor and republican consultant alex castellanos who advised the romney campaign in 2007 and 2008. democratic pollster cornell belcher who worked for the obama campaign in 2008 and david frum, a former speechwriter fo ....
mary, thanks. this is cnn s breaking news coverage of hurricane irene. i m martin savidge at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. i m keira phillips. thanks for staying with us for the hurricane coverage. a massive category 1 storm is what we re talking about, slowly churning up the east coast. it it s large, dangerous and relent areless. at least nine deaths are now blamed on this hurricane, more than 1 million customers have lost power. right now irene is closing in on ocean city, maryland. like every other beach resort along the mid-atlantic, it is just about deserted. winds have decreased slightly to 80 miles an hour but it remains a hurricane as it it pushes north toward new york. irene is especially dangerous because it s moving slowly. we ve talked about this all morning, all afternoon. it s almost certain to create a tripling storm surge. as you just heard mary mention, new york transit officials earlier today shut down the city s mass transportation s ....
our poppy harlow of cnnmoney join us now with the very latest details. poppy, at the crux of this, this may be a sad story about a man who is too ill to carry on, we don t know, because we have been told that he will still have a big function in the company, but what can you tell us about this and what it may mean for the apple brand? absolutely, candy. it s important to note that the letter that steve jobs just issued to the apple board of directors and the apple community, that is who he sent it to, it s very short, and he said, i hereby resign as ceo of apple. and he said i would like to serve as the board sees fit as chairman of the board, director and as chairman of the board, so he s saying that he would like to stay on. clearly if you read through the lines, there are concerns about what does this mean for steve jobs health. you remember he was diagnosed with cancer a while ago, that he took a leave of absence. he then came back to apple. he took a subsequen ....
moammar gadhafi has not been found but his son has reappeared. here s video from a short time ago. safe, unexpectedly materialize in front of cameras in tripoli. the opposition forces have claimed they had him in custody. apparently not. in any case, not any more. translator: gangs of people who are sabotagers and you could ski the people of libya are standing and have broken the spine of those rats and gangsters and today, we ll go in the old hot spots of tripoli, in tripoli, and we ll reassure the people that things are fine in libya. now on a walk about in tripoli and in the places where they say there has been they have actually seized from us. then he said, the hell with the oicc. a short time later as the dictator was about to leave, our own matthew chance caught up with him for a brief one-on-one. we broke the backbone of the rebels. so we are and now, let s go. let s go together, to the hottest places in tripoli, okay? very hot. you want to go? no. ....