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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 ....
i m t.j. holmes. take a look, we got a new advisory and some new information to tell you about. tropical storm lee. in the gulf of mexico. yes, indeed, it is getting stronger. we ll have the very latest from our meteorologist alexandria steele standing by. keeping an eye on politics as well. a major tea party rally in just a few hours and the headliner is not in the presidential race. at least not yet. sarah palin. what will she say? will she say she s getting in? we ll take you there live. also, another apology from another comedian for something he said on stage that people are calling insensitive and racial remarks. you will hear for yourself. start with this tropical storm, tropical storm lee, that s already got states of emergency in place in several places including louisiana, mississippi, some cities as well, new orleans, yes, under the gun right now. they re preparing for possible flooding and we re talking about some 20 inches of rain expected in some spots ....
today with different messages. a few hours ago, alri tv broadcast a defiant audio message from saif gadhafi saying his father and closest followers are hiding in tripoli suburbs and their morale is high. listen. the leadership is fine. the leader is fine. and we are fighting and we are drinking tea and coffee and we are sitting with our families. saif gadhafi also had a message for people he calls his brethren in tripoli and alibya. reporter: we re saying to everyone move now. everyone has to move now to attack all these gangsters of the rats. the people he s calling rats are the rebels who drove the gadhafis from power. just a few hours before that fire and brim stone message, another of gadhafi s sons contacted cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson. nic joins us now from tripoli, a city, by the way, dangerously close to run out of water. nic, first, what was the message from the other gadhafi son? reporter: he was saying he is talking to the ....
plane headed into this thing. they are calling it a tropical disturbance for now just to see if it s serious enough to name it a tropical storm possibly in the next couple of hours. keep in mind we re also learning major oil companies are not taking any chances with this disturbance. evacuations have begun just in case and the mayor of new orleans, mitch landrieu, he ll be holding a news conference as they are all watching this disturbance as well heading precariously closely to their government line. we ll keep an eye on all of it and let s move on to some other news. moammar gadhafi, a la saddam hussein, is threatening to plunge his country into a drawn out civil war, but did you know it is 42 years to the day since a much younger gadhafi seized control of libya in a military coup. now presumably on the run but apparently still alive, gadhafi is extorting supporters exhorting excuse me, exhorting supporters to fight to the death. here s his message. this was aired ....
ethnic kurds were holding a peace rally, when dozens of young men en masse apparently hijacked that rally. this set off a confrontation with police and kurds are the minority and they ve been out on the streets protesting because many are angry the turkish military have been attacking their villages. president obama is moving his big speech on jobs from next wednesday to next thursday night. john boehner turned down the president s request to address congress wednesday. why? it would be hard. winds whipping 25 miles per hour are spreading west of dallas ft. worth. some 39 homes have been destroyed. 125 families are being forced out of their homes and we have just learned some evacuation orders have been lifted with at least half the fire now contained. it s ugly. it s real ugly. it keeps flaring up, the wind is crazy. the smoke was so see. you had to crawl through it as low as you could in your truck. check this out a fire in oklahoma city is threatening to jump ....