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hello hello hello. welcome to the show. it s wednesday, your favorite day. just teasing. i m robin meade, and you are my favorite viewer. the nation is about to honor its service members who put their lives on the line for their country. you re going to hear what celebrations and remembrances are planned for this veterans day today. an airline pilot apparently had one too many before he showed up for work. what happened minute before takeoff in the cockpit. plus a court has just decided whether michael jackson father can have a piece of the singer s estate. you know what, if you have someone in your life who has served in the military, this is the day to say thank you. it is veteran s day, the day that s meant to honor people who served in the military, many of whom give the ultimate sacrifice. a u.s. pilot was yanked off of a flight minutes before takeoff because a co-worker thought he might be drunk. erwin vermont washington was set to fly united jet from london chicago monday. british police arrested him when he flunked a breathalyzer. washington is grounded for now. an airline spokesperson says that united s policies is among the strictest in the industry. we have no tolerance for violation of this well established policy. the mastermind before a sniper attacks that terrorized the nation in 2002 said nothing before his execution last night. john allen mohammed died by lethal injection at 9:11 eastern. this the ambulance that took away his remains. some witnesses, relatives witnessed the prosecution. so did the prosecutor who won the death penalty conviction. he died very peace fully, much more than most of his victims. i felt a sense of closure and i hope they did, too. i think they looked for to that and i hope they have solace by virtue of his execution. mohammed got the death sentence for the shooting death of dean harold meyers. but actually the d.c. area attacks left ten people dead. mohammed s accomplice lee boyd malvo is serving life in prison. the suspect in the ft. hood shootings army major hasan is refusing to answer questions. his attorneys say he s coherent but not talking about the attack. he s under guard in intensive care. investigators are trying to figure out what provoked the attack. they went on pause as 12,000 attended the memorial for the 12 soldiers and one retired soldiers killed in the shooting on monday. president obama promised justice. your loved ones endure through the life of our nation. their memory will be honored in the places they lived and by the people they touched. the president and first lady placed presidential coins in front of the battlefield crosses. the tributes met with an eerie silence. specialist hunt. especially when they starting calling the names of the soldier, you know, unanswered. that was a very sad moment. the shooting left 42 people wounded. many have faced multiple deployments. if you want to see amazing video. come here, bring your coffee over here. look at this. wow! it kept coming. a local news crew filming a rock side. a geologist warned people there might be a second slide and moved everybody out of the way. u.s. highway 64 may be closed for a week. there s not a barrier you can put up to stop that from happening. comments made toward a woman apparently sparked a fight that led to the stabbing death of a university of connecticut football player. this is a follow-up according to police of a differences is where we re getting this. larry smith in for rafer has more. he ll appear in court friday accused of murdering jasper howard of the 21 page document reveals one of howard s teammates disrespected a woman at a school sponsored dance. that is what authorities believe sparked a dance broken up by police. a second fight started outside later. that s when howard was stabbed. three other people faced lesser charges. none of the football players involved in either fight have been charged. robin. thank you. president obama is considering three options for the war in afghanistan. sources tell us he s expected to talk about it today. they include the possible deployment of 30,000 more u.s. troops. in a new cnn research poll, 42% of the americans support sending more troops. only 32 think afghanistan will eventually have a stable democratic government. soupy, soggy. check out the rain and cloud cover across the eastern seaboard. here is what it looks like. a lot of rain, wind around us. some of the rainfall totals impressive to say the least. columbus, georgia, almost 6 inches of rain since i started yesterday morning. birmingham, alabama, 3.88. even gainesville, 3.82 inches of rain. the rain continues around the carolinas and virginia, now maryland, too, and philadelphia might get showers. that s about it. heaviest rain buford, i-95, this region here. savannah, you ll pick up rain and thunderstorms, too. not severe. heavy rainmakers. see that off and on. heavy shield out of charlotte going through piedmont into the raleigh area. durham getting decent rain. greensboro moving northward through virginia into washington, d.c. it s going to be steady for the entire morning. if you think we re not going to see delays in the airport, i think we are. we re going to see a lot of them. atlanta, d.c., as the clouds hang in low, they are going to hang in tough, too. what about warnings for flooding. we have them there. bright shaded green areas, atlanta, greenville, back towards charlotte. dark shaded green, those are the flash flood watches. the reason pretty easy. a lot of rain potentially there. talking maybe as much as five inches of rain near the beltway of washington, d.c. right now thunderstorms in the southern end of that circulation. can you see it coming out of cape coral, miami, off and on for the day as well. interesting day for the east coast. thanks. we re getting a lot of comments from you the viewer about veterans day. you might have a salute you want to give out. go to our facebook page. if you don t know how, go to cnn.com/robin, there s a facebook icon and it will take you there. no signing up. black friday is around the corner. walmart is making big changes to prep for the big day. new information on the suspect in the ft. hood shootings. what he said in a controversial power point presentation. in our salute to the troops today we re doing more salutes than usual because it is veterans day. so this salute is for airman first class john meyer, his wife and son. we love you, and we hope to see you for christmas. can you say love you daddy. love you. love you. love you, too, daddy. we love you, john. bye. be still my heart. that is so sweet. if you have somebody in the service you want to salute them, go to cnn.com/robin. you know what, here is what you re saying, many of our viewers on facebook. hazel says, thanks to all our servicemen and women in the past and present. may god bless and keep you safe. pat says, thanks to all troops. remember all the ones who are not with us now. if you want to comment, go to cnn.com/robin. hit the little facebook icon, it will take you to the facebook page. the man accused of trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says he was just trying to sell him a screen play. joel halderman asked the judge to throw it out claiming it was a big misunderstanding. letterman s lawyers say the move was blackmail no matter how the lawyer tries to dress it up. a couple was rushing to the hospital for the birth of their son. the baby could not wait so the mom gives birth in the front seat of the car. that s new in 15 minutes. senators plan a hearing next week to see if the tragedy at ft. hood could have been prevented. new information is coming out about the alleged shooter major nadal hasan. so he didn t hide his religious belief. not at all. a power point in 2007 is where we take you as hasan spoke to army doctors as part of his residency in psychiatry. instead of a medical lecture, hasan talked about islam. the power point presentation published in the washington post, you see it here, frequently cited the koran. he claimed muslims should be able to claim conscientious objectors to prevent adverse events. he was communicating with a radical muslim cleric. did the pentagon know about that? the, cleric is anwar al awlaki. he s known for encouraging troops to kill u.s. troops. he communicated with him 20 times. the pentagon says they had no idea until after ft. hood shootings. the communications were turned over to a joint terrorism task force last year. the investigator who looked into them at that time determined they were for a research paper that hasan was writing. robin, never they never sent that information any farther up the chain. they dropped it. really interesting. richard, thank you. sure. do you remember the story of a walmart employee trampd to death to death by a huge crowd when the store opened for the friday after thanksgiving for shopping? well, new protections may keep you safer this year. walmart has some big changes planned for crowd management. our money expert, jennifer westhoven, has this for you. and of course walmart wants you to think about fun and safety and to make sure that the headlines about black friday are great, here are the changes. hot, hot door busters, cds and dvds. if you re somebody who wants to shop for this, here is the big change. instead of waiting outside and when the doors open and everybody stampeding in, it will be open overnight on thanksgiving. you can meander in and go in the store on a line supervised. no cutting. that s somebody that gets everybody else on the line very angry and more disposed toward aggression. then when the big sales start at 5:00 a.m. you re in a calm line inside. no running necessary. a lot of americans would like to throw wall streeters who might have connected to the wall street collapse straight into jail. do not correct. in the first criminal case related to the implosion in the economy a jury found men inning. prosecutors argued two men who were hedge fund managers at bear stearns that they had lied to investors and covered up some of the risks. the injury found them not guilty on all counts. the defense argued there was no way they could have known the entire subprime mortgage market was going to implode. do not pass go. do not collect $200. sometimes just smash them up together. what s going on, jennifer? hey, speaking of fast, not here. atlanta, biggest airport in the united states, delays because of low clouds, light rain and wind picking up. here are remnants from ida, south carolina, north carolina, georgia, atlanta light rain. heavier downpours near charlotte stretches toward rdu. that s raleigh. what about the delays. here is what we have. so far nothing early. we ll get that pretty soon. atlanta, charlotte, one hour more. new york city metros, philly, cincinnati, watch for gusty winds. 30 minute to one hour delays. washington, d.c., orlando, thunderstorms, 30 minutes to one hour delay there. possibility fof delay tampa and miami and slowdown in seattle, san francisco. low clouds, 30 minutes to an hour across the west coast. more in a little bit. could be the final chapter of the bizarre love triangle between star crossed astronauts. what s ahead for lisa nowak after she pleaded guilty for attacking a rival lover. sammy sosa insists he s not trying to lighten his skin. let s look at the picture. why he says he s looking so different. hi, i m from new york. i m giving a shout for all the ones out serving our country. right now we are thinking about you and we love you. take care, blessed thing. god love you. a lot of viewers with the same sentiment on this ved rans da veterans day. thank you, veterans. a hydroelectric dam had problems. this happened in brazil. power was out in paraguay, uruguay. some are concerned what will world will think because the olympics and world cup are coming there. a former astronaut is getting probation for her attack on a romantic rival. i know you remember this story. lisa nowak pleaded guilty to reduced charges for confront ag woman in an airport parking lot. reports say she drove from houston to orlando and followed shipman to her car. shipman says she is still haunted by what happened. i know in my heart when lisa nowak attacked me she was going to kill me. it was in her eyes. a blood chilling expression of limitless rage and glee. yikes. well, in the plea lisa nowak cannot have any contact with shipman. she was sentenced to a year of probation and 50 hours community service. she was facing some serious jail time if she had been convicted of the original charges. a number of veterans day events are in the morning skpreps planner. janet napt napolitano. have you seen sammy sosa recently? sammy looks really different. some are saying it s not just because he stopped playing. what is it because? hi, larry. the issues, sammy sosa doing steroids kind of thing. this has nothing to do with allegations of that. he s denying he is trying to lighten his skin as the former king of pop michael jackson did. soon to be 41-year-old, do you think he looks different? yes, dramatically different than six months ago. that picture may on the left, a recent picture on the right. he said he used a cosmetic cream for years to soften skin. that combined with bright tv lights and grammy awards where the picture was taken made his skin look lighter. he wouldn t give the name of the cream he uses when he was asked. hmm. kite be he s out of the sun since he s not playing ball? not to that degree. i m not a doctor, but i don t know. from a college dropout to multimillionaire, did all those hours playing poker pay off. world series of poker and a purse worth $8.5 million. this tournament began in july with 160 participants. his parents weren t happy with the college decision back then of course they have softened their stance. blackhawks wear special camouflage jerseys during warmups. jerseys auctioned off and given to charity, the proceeds will. the team will honor 50 military members and their guests this evening. joe montana, once star for the 49ers. guess hutch he s selling his property for? $49 million bucks. if you put 20% down, 30 year, 6% payment for the mortgage, monthly payment would be $245,000 a month. wow. wow, that s right. he s the one that wore pantyhose. no, that was joe namath. sorry, joe. @@@@@@@@@ honoring military members past and present on this veterans day today. president obama will take part in a ceremony at arlington national cemetery. many other countries honoring their vets as well. for them the holiday primarily marks the signing of a truce to end world war i. 300 h1n1 vaccines have arrived at the guantanamo bay military prison? well, the pentagon says no detainees will get them until high priority troops and health care workers have been vaccinated. so far there aren t even enough doses available to do that. an amber alert has been issued for five-year-old shanai, a davis in north carolina. the mother says they lost saw her early yesterday. police say they found no evidence of foul play. investigators have been searching areas nearby wooded areas. those are some of our headlines today. thirty minutes past the hour. morning, sunshine. i m robin meade. hope you re doing well today. a city-sized army post came to a halt for a solemn ceremony yesterday. 15,000 people came to pay their respects to 12 soldiers and one retired soldier shot to death at ft. hood last thursday. president obama promised justice for the victims families. he and the first lady placed presidential coins in front of the battlefield crosses. the post commander also spoke. you will never be accustomed to losing one of our own but we can more easily accept it when it happens on foreign soil against a known enemy. ft. hood has lost 545 from its formations in iraq and afghanistan. but never did we expect to pay such a high price at home. a place where soldiers feel secure. even so, soldiers do what soldiers do best. they take care of each other in time of need. there are also new developments in the investigation into the shootings. correspondent richard lui joins us with more on that. they showed up at the texas mosque where the leader worshipped. this is a week later after the incident. they wouldn t say what they were looking for, to answer your question but they searched through a trash bin outside the center in killeen. the president had to leave to sign what and to be a search warrant. leaders of the mosque have condemned this attack. the fbi said major hasan was acting alone and his attendance at that mosque is a part of their reasoning for thinking that. terrorism experts say jihadists usually try to blend in so they don t attract attention. hasan often wore traditional muslim clothing like you see in this video and attended prayers daily. one criminal profilers agrees with this fbi theory. a lot of people are jumping to the conclusion because this man spouted violent islamic ideology that this is a terrorist attack. he was simply a lone guy with issues, psychopact behavior and wanted toting back to society and took it out on his workplace like most do. those has knew him back up the idea he was a loner. they say he had few, if any, friends and they were unable to match him what wife. richard, thank you so much. we have more angles on the investigation richard is following as well later on in the morning. new laws to protect gays and lesbians in salt lake city got support that might surprise some. mormon church backing ordinance to discriminate against housing and employment. church leaders say the laws passed by the city council won t impose on traditional marriage. last year the church came under fire to pass the california initiative banning gay marriage. this is much better than a pay raise, don t you think? boss with the extra mile to save an employee. not just his job but life. a liquor store manager in pennsylvania gave his co-workers one of his kidneys. he wasn t the only one who volunteered. two other co-workers were tested. i said, well, if it didn t work for them, i would try. and i kept passing all the tests. it was a really touching thing to me to hear something like that, not just one but multiple people were willing to go through something like that for me. both men are doing just fine now. those stories amaze me. such a great story. i was thinking they work at a liquor store. at least it wasn t a liver problem, kidney problem. unbelievable. don t even look my way, by the way. just kidding, of course. 34 minutes past the hour. did you hear him, he said he would. this weather brought by tylenol, feel better. what s going on across the region, heavy rain. peeling through georgia getting towards south carolina and stretching through the rest of the mid-atlantic. it goes all the way towards d.c. let me zero to the heaviest rain squall. hilton head and buford. i-95 heavily traveled highway. wet, raining hard for the next few hours. all the action moving to the east. actual energy from old ida still out there. reforms as a pressure center in south carolina this afternoon. it s going to gain a little energy as the cold front moves as well. more energy off the atlantic. we could see a major coastal type storm for the weekend for areas around cape hatteras, rolling in towards delmar peninsula. a lot of wind through the mid-atlantic starting today and really ending up over on sunday. a tough couple of days. heavy rain this morning. pointing to piedmont towards raleigh. towards d.c., decent. showers overhead now. tough times over mason dixon lines. dry air. a little light rain activity there. again, not heavy stuff you re getting down to the south. look at flash flood watches and warnings. dark green, warnings in light green, you because of the rain we ve seen over the last 24 hours. cold front out to the west channeling in the moisture so winds out of the southwest, miami, see thunderstorms come from the west and move to the east. that s something to watch. out west looks at the clouds, around california through the pacific northwest. snow is out there for the cascades. get to that in a half hour. gloomy day for them, too. middle of the country looks fantastic. it s the coast. all right. hey, thank you. yeah. you know, a teenager spent two nights trapped on a chunk of ice. rescuers were able to reach him but not before something went dangerously wrong for them. time for a salute to the troops. today we re doing more than our usual because it s veterans day. so we re doing a lot of salutes today from you. today s salute is from a soldier we met when i was at ft. benning visiting troops there. this is to his friend serving in iraq. hi, robin. i m richard at ft. benning. i want to give a shout out to my friends. major ron and major rickly over serving iraq. thanks, guys for what you re doing and taking care of our soldiers. god bless, have a great day. see you when you get back. wouldn t it be great if they got to see that. if you have somebody in the service you want to salute them, cnn.com/robin. here is what many are saying on facebook about veterans day. richard says by the way, special happy birthday to my older brother, he writes gary. teresa s message short and to the point, thank you for my freedom. share your message, there s a ling on my home page cnn.com/robin. that will take you to facebook. we ll read them all morning. how is this for rush deliver y. a woman gave birth in the front seat of her truck while her husband was driving to the hospital in florida. not comfortable. the couple says they got lost on the way to the hospital and their son evan wasn t going to wait. it was right when we passed tropicana field is when she came out. she hit me very hardly on this arm. i looked down and there he was. uh-oh. they say evan will get the truck when he s 16. he ll get the same truck in which he was born. somebody needs to get a gps. that s what i was thinking. get a gpsing to to the hospital. maybe make your husband do a practice run to the hospital. a senator came out swinging with his plan to keep your money safe with much tougher regulations. the senate banking committee chairman christopher dodd is saying it s a long time coming. see what you think about it. money expert jennifer westhoven. a lot of different ideas, thanks, robin, to change the way things were done, to prevent another financial collapse. dodd s view is the banks we just learned the hard way the banks can t be trusted to oversee themselves. the banks didn t live up to their responsibilities. his proposal is to strip the fed from oversight, take it away from the fed and give it to a bunch of new government agencies. that s from this morning s washington post. dodd says it s necessary to protect the economy. we saw over the last number of years when they took on consumer protection responsibilities and regulation of bank holding companies, it was an abysmal failure. that s not necessarily a democratic party line, just in case you re thinking about that. his plan puts him at odds with the white house. the president still wants the fed in the lead of banking reform, as long as the fed steps up the job. you know shoplifting is a problem for stores. but you re thinking i m honest, that doesn t affect you. all those thieves are costing you. $435 a year on average. $400 bucks. global retail group says that s what stores have to charge extra to try and make up for the loss. shoplifting in the u.s. 9% in the last year because of the recession. stolen items, perfume, ipods, things easy to stuff in the pocket. at grocery stores the most stolen tough is fresh meat and cheese. really? hey, that is ground beef in your pocket? watch out for people looking overloaded. yeah. different. all right, thank you. last night on the joy behar show, she welcomed actress carrie fisher. she was very candid about her failed marriages. your second husband left you for another man, of course your bipolar. what s great about being bipolar, all that would feel bad for just anybody, i get it dialed up. i know you do. you turn all of that into comedy, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself in my opinion. the best alchemy it is. what, do i want to feel bad? catch joy behar at 9:00 eastern. some kids tried to get a little kitty out of a tight spot, then they had to call in the experts. hey, guys. hope you re having a good safe trip. thinking about you, prayers are with you, may god bless. thank you. salutes across the board, because it is veterans day. veterans, thank you. what a survival story for one teenager. he spent two nights trapped on an ice flow in the arctic. he was forced to shoot a polar bear that got too close. rescuers found him monday. then four of them got trapped when the ice shifted. they ended up dragging their boat two and a half miles across the ice. the world s largest salvation army kettle has gone up in a city that needs a lot of help. the kettle made up of 25,000 lights is in a park in detroit. it will be lighted november 20th to kick off the fund-raising campaign. the salvation army tells the detroit free press said demand for services up 60%. they hope to raise more than $7 million. rescuers had to be called in to free a cat in a sticky situation. she had somehow managed to get her little head stuck in a 3 inches drainpipe. kids found her and tried their best to help her out. he was really, really hurt. and we had to put water on it to try to get out. but it couldn t really get out. did he say we had to pour water on it. i m sure the cat liked that. animal control officers gave it a try. they did get the kitty cart out and said she was not hurt. some muggers returned his wallet when they found he was in the military. they forced him to lay down, put a gun to his neck. when they saw his military id they thanked him for his service and apologized. at least they had some respect for the guy. they are giving some respect to him. michael vick gets a win in court. the judge ruled vick could keep $16 million in bonus paid. appeals judge backed the decision much to the chagrin of nfl and falcons. he earned it before the conviction in 2007. an nfl spokesman says the decision will likely change the way the league writes bonuses into player contracts. they re off, they re on, no, they re off again. o neal has filed divorce from center shaquille o neal. the couple was married just shy of seven years and they have four children together. shaq filed for divorce in 2007. the two apparently had reconciled. that seems to have now fallen apart. when will guys learn? league officials read blogs, too. dwight howard, the orlando magic center, he s been fined $15,000 for his comments on officiating on his blog. they weren t positive. the all-star center and olympic gold medalist was complaining after he fouled out of a game in detroit after playing 16 minutes. let s call them air jordans for the ladies. just in time for christmas. come on, your gal would leave these. the famous sneakers are an inspiration for these colorful high heels. robin is online. that s the ones robin is looking at there. $65. just a fraction of the real air jordan sneakers. are these on an auction site. they are selling these. i ve got to say they are ugly. think so? fashion statement. come on, be the first on your block. trip down the street. try to walk in these things. looks like high heel moon boots. a woman went to mcdonalds and came home a rich woman. how she turned a cup of tea into a million dollars. i hope there s not a lawsuit involved. some banks are letting their customer spend as much as they want but money expert clark howard warns it may cost you way more in fees than you re willing to pay. a lot of people because they ve been burned by credit cards have switched to debit cards. that s where it has a visa or mastercard logo on it but when you use it, it takes money directly from your checking account. get this, do you know that most banks will allow you to use your debit card even when you to overdraw your account? why would they do that? because they want you to overdraw your account so that they can hit you with massive overage charges. what sh what should you do? ask your bank or credit union to not allow overage where you you can t get hit with an overage if you overdraw your ktd. another thing, if you can t follow your balance, do everything with cash instead. go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. catch clark noon eastern on saturdays and sundays right here on hln. ten minutes to the hour. it s going to be a good flying day in very few cities. i m sorry to say it that way. you re right. which cities are going to be the rough one? it resist ten minutes to 8:00 eastern. ground stoppage at atlanta until 8:30 because of the gusty wind, 25 to 28 miles per hour. it s slowing you down, will be like that most of the day. rain for the morning, same with the low clouds. once that leaves, the wind will still be around for just about everybody in the mid-atlantic through florida. delay-wise, atlanta temperatures not out of the 50s today, atlanta already had the ground stop, watch for an hour or longer delay. charlotte, same thing. d.c. metros including baltimore, probably getting slowed a half hour to an hour, low includeds and rain and breeze. san francisco, low clouds out west, seattle. remnants of ida, coming up in ten minutes, rob. wuf rough day for travelers. you probably saw the video of a woman who fell on tracks in front of an oncoming train. really close. now hear from the train operator. y8 okay, everybody stretch. you ready for wednesday? morning, sunshine. i m robin meade. you know, the nation is about to honor its service members who put their lives on the line for the country. you re going to hear what celebrations are planned for this veterans day today. an airline pilot apparently had one too few many before he showed up for work. what happened minutes before takeoff in the cockpit. plus this was utter chaos as these men tried to open this store. reporter: he s talking about a shopper trampled to death on black friday last night. now how lessons from then may have helped prevent it from happening again. what s interesting about that is they re learning something from the super bowl and how they re going to try to preventd that from happening this year. if you have someone in your life who has served in the military, this is the day to say thank you. it is veterans day, the day meant to honor people who have served the country in the military. many of whom gave the ultimate sacrifice. a u.s. pilot was yanked off a flight minutes before traikoff because a co-worker thought he might be drunk. irwin vermont washington was set to fly from london to chicago but british police arrested him when he flunked the breathalyzer. an airline spokeswoman says the policy is among the strictest and we have no more. the u.s. sniper said nothing before he was executed last night. john allen muhammad died by lethal injection at 9:11 eastern. he refused to make a final statement. this is an ambulance taking away his remains. some of the victims relatives witnessed the execution. so did the prosecutor who won the death penalty conviction. he died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims. i felt a sense of closure and i hope they did, too. i hope they have some solace by virtue of his execution. muhammad got the death sentence for the shooting death of dean harold myers but actually the d.c.-area attacks left ten people dead. his accomplice lee boyd malvo is serving life in prison. u.s. you diplomats will soon meet one on one with north korean officials. that announcement came in an apparent response from pyongyang. the obama administration is careful to describe this as a very limited diplomatic effort. the goal is to resume the similar-party talks to end north korea s nuclear program. the suspect in the ft. hood shootings is refusing to answer any questions about that day so far. his attorney says that hasan is coherent but not talking about the attack. he s under guard in intensive care. investigators are trying to figure out what provoked the attack. the reason why, what is the reason why. yesterday the city-sized army post put its war preps on pause and 15,000 people attended the memorial for 12 soldiers and one retired soldier shot to death at ft. hood on thursday. president obama promised justice. your loved ones endure through the life of our nation. their memory will be honored in the places they lived and by the people they touched. the president and first lady placed presidential coins in front of the battlefield crosses. the tributes were met with an eerie silence. specialist herd. sergeant major! specialist hunt. especially when they started calling their names of the soldiers, you know, someone answer and someone didn t answer. that was very sad moment. definitely. the shooting left 42 people wounded. don t walk out the door before you look at this this morning. a local news crew was covering a rockslide in polk county, tennessee, when a second was caught on tape. people were warned there might be a second slide. u.s. highway 64 may be closed for a week. and down it came. how are you going to stop that? police affidavits suggest that comments made toward a woman apparently led to the stabbing death of a uconn football player. larry smith has more on this. so this happened outside a dance or nightclub, right? yeah. a party was going on. the accused, revealing one with of howard s teammates disrespected a woman at a dance and that is what authorities believe sparked a fight broken up by police but a second fight started outside the building several minutes later and that s when howard was stabbed. three other people facelesser charges for their role in this incident. none of the football players involved in either fight, though, have been charged. robin? thank you for the update on that story. president obama is considering four options for the future of the war in afghanistan. the sources tell us that he s expected to discuss them at a meeting with his war council today. now, they include a possible deployment of about 34,000 more u.s. troops. a new cnn opinion research poll, 42% of americans support sending more troops. only 32% think that afghanistan will eventually have a stable democratic government. five minutes after the hour. we have a lot of cities that will kind of look soupy today. bob will show you why. good morning. i m watching the clouds now from old da, plus a cold front from basically southern maine down through the eastern seaboard into florida and inland as far as tennessee, kentucky, back into mississippi and alabama, too. here s what s going on. big low pressure region, that s old ida. this is being absorbed by the cold front to the north and also notice the clouds behind me. that is south of bermuda. that energy gets wrapped up you within that circulation off the coast of south carolina this afternoon, tomorrow and over the weekend. we can see a big coastal type storm develop, not a schmomaker but rain and windmaker through mid-atlantic and new england. it will last through saturday afternoon. columbus, xrornlg george, 5.81 inches of rain, atlanta, right around the charlie brown airport, 4.59 inches of rain, birmingham, almost 4. that s how much rain they had. rain continues, heavy at times, coming through south carolina, stretching through basically north carolina, the entire state seeing rain back into virginia, even towards d.c. let me take you live to walk. here s what the white house looks like, rainy, gloomy. for the entire day, you could see as much as one to three inches of rain today with an additional one to two starting up again tonight through the next couple of days. it s going to be tough for you mid-atlantic all the way to the northeast for the weekend. so what about the radar picture? this is the most active one coming in. it s out of charleston, south carolina. look at hilton head, a lot of rain toward the west, i-95. it s moving slowly shlgs, not severe but heavy rain the rain slide up to the eastern seaboard and pushes inland again. the white shaded areas, thinking about ten inches of rain in the next 48 hours. i don t think it will be that much, but even half that is a lot of rain coming in over the next few days, rob. more in a little bit. look how far inland. that s all from ida? this is ida s remnants t. gets absorbs and turns into another storm. more rain through the weekend. a woman went to mcdonald s for lunch, she came home a millionaire. you have to hear how she turned a cup of sweet tea into a sweet playoff. we always salute our troops, and today we re going it a lot because it is veterans day. here is a salute from two friends to someone that they lost recently. we just want to say that we re extremely proud of our military troops. we want to honor them as veterans day. especially in memory of our friend josh meadows who was fallen last month, just very proud to be a part of the marine corps, doing what we re doing, fighting for america s freedom. so thank you all. if you have somebody you you love in the military, go to cnn.com/robin to salute them. i m sure those sentiments have been shared by the people standing this morning at the vietnam veterans memorial wall. i think that we have a life shot to show you of that as well. it s kind of a gloomy day there, but already early people are out there on this veterans day today looking for names, leaving mementos, and just saying thank you. nikki on facebook says, i just want to thank all military personnel for what you guys do and what you sacrifice. amy says, thank you for protecting my children. sherry, thank you to all our brave and selfless soerls, i want to pay you my respect and send you my love. share your messages on this veterans day, maybe to someone currently in the military or maybe a veteran and you want to talk about them. we d be glad to hear it, cnn.com/robin, go to the web page and there a facebook link. senators have planned a hearing to see if the tragedy at ft. hood could have been prevented. new information is coming out about the alleged shooter, major nidal hasan. now, he did not hide his beliefs from the military or even what he thought about muslims in active duty. not at all. he wrote it down and put it into a power point presentation. back to 2007, he did this as part of a final project for his residency in psychiatry. but a defense official says instead of a medical lecture hasan talked about islam. now, the power point presentation i was alluding to published in the washington post frequently sited the koran and explained concepts like jihaded. he recommended muslims be allowed to claim conscientious objector status so they did not have to fight fellow muslims and the military could avord void what he called adverse effects. i wonderwe heard major hasan communicated with a radical muz lick cleric. the cleric you re referreding to is known for encouraging muslims to kill u.s. troops. senior investigative troops say hasan communicated with him at least 20 times. last night the pentagon said it had no idea until after the ft. hood shootings the communications were with tuturn to a jointer terrorism task force last year, but the investigator who looked into them determined they were for a research paper that hasan was writing. apparently, robin, never sent the information any further up the chain. richard, thank you. that s the latest on the investigation. we certainly are following it this morning. do you remember the walmart employee trampled to death by a huge crowd last year when the store opened on black friday, the day after thanksgiving? well, they re trying to make sure this does can not happen again this year. let s talk about the changes. our money expert jennifer westhoven is all over this one. good morning. walmart wants to make sure that when you think about black friday you think about getting your crazy deals on and that safety is not an issue at all. that it s all handled. the new york times reports that walmart hired crowd experts who have done events like the olympics and the super bowl just to make sure they have different plans for every store. but the biggest change that you would see and this could make a difference if you re somebody who likes those doorbusters instead of waiting outside and then everybody stampedes into the tvs and pcs when with the doors suddenly open, walmarts are going to open a lot earlier, thanksgiving overnight, so you can meander into the store whenever you want and there will be a line inside. you get in that line. the line is supervised so nobody will be cutting. and people get aggressive when that starts to happen. when 5:00 a.m. rolls around, the line is inside, everybody is in place. things are calm. i think it will be a change but it will still mean you get the deals but you won t have to wait outside in the cold. if you you have a home, you ll like this story. home prices a good sign that they could be bottoming out, right, that the relentless march down could be over. that s good news in a bad economy. i mean being look, it s not a great turnaround, but if the march downwarded were over, that would be nice. a realtors group that for two quarters in a month, similar months now, home prices are liesing to nearly 180,000ed for a single family home, up $7,000, even in neighborhoods that have been hard hit like miami and ft. lauderdale. good for anybody selling and anybody who feels underwater. it could be the final chapter of a bizarre love triangle between star-crossed astronauts. what s ahead now for lisa nowak after she pleaded guilty to attacking a rival lover. by the way, you get to hear from that woman, the person she s accused of attacking. plus, sammy sosa insists he s not trying to lighten his skin. but there is the picture of what he looks like now on one side and what he looked like before on the other. so we ll talk about it. > a former astronaut is going probation for her attack on a are romantic rival. lisa nowak pleaded guilty for reduced charges for attacking a woman in an airport parking lot. police say she drove houston to atlanta and followed colleen shipman to her car. shipman says she s haunted by what happened. i knew in my heart when lisa nowak attacked me that she was going to kill me. it was in her eyes. a blood-chilling expression of limitless rage and glee. in the plea, lisa nowak cannot have any contact with shipman. she was sentenced to a year probation, 50 hours community service. she was facing serious jail time if she had been convicted of the original charges. you ever look at some videotape of a player when they re playing their sport and then maybe a few years after they retire, you re, like, whoa, must be sitting on the couch a little bit. oh, they ve aged a little bit. well, it s to be expected. so what s the deal with sammy sosa. he looks different right now. there are stories about why. you see the pictures. we re kind of like, wow, it s shocking. he is denying he s using any kind of cream to lighten his skin, but do photographs lie? you be the judge. this is before and this is after. the soon to be 41-year-old looking dramatically different than he did just six months ago. sosa says it s a cosmetic cream he has used forrees to soften his skin and adds that combined with the bright tv lights at the latin grammy awards, where the photo on the right was taken in las vegas, it just made his skin look lighter. by the way, sosa when asked would not give the name of the cream he s been using. i wonder, too, if it could be just like he s not out in the sun like he was in the game. that will be his next reasoning for why it s robin, from a college dropout to a multimillionaire, all those hours play poker paid off, the youngest winner ever of the world series of poker getting a purse worth more than $8.5 million. get this, he entered the tournament with a backer paying the $10,000 entry fee in exchange for half his winnings. oh, wow! it may be the best investment ever. wow. that s pretty cool. a special veterans day salute in chicago. the blackhawks will wear a special jersey, auctioned online with proceeds going to the uso of illinois. joe montana, guess how much he is selling his 500-acre property for? $49 million. it would set a record for sonoma county, california. here s the thing. if you could put 20% down, get a 6% 30-year fixed rate mortgage for the balance, 39.2 million, your monthly payment would be only $235,000. monthly! that s a month. it s a pretty impressive property, 9700 square-foot home, guesthouse, equestrian stables. good to be joe. yeah. it was a funeral fit for the king of pop, but wait until you hear how much michael jackson s family spent for that funeral. plus, a liquor store manager gave one of his employees a bonus that didn t just make his day. it saved his life. the nation is honoring its military members, past and pren present on veterans day, today. president obama will take part in a wreath laying ceremony. many other countries honor their veterans as well. for them, the holiday primarily marks the signing of a truce. a white house staffer is quitting after being caught in a war of words. anita dunn is quitting, she accused fox news of being biased. an amber alert has been issued for this 5-year-old in north carolina. shania davis. her mother told officers she last saw her daughter early yesterday morning. police say they found no evidenced of foul play. they ve been searching the woods nearby. those were the headlines. welcome back. good morning, sleepy wednesday. i m robin meade. thousands of people gathered yesterday to remember the victims of the ft. hood shootings. there are new developments in the investigation we should cover this morning. richard lui starts us off with that. almost a week since the incident. fbi agents showing up at the texas mosque where the alleged shooter major nidal hasan worshipped. they wouldn t say what they were looking for, but they searched through a trash bin outside the islamic community center of greater killeen. the mosque president had to leave the memorial service to sign what appeared to be a search warrant. leaders at the mosque have condemned this attack. the fbi said that they think major hasan acted alone. it wasn t a conspiracy. and his attendance at the mosque is part of that reasoning? how goes that? interesting point. a terrorism expert says jihadists usually try to blend in so they do not attract attention. but hasan often wore traditional muslim clothing li ining in thi and attended prayers daily. one profiler agrees with this fbi theory. a lot of people are jumping to the conclusion because this man spouted islamic ideology that this is a terrorist attack. he was simply a lone guy who had issues, problems, psycho path ick behaviors that escalated and he took it out on his workmates like most of them do. talking to cnn there. many who knew hasan at washington, d.c., got the idea he was a loaner. they say he had few, if any, friends and they were unable to match him with a wife. robin? interesting. richard, thank you. new laws to protect gays and lesbians in salt lake city got support that might surprise some. the mormon church is backing ordinances making it illegal to discriminate against gays in housing and employment. church leaders say that the laws passed by the city council won t impose on traditional marriage. last year the church came under fire for its effort to pass a california initiative banning gay marriage. the woman who fell onto the train tracks and was saved at the last second is grateful for whoever helped save her. here is the video of her falling. people on the platform are flapping their armed to get the train driver s attention and the train driver stopped in the nick of time. the people were waving but they were waving a little bit too much and they were with reall really, really, close to the yellow line. that s telling me, slow your train down. i kept yelling at her to just get up bei, you know. what were you saying? just get up, get up. the woman who fell said she did not think she was drunk when she got to the station, but she admitted she had four 22-ounce beers. meet the rockefeller christmas tree. live pictures in its natural state. this 76-foot-tall norway spruce will be cut down today. they got the crane above it. it s going to be put in place tomorrow. wow. so it must be kind of close to rockefeller center. it s about 90 miles from the city in connecticut. so there it is. nice. i m still doing the math on the 88 ounces. probably 132 pounds. how many hours would that take her to burn that off? a lot. what s going on? good morning. let me show you what s going on. the main story is the travel impact from old tropical storm ida, a depression yesterday and now just a massive rain, a big ball of energy rolling off the coastline. look at all the rain south carolina through north carolina, stretches way into virginia, ends up essentially around philadelphia. but we re going to see a lot of rain over the next few days. let me show you how much. one of the computer models is thinking, the white shades popping up near washington, d.c., norfolk, virginia, ten inches of rain. if you only see half of that, you ll see two to three inches of rain near philly, closing in on new york and about five around washington, charlottesville, all the way back down into eastern north carolina. so that s the heaviest rain potential. it s all because of that coastal storm that is going to develop. since we ll see all the rain, we also had the flash flood watches up there, all the areas in dark green. most of virginia, north carolina, down through south carolina, brand new warning popping up right here. that s for charlotte county, it s going to be a tough go for you for the next couple of days. look at the rain shield falling just shy of new york city. the darker blueses, the greens, actually where the rain is hitting the ground the rest not touching the ground yet. big thunderstorms around i-95, closing in on hilton head. look at the rain stretching into raleigh-durham, going to get a heavy batch for the afternoon. dry for the middle of the country, but then you get out west, another low. look at the clouds braped up with this. a little light snow falling across right now across seer neve, light snow around the cascades. central oregon. the whole thing moving into northern idaho, montana. looking for about six to 12 inches of snow above 5,000 feet in western montana. live look at central park, here s the way it goes, clouds in all day long. gusty winds today, too, out of the east, 20 to 25 miles per hour possibility. you re going to see delays at the airport because of that. we ll talk about the rest of those delays in just a bit. you ll see a rain that will be overnight tonight for new york. i m surprised how many leaves have hundred onto the trees so far. i think the wind will knock them down just a touch, unfortunately. thank you. last night on the joy behar show she welcomed actress carrie fish heer. she was very candid about her past problems with substance abuse. you went into rehab at 29, right? what kind of drugs were you doing? what do you have? yeah, yours. no. i was stealing medication from people s medicine cabinets. like you d be visiting their house and go in there? or the other way to do it i can t tell because then it will give people ideas. i got very clever at it anyway. i don t know if everybody is as smart as you. so how did you do it? real estate. going hou ining house hunting, your bathroom. i wonder how the people at cochran feel about that right now. catch the joy behar show 9:00 p.m. eastern. a teenager spent two nights trapped on a floating chunk of ice. rescuers were with able to reach him, but not before something went dangerously wrong to them. what children had to do to escape a fire at their school. in our salute to the troops today, we re doing salutes a lot because it is veterans day. here is second lieutenant with his shout-out. hey, robin. this is second lieutenant elizabeth from ft. benning, georgia. i d like to give a shout-out to the young men and women in afghanistan and iraq. please come home safe. without your smile, the world will be walking around with a frown every day. i like you, ms. robin meade. keep me positive and motivated. second lieutenant elizabeth, thank you. thanks to all of our service members past and present on this veterans day. richard on facebook wrote, i want to salute my grandfathers, richard a.cooke. nice salute. arlene says my bumper xiker reads, home of the free because of the brave. thank you all vets. she says. share your messages with us. there s a link on our web page, cnn.com/robin, you can get to facebook right from there. happening right now, a wreath laying ceremony at the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c. people have gathered there to honor the more than 400,000 u.s. service members killed in that war. at 11:00 eastern, president obama will take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknowns at arlington national ceremony. thanks to all of our veterans alive and past for our freedom. what a survival story for one teenager, two nights trapped on a ice floe in the arctic. he was forceded to shoot a polar bear. rescuers found him monday but four of them got stuck for one night when the ice shifted. they ended up dragging their boat about 2 1/2 miles across the ice. a senator came out swinging with a sweeping plan to keep your money safe with some tougher regulations, though. the senate banking committee chairperson, christopher dodd, says this has been a long time coming. see how you feel about what he s proposing. you know, we ll see if this goes over well in congress, but dodd is basically saying, look at what happened. look at the economic collapse. in his view, banks cannot be trusted to oversee themselves. he thinks the federal reserve did not fulfill its responsibilities so his idea is, he says, let s take away their oversight power and instead give the job to some new government agencies. hmm, what do you think about that? that s from the washington post. dodd says it s necessary to protect the economy. we saw over the last number of years when they took on consumer protection responsibilities and regulation of bank holding companies it was an abysmal failure. that senator chuck schumer standing behind him. but this plan not the same thing as what the white house has been thinking. the president wants the federal reserve in the lead when it comes to banking reform as long as it steps up the job. this is a brazen heist. imagine a ring of thieves around the globe in 280 cities standing by with phony atm cards and in 12 hours they swipe away and steal $9 million. sound like oceans 11 for or something. those are the allegations from the acting u.s. attorney in atlanta. it indicted eight russian and eastern european people on allegations of computer hacking, only one has been arrested. the other seven are still at large. robin, back to you. thank you. it s a common grocery store debate. which is best for you, the fresh or the frozen veggies? we re going beyond the surface to ice some conventional wisdom. fresh versus frozen produce, which is better? if you think fresh, think again. it turns out that frozen produce is just as nutritious as fresh produce because frozen vegetables and fruit are harvested at their peak. the nutrition is preserved throughout the freezing process. you can lose those vitamins to water if you cook them in large amounts. i would suggest that you cook them always in small amounts by steaming. canned vegetables are usually very high in sodium. canned fruit, unless you get it packed in its own juice or in water, skip it. you you want to get as many colorful will vegetables and fruit in your diet as possible to protect you from chronic disease. more than 400 children were with able to escape a dangerous fire at their elementary near portland, oregon, yesterday. the fire officials say that it started in an area used for science projects. my class had to actually get on our knees somewhat and crawl because we were with so close t all the teachers and administrators got out as well. classes are canceled for the rest of the week. rescuers had to be called in to free a kitty in a sticky situation. she managed to get her head stuck in a three-inch drain pipe. the kids who found her tried their best to get her out, though i don t know that the kitty liked it. he was really, really hurt, and we had to pour oil on it to try to get it out, but he couldn t really get out. tried to pour oil. animal control officers gave it a try. they did get the kitty out and they say the kitty was not hurt. she is mad, isn t she? i don t blame her. michael vick gets a win in court. larry smith is here to tell you about that. so somebody didn t want him to have his bonus money? yeah. exactly. these contracts, nfl contracts, they get around the salary cap because when you have a giant bonus you can kind of prorate that over the length of the contract. that s what they did. a judge already ruled that vick could keep the more than $16 million in bonus money paid. but now an appeal judge has backed that decision, much to the chagrin of the nfl and his former team the atlanta falcons. the ruling said vick had earned the money before his conviction in 2007 on dogfighting charges. he served a 23-month sentence in prison. now back with the philadelphia eagles. an nfl spokesman says the decision will likely change the way the league writes bonuses into player contracts. shaquille o neal oes rocky marriage seems to be coming to an end again. shonny o neal has filed for divorce. the couple was married almost seven years and have four children together. shaq filed for divorce in 2007 but the two apparently had reconciled. until now. guys will never learn. officials read your blogs as well. dwight howard has been fined $15,000 for his disparaging remarks on officiating on his blog. the all-star center and olympic gold medalist was complaining after he fouled out of a game in detroit last week. afterwards he played just 16 minutes in that game and said it just was unfair. now he ll pay a check for his words. larry, thanks. some banks are letting their customers spend as much as they want. all right. well, hln money expert clark howard says that it may cost you way more in bank fees than you re willing to pay. pay. a lot of people, because they ve been burned by credit cards have switched to debit cards. but when you use it, it takes money directly from your checking account. do you know that most banks will allow you to use your card even when it will cause you to overdraw your account. why? because they want you to overdraw your account so they can hit you with massive charges. ask your bank or credit union to not permit overages, where you can t get hit if you were to overdraw your account. if you can t track your ambulanbalance, do everything with cash. with more ways to keep your wallet in shape, go to cnn.com. catch him at noon eastern on saturdays and sundays. ten minutes to the hour. let s talk to bob about our travelers. where do you see problems? atlanta, again, the businees airport in the united states. rain showers are heavy at times. the fog is there, low clouds are there and wind later today. an hour or more delays in atlanta, charlotte, too. d.c. metro, low clouds, rain up there. about a half hour delay. then san francisco, the low clouds are in place already. that could extend to an hour. thanks. what could be better than a raise or holiday bonus from the boss? one guy has his manager to thank for saving his life. good morning. how are you doing? it s wednesday right in the middle of the week. thank you for joining us. here s what s going on today. the nation is about to honor its service members who put their lives on the line for their country. you re going to hear what celebrations are planned for today. a pilot apparently had one too many before he showed up for work. what happens minutes before takeoff in that cockpit. plus this was utter chaos. he s talking about a shopper tramabled to death in walmart last year. now, some lessons from the super bowl may prevent that from happening again. first though if someone in your life has served in the military, this is the day to say thank you. it is veteran s day. the day is meant to honor those who have served in the military. in about two hours, we re expecting president obama to honor veterans at the tomb of the unknowns. very pretty and haunting piece of tape. a u.s. pilot was taken off a flight minutes before takeoff because a co-worker thought he was drunk. british police arrested him when he flunked the breathalyzer. this morning on cnn, a former ntsb official was asked if more regulations are needed to keep drunk pilots out of the cockpit. the thing to remember on this is that this pilot was you know, outed or turned in the by the flight crew itself. that s really the line of defense. these flight crews are extraordinarily responsible. if they see one of their own members not capable of flying, of performing their own tasks, they called him out. it was the right thing to do. a spokesperson says united s policy is among the strictest in the industry. the master mind behind the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation in 2002 said nothing before his execution last night. john allen muhammad died by leathal injection last night. he refused to make a final statement. some victim s relatives witnessed the execution, so did the prosecutor who won the conviction. he died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims. i felt a sense of closure and i hope they did, too. he got the death sentence for the shooting debt of dean harold myers. his accomplice is serving life in prison. the suspect in the ft. hood shooting is refusing to answer questions about that day. his attorney says he is coherent, but not talking about the attack. investigators are trying to f figure out what this happened. yesterday, the city sized army post put war preps on pause and 15,000 people attended the memorial for the 12 soldiers and one retired soldier shot to death on thursday. president obama promised justice. your loved ones endure through the life of our nation. their memory will be honored in the places they lived and by the people they touched. the president and first lady then placed presidential coins in front of the victim s battlefield crosses. the tributes were met with silence. especially when they starting calling the names of the soldiers, you know, someone and that was very sad moment. the shooting left 42 people wounded. google maps has launched its flu shot finder. google warns you that they re still gathering info and the service is not comprehensive and it won t be able to tell you if a provider has run out. their suggestion is that you call ahead. police affidavits suggest that comments made toward a woman apparently led to the stabbing death of a uconn football player. this is the latest on the investigati investigation. he s the man that is going to appear in court of friday accused of murdering howard. one of the teammates disrespected a woman at a school-sponsored dance and that is what believed sparked the fight broken up by police, but it apparently restarted outside the building several minutes later and that is when howard was stabbed. three others face charges. none of the football players involved in either fight have been charged. are we alone in the universe? well, is there alien life out there? the catholic church wants to know. the vatican called in several extra terrestrial experts. the church. the group discussed the orgins of life and if it existed in the cosmos. just kind of pan left to our sports department, yeah, i d say there s something else out there. no offense. i think some find it surprising that it was the catholic church doing this. six minutes after the hour. so far in the skies today, all we have are a bunch of clouds and rain. good morning. i m going to start to the west coast because the clouds are continuing to come in. we re following two storms moving in over the next few days. one is occurring now. it s a cold front dropping down into a stationary front in nevada. but the clouds there california, nevada, lower parts of oregon and idaho. there s another storm towards the north dropping in by tomorrow afternoon. the rain is in blue, the white is snow cover. i think we re going to start seeing this mount up, especially northern parts of oregon and parts of montana as well. the purple areas, that s about a foot of snow. mainly above 5,000 feet elevation. another winter round coming in tomorrow. it s something we ll be following over the next few days. the east coast, if you re traveling, it s going to be around around, charlotte a and raleigh. heavy at times. the yellows, the greens, the heaviest rain. the red is very heavy rainfall. it s stretching into towards eastern north carolina, so the flash flood watches are up there. those are the areas in green. i think we ll see about five to six inches of rain today through the next couple of days. it is going to be a tough one and the radar picture pretty much ends in northern jersey. the capitol looking nice, but the clouds are in. rain will be on and off today. heavy at times. we ll have that forecast for your in just a bit. thank you. black friday frenzy is just around the corner. how many weeks away? not many. walmart is making major changes to prepare for the big day and your safety. and new information on the suspect in the ft. hood shootings. what he said in a controversial powerpoint presentation. in our salute to the troops, today, we re doing them a lot during these few hours because it is veteran s day. here s a shoutout from a mom to her daughter s boyfriend. i just want to give a shout out to the third id out of ft. benning. by daughter s boyfriend, get back safe, we miss you. very sweet. if you have somebody in the service and want to salute them, we d love to help you. also, right now, if you want to send a veteran s day salute, go to our facebook page. get there by going to cnn.com/robin. the power is back on this morning after a major blackout affecting millions. one of the world s largest hydroelectric dams had some problems. rio de janeiro had a standstill and some are worried because the olympics are coming there. what does a porsche have in common with a line of rubber shoes? a legal spat. porsche claims crocs violated the line by giving them them is same name as a luxury roadster. do you remember the horrible story of a walmart employee who was trampled to death on black friday a year ago by a huge crowd trying to get the sales? well, there are new protection ins place for this year. jennifer westhoven is going to detail that. for now, we re talking about walmart. they want to make sure nothing like this ever happens again, but also, that you know you re absolutely safe on black friday so you don t have to worry about safety, but the crazy deals. the new york times reports that walmart hired crowd experts and their biggest change, it s going to be around those hot, hot door busters. so if you re somebody who likes to get in the mix, you want to take a listen to how things are going to change. instead of everybody being outside and then stampeding in when the doors opened, instead, most walmarts are going to be open thanksgiving and overnight on that thursday night early friday morning, so you ll be able to go into the actual store when you want and get into a supervised line. that s also really important because it means people aren t going to cut each other in line. that is something that can get others very aggressive and can change things. then at 5:00 a.m., when the sale starts, you re already in line, it s calm and supervised, you re inside the store. if you ve got a home, you re going to like this story. home prices could be bottoming out. in a new report, realtors say home prices went up two quarter i s in a row. it takes the median price to about $50,000. robin? i m glad to see it s bottoming out meaning we re going upward. thank you. it could be the final chapter of a bizarre love try ankle between star cross eed astronauts. and why sammy sosa says people think he looks so different. senators have planned a hearing next week to see if the tragedy at ft. hood could have been prevented and new information is coming out about the alleged shooter. richard lui joins us. he did not hide what he thought about muslims in active duty. he put it into a powerpoint presentation in 2007. a defense official says that instead of a medical lecture, hasan talked about islam. the presentation, which was published in the washington post, frequently cited the koran and explained concepts like jihad. i wonder if he described what he meant by adverse events. we also heard he was also communicating with a radical muslim cleric. he s known for encouraging muslims to kill u.s. troops and senior investigative officials say hasan communicated with him at least 20 times. last night, the pentagon said it had no idea until after the shootings. the communications were turned over to a joint terrorism task force last year, but the investigator who looked into them determined they were for a research paper hasan was writing and never sent the information any further. thank you. that s the latest on the investigation. we are following it this morning. a former astronaut got a year s probation for her attack on a romantic rival. lisa nowak pleaded guilty yesterday for confronting ining shipman. nowak apologized to shipman in court, but shipman says she believes she escaped a horrible death the night of the attack. you ever notice a few years after somebody retires from sports, oh, they ve kind of aged a bit, oh, well, maybe they re just not as active anymore. what s the deal with sammy sosa because he looks a lot different. usually, it s because you ve lost hair or have grayed. he says he s been using a cosmetic cream to soften his skin for years, so why is it this is the difference? the soon to be 41-year-old looking dramatically different. he says the cream combined with the bright tv lights of the latin grammy awards, the combination made his skin look lighter. when asked the name of the cream, he declined to give that name. from a college dropout to multimillionaire, playing all those hours of poker paid off. getting a purse worth more than $8.5 million. this is the part i love. cada entered the tournament with a backer paying the fee in exchange for half his winnings. $10,000 in, $4 million back. i love that. a special veteran s day salute tonight in chicago. the blackhawks will wear special camouflaged jerseys. joe montana is selling his 500-acre property for $49 million. it would set a record for sonoma county, california. if you put 20% down and got a morni mortgage, your balance is 39.2 million. piece of cake. that s robin meade money. whatever. thanks. a month. is he getting a bigger house? he s downsizing. only 100,000 a month. this travel brought to you by orbitz. a few delays now. south carolina here, here s north carolina. georgia, little bit of light drizzle, low clouds. right now, we have delays in atlanta and charlotte, but both about a half hour. one hour or more, philly, washington, orlando. more in a bit. a womanag turned her lunch into a million dollars? the new york stock exchange just opened for business and to honor the nation s veterans today, a member of the u.s. marine corp. is ringing the opening bell. so is wall street looking at the stronger opening day? we ll find out in a few seconds. an amber alert has been issued for 5-year-old shania davis in north carolina. the girl s mom tells officer she last saw her early yesterday morning. police say they found in evidence of foul play. 300 h1n1 vaccines have arrived at the guantanamo bay military prison, but the pentagon says no detainees will be getting them until the facility s high priority troops and health care workers have been vaccinated. so far, there aren t enough doses to do that. a shooting at the drug testing center ended in a murder-suicide. a woman was killed and two of her co-workers injured. police say that the woman s husband opened fire on the office before turning the gun on himself. if you re just now waking up, where you been? it s 31 minutes past the hour. it is veteran s day today and we re getting so many comments from your fellow viewers here on facebook with your wishes, your well wishes for our veterans. richard says eddie writes you got comments you want to make? you can go to cnn.com/robin. there s an f, just click it right there, it will take you to the right page. is senate could finish its health care bill by the holidays. that s what senate majority leader harry reid said yesterday, according to new york times. there has been speculation he can t get enough votes for a public option, which is included in the house bill that passed on saturday. new this hour, the attorney for the alleged ft. hood shooter is explaining why he took that case. the retired army colonel tells cnn that he takes pride in defending anyone in uniform. first and foremost, i share and extend my sympathies to all of the victims that were involved in this case, but i d also caution and remind everyone how important it is that we ensure that as we go through a pretrial and trial process, whether it s within the military, outside of the military, that we remember why we all wear the uniform, the important rights we seek to protect and that is the right to a fair trial. so far, major nidal hasan has refused to talk to federal agents and only met with his attorney for about 30 minutes. a spiritual leader who communicated with major hasan is wanted now. police in yemen want to know if he has ties to al-qaeda. he was arrested there once on suspicion of giving religious approval on kidnappings. a u.s. government source says they e-mailed each other many times over several months. the woman who fell right on to the train tracks as the train was coming was saved at the last second and now, she s grateful for the people who saved her. here she is, falling right on to the tracks. the train driver stopped in time. just in time. people were waving, but waving a little bit too much and they were really, really close to the yellow line, which they re not supposed to be, so that s telling me to slow down. i kept yelling at her to just get up what were you saying? just get up. the woman who fell said she did not think she was drunk, but admitted she had four, 22 ounce beers. so that s huge. 88 ounces. what is a normal one? 12. 34 minutes past the hour. kind of a rainy, yucky start because of what used to be ida. what we re seeing right now is just the transfer of energy off the coast, could get worse over the next couple of days. won t be a named storm, but the energy is still out there. most of it is riding through south carolina now. it s going to merge with another area of low pressure off the coast, so the end result, pretty hefty lows. it s going to throw a lot of wind and rain at you. how much? let me show you what one of the computer models is thinking. it is pretty drastic. even if this is overdone just a touch, that s central virginia in towards washington d.c. metro back towards north carolina. those white shades, it s ten inches of rain in the next two days. even if it s only half of that, that s still five to six inches of rain. flood concerns are definitely out there. areas shaded in dark green from central virginia to the carolinas. heavy rain is falling now. you can see it right around the charleston metro area, stretching down to hilton head and savannah. thank you. congress last night, they re putting investors in a good mood on veteran s day. susan lisovicz is at the new york stock exchange. good morning. good morning, robin, and why they re in a good mood is because both federal reserve officials say that the economy s return to growth is not enough yet to get the fed to raise rates. investors are happy to have rates as cheap as they are, so we re seeing an early morning rally. but investors aren t so keen on shares of aig. they re under pressure, this after the ceo reportedly told the board he s stepping down after just three months on the job. the wall street journal says he s frustrated with the government s overseers. we, taxpayers, essentially own 80% of aig. he agreed to consider his resignation. certainly got their attention. macy s says it lost $35 million last quarter, but that s not as bad as expected. bloomingdales sales were strong. it s veteran s day. the nyse marking the occasion with two minutes of silence before the bell. this is the 91st veteran s day and later on, there will be a cake cutting ceremony on the trading floor in honor of the 234th birthday of the u.s. marine corp. marines, it was yesterday, right? but they re doing this today on veteran s day. right. and when there s cake, yes, we will partake. susan, thank you very much. a fraternity member ends up in the hospital and two men are facing criminal charges as a result. later, it was a shootout that killed 17 iraqi civilians. well now, startling new reports on what an american security company did after the shootings. today, we re doing salutes a lot because it is veteran s day. here s a salute from a soldier that we met when i was visiting some troops at ft. benning. i want to give a salute to sergeant keith who s in iraq. we re all rooting for you to come back safe and we ll see you when you get back. all right. and if you have somebody in the service and you want to salute, go to cnn.com/robin. by the way, here are live pictures at the vietnam memorial. veteran s day is to honor those who have served and some who have fallen, and so many people, even though the weather is really drizzly and dreary today, have come out very early to find loved ones names on the wall. for our veterans no longer with us and those who are watching, thank you for your service. two men are facing criminal charges after an apparent case of fraternity hazing. 19-year-old nathan ericson was hospitalized with a potentially deadly blood-alcohol level. he was a new member of a fraternity at drake. in text messages, he said he was being forced to drink. the fraternity has suspended three of its members. new this morning, your gifts for this holiday season are likely to be meant for someone else. a report says that 36% of americans plan to regift. that is five percentage points more than last year. about a third say they re going to spend less money on the gifts than they did last year. please, that s only the amount of people willing to admit it, right? u.s. diplomat wills soon meet one-on-one with north korean officials. that announcement came from a request from pyonyang. the obama administration describes this as a limited effort. the goal is to resume the six-party talks. a janitor is being called a hero for saving lives in a suicide bomb attack. that s right. a christian janitor at this school you see in these pictures, saving the lives of hundreds of muslim girls and he s now a national hero. also, police say a pastor is admitting to shooting and killing a teenager. the events surrounded his confession and then a little dress got a woman in big trouble. there it is. there s the dress. her little number caused at a university. that in about 15. wow. okay. thank you. some banks are letting their customers spend as much they want, but clark howard warns it may cost you way more in bank fees than you re willing to pay. a lot of people, because they ve been burned by credit cards, have switched to debit cards. that s where it has a visa or mastercard logo on it, but when you use it, it takes money directly from your checking account. get this. do you know that most banks will allow you to use your debit card even when it will cause you to overdraw your account. why? because they want you to overdraw your account so they can hit you with massive overage charges. ask your bank to prevent this. the other thing, if you can t track your balance, do everything with cash instead. i m clark howard. for more ways for you to keep your wallet shipshape, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. he s the guy to help you to save more, spend less. catch him at noon eastern on saturdays and sundays right here on hln. murder suspect drew peterson wants you to see his house during the trial. how he hopes to put his home on tv and make some money. 46 minutes past the hour. if you re just joining us, you ve been sleeping in. well, a private u.s. security firm allegedly wanted to bribe its way after its guards shot iraqi civilians. the new york times quotes former blackwater executives saying the company had $1 million to buy iraqi officials silence. an investigation called the shootings unjustified. the firm calls the report baseless. five guards are now facing manslaughter charges, but they say they were just defending themselves. michael vick got a win in court, so i guess that means he gets to keep a lot of money. he needs all the money he can get. a judge already had ruled that vick can keep more than $16 million in bonus money paid by the atlanta falcons, but now, an appeal judge has backed that decision. the ruling says that vick had already earned the money before his dog fighting charges. an nfl spokesman says that will likely change the way the league writes bonuses into player contracts. not the first time this has happened. shaquille o neal s rocky marriage seems to be coming to an end, again. shonny has filed for divorce. they have four children together. shaq filed for divorce in 2007, but the two apparently had reconciled. league officials read your blogs as well. dwagt howard has been fined $15,000 for his comments on officiating. he was complaining after he fouled out of a game last week after playing just 16 minutes. an ole miss pep song is being banned for being devicive. the schools band has played from dixie with love for years, but sometimes is chanted. some consider it a limitation on freedom of speech. ole miss has long struggled with these issues, so no more of that song. thank you. a murder suspect reportedly wants to auction off his home to tv stations so they can use it to broadcast during his trial. an attorney for former illinois cop, drew peterson, tells a chica chicago sun-times column that will pay for his legal expenses. he is awaiting trial for allegedly killing his third wife. he pleaded not guilty. if i remember this correctly, this is the guy who s fourth wife is still they exhumed the body of his third wife and that s where the charges have come from. he s one of those guys, never saw a woman he didn t like. you can use his house if you want. hi, bob. happening. any traveling today, southeast, mid-atlantic all the way to d.c. metro will have problems with the low clouds, wind and rain. right now a half hour delay in atlanta. that s what we have. but it will probably build because the winds pick up later this afternoon. charlotte up, about an hour delay for you too. rain first, wind second. d.c./baltimore, light rain, then the wind out there. out west, low clouds. watch out for half hour, maybe an hour delay. slowdown in seattle, too. we ll talk about that in a half hour. you can meet the rockefeller center tree right now in its natural state. there it is. the 76-foot tall norway spruce will be cut down today. it will be brought from connecticut to new york city. and then the tree goes up tomorrow. boy, they don t waste any time, do they? last night on the joy behar show, she welcomed actress carrie fisher who was very candid about her failed marriages. your second husband left you for another man. of course you re bipolar. what s great about being bipolar, all that would feel bad for just anybody, but i get it dialed up. i know you do. and you turned all of that into comedy, which is the greatest gift that you can give yourself, in my opinion. it s the best alchemy there is. what, do i want to feel bad? catch the joy behar show at 9:00 p.m. eastern on hln. you probably saw the video of a woman who fell on the train tracks in front of the train. very close call. the train stopped right on time. hear from the operator of the train. hi, robin. this is specialist justin agerson. i want to send a special hello to a friend oversees, private paul britain. stay safe over there.
good morning. right in the middle of the week. you can keep going. come on now. we have so far to go that we ve already come. i m robin meade. the nation is about to honor its service members who put their lives on the line for the country. you re going to hear what celebrations are planned for veterans day today. an airline pilot had one too many before he showed up for work. was he trying to go bottle to throttle? hmm. plus, a court has just decided whether michael jackson s father can have a piece of the singer s estate even after he was left out of the will. all right. first, though, what matters the most is that today is veterans day. it s a day for honoring the members of our military who have risked or sacrificed even their lives fighting for the country. if you have a veteran in your life, here s your chance and your reminder to say thank you. at 11:00 a.m. eastern there will be a yearly tribute to the u.s. war dead at arlington national cemetery. there might also be events in your neighborhood. a u.s. pilot, get a load of this, was pulled off an international flight just before takeoff after a co-worker thought he was drunk. irwin vermont washington was set to fly a united jet from london all the way to chicago on monday. his blood alcohol level was over the legal limit. washington s been removed from duty and airline spokesperson says united s policy is among the strictest in the industry. we have no tolerance for violation of this well-established policy. the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation in 2002 said nothing before his execution last night. john allen muhammad died by lethal injection. this is the last photo taken of him. an a.mbulance took away the remains. some victims relatives witnessed the execution, so did the prosecutor who won the death penalty conviction. he died very peacefully, much more than most of his victims. i felt a sense of closure and hope they did, too. i think they can look forward to that and i hope they have solace by virtue of his execution. muhammad got the death sentence for the shooting death of dean harold myers but actually the d.c.-area attacks left ten people dead. the suspect and the ft. hood shootings army major nidal malik hasan is refusing to answer questions. he isn t talking about the attack. he s under guard in intensive care. investigators are trying to figure out what provoked the attack. yesterday the city sized army post put its war preps on pause. a memorial for the soldiers shot to death at ft. hood thursday. president obama promised family promised their families justice. your loved ones endure through the life of our nation. their memory will be honored in the places they lived and by the people they touched. the president and first lady placed presidential coins in front of the victims battlefield crosses. the tributes met with an eerie silence. specialist hunt. especially when they started calling the names of the soldiers, you know, someone answered and someone being answered, that was a very sad moment. i bet. the shooting left 42 people wounded, many at the army post have faced multiple deployments. if you want to see some amazing video, bring your coffee over here and take a look. oh, my gosh. it just keeps coming. a local news crew was covering one rock slide and here comes the second one, so they caught it on tape. get this, a geologist had warned people there might be a second slide and moved everyone out of the way. u.s. highway 64 may be closed for a week. this is in polk county, tennessee. man. comments made toward a woman apparently sparked a fight that led to the death of connecticut football player. that s according to police affidavits. this is the story we have extensively. this is the latest turn in this, larry. robin, good morning. accused of murdering jasper howard, the 21-page document reveals one of his teammates disrespected someone at a school sponsored dance and that s what they believe sparked a fight. a second fight started outside the building and that s when howard was stabbed. three other people face lesser charges. none of the football players involved in the fight have been charged. robin? thank you. president obama is considering four options for the future of the war in afghanistan. sources tell us that he is expected to talk about them at a meeting with his war council today including a possible deployment of about 34,000 more u.s. troops. and a new cnn/opinion research poll, 42% of americans support sending more troops. 32% think that afghanistan will eventually have a stable democratic government. some days you just want a break from the news and thank goodness there s weather to talk about. yeah, and there s a lot, too. some of us want a break from the weather, bob. it s been raining nonstop in places like georgia and the carolinas for the last 24 hours and, robin, four inches of rain fell yesterday at the airport down in atlanta so the heavy rain is out there. it s still raining now to get to northern georgia but the remnants of ida are getting absorbed in the cold front up to the north. it s all pushing that rain over to the east. now the heaviest rain by far now in towards south carolina and north carolina, too, zero in on the charleston radar. we also have that wave of energy coming on through sparking a line of thundershowers. you can see that right around the barnwell area stretching down past statesboro. watch out for this. a lot of heavy rain. it s not severe. the occasional lightning strike is out there, too. then up further to the raleigh area and see the heavy shield of rain still out there. that actually goes all the way through virginia in to the nation s capital with light rain recorded here but then it falls apart not reaching the ground in to philadelphia. still, the rain is going to be off and on for most of the day. areas like washington, d.c., down into northern parts of florida we have flash flood watches and warnings. the watches are all the area that are shaded in dark green. the warnings are in bright shaded green, charlotte and the atlanta metro. again, four inches of rain fell yesterday in atlanta. watch for another additional one to two when you get in towards central north carolina but then over the next two days that low developments often the coastline. look at all the rain. purple shade is going for about eight inches of rain. i think that might be overdone a little bit but even if they only get half of this, that s four to five inches in the next two days for the mid-atlantic states. we ll talk about that again in just a bit. all right, thank you. the black friday frenzy is just around the corner. walmart is making some major changes you re going to want to know about for your big day there and new information on the suspect in the ft. hood shootings, what he said in a controversial power point presentation. it s time for our salute to the troops. today we re doing more than the usual because it s veterans day. so we re just going to fill the show full of our salutes. our first shoutout is for captain jamie burlino to his wife of three weeks and all the spouses who are at home while their loved ones are serving the country. i d like to thank my wife, most of all, because the wives back here make so many sacrifices that so many people it never makes the news, so i hope this does. wives make many more sacrifices than us out there. i love the sentiment. so true. sometimes we don t hear about the families who really have to deal with things at home. so do you have somebody in the service to salute? go to cnn.com/robin. senators planned a hearing next week to see if the tragedy at ft. hood could have been prevented. and new information is coming out about the alleged shooter major nidal hasan. apparently he didn t hide his beliefs from the military. no, he didn t. we go back to 2007 for this, robin. that s what hasan spoke to army doctors as part of a final project for his residency in psychiatrist. instead of a medical lecture hasan talked about islam. you see here the power point presentation on your screen which was published in the washington post frequently citing the koran and explaining concepts like islam. he represented in this presentation muslims be allowed to claim conscientious objector status so they did not have to fight other muslims and the military could avoid adverse events as it said in the presentation, robin. interesting. we ve also heard that he was communicating with a radical muslim cleric but the defense department, how is it responding to those findings? robin, a senior department official says they didn t know about it but a federal law enforcement official says last year a joint terrorism task force intercepted communications between hasan and anwar al awlaki. the cleric is known for encouraging muslims to kill u.s. troops. two government officials say that information was then turned over to a defense department investigator but they say they determined it was for a research paper hasan was writing and it appears the information never went any farther up that chain. so when they look at these this correspondence they didn t find anything threatening in it? at the time, that s what they re saying. richard, thank you. do you remember about a year ago well, almost exactly a year ago during the black friday shopping, the walmart employee who was trampled to death by a huge crowd when the store opened for the friday after thanksgiving for shopping? well, new protections may keep you safer this year. walmart has some big changes planned for crowd management on that friday morning/thursday night. our money expert, jennifer westhoven, has this for you. and of course walmart wants to make sure that the headlines about black friday are great, that you want to go, but it never happens again so that you can safely get some of those crazy deals on black friday. the new york times writes that walmart hired crowd control experts who have even handled mega events like the olympics and the super bowl. the biggest change is for those hot, hot door busters, tvs, pcs, instead of waiting outside and everybody stampeding in all at once, that s when it can be dangerous on that friday morning, instead they re going to be open on thanksgiving and overnight on thanksgiving so you can come into the store whenever you want. you can get on a supervised line that s inside. you know what that means. no cutting in line because that was happening outside. and you know when there s cutting everybody gets really aggressive and angry at each other. so then at 5:00 a.m. when the big sales start, everybody s already inside, everybody s already on a calm, supervised line. there s no need to run anywhere. the running is the big thing because people want to storm the door to get to the big items. they re already standing in front of it. also, i think when you re outside all night and you have people in front of you, you get that sense of outrage going on, and that can just be part of it. speaking of outrage, a lot of americans would like to throw many wall streeters in jail who might have contributed somehow to the economic meltdown, taking too many risks. well, in the first major criminal case related to the collapse, a new york jury found these two men who were formally bear stearns hedge managers found them not guilty on all charges, so that s a case that will be watched. surprised a lot of people in new york, robin. all right, jennifer, thank you. it could be the final chapter of the bizarre love triangle between star-crossed astronauts. what s ahead for lisa nowak after she pled guilty to attacking a rival lover. plus, sammy sosa insists he is not trying to lighten his skin. why some say he looks completely different. a former astronaut is getting probation for her attack on a romantic rival. lisa nowak pled guilty to reduced charges for confronting a woman in an airport parking lot. police say she drove from houston to orlando and followed colleen shipman to her car. shipman says she is haunted by what happened. i knew in my heart when lisa nowak attacked me that she was going to kill me. it was in her eyes. a blood-chilling expression of limitless rage and glee. lisa nowak was sentenced to a year probation by pleading guilty to the lesser charge. she avoided the possibility of some serious jail time if she had been convicted. an artist is honoring the troops with an exhibit of replicas featuring the name of every service member killed in iraq. the piece called 3,000 and counting has the name, rank and age of every fallen service member. artist gene price hopes that her work will provoke thought. this isn t sculpture and you can t walk around it and get into the middle of it. well, in honor of veterans day the artist will update the piece with homemade foil dog tags. take me somewhere we can be alone i ll be waiting all that s les to do is run you be the prince and i ll be the princess it s a love story baby just say yes taylor swift grabbed her second straight song of the year award last night at the bmi country awards. she won for this song love story and is up for entertainer of the year at tonight s country music association awards. okay, so what s the deal with sammy sosa? have you seen a picture of him lately? some people think that he looks completely different than when he played ball. larry smith is here. now to be fair many people look a lot different once they stop playing ball. to be fair. kind of like michael jackson before and after? i mean, he keeps saying that he s really not doing that, trying to deny he is lightening his skin like jackson did. you take a look. look at this. the soon-to-be 41-year-old is looking dramatically different than just six months ago. look at the difference. he said it s a cosmetic cream he has used for years that combined with the bright tv lights where he was photographed in vegas, it made his skin look lighter. sosa wouldn t given the name of the cream he used when he was asked for it. hmm. well from a college dropout to a multimillionaire, 21-year-old joe cada made all those hours playing poker play off becoming the youngest winner of the world series of poker and getting a purse worth more than $8.5 million. the tournament began back in july with nearly 6,500 participants. cada s parents weren t happy with his college decision initial initially but they have softened their stance after this. a special veterans day salute. the blackhawks will wear special camouflaged jerseys during warm-ups. the jerseys will be auctioned online with proceeds going to the uso of illinois. the team will also host 50 military members and their guests this evening at the game versus colorado. great for them. thank you for being up early, by the way. bob, you had no choice in the matter. yeah. larry got the short straw. we deal with it every morning. what s up, robin? and our viewers, too, because they re up just as early. and if you are trying to catch a flight on this veterans day, idea road in on the real trouble spot, the carolinas and georgia. so charlotte, greenville, spartanburg, atlanta anticipate delays and it s all the leftover moisture from the slow moving tropical depression ida from yesterday. now it s just the remnants of that storm but the rain is heavy at times. atlanta, charlotte, one hour or more especially this morning. a new york city metro, philadelphia, cincinnati looking at wind today. 30-minute to one-hour delays. washington, d.c., orlando, low clouds, rain, thunderstorms for you around orlando and tampa. the same with miami, seattle, san francisco, low clouds. 30-minute to one-hour delays. so far it s still early. we have more on those in about a half hour. thank you. what in the world was going on? it there was a major blackout for two hours affecting millions. one of the world s largest hydroelectric dams had problems in brazil. the power was out in paraguay and rio de janeiro came to a virtual standstill. some people there are concerned because you know the olympics and the world cup are coming there. it was an incident that caused major diplomatic problems between the united states and iraq. a shoot-out that killed 17 iraqi civilians. now startling new reports about what an american company alleged ly did after the shootings. the nation is honoring its military members past and present on veterans day today. president obama will take part in the wreath laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery. many other countries are honoring their veterans as well. for them the holiday primarily marks the signing of a truce to end world one. vaccines have arrived at guantanamo bay military prison. no detainees will be getting them until the facility s high-priority troops and health care workers have been vaccinated. but so far there aren t even enough doses available to do that. good morning, sunshine. i m robin meade. so glad you re with us today. 30 minutes past the hour. let s move ahead now to some of our other stories that we re talking about. thousands of people gathered yesterday to remember the victims of the ft. hood shootings but there are new developments in the investigation. correspondent richard lui joins us with more on that. good morning. good morning to you, robin. fbi agents showed up at the texas mosque where the alleged shooter major nadal hasan worshipped. they would not say what they were looking for, but they did search through a trash bin outside the islamic community center of greater killeeen. the mosque s president had to leave to sign what appeared to be a search warrant. leaders at the mosque have c condemned the attack. you know, the fbi has said they believe that this guy acted alone and his attendance at the mosque is part of that reasoning. help me connect the dots here. yeah, well, terrorism experts say jihadists usually try to blend in so they don t attract attention. hasan often wore traditional muslim clothing like you see in this video and attended prayers daily. one criminal profiler agrees with this fbi theory. a lot of people are jumping to the conclusion because this man spouted islamic violent islamic ideology that this is a terrorist attack. he escalated to the point he wanted to get back at society and took it out on his co-workers like most of them do. he was a loner. they say he had few if any friends and they were unable to match him with a wife. thank you. throughout the morning we ll have new he will enters of the investigation. appreciate it. new laws to protect gays and lesbians in salt lake city got support that might surprise some. the mormon church is making it illegal to discriminate. church leaders say the laws passed by the city council won t impose on traditional marriage. last year the church came under fire for its support to pass the california initiative banning gay marriage. a polygamist sex member accused of assaulting a 10-year-old girl. raymond jessop heard that sentence yesterday, the first sect member put on trial since authorities raided the yearning for zion ranch. the girl became his so-called spiritual wife when she was 15. 11 other sect members are waiting for trials. well, you might want a break from the weather. it s getting very chilly in some of our viewers back yards and very rainy. here is meteorologist bob van dillen. is this the remnants of what used to be ida? it is and it s slow moving, too. now it s getting mixed up with the cold front, getting absorbed in that moving to the northeast. some of the rainfall totals around georgia, because those are the ones coming in now, columbus, georgia, 4.6 inches of rain. atlanta 4.25 inches of rain. that s storm total. the rain continues to fall in north georgia and sliding into south carolina. very heavy at times near charlotte, north carolina. here is that radar picture coming out. you see a couple feeder bans off the atlantic ocean beginning to channel warm moisture in there. we re going to see the rain off and on all day with that solid shield moving through virginia no maryland, too. here is the way it goes. this is coming out of charleston. here s the hilton head. this is beaufort, south carolina. savannah is here, the thunderstorms moving to the west. not severe. just real heavy rainmakers currently heading into i-95. so something you re watching earlier this morning and a solid deck of rain when you get into charlotte through raleigh and stretching through norfolk into the nation s capital. with that in mind and this area of low pressure sitting out across the coast the next couple of days we have flash flood watches up there. those are the areas shaded in green. the light shade of green are the warm areas because of all the rain we saw yesterday and last night that includes atlanta, c macon, in towards attention, gastonia and charlotte, greenville, spartanburg all looking at flash flood warnings because everything is riding high with all that rain. the next 48 hours looks like the rain will shift up to the north. here is your low. right off cape hatteras by friday afternoon. rain coming in often the ocean. even if you see about half this much, you re going to get four to five inches even on this computer model painting in some areas of ten inches or more near washington, d.c. i don t think you get that much, looking for about three to five for washington, d.c. it s really going to start coming down. down to florida where we re watching for showers and thunderstorms raking up through that city. when you get to miami, basically off in the gulf, rising on through the keys this morning. we ll have more details on that in a bit plus the snowstorm out across the northwest. snowstorm? skiers are loving it, though. okay, thank you. last night on the joy behar show she whacked carrie fisher who was candid about her failed marriages. your second husband left you for another man. of course you re bi-polar. no wouldn t be? what s great about being bi-polar, all of that would feel bad for just anybody. but i get it dialed up. i know you do. and you turn all of that into comedy which is the greatest gift that you can give yourself in my opinion. it s the best kind of alkchey there is. what do i want to feel bad? catch the joy behar show at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on hln. a teenager spent two nights trapped on a floating chunk of ice and rescuers were able to reach him but not before something went dangerously wrong for them. also ahead, what some children had to do to escape a fire at school. all right. time for our salute to the troops. today we re doing more than usual because it is veterans day. for example, specialist alexander conley saluting his family and all of our nation s veterans. happy veterans day to all the veterans out there, all the active duty. god bless you and your families serving overseas right now and i just want to say thank you to my wife and my family that support me every day. absolutely. if you have somebody in the service we are so honored to salute them gmt to cnn.c cnn.com/robin. what a survival story for one teenager. he spent two nights trapped on an ice flo in the arctic and was forced to shoot a polar bear that got too close. rescuers found him monday but then got trapped when the ice shipped in. they have been dragging their boat about 2 1/2 miles across the ice. that s a nightmare. a senator came out swinging with a sweeping plan to keep your money safe with much tougher regulations. senate banking committee chairman christopher dodd said it s been a long time coming. our money expert jennifer westhoven has more on this proposal, what it will mean for your savings. good morning. good morning. thanks, robin. you know, you can guess his side of the back story here, right? his side is, hey, based on what happened, economic collapse, the bailout, the fed clearly didn t live up to its responsibilities in the past, so he believes that it can t do the job well of overseeing banks and consumer protections so he says forget it. you re done. he wants to strip the fed of all those powers and instead give that job to the government with a raft of new agencies. hmm. that s according to this morning s washington post. but dodd says in his view it s necessary to protect the economy. we will end for all time, i hope, too big to fail. those words should only be used again in historical context. we cannot allow the collapse of a few firms to threaten the entire economy of our own nation and others around the globe for that matter. remember, the fed i think a lot of people think of it as the government but it s not. ben bernanke, the chief of it, he is appointed by the government but it s really a body of bankers essentially. so dodd is saying, look, bankers aren t going to split up big banks. maybe we have to get the government to do that. i ll tell you, though, the white house still trusts the fed so this plan puts him at odds with the white house. they have not said let s shift everything to the government. they re okay with the fed just stepping it up. if you ve got a home, listen to this. you re going to like it. home prices may be bottoming out. look, we ve had a lot of little signs here about housing. this one looks pretty good the relentless march to the bottom could be almost over. that s some good news in a bad economy. a realtor s group says two quarters in a row now so for six months home price have is been rising. coming up out of the bottom for a single family home, the median price is now about $180,000 so it s up $7,000. used to be more than $200,000 but still coming up, right? right directed. and even in some of the worst hit markets, ft. lauderdale, phoenix, there have been signs of life. back to you. bottoming out sounds rough but, you re right, it means upwards from here. jen, thank you. it s not your average babysitter club. a small company is changing the way parents find a sitter. stephanie elam has her eye on this story in small business success. parents adrian and david crafted an idea for a business during a trip to visit family out of town. we tried to go out with her brother and sister and we couldn t find a babysitter. the couple came up with an idea for seeking sitters, an online babysitting service that provides parents with child care. they can log into their area and make a request for the day and time that they need. reporter: her private eye experience sparked other ideas. the biggest part of seeking sitters is our background screening. we do investigations more like fbi style versus just online checks. we screen our sitters and families. reporter: there s a $40 membership fee and the company has expanded into a nationwide franchise. despite the growth, seeking sitters still tries to keep it in the neighborhood. we re not just the website business. that s why we went on the franchise behalf, that local person, that local field for every one of our offices. interesting idea. if you are a small business owner and would like to see your success story, go to cnn.com/robin. upload a video i-report about your business, share your inbe foe. you might be featured right here on morning express. another fraternity is in trouble for alleged hazing. this time for dangerous alcohol overdose. you won t believe how the alleged victim got help. more than 400 children were able to escape a dangerous fire at their school. this was near portland, oregon, yesterday. fire officials say it started in an area used for science projects. my class had to actually get on our knees somewhat and crawl because we were so close to it. well, all the teachers and the administrators got out as well. the classes are canceled at that elementary school for the rest of the week. a private u.s. security firm allegedly wanted to bribe its way out of a controversy after its guards shot 17 iraqi civilians. the new york times quotes former black water execs saying that black water had $1 million to buy silence from iraqi officials. the times story says it s unclear whether anybody got paid. the firm now called xe services calls the report baseless. a number of veterans day events are in the morning express planner for you. at 1:00 p.m. janet napolitano joins the coast guard commander at the coast guard world war i memorial. later this afternoon retired navy kathleen martin will speak at the annual women s ceremony. rescuers had to be called in to free a kitty cat in a sticky situation. she had somehow managed to get her head stuck in a drain pipe. the kids who found her tried their best to get her out. he was really, really hurt and we had to pour oil on it to try to get it out but it couldn t really get out. well, animal control officers gave it a try and they did get the kitty cat out. they say it was not hurt. michael vick gets a win in court. larry smith is here to tell you about that. now what was this issue over? this was over bonus money the falcons paid him before the dogfighting charges. now a judge had already ruled vick could keep the more than $60 million paid but now an appellate an appeals judge has bagged that decision much to the chagrin of the nfl and the falcons. the ruling says vick could earn the money before his conviction on charges in 2007. an nfl spokesman says the decision will likely change the way the league writes bonuses into player contracts. not the first time this has happened and the player has won in almost every case. they re off, they re on, no, they re off again. o neal has filed divorce from center shaquille o neal. the couple was married just shy of seven years and they have four children together. shaq filed for divorce in 2007. the two apparently had reconciled. i guess that is no longer the case. when will guys learn? league officials read blogs, too. dwight howard, the orlando magic center, he s been fined $15,000 for his comments on officiating on his blog. didn t like the things they were calling on him. the all-star center and olympic gold medalist was complaining after he fouled out of a game in detroit after playing 16 minutes. and just think a few words cost him 15,000 grand. let s call them air jordans for the ladies. look at this. the famous sneakers are an inspiration for these colorful high heels. we can try to find something to color coordinate. how much are these? $65. just a fraction of the real air jordan sneakers. where would you wear these things? to a ball game? i don t care how much cushion, that doesn t look comfortable. all right. thank you. some are letting the customer spend as much as they want but money expert clark howard warns it may cost you way more in fees than you re willing to pay. a lot of people because they ve been burned by credit cards have switched to debit cards. that s where it has a it has a mastercard logo on it. when you use it, it takes money directly from your checking account. get this, do you know that most banks will allow you to use your debit card even when it cause you to overdraw your account. why would they do that? because they want you to overdraw your account so they can hit you with massive overage charges. what should you do? ask your bank or credit union to not permit overages, where you can t get hit with an overage if you would overdraw your account. the other thing, if you can t track your balance, do everything with cash instead. i m clark howard for more ways for to you keep your wallet shipshape, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. clark will teach you to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. catch him at noon on saturday and sundays. two are facing criminals charges after frat hazing. he was hospitalized with a blood alcohol level of.5%. he was a new member of phi betta university. in text messages he said he was being forced to drink. investigators have not confirmed that. the fraternity has suspended three of its members. you probably saw the video of the woman who fell under the tracks of the train. i know you saw it if you were watching this show yesterday. so close. now we hear from the operator of the train what it was like for her. who says you can t go home
and number five, the horn frogs. horn frogs and bearcats. all they re waiting for is to have somebody knock off texas. you mentioned the a and m game at the end of the year. in the stocking position but key point to remember about cincinnati was the fact that west virginia, illinois and pittsburgh are still ahead. it is a tough row ahead. here s frazier, deep middle, incomplete. clock stops at 1:21. i just think that we have to tip our hat to uconn here tonight. you and lisa have talked about the tragedy they ve had to deal with with the death of jasper howard, the tough games they ve been in and yet, there s something about a group of kids who don t quit. life is not easy and sometimes never fair and you learn how to deal with it and my hat s off to how they hung in he tonight and they re still coming. that was easily taken down by battle. the resiliency of this program has been on display the last few weeks and we have to step back and have a real appreciation of this program. absolutely. frazier got an open target and his big tig e across midfield. that s ryan griffin, red shirt freshman, out of new jersey. outstanding young player and certainly be hearing more about him in stores. todman, , only a sophohomomore g back. here s frazier rifling one. throwing theall beautifully on this. pennsylvania.ut of johnstow attack the middle of the uc defense, sitting back and preventing what their safety i deep. frazier finding plenty to work with. good time behind that big, offensive line. dropping it out to todman, the running back. he s inside the 10 yard line with 21 seconds. we ve talked so much about all the offensive fireworks. i m walking away from this one as impressed with jorn todman as i am with anybody on this field tonight. he s a ne looking football player. sure is. layer. kirk: sure is. short week for cincinnati. they have to get ready for west virginia on friday night. end zone, touchdown. huskies go for one more. marcus easley out of stratford, connecticut. he s a senior. that s been kind of the whole in this uc defense. he gets the linebacker, isolated, one-on-one. confusion with the route and easily slips behind jk schafer. nice patience by zach frazer. tacks on the extra point. so if you like offense, you ve come to the right place tonight. we ve had 16 scores, five field goals and this was the 11th touchdown of this football game. well designed play, the tight end, ryan griffin, went to the corner, occupied a linebacker, there was confuse late by rebels who went out to take the running back. he got right behind him. perfect call. him. perfect call. abc tuesday, the number one new drama has arrived. abc s v. all new on abc. tuesday, 8:00, 7:00 central. all new on abc. 13 seconds left. 13 seconds left and the onside kick is coming up. this adds, if they re unable to get this and end up losing this game, they re four losses coming into tonight by a combined 13 points. imagine having five losses by a combin combined 15 points. it is amazing to me that when you would have thought that connecticut might have reached its breaking point facing this fire power here tonight that back they came and yet again, they re down by only two points. get a buy week next week, which couldn t come at a better time for this team after everything they ve been through. they were the 16-point understo underdog in this game. largest crowd in nippert history and they ve enjoyed it and they hope to move up to number four, but i think they re going to be a little uneasy. leaving uconn in this game with west virginia, illinois and pittsburgh still to come. like i said, cincinnati doesn t have to apologize for their fense. they can play with alabama, florida, texas, all the power houses out there. the one thing that these teams at the top of the bcs standings have, they play pretty good defee. texas, alabama, florida. those teams get after it on the defensive side of the football. as witnessed in that slug fest today between alabama and lsu. fielded ere, a 41 yard line. that s going to do it. howard, here comes the victory formation. so collaros can wind up 29 of 37 for 480 yards. one touchdown passing, no interceptions. he scored two more touchdowns rushing and he rushed for 75 more yards. he accounted for 500 yards of offense here tonight. what a performance. one of the best that college football has seen in 2009 by any quarterback. absolutely remarkable. remember as we check in with lisa and coach kelly. what did you just say to randy? i said those guys just battled so hard. it s an incredible story that they ve been able to fight so hard. we had the game in balance this and they kept playing hard. two good teams playing hard tonight. when they were down nine, less than a minute to go and they come marching down the field and score again? that we probably need to make a play. you know, 700-something yards in total offense, and our defense has won a lot of games this year. you were up by 20 at the half. what changed for you guys? they ran the ball down our throats. more physical at the line of scrimmage and made some big plays and our offense responded when we needed to. i said to you at halftime, good luc answering questions tomorrow and who your quarterback s going to be going forward. who is going to be your starting quarterback going forward? we ve got two number ones. i don t think i m going to make a decision on that because i don t have to. again, everyone knows iowa lost this afternoon. what are you going to tell your guys about the chances of playing in the bcs national championship. they ve got to win a few more games. thank you very much, coach. guys? he s also a very good analyst. they came in only having giving up nine points a game. cincinnati still sits atop the big east at 5-0, but the panthers are tied with them. so cincinnati must deal with the power in the big east conference. that s still ahead. absolutely. thinking about what they ve accomplished, they deserve to be fired up about their accomplishments. some tough games way head. thanks for watching. now we re going to take you to times square for the ford wrap-up. take it away. ders and smooth jesse palmer. take it away, john. thanks a lot, guys and welcome to the ford wrap-up. the iowa hawkeyes, a lot of people concerned the guys can run the table in the big ten. they ve been playing on the edge week in and week out. stanzi s squad taking on northwestern today. he gets sacked for a touchdown. four big turnovers on the day for iowa would lead to 14 points for northwestern. number two texas and mack brown, they know this much. keep winning and on to the national championship game. 88 yard touchdown. cold mccoy, 470 yards passed. 273 yards. texas wonders, will they face alabama or florida. alabama had a chance to wrap up the sec west today as they took on lsu. he goes 73 yards. julio jones for texas, 102 yards, alabama s defense was dominant. so alabama s headed to the sec championship game where they will f face the number one teamn the nation, florid 25 yards on this touchdown run. florida up so-0. 15-20, big completion there. this is going to be the seventh time florida and alabama have met in the sec championship game. last year, florida was able to pull this onout. this is going to be a great match-up. it s the dream match-up. florida, alabama, seventh time now in the sec title game. both teams so similar. they played great defense, both want to run the ball. i think this game comes down to the team that s most efficient at running the ball. tim tebow, much better defense he s facing this year. and if texas keeps winning, it will be texas against the winner. winning that be the winner of the s.e.c. championship game. this has been the ford wrap-up. hi! hey.i need a new cell phone. well right now you can get verizon wireless plus fios tv, internet and phone wow. it really is beautiful isn t it? it s gorgeous! who would know? noone would know? would anyone know? hey buddy. what are you doing here? well. i believe that answers my question. get verizon fios tv, internet & phone call the verizon center for customers with disabilities plus verizon wireless service at 800.974.6006 tty/v all for just $134.99 monthly access for one year. plus $150 back. only from verizon. details about the deadly attack at fort hood and the men and women who lost their lives. among the victims, and local husband and father. very sad. we have the latest on the shooting. today, we will reform health care in the house of representatives. house of representatives works late into the night. we are following breaking news tonight from capitol hill. moments ago, house lawmakers voted to pass the health care bill. john gonzalez has been tracking the developments. you can call this congress s version of saturday night fever, a rare saturday session. finally, minutes after 11:00, the historic vote was made. the health-care bill promising to vote provide coverage to millions of americans has passed. the rhetoric on the house side of the capital tonight echoed the contentious debate over the past summer. at times, it was heated, but in the and democrats and president prevailed. the president and democrats prevailed in the end. don t tax me to pay for health care that you guys want. pay for it yourself. it is not fair to pass your bill to mend my grandchildren. conservatives from both sides of the aisle joined forces opposing imposing tough new restrictions on abortion coverage. a today, we will reform health care for america in the house. republican leaders claimed the 2000 page legislation will cost one trillion dollars over the next decade. at a time when americans are concerned about the enomy and jobs, why would congress continue down a path of promoting policies that will kill jobs in america? it provides federal subsidies for those who cannot afford health care but slaps consumers and businesses with penalties if they are denied. the president called this a big moment in history. i urge members of congress to rise to this moment and vote yes for health insurance reform for america. the president got his wish. republicans remained near the uned. the most contentious issue, a government run plan that would be offered alongside a private coverage which faces multiple hurdles on the senate vote which may not happen until the cheer. john until next year. john gonzalez, abc 7 news. moments ago, house speaker nancy pelosi spoke about the vote. without president obama in the white house, this victory would not have been possible. he provided division and the momentum to get the job done for the american people. we will have much more on the vote tomorrow. the suspect in the mass shooting at for hood is off a ventilator but remains in intensive care. president obama will travel to texas tuesday to attend a memorial service for the victims. 13 people were killed, 29 wound in the worst shooting ever on u.s. military base. john henry has the latest. investigators could soon have a clear motive for the fort hood shooting. it alleged gunmen nidal hasan has been in a military hospital in san antonio, paralyzed, on a respirator, and not able to speak to the police until now. now that the army psychiatrist is breathing on his own, investigators hope he will explain why he allegedly gunned down 13 people. including colleagues on the army combat stress team. what about the other suspects who were questioned and released after the shooting? cleared. all evidence at this point in the case there was only one shooter who acted alone. that is little solace to families, who remember a gentle 19-year-old probably heading to afghanistan. he now serves a higher calling in heaven. president oama said it revealed both the worst and best in human nature. with the soldiers and civilians alike rushing to the aid of fallen soldiers, using blouses as tourniquets, taking on the shooter even as they bore wounds themselves. the president will have the chance to meet those soldiers himself tuesday when he comes here to pay his respects to the wounded and fallen. one of those killed in the mass shooting was from our area. eduardo caraveo was from woodbridge. richard reeve spoke with neighbors and friends who remembered him as a good man and father. eduardo caraveo was a husband and father who counseled troubled army soldiers. he was slated to go to afghanistan, but first was assigned to fort hood texas where he arrived just 24 hours before the shooting began. the neighborhood isuiet tonight. it hits close to home. it hard. neighbors and friends are mourning the loss of eduardo caraveo, among the 13 people killed thursday. it is part of what we do and who we are. caraveo was 52 in a major in the army. he was in the national guard almost 10 years. it is a terrible tragedy. i feel for his family. joyce carter retired after 20 years in the military is trying to understand the motive is of the alleged gunman, nidal hasan. there is a lot of stress and maybe we do not realize that and they did not have the ability to cope. caraveo was due to ship out to afghanistan. at home, he was a clinical psychologist. his web page detailed his counseling workshops. very family-oriented. he would play soccer with his boys and children. for many families, military and otherwise, the hardest part is trying to explain this to their kids. very tight knit community, and eduardo was a key part of that. we will miss him. caraveo did many things. he was born in mexico, with the school in arizona, raised his family in virginia. one neighbor told me, we are just devastated. richard reeve, abc 7 news. breaking news from northwest washington. a 51-year-old woman died in an attempted lopper attempted robbery at a liquor store in northwest. the woman was shot in the neck. the suspect ran from the scene and is still on the loose. more than one dozen people were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes at a prince george s county chuh. to happen at around 6:30 saturday evening at st. bernard s church in riverdale. several people reported feeling faint and dizzy. a woman and two children were taken to hospital. others were treated at the scene. they say the problem was with the boiler in the church. more people in our tracks county are protected against the swine flu, the county holding and h1n1 vaccine clinic in fairfax, the vaccine given to pregnant women and children between 6 months and 18 years old or clinics will be held tuesday and thursday. a medical examiner is trying to determine why a freshman at the virginia military institute died. 19-year-old john evans of highland, maryland, collapsed in his barracks this morning. he was a member of the marine rotc program. hundreds of volunteers spent this saturday searching for the virginia tech student who has been missing three weeks, searching the three square-mile area for 20-year-old morgan harrington, last seen october 19 at a concert. searchers have not come up with any new leads. fairfax county police are looking for the hit and run driver who struck a pedestrian and annandale. in annandale around 9:00 last night. he was hit by a car that did not stop. the victim was then hit by a second car that stopped. the police say the hit and run driver may have been driving a chrysler with a missing driver side mirror. a man had to be rescued from his car after an early morning accident in alexandria around 3:30 a.m. on the southbound side of interstate 395 near duke street. authorities said the car crashed into a guard rail. the man was trapped. a fire inside of the car made the situation trickier. when we arrived on the scene, the driver was conscious. we heard him yelling. by the time we broke the window, it was 30 seconds he was unconscious. the man was on fire when he was rescued. he was taken to hospital and his condition is not known. a virginia state trooper was also taken the hospital for burns to his hands. a great start to the weekend with lots of sunshine. will it stick around? meteorologist steve rudin has a first look at the forecast. it has been an easy day in the weather center, lots of sunshine, thetemperatures where they should be this time of year. it looks like a repeat tomorrow. outside, the temperatures, 47 hagerstown, reagan national 53 degrees. it satellite radar, clear skies from the mountains to the beaches. the temperatures fall from the upper 30 s to the low 40 s. coming up, the forecast tomorrow, how long the sunshine will stick around, and the next cold front. pamela? thank you. coming up, a tornado leaves behind a path of destruction in the northwest. plus, honoring the heroes of united flight 93. find out how those who wrote the passengers to stop the hijacker from carrying out their plan will be remembered. and the mother of a man accused of going on a rampage in florida speaks out. 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alive, but police say the mother may have been involved in his disappearance. and a police officer suffers a stab wound. eyewitness news at 4:00 starts now. hi, everybody. i m kai jackson. and i m sally thorner. here s what people are talking about right now. we begin with the army base at fort hood, texas, where police say there has been a mass shooting. reporter: this is unfolding now. details, of course, are sketching right now. but here s what we do know. the army is confirming that seven people are dead and at least 20 wounded in what police are calling a mass shooting. there are reports of at least one person in police custody and one suspect on the loose. the base is on lockdown right now. schools in nearby kilean, texas are also being locked down. the shooting took place at the warrior combat readiness stress. it is about halfway between tilline and killine and waco. denise, thank you. of course, we ll monitor the situation and bring you any developments as we get them. house of horrors. police are dismantling the home of a convicted sex offender, while family and friends come forward. reporter: police were back inside anthony sowle s home. looking for bodies. they cut into walls, ceilings, floors, looking for victims. across the street, flyers of missing women now adorn a piece of plywood, torn to a fence. this was kimberly sharp. she was one of my old friends to school. reporter: natishia came not knowing if her friend could have been one of sowell s victims. it hurts me bad. do you think it helps to put her picture here? i hope so. i really do. reporter: since saturday, investigators have recovered 10 bodies from a house in sowell s yard. the medical examiner says they are all african american women. reporter: pastors are ungerring families of miss urging families of missing women to help provide dna. it could help identify the remains found here at sowell s home. reporter: ministers rally at a church. they say not enough was done to investigate nearly two dozen people missing from this area. they made a call to police to do something. and a higher power to heal their pain. , race it, lord. arrest satan, in the name of jesus, hallelujah. reporter: sowell is being held on five counts of aggravated murder. but there could be more charges as police search for more victims in this house of horrors. reporter: drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. sowell is a convicted sex offender and received regular visits from a parole officer who never entered his home. a baby found alive in a box and under a bed. jessica kartalija is live in the newsroom to explain the bizarre circumstances as to how she got there. reporter: 7-year-old shannon dedrick s mother reported her missing on saturday. volunteers and hundreds of police officers scoured the home for five days. police say christina mercer secretly turned the baby over to her babysitter, before the child was reported missing. the child was found by search dogs today under a bed, in the home of mercer s babysitter, in a cardboard box. she was in the box for almost 12 hours. in a closed box. shannon was immediately taken to the northwest community hospital here in chiply, where she was examined by the local doctor. shannon is currently located at the hospital, and we understand that she is in good condition. both women are under arrest. it s unclear why mercer called police and reported that child missing. back to you. thank you, jessica. baker is linked to another missing child, her 3-year-old stepson, who disappeared in 1987. it s a story first brought to you as breaking news this morning. a baltimore city officer opens fire at a baltimore strip club, after being stabbed. weijia jiang has more from the crime scene. reporter: the owner of the strip club says everything happened outside the door behind me, as the bar was closing. but he along with police have no idea why. reporter: it s 2:00 a.m., at christina s female revue. we were notified by baltimore county police that an off-duty officer was involved in some type of altercation in the county. the officer got stabbed once in the neck and the back. he was able to get off a defensive round, striking him. christina s owner said he had never seen either man in the club before. it s very sad. it s extremely sad. all i ever really wanted in this business was to have a place where people can go, have a good time, and be able to go home at the end of the night. reporter: here said he was standing behind this one-way glass when the incident happened. he looked out and saw an empty bar and had no idea what was going on, until someone urged him to call 911. i ran back to my office, dialed 9 11, told them there was a fight and i needed police. reporter: detectives are still investigating what sparked this chaotic scene. baltimore county police expect to charge the suspect who stand the officer. both are recovering at shock trauma, in serious but stable condition. reporter: the owner says he has a security team who works here every night. but he does not have a metal detector or surveillance cameras, which he does not plan to install. they say the officer involved does not vay history of have a history of this type of incident. police say clyde patterson threatened them during a confrontation, along route 40 northeast on tuesday and broke a window on a patrol car. the troopero open trooper opened fire, striking him when he lunged at troopers. the officers were responding to several reports. patterson was released from the hospital. no one else was injured in the rocket attack. a firefighter cadet killed in a highly criticized training accident, is denied help for her children. a technicality is to blame for that denial. reporter: the department of justice says the city fire department failed to file the required paperwork in time to receive cadet wilson s benefits. wilson died in a 2007 training exercise. she became trapped in a fire used for training. she died of asphyxiation. the training violated several training standards. they immediately discontinued practice of setting fire to row houses so that cadets could gain experience in extinguish blazes. the city says say said they were denying the benefits through e-mail. she said she will continue to appeal the justice department s decision. updating the breaking news at texas. a mass shooting at fort hood. cbs news anchor katie couric fired filed this report from moments ago. there has been a mass shooting at fort hood, the army basis in killine, texas. one gunman is reportedly in custody. and at least one other is being sought. a local television station is reporting that a s.w.a.t. team is surrounding a building and that a gunman may be holed up inside. it s not known if the victimsie the attackers victims or the soldiers were military at this point. fort hood is used for training soldiers before they re deployed to iraq and afghanistan. the entire base is now under lockdown. from the white house, spokesman robert gibbs says president obama has been informed and is monitoring the situation. once again, a mass shooting at fort hood, in texas. at least seven people are dead. 20 others wounded. there s much more ahead on your local news, and of course tonight on the cbs evening news. for now, i m katie couric, cbs news, new york. thank you, katie. of course we ll continue to monitor the situation and bring you any new developments as we get them. some clouds and sun with a cool breeze. it s cool and dry. but a chance of sprinkles here tonight. and in the southern caribbean. the tropical storm is still hanging around. bob turk and meteorologist tim williams are here with the updated numbers from first warning weather. first to bob. we ve had clouds from time to time. take a look around the area. very widely scattered showers. very light stuff. right now, south of the city, very light. but a little heavier northwest d.c. might actually reach the ground. most of this rain has been so light. but it s been so evaporated. off to the east, elkton, and galena. out to the west, very widely scattered showers. still possible tonight around the baltimore area. for the next hour or two, might see a little light rain, very light stuff. but chilly and dry weather is really in our forecast. and beautiful sun for the weekend. now, you talk about a tropical storm. we briefly had a hurricane last night. tim williams joins us now with the latest on ida. reporter: well, bob as you mentioned, idawas a hurricane for a sue hours. then lost its status as a hurricane. now, sustained winds at 65 miles an hour. gusts of about 72. the storm is pretty much just a large group of thunderstorms right now. and moving across nicaragua and honduras. we re watching this closely because of the potential for it to reemerge as it moves across the land. right now, we re expecting it to weaken as it moves across nicaragua, and again honduras. and potentially loses tropical storm status. buen gan, this storm but again, this storm is still forming. we re going to continue to monitor. because this energy, if it does reemerge, has to go somewhere. we re talking about the gulf states and even as far as texas. we ll continue to keep you monitored on this storm system. but for now, kai, back over to you. let s check on the roads with sharon gibala at we ll traffic control. good afternoon, everyone. we have some problems as usual. first of all, watch for an accident. that one on greenspring avenue at broadway. another accident in the city on reisterstown road. at men low. pedestrian struck there. in owings mills road. there is a crash on painters mill mcdonna. mcduna mcdonna. meantime, as far as delays go, we have some slight ones, speeds in the 40s all around the top and the west side. slowest spot on the top side, between 95 and 83 on the outer loop. 41 miles per hour, with a 15- minute drive time. there s a look at the top side loop. green spring to falls. and york to providence, another two minutes there. there s a look at the west side. heavy volume there on the west side inner loop, between frederick. and 35 minutes at 34 miles an hour. this traffic report is brought to you by the state highway administrationing. area police are on the hunt for drunk drivers. under the limit, under arrest. still ahead on wjz eyewitness news. on the breaking news, a mass shooting on the fort hood army base. at least seven people are dead. 20 more hurt. up until now, experts said your pets are safe from h1n1. now a cat is testing positive for the virus. what you need to do to protect your pets. violent explosion. the deja vu of another incident for the same company. two pilots on their laptops overshoot their destination airport. now, the government finds more than one person dropped the ball. it s cool and overcast. and there s a slight chance of rain. get your updated first warning forecast. let s update the breaking news from the top of the hour. a mass shooting at an army base in texas. as we have been telling you, at least seven people are dead and 20 more injured in a shooting at fort hood. you re looking live at a picture on the scene. one suspect is in custody and one has been on the loose. the base has been on lockdown for sometime. the shooting apparently happened at a place that handles administrative details for soldiers. this report was filed from the scene moments ago. two out of three ambulances headed towards temple, once we pass temple, headed that way. we assume with casualties from this event. we should be getting our first formal release from fort hood in about 10 minutes. we are waiting for them to come talk to the media in the next half hour. we expect our first formal release from fort hood in about the next 10 or 15 minutes exactly. what s going on. we ve also seen a number of helicopters in the air, hanging over fort hood, since we got here about 15 minutes ago. and a couple of emergency vehicles entered behind me here. in terms of a fisher release, expect that in maybe the next 10 minutes. that report filed from fort hood moments ago. as you heard from katie couric, president obama has been informed. we will continue to mop torthe situation monitor the situation and bring you any more details. there is information today about shrinking unemployment numbers. and it sends stocks soaring. the dow is back up above the 10,000 mark. take a look at the updated numbers. the dow soars 204 points to end this day at 10,066. and nasdaq is up 50. let s go to new york. manuel gallegus has more. the unemployment line is getting shorter. the number of those filing for benefits fell to the lowest level in 10 montes. months. but companies are still reluctant to hire. and wall street expects unemployment to inch up to 9.9%. fannie mae is offering new help. it will allow borrowers to transfer their ownership to fannie mae and rent their home for one year, with month-to- month extensions for a year. the program gives homeowners more time before they have to disrupt their thrive lives and move out. cooler weather and early holiday discounts brought out the shoppers. the biggest winners were costco, the gap, tj maxx, and marshall s. and the new york yankees 27th world series could be good news for wall street. according to a study by capital iq, in the years the yankees have won the world series title, the s&p has averaged a game of 10%. the market has ral rallied, about 15%. for more headlines, log onto cbs money waup.com. moneywatch.com. listen up, all of you yankees haters. coming up at 4:00. new details on the break story, of course the mass shooting at fort hood, texas. a chimp attack. find out who the family of a woman mauled by a chimp and now blind is suing. and the clouds we ve seen all day could bring us some rain. get your updated first warning forecast. wjz is always on. for the top stories on wjz.com, and instant updates all the time, click wjz.com. well, that s pretty. it is. some of the skies, this time of year. the sky, the blue is just so stark. it s dry. the blue is really pretty brill jant. brilliant. and this is gorgeous. another streak we hope to have over the next few days. nice sunsets tonight. and temperatures pretty k comfortable and clear. we have clouds out there. the result of a bit of a low that s moved on through here over the day. we started off with sunny conditions. we re seeing clearing now. but this was part of a larger storm. much near central pennsylvania. but we are seeing just some light scattered showers, primarily all over the county toward the beltway. towards westminster. and they are just moving off the state. don t be surprised if you see a few. light sprinkles at all. nothing too severe for your evening. 37, the dew point. the atmosphere is very, very dry. another thing, you re seeing these sprinkles, because they do evaporate, after they hit that really dry air coming down. 54% relative humidity, with a northwest wind at 8 miles per hour. across the state, we re ranging from 43 in oakland to about 58 in ocean city. and 59 in pax river. around the immediate metro area, everyone pretty much in the low to mid-50s. because of this wind coming from the north to northwest, we stay in this cold zone. that will change as the wind the shift, going into saturday or so. what we re dealing with right now, we re going to see with a front moving on through here. pretty dry, we should say. it s going to create a bit of a gradient. high pressure is trying to draw in here. but until this low gets out, we re going to see some pressure between those two systems, kind of creating breezy and windy conditions into tonight and tomorrow. we have one more chilly day. this pulls out on of here. but it still pulls out cooler air. until the front moves on by here and the high begins to start to ease off, we won t start to see that flow of mild air around. but that will get here by saturday. and temperatures get up closer to about the seasonable, cool, mild range. as opposed to chilly. still going to monitor what is now tropical storm ida, which is now moving across nicaragua and honduras. again, that energy is expected to weaken. we will continue to keep you posted in the next week. as it starts to emerge into the gulf of mexico. right now, sunset is at 5:00 today. we re looking at a gail warning tonight. northwest wind at 20 to 25 knots. gusting to 35. and here s your forecast for tonight. getting down to 35. partly cloudy, breezy and chilly. and for tomorrow, one more cool day. mostly sunny, with a light cool breeze around. it s going to be more gusty. but saturday and sunday, really nice. finally. nice weekend. all right. thanks, tim. don t forget now to watch cbs s prime time lineup at 10:00. it s an episode of the mentalist. and ravens are back on the field and on wjz this weekend. they re taking on the bengals in cincinnati a game you ll see here sunday at 1:00. katie couric has a preview of what s coming up tonight on the cbs evening news. of course, we re following the breaking story out of texas. new movie precious is making headlines. my interview with the leading actress who came out of nowhere to land the role of a lifetime. that s tonight on the cbs evening news. that, the latest from fort hood, and a final plea. a letter written by convicted sniper john muhammad is revealed. we ll tell you what it says. major traffic jams continue because of lights out of sync. why the problem is so hard to fix. eyewit news boss:hey, glad i caught you. i was on my way to present ideas about all the discounts we re offering. i ve got some catchphrases that ll make these savings even more memorable. gecko: all right. gecko: good driver discounts. now that s the stuff.? boss: how bout this? gecko: .they re the bee s knees? boss: or this? gecko: sir, how bout just fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. boss: ha, yeah, good luck with that catching on! anncr: geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. it is 4:29. 53 degrees and partly cloudy. hello, everyone. thanks for staying with eyewitness news. updating the breaking news. a mass shooting at an army base in texas. seven people are confirmed dead at fort hood. sally has more information. in addition to the dead, 20 wounded people in what is described as a pair of shooting. it happened at the base, which is located about halfway between killeen and waco. the base has been locked down and at least one shooter has been caught. another apparently on the loose. the fbi is sending agents to the scene. the first shooting happened at the soldier processing detail. there was no immediate word on who the suspects are, nor on the identities of the dead. the second shooting took place at a theater on the sprawling base. a frantic mother whose child is in a school on the base, spokesmoments ago. i could not get through to any of the ent stations. and i finally got the school to answer. their phones were ringing off the hook. what got to me, was i asked to see if there was any m ps outside the school and they said there was no one there. and this was when they were still having an active shooting on post. did they tell you what was going on? no. and i asked when we could find out, when we could get our children. and they said, they weren t even aware there was an active shooting event. it was not known whether the shooters were civilians. president obama has been notified of the shooting. stay with wjz for complete coverage of the fort hood shooting. remember, wjz is always on. for instant updates, log onto wjz.com. federal investigators are in colorado, trying to find out why pilots of a northwest jet overshot an airport at minneapolis two weeks ago. reporter: en route to minneapolis from san diego, northwest flight, 188, passed through air space, controlled by the denver regional air traffic control center. when it lost contact with the flight, procedure dictates that the north american aerospace defense command in colorado springs needs to be notified. that contact is done through what s called the domestics event network. a hotline maintained through various air space security agencies. that, we ve learned, did not happen for more than an hour, after last radio contact with the plane. that was at 5:46 mountain time. 10 minutes later, at 5:56, denver controllers tried to hand off the plane to the minneapolis st. paul region. but there was no response from the plane. the faa tells cbs 4, not until 7:06 perform mountain time was norad contacted. eight minutes later, at 7:18, contact with the northwest flight was reestablished. by then, operation noble eagle was used to put norad fighters on alert, to be scrambled, the procedure set up immediately after the attacks of september 11th 2001. definitely violates pre- 9/11. but absolutely violates post- 9/11 protocols between norad and the faa. the question is, why weren t the supervisors notified? reporter: they took off in proximity. but they were held back once radio contact with the northwest flight had resumed. had the planes been dispatched more timely, they could have flown alongside the northwest cockpit and tried to make visual contact with the pilots inside. the two pilots on board the northwest jet are now appealing after their pilot licenses were revoked. just days ahead of his schedule, death by lethal inject,jection, the d.c. sniper proclaims his innocence. reporter: attorneys for john allen muhammad have released a revealing letter he wrote in may of 2008. in that letter, muhammad calls himself, quote an innocent black man and claims evidence will free him. the father of one of the victims is now raising money to travel from idaho to witness the execution. we had to look at our daughter, laying in a coffin. i want to see him headed for his. i don t have a grant of well wishing for that man. reporter: louis says he knows seeing muhammad die won t bring his daughter back, but he wants to bring a sense of closure to his family in idaho. muhammad is scheduled to be executed next wednesday. the attempted murder trial of a charles county man is under way in anne arundel county. jody torac was shot. she tried to kill her to clear a $500 debt to her boyfriend. torok lost her unborn baby, while in a coma at i baltimore hospital. scary moments in northwest baltimore, after people were reported to be trapped inside a house on fire. the blaze broke out this morning on ridgewood avenue near hillsdale. fire investigators or rather, firefighters originally believed that there were occupants still trapped in the basement. luckily, everyone was able to make it out safely and the fire was put under control. a second day today. commuters are continuing to deal with gridlock at key intersections. this is exactly what montgomery county officials want you to avoid today. wednesday s traffic congestion caused a mess, along with a lot of frustration. it s slow. it s very slow. reporter: the county s chief traffic engineer said the central computer system went down. traffic controllers could not program specific signals to adjust the timing of the green, yellow and red lights. 1980s, finished computer technology. we do have a program in place to begin to upgrade and modernize the county system. but we re in the early stages of that. reporter: contractors and engineers have been working around the clock to fix the problem. they stressed that the traffic signals are working but they re not working efficiently during rush hour because of the breakdown. it s been a partly cloudy afternoon. there have been scattered sprinkles. wjz has weather and traffic together. bob has the updated numbers. take a look at radar right now. a little batch just about to move into the baltimore region from the northwest. you can see the flow, bringing this actually weak frontal system through the region. a few light showers east of d.c. south of crofton, east of annapolis. light sprinkles moving to the west of us. a few more light showers. we still have a chance now until about 8:00, 9:00. right now, west of the city. and northwest of baltimore. a few light sprinkles around. the key is, once this cloud mass passes this, clear, sunny, in fact, a gorgeous five-day forecast. and a fabulous weekend. we ll have the forecast coming up. denise? thank you, bob. let s check on the roads now with sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. hello, sharon. it s gotten a little busier out there. we now have an accident on a major roadway. it s blocking a lane causing a backup. it s on 100 westbound. blocking the right lane with a backup there to 97. watch for a crash in timonium. also, one in owings mills. painters mill at mcdonogh road. a bunch of accidents in the city. some of them include east 33rd at old york. and east kernspring at kernwood avenue. there s a look at your speeds. we were in the 40s about 20 minutes ago. obviously things slowing down. slowest spot now on the west side. 32 miles per hour. average between 795 and 83, with a 14-minute drive time. there s a live look at the top side. inner loop delayed, between green spring and falls. and a four-minute drive time. and a second delay. nine minutes there. this traffic report is brought to you by giant. now, at giant, you ll find thousands of real-deal savings. family savers on sale. and hundreds of weekly specials, too every time you shop with your card at giant. a stunning development in the swine flu virus is now showing up in animals. veterinarians say it has been discovered in a cat. what can you do to keep your pets safe? stacely butler has stacy butler has the story. reporter: inundated with phone calls. clients have called us, wondering if swine flu could be transmitted to their pets. and we ve said no. reporter: but now today, we re going to have to say possibly. reporter: today, a cat in iowa tested positive for the h1n1 influenza virus, possibly from someone in the household who had the swine flu. prompting the american veterinary medical association to warn pet owners that some viruses can pass between people and animals. skin looks good. reporter: since the h1n1 outbreak in humans, the aspca has assured pet owners the virus cannot be transmitted to cats and dogs. not anymore. this is the first case that it s been reported in a cat. reporter: so far, no cases in l.a. county have been reported. but veterinarians, like dr. lori leech are concerned. what if a single person with a cat is down with swine flu. and they call in and they re going to ask their veterinarian, can my cat get it. and then they re going to say possibly. and they re going to say, what do i do about it? and i don t know nawe have all of the answers i don t know that we have all of the answers. reporter: what you can do is get your dog vaccinated for the influenza, h3n8. it s a different form of the flu. ask you can treat them with antibiotics for dogs. reporter: the aspca recommends, get your pets vaccinated. don t let your pets share water, food, and toys with other animals. and make sure your pet is eating, drinks and playing as he drinking and playing as he normally would each day. for now, they say treat the h1n1 in pets as you would any other flu. i think people should be alarmed but not panicked. two ferrets were previously confirmed to have h1n1. though neither of them survived. straight ahead on eyewitness news at 4:00. more information about the breaking news from texas. a mass shooting at fort hood. asleep at the wheel. a california bus driver who caused a bus crash that killed 11 people is sentenced for his crime. an australian baby is the first in the world to be saved. the heartwarming story. and bob is updating the first warning weather forecast. we want to upindicate you on that developing story we have been telling you about, that mass shooting in fort hood, texas. the latest information is at least 20 people are confirmed 7 are confirmed dead. and 20 wounded. it s not known if the suspects are civilians or troops. a not only is the base on lockdown, so are nearby schools. vic, back to you. with complete coverage of the fort hood shooting. remember, wjz is always on. for updates, log onto wjz.com. a sixth person has been arrested in connection with the death of a connecticut football player. jasper howard died october 18th, after being stabbed following a campus dance. muhammad was charged with making a false statement and hindering prosecution. john lomax is the only one being charged with howard s murder. he is being held on a $2 million bond. the prosecution has rested its case against a member of a west texas polygamist group. today, a texas ranger testified that jessop was living with a 16-year-old girl, at the yearning for zion ranch, when she became pregnant. the family of a connecticut woman attacked by a chimpanzee is following a multimillion dollar lawsuit. the state is to blame for not heeding warnings from a state biologist, about travis, the chimp s potential for danger. he tried to attack an officer responding to nash s assault. the animal chewed often the officer s nose, hands and eye lids. the lawsuit is asking for $50 million. a northern california bus driver involved in a crash has been sentenced today. 53-year-old clinton ross was sentenced to 26 years and four months for his involvement in the october 28 crash. watts was found guilty of 11 counts of gross vehicular manslaughter. and 21 counts of great bodily injury. police say watts had fallen asleep at the wheel, causing to fall asleep veer off the road and roll over. a man sitting at his desk. all of a sudden, he is attacked. more inmates entered, not to join in but to stop the fight. police say if the other inmates had not intervened, the guard could have suffered serious injury. other deputies soon rushed to the scene to restrain the inmate. a medical world first. a baby s brain was dissolving from an extremely rare disease. a quick-thinking doctor stumbled upon a highly experimental drug, developed in germany. and it worked. reporter: an extremely rare metabolic disorder that was destroying her brain. she was given 0% chance of survival. couldn t believe it was happening to us. but at the same time, hoped something would be possible. reporter: that hope was shared by the doctors at children s hospital. while researching, a found a german professor who made a promising breakthrough, while treating animals. in desperation, the doctor called him. that was just a one in a million chafnlts. but chance. but it was the baby s only one. a possible cure, known as cpmp was sent to australia. however, despite the parents desire to try treatment, they were reluctant to go ahead. i got the phone call. he said, alex, we can go. so this baby was the first human on earth to be treated. reporter: within two weeks, the treatment had gone to the hospital. and the baby began waking from her coma-like state. very dramatic. it was a clear improvement. reporter: and now, 18 months on, she is healthy and happy. we look at her now. and we think, oh, my god, you are just an absolute miracle. reporter: the drug used on baby zed is now saved the life of a german child. and hopefully more in coming years. this is basically our contribution to human kind. the full details of the treatment are now being analyzed for a planned human trial of the medication at southern california. many in central texas are outraged tonight after they learned a benefit intended to help a woman with cancer was a hoax. hundreds showed up at a fundraiser, to help a woman they thought had breast cancer. turns out, the woman never had cancer, and used the people s money to buy breast implants. a local plastic surgeon discovered the scam and alerted authorities. police say she claimed the hoax was an act to save her marriage. a group of marines in north carolina. her shell walk herschel walker talked about his struggle with mental illness. he said it s important to come forward and not be afraid to seek help for any mental issue. a wayward truck. watch as he drives down an aisle and right into a shelf, containing cases of vodka. the good news is, he received justice a minor leg injuries. bad news, the video is posted on the internet. and has been seen by millions. there s been a horrible shooting at fort hood, texas, near waco. and right now issue there s a news conference about to get under way. right now, what we do know is that seven people are dead. many as 20 people are injured. and officials there at fort hood are briefing reporters. let s listen in. how does that sound, marshall? three, four. can you hear me yet? yeah, i can hear you. yeah, yeah. hello, hello, hello. as you can see, they re still setting up for this news conference. and these are reporters from local television stations who are just outside the gate. looks like the officers talking now actually, they re just getting set up. eyewitness news will continue to monitor this situation and we will bring you more information as it becomes available to us. right now, horrible situation playing out in fort hood, texas. several people have been shot. seven people are dead. 20 people injured. and one shooter, as we understand, is in custody right now. they re still looking, as we understand, for another. and we will rejoin this news conference in just a few moments. for now, we re going to take a short break. and when we come back, we ll have th hey there, this is your lamp. why don t you show the lady how romantic you can be by turning me off? you ll set the mood while using a lot less energy. maybe later you can hook me up with a cfl. it will show how much you care for the environment. [announcer] learn to speak the language of energy efficiency at bgesmartenergy.com, where you ll find plenty of energy-saving tips. ahhhhh. the passion. as we have been telling you about, an army spokesperson is. it is now confirmed that 12 people are dead. let s list know in to a sound byte. we had a terrible tragedy here at fort hood today. the situation is ongoing. but i think we have news that we are close to a resolution. at approximately 1330 hours today, a shooter entered what we call the soldier readiness facility, where soldiers who are ready to deploy go for last- minute medical and dental checkups. the shooter opened fire. and thanks essentially to the quick response of police forces, was killed. at this time, the numbers that we re looking at are 12 dead and 31 wounded. and they re dispersed among the local hospitals here in the central texas area. again, the exat the point of injuries varies significantly. and again, we re getting great cooperation from the central texas medical facility facilities. as i said, the shooter was killed. he s a shoulder. we have since then apprehended two additional soldiers who were suspects. and i would go into the point that there were eyewitness accounts that there may have been more than one shooter. they tracked these suspected individuals to an avase jacent facility. and they were apprehended. they are soldiers. but again, they are suspects at this time. and we re looking into that. the challenge that we face. as you were just listening there, the number of the death toll has risen to 12 people. 31 people injured there at a processing center where soldiers prepare to deploy to iraq and other places. we ll have the latest on this story coming up on eyewitness news at 5:00 and 6:00. right now, we re going to go to bob turk for the forecast. 42 in oakland. we re at 53 now. 59 in pax river. 57 in ocean city. still have a bit of a breeze out of the north and northwest. that will continue. we have a little area to our north and west this afternoon. behind it, a lot of sunshine. it will be chilly tonight. but plenty of sun in our forecast for the weekend. thanks to high pressure, it s going to move across our region. cooler tonight and into friday. but by the weekend, the winds go southwest. and here comes a nice, nice warmup. winds tonight as high as 35 knots. and a gail warning until 6:00. these are extended until tomorrow morning. for tonight, we re looking for generally clear to partly cloudy skies. chilly, 35 with a bit of a breeze, from time to time. tomorrow, lots of sun. but a cool breeze, high of only 52. freezing temps in the region, again tomorrow night. thank you very much, bob. still to come on eyewitness news tonight. a night out at a dundalk strip club turns into violence. a stabbing and a shooting involving a baltimore city police officer. i m weijia jiang at the scene. and that story is straight ahead on wjz eyewitness news. coming up next on eyewitness news at 5:00. a gun panopened fire at an gunman opened fire at an army base. an off-duty officer opens fire on a man at a bar. but what led to the altercation? check in for more on all the day s breaking news. eyewitness news at 5:00 starts now.