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hi, everybody. great to have you with us today. i m thomas roberts. alex witt has the day off. new today president obama back on the campaign trail 17 days out from midterm elections. he ll be in massachusetts lending support to governor duvall patrick. and the president is not the only big name putting on miles. former president bill clinton in california last night along gubernatorial candidate jerry brown. the two democrats waged a really tough campaign against one another during the presidential primaries back in 1992. new jersey governor chris christie was campaigning for senate candidate linda mcmahon. early voting begins in nevada this morning. and the key race there is harry reid against sharron angle. and christine o donnell is trying to deep out from a deep hole in her senate race despite trailing in the polls. a new reports say o donnell outraised chris coons by a 2 to 1 margin. we ll bring in mark here. christine o donnell, really staggered financials, $3.8 million, and that s during the last three months. that s more than double the coons campaign. where is the money coming from? it is coming from outside of delaware. the same story is taking place in nevada where sharron angle was able to use her conservative stardom into raising a lot of money from outside of this state. this is one of the phenomenons we have seen of the tea parties really able to generate a lot of money for their candidates. it has been a big phenomenon. really tapping into what we saw president obama tap into in 2008. christine o donnell trails chris coons in the polls. she s the big underdog in the race. polls show her down by roughly 20% minus a point or two here or there. how do you spend almost $4 million in 17 days to come out of that? well, you just run a lot of tv ads. of course, we have seen a lot of her tv ads where she stairs in the camera and says she s not a witch. i m sure we ll see other tv ads attacking chris coons and the democrats. certainly, you want to get your message out. and delaware because of the philadelphia nearby market is a pretty expensive state to advertise in. she s probably going to use the money and find ways to use it. we ll head out west and talk about california where we have a big name like bill clinton there on the stump for jerry brown. is the former president really the hottest ticket for the democrats now, even better than obama? it depends where you go. there s a reason we saw bill clinton campaign for jerry brown. early in the campaign meg whitman, jerry brown s opponent, was using tv ads having clinton attack brown back in the bid for the presidency. after that he made a joke about monica lewinsky and quickly apologized. one of the reasons he has bill clinton on the campaign trail is to make that a non-issue. any criticisms from jerry brown in the 92 election, voters want to say there s no problem there between the two men. but bill clinton is going into places where president obama really can t. we have seen former president bill clinton go into arkansas, more rural states, state that is obama did not do well in in 2008. president obama is going to campaign places with younger voters and minorities. democrats are trying to cover their bets and sending bill clinton to some areas, president obama in other areas, joe biden is in working class areas and michelle obama is hitting the campaign trail, too. give us the races to surprise us election night. one race is in kentucky. democrats think they are in fighting distance there, jack conway might be able to pull off the upset against rand paul. the race is getting close. another race that could be a surprise is alaska because we just don t know who will win. joe miller s probably the front-runner, but people don t think he s been running that great of a campaign. lisa murkowski running the write-in campaign. and scott mcadams is gaining momentum. we ll not find out who wins until late on election night. 17 days and counting. desixth 2010 this sunday on meet the press. david gregory moderates a debate between colorado democratic senator michael bennett and his republican challenger ken buck. that s tomorrow on meet the press on nbc. a new report claims u.s. officials knew about plans for the 2008 mumbai attacks three years before they took place. the washington post is reporting federal agents were tipped off by the wife of an american businessman, david coleman hedley. a key figure in the attack to kill 166 people. hadley s wife told them his husband trained with the pakistani group. the fbi looked into the tip but federal officials declined to say what if any action was taken. hadley was not arrested until 11 months after the mumbai attack. it is the happiest place on earth, but tempers were flying on a disney bus in orlando. home video taken as the shoving match took place between the driver and the passenger. what s more alarming is the passenger was holding his baby when the fight broke out. the driver told the passenger the bus was full. i was waiting here and he tried to block me. disney says the driver is on paid leave while they go ahead to review the case. two people are in the hospital after serious injuries after the driver of this volvo took the term drive through window literally. the vehicle went through the wall of the restaurant after the driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake. the driver was not impaired. more high winds are expected along the east coast. maybe you felt them yesterday. the tail end of the first nor easter knocked out power to tens of thousands of new englanders. many trees landed on a houses. for more on that, we ll go to bill karins. hey, bill. well, good morning to you, thomas. all this saturday morning we have our eyes on the nor easter. we had snow in the higher elevations of vermont and new hampshire, but the storm is on the move heading through the gulf of maine and over the top of nova scotia. you can see the radar here with the green being the rain. that s where we are dealing with rain in down east maine from bangor to east port. the rain and the snow has come to an end. this has been a very impressive storm system with the wind still gusting at this hour between 20 to 30 miles per hour from boston all the way down to philadelphia. and once the sun is completely up, it will mix the air a little more. we will see strong gusts. this is the max wind gust that we have seen in these cities up to this point. and the highest gust was in portland maine, 48-mile-per-hour. many other locations were between 30 and 45. to get damaging wind and downed trees, usually the wind gusts have to be 50 or more. we have avoided severe damage, but it has been on the windy side. that continues throughout the day today as the wind will crank we ll see the skies clearing. temperatures will still be very chilly in the 50s from balmy to boston. the rain should be ending this morning in bangor. going into sunday, the weather pattern will dramatically improve through all of new england. for that matter, much of the country is looking at a very beautiful saturday as it starts in new england where we watch and wait for the storm to exit. thank you, bill. we liked this shot so much we wanted to show it to everybody from the top of the rock. a beautiful sunrise here in new york. as you can tell, it is getting ring did out there. we ll keep our eyes on the wind here in the northeast. moving on this morning to talk about something a lot of people are interested in, baseball. baseball fans in new york and philadelphia have a lot to be excited about this postseason. the yankees had a wild come-from-behind win last night. and tonight the phillies will take on the giants in game one of the nlcs. more than 3 million cable customers in the northeast won t be able to watch tonight s game or anymore post-season phillies baseball until a fight between two tv companies is resolved. nbc s lynn berry is joining me with details on this one. baseball fans are p.o. d. this means everything. fox and its parent company news corp pulled the programming off cable vision at midnight last night in a fight over fees. the two sides are at odds over how much cable vision should pay fox for programming including sports, news and hit shows like glee. this blackout affects local stations, fox 5 and my 9 in new york and fox 29 in philadelphia. fox also called nat geo wild and fox deportes. 3 million households in the northeast can t watch their local fox stations or game one of the nlcs. plus, if the dispute isn t resolved soon, no world series either. as for the timing of this, the contract between cable vision and news corp expired at midnight last night leading to the blackout. cable vision pays $70 million per year to carry 12 fox channels under the current deal, but news corp now reportedly wants more than $150 million per year for the same programming. but both sides are lashing out at each other. cable vision calls fox s feed demands outrageous. news corp and fox say they ve made numerous reasonable proposals to cable vision. in the end, thomas, no deal was reached. lynn, you had me when you said no glee. it wasn t the baseball. a lot of people are screaming, especially the yankee fans here in the studio. obviously, this is a big time for all baseball fans, but let s talk about the fact that this dispute is not unusual, correct? not at all. actually, if this sounds familiar, it should. abc yanked its programming from cable vision in a feed dispute and cut off the beginning of the oscars before a deal was struck. a lot of people were upset about that. and news corp has similar fights with a cable carrier time warner. this happened last year, but it was resolved before any channels were pulled. thomas, what we don t know is when this standoff is going to end. there are reports saying the two sides aren t even talking. no meetings have been scheduled. and a lot of people are getting involved. there s a house lawmaker asking the fcc to intervene in this dispute. no glee ? i ll give them a call and let them know thomas roberts is upset about this. if it was the orioles in the playoffs you would catch my attention, but you got me at glee. you bring up the orioles and everybody is going to laugh. thank you so much. so in chile most of the 33 miners trapped for more than two months underground are home with their families this morning. two miners are still recovering from the agonizing ordeal remaining in the hospital. meanwhile, the men are staying unified as they look to rake in big bucks for their story. one family member says the miners agreed to sell their story together for $20 million. nbc s kerry sanders has the details from chile. reporter: well, thomas, they left the hospital, all but two of them, and boy, the parties have started. thrilled to finally be, after 70 days, out of that mine. now, family members are embracing them, also working with the fact that they have some mental issues. some short-term ones like trying to get into regular sleep cycles, and the long-term ones, about trying to deal with the aspect of being isolated for so long. and in this ways, establishing a brotherhood with 33 men altogether and being separated from the families. so doctors say they are reestablishing their connections to their families, being brought up to speed on some of the personal events that took place while they were away, and hopefully taking time. but remarkably, one of the miners, 54-year-old jose rodriguez, was on the phone establishing a new contract at another mine and plans to go back to work. but first, he says, he s going to take a much-needed vacation. thomas? kerry, thank you. mystery in mexico, why did police stop searching for an american man? are drug gangs actually taking over and running that part of the country? also, a reality check on the travel alert for americans in europe. how seriously is that being taken? we ll explore. plus, we ll show you the most expensive iphone in the world. you are curious, aren t you? this is msnbc saturday. are you suffering from frequent heartburn ? try zegerid otc. it s the first 24-hour treatment with two active ingredients: prescription-strength medicine plus a protective ingredient so it s effectively absorbed. for 24-hour relief, try dual-ingredient zegerid otc. welcome back. it looks like fall has come and gone in parts of vermont as snow turned higher elevation into a winter wonderland. one resident described the scene for us. you can t beat it. we were just down the road at 3,000 feet. and it is full-on fall. you could see the foliage and see the course start to get white. come up 300 feet, two inches. we are almost at four inches right now. jim cantor rooe is live in vermont. explain to us how much snow is there on the ground. reporter: it is fantastic. we have four inches here. we kind of go down you don t have to go too far down to find the green grass. and you can see behind me here still beautiful fall colors existing. but now we have coated it with a nice layer of snow on top of this. this is the good snowball making stuff. it gets hard quick. and you cans to it pretty well, like a c.c. sabathia fastball for sure. on top of the mountain, as much as 16 inches of snow has fallen with this storm. unfortunately, it is the wind that has caused the power outages across new england, down to albany and boston with a tree blown on a house yesterday. but most people are coming up for fall foliage weekend will be quite surprised getting into the higher elevations to see this kind of snowfall. by the way, the gentleman we saw at the top of the hour there, he s actually hiking up the mountain right now to make his first tracks in the new snow because the chair lifts won t be running for another month and a half until after thanksgiving. we have a long way to go before it opens up, but everyone who is a snow lover is very happy this morning, including yours truly. is this unusually early for us to see snow like this? reporter: you know, it is not. actually, a year ago yesterday we had a huge snowstorm across central pennsylvania which did the same thing. it turned fall right into winter. and you typically get the early heavy wet snows. the problem is they don t usually stick around because once the clouds move on out the storm folds away and temperatures get back up to seasonable levels in the 50s and 60s. we do expect that to occur heading into early next week. enjoy it now to get the pictures because it may be gone, but with the strong la nina this year, we are in for a heck of a winter in the northeast. explain for those interested in seeing the fall foliage, vermont is one of the most beautiful places for that, did this take a swipe at a lot of the trees to take down a lot of the good looking leaves? reporter: well, it did. you can see these trees that i m standing right next to here have been stripped of their leaves. we got here yesterday and it was beautiful. we had red and yellow just about everywhere. and the last few leaves that had some color on them are kind of hanging on here for dear life. but a lot of the turn hasn t occurred yet in southern new england and across the southern coastline of the appalachians. if you didn t get the color down here, you can travel down south. jim, thank you. president obama is kris-crossing the country with the midterm vote just two weeks away. today it is a rally in massachusetts before joining the first lady in ohio. stops are also planned in rhode island and minnesota along with a major swing out west. savannah guthrie is the white house correspondent and co-host of the daily rundown. what s their best hope with this campaigning? reporter: it probably lies with the president being able to whip up excitement, some of the campaign magic from 2008. you see him now starting to schedule this wall-to-wall campaigning between now and the election day. clearly, the focus here is on what cay obama surge voters, some of the voters that came out to vote for the first time in 2008. usually young people, african-american voters, that s who the president is really directing his energies toward. it is a bleak climate certainly for democrats. we know that. one thing that s changed also is that republicans now hold the fund-raising advantage where earlier in the campaign season it seems democrats had the edge there. democrats traditionally have a sophisticated machine about getting out the vote. that s what they will be relying on here in close races in a midterm election that will come down to turnout for sure. savannah goout rooe, great to see you. see you here at the top of the hour. with a dramatic car chase in brazil. the driver crashes into car after car. then police start firing their weapons. so did this make did it make him finally stop when bullets were flying? we ll take you there to find out. 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[ female announcer ] mousse temptations by jell-o. decadently delicious. 60 calories. it s finally me o clock. time for jell-o. try new chocolate mint sensation. you should get some custom fit orthotics. dr. scholl s custom fit orthotic center. it recommends the custom fit orthotic that s best for your feet. and footcare scientists are behind it. you ll get immediate comfort. . and, you could save a couple hundred bucks. for locations see drscholls.com good morning, everybody. it is msnbc saturday. i m thomas roberts in for alex witt. at half past the hour, here are your fast five headlines. there s yet another mine disaster. an explosion today in central china that has killed 20 miners, trapping 17 others. the mining accidents in china last year killed 2,600 people. meanwhile, in chile all but two of the 33 miners have been released from the hospital and have gone home. those home are perfectly healthy. the wife of the american mastermind of the mumbai terror attacks warned the fbi her husband was an active mill nant a terrorist group. a story in the washington post says the fbi looked into the tip but there s no indication what action, if any, was taken. president obama returns to the campaign trail today to stop in massachusetts this afternoon for governor duvall patrick. and harry reid and tea party candidate sharron angle are in a statistical tie. those are your fast five headlines. it is a neck-and-neck race in california as senator barbara boxer fights for her political life. new polling shows the democrat leading the republican challenger carly fee rena by a single point. boxer had a four-point lead earlier this month. john harwood is fresh back to washington from california. john, explain what are the key issues keeping carly fiorina so close on the heels of barbara boxer? the general unhappiness americans feel over the economy, over what s happening in washington and the growth of spending in government. california is not immune to that, even though the water level is higher for democrats. president obama has an approval rate over 50%. but it is under 50% in most of the rest of the country. and the response from barbara boxer against carly fiorina a former chief executive says to rip fiorina s throat out. she is going so aggressive in ads portraying her as a figure to ship jobs overseas at hp while enriching herself. she said, yeah, carly was a success in business and a success in outsourcing jobs and enriching herself. it was quite a striking display of aggressiveness by barbara boxer. that s why she has a lead. it seems like the two hottest races are the career politician against the former ceo. you could not have a more stark contrast of styles and sort of approaches to governance. meg whitman and carly fiorina are saying we need change. we can t have the same horse trading and the same approach to solving the political problems and creating new jobs. what jerry brown and barbara boxer are saying is, first of all, they are trying to redirect the public anger toward business because wall street and big business isn t much more popular than washington either. and also saying jerry brown in the case of the governor s race making the argument says ini know how to operate and get things done. i have been in the process for a long time. and meg whitman is walking into something she has no idea to navigate. you spoke to jerry brown and meg whitman. what about final pitches? okay. the meg whitman final pitch is we need a different way of doing business. i created jobs at e-bay where she was the ceo. i know how to bring people together. i know how toll solve problems in ways that people who spent their lives in poll tiblgs don t know how to do. jerry brown s pitch is she doesn t know what she s talking about. look at arnold schwarzenegger. jerry brown doesn t bring up schwarzenegger because schwarzenegger has not taken a position in the race, but the backdrop by democrats is to say, yes, schwarzenegger came in from the out and said he would apply business principles. he started out very high and is now in the 20s creating a conundrum for californians. what do you want? which is the approach that is best in a very difficult time in a political system that s pretty broken in california? $140 million personally for meg whitman. she is still an extremely wealthy woman. so with your ear to the ground on what s taking place in california, does that kind of money buy the momentum she needs? well, it has put her in a competitive position in the race. you know, the problem, thomas, is california is so vast. how do you get the attention of voters? how do you make yourself known? $150 million will make you known to the california electorate. doesn t necessarily close the sale. some republicans think that the extent to which meg whitman was dominating the airwaves in the summer may have oversaturated the market and made people feel sort of tired and ready for a fresh message. that s what jerry brown who saved his money started advertising in september is trying to offer. it is kind of interesting to offer a fresh message when you are elected governor more than 30 years ago, but that s what jerry brown is trying to do. we ll switch to nevada. that s a hot race where we have been watching that. harry reid challenged by sharron angle. the to debated on thursday. we ll listen to some of the exchanges. all these things i ve talked about. my opponent is against. she wouldn t do that. my job is to create jobs. what she s talking about is extreme. harry reid, it is not your job to create jobs. it is your job to create policies to create the confidence for the private sector, to create those jobs. all right. exchanges here of harry reid to man up and him saying to act like a lady to her. really fighting stuff, but who comes out of this winning the debate? i think angle probably got an advantage because neither candidate dominated. when you have someone like is a sharron angle who is not as well-known, questions like is she crazy and ready for primetime? if she comes into a debate, she s not that great, but harry reid was not that great either. she is surprisingly close on the heels of harry reid. at the end there s a slight edge for the candidate who has won a bunch of elections in nevada before, but she s right in the game. whether she wins the race will tell you about the strength of the republican wave. john harwood, thank you, sir. a florida man is $650,000 richer today after a kick to the face by a stripper. michael ireland was awarded the money after filing suit for a 2008 incident at the cheetah club in west palm beach. he suffered double vision and broken bones after a dancer at the club kicked him in the face with her high heel. the dancer says she hit him by accident. even if californians decide to legalize marijuana in the next month election, they will still run a law. eric holder says the feds will continue to process cases of marijuana possession in california no matter how voters decide on prop 19. the measure would decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of marijuana for people of drinking age. a new report in this morning. the san antonio express says mexican state police suspended indefinitely their search on a border lake for an american man after his and his wife were attacked by mexican pirates. that contradicts reports that u.s. officials in the missing americans family that the effort were stopped only temporarily. tiffany hartley said her husband david was killed while on the mexican side of falcon lake on september 30th. i have clint van sant here. on tuesday a mexican commander involved in this case was found dead. he had been decapitated. now there are reports that the mexican authorities are stopping the search for david hartley because they are worried how the investigation can proceed. is this sending the message that the drug gangs are winning and taking control of mexico? i think it is, thomas. i mean, the drug gangs, there are two different cartels fighting for this lucrative drug route from mexico to the united states that goes right over falcon lake. i think that the message sent is that this is our lake, we, the traffickers, and they drew the line in the sand. in this case, they drew the line in the lake and said if you come over to our side, we don t care who you are, we are going to kill you. normally, thomas, you see the drug traffickers somewhat shy away, even though over 50 americans have been killed in mexico this year. they shy away from these types of confrontations because they know we are going to put the coast guard down there and will deal with them. but i think maybe we saw some young bucks who took this on their own and who decided that they were going to send their own message. could this be a public red h hering while they continue their information? i think so. i read a report last week that said crimes like this in mexico have a 2%, 2% solution rate. and i think with the message that s been sent, with the decapitation of this mexican lead investigator, it is forget about this, let this go away. leave us alone because we are the drug traffickers. we ve got more guns, more people, more boats. and as far as mexico s concerned, it looks like they may be losing the war. isn t this a wake-up call to the american side of the investigation around falcon lake knowing that it is a huge funnel for drugs getting into this country? shouldn t they ramp up and intimidate back the gangs into doing that? you know, i really think so. i think we ought to have coast guard boats, i think we ought to have helicopters with night vision capability. and if the traffickers are trying to run drugs across the lake in the middle of the night, we ought to take them on. we have to go toe-to-toe. if they send the message awe say, we got the message to stay out of your way, what message does that send back, thomas? sadly, for the investigation there has not been a body found of david hartley. in your estimation and through your professional experience on this story, how hard will it be to recover the body so the hartley family has closure? i think the chances are slim to none. after he was shot and killed i think the drug traffickers grabbed his body, the jet ski and took it inland, disposed of it. they don t want him to be found and they don t want the evidence to be there. thomas, they had five days before the mexican authorities geared up an investigation. i mean, had this american been killed in san francisco bay, you could have gotten his body off the coast of new york in that period of time. so i don t think he s going to be found. and unfortunately, i don t think the family is going to have closure. clint van sant, thank you, sir. good to see you this morning. the fda approved botox for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches in adults. patients who experience 15 or more days of migraine headaches for month can count on the anti-wrinkle injection for relief. for those patients the pda recommends botox be used every three months around the head and neck to dull headache system times. now to video getting a lot of play on various websites. watch this little girl at the zoo. she sees the lion jump up and puts a real scare in the little girl. you can hear her crying. she is okay. most likely she ll have trouble watching the lion king after that experience. watch. keep watching. he is coming up to say hello. sees a snack anyway, the little girl will be just fine. the family will have the video to share for a long time. we are back after this. 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people s biggest enemy. but, no, that s no longer the case. we are pushing forward with the next hour of cnn newsroom with kyra phillips. we are pushing forward with goals. and from new boots on the ground to corruption in kabul and critics on capitol hill, we are covering every angle right now in the cnn newsroom. a veterans new fight. he s cooking up a super sized lawsuit after a restaurant refuses to let his service dog in. and that s just the beginning. plus, tricked and then trapped. forced to work for free in a strange country. human trafficking is the fastest growing crime in the world and it s happening right here in the usa. we ve got lots of bases to cover and we re going to push forward on the war today. but, first, a developing story out of the pacific northwest where a man hunt is under way for finding a convict. today he s proving to be elusive as well as brazen. patrick, police thought they had their man? reporter: they closed in on there was nothing in it. they were shocked and, frankly, very frustrated after spending 12 hours blocking down this neighborhood, bringing in s.w.a.t. resources and getting negotiators out and gunned down four officers yesterday in blake wood and came up with nothing. they believe though that he was in this neighborhood and said that there was evidence outside of a home just down the street from where i am now. when they actually got into that home, they sent in a robot not wanting to lose any more. pat trirks obviously a number of questions right now while police are wondering how could i can hear you, kyra. sorry about that. that s okay. we just have a bad connection. i have two questions for you. first of all, a lot of outrage about the fact that this man was even pardoned. huckabee getting a lot of criticism with that. what can you tell us about this side of the story? . well, he was awarded clemency. we re learning the fact that he had gone to prison and received his lengthy prison ent ens when he was 17 years old but since being released from jail had run-ins in washington and the state. if is a suspect, he has not been charged but out on bail for, of all things, a sex crime involving a child and assaulting an officer. there is a certain amount of outrage of what was he doing on the streets and allegedly he told people the night before the shooting that he was going to go out and talk to officers and a number of other people may have helped the suspect and they are in a lot of trouble with the police right now. and we ll continue to talk to this man and hunt for the man i m told we got a statement from mike huckabee and we ll bring that to our viewers as soon as they are ready. the ambassador knows, the secretary of state know, tomorrow the country will know. the white house pretty much guaranteed to get questions ahead of the speech. ed henry is in the briefing room right now. it was definitely a late night of high octane meetings, wasn t it? absolutely. the president had here in the oval office last night, 5:00 p.m., gives you an idea of the urge you are general see. others to spell out exactly what the strategy in afghanistan is going to be, and to formally issue the orders to start implementing it and start getting new troops into place secondly, we re told on the ground in afghanistan, implementing this, all of the days that he had a face-to-face meeting with a key ally, working the phones as well, talking to leaders of france, great britain, russia, we re told by robert gibbs, he s not spelling out all of the details of the strategy to these world leaders before he actually speaks to the american people the president is likely to announce sending 30,000 more u.s. troops to afghanistan. great britain will reach out to nato as well to get other countries to step up. and the president wanted to talk to the american people about how they are being end game and it s not a bottomless pit and the key is to explain that to the american people when he s escalating this war for a second time in one year and especially at a time when it s not clear that the afghan government is growing quick enough to actually be able to have this handed off to them, kyra. most americans want to see an end to both wars and we re in debt right now and it s hanging over the entire debate, not just on gaf began stan but health care and whether to pump more money into afghanistan and it was raised yesterday by congressman democrat, david olby and it shows the skepticism out there among democrats on how to pay for it and whether or not it s a wise strategy to even send more troops. this president is much more likely to get help from the fellow democrats and that s an important question, how do you pay for it? a war sur tax or taxing the rich to help pay for this thing, that it s not enough shared sacrifice. a lot of people very skeptical that they can get a tax like that through, kyra. let us know when that will begin and when afghanistan will become part. say you send 30,000 troops to afghanistan. where do you put them all? they have to be fed. you basically have a population of a small city coming up on notice. fred shows us what it takes to actually prepare for this. tens and thousands more american soldiers in afghanistan leads to a basic question. will they stay? tech sergeant is building a new road and says that the navy and air force engineers are working over time to expand the base. we re working hard and doing as much as we can. it would be nice to get some help. they ve been told that they have an increase to 5,000. in charge of construction, new roads, new air field, more housing units, and a tight schedule. 20 soldiers is one toilet, and we are still doing a lot of that right now to get ready to bring in the mass of troops. the workload is huge and subcontractors don t always perform. lieutenant says this afghan contractor he caught on camera showed up with a few men and wheelbarrows and only managed to lay a tenth of the agreed upon concrete and even that needed to be torn up because the quality was poor. set backs that the military doesn t need anywhere in afghanistan. bases like this in kandahar are already overloaded. much of camp wolverine looks like this and the engineers are trying to clear it up. we ll put concrete in there and then backfill this whole area and come across the top of it with rock. right now we re standing at the perimeter of the base and most of it is going to be right over here as you can see right now, not much of the space is occupied and a couple of months from now it will be filled with all kinds of living quarters for soldiers that are coming in here. and that meempbs more work for these men that have to make sure that there is space for every new soldier on the battlefield. camp wolverine where i m at is a case in point for a large part of afghanistan. in just a few months they have to make this place three times the size that it is right now you can see that the troops wait to see that and it s something that everybody is talking about. fred, thanks so much. telling your family good-bye before you head to war is hard enough one time but seven times? yep. staff sergeant gary hartman had another farewell over the weekend. he s shipping to afghanistan. his seventh tour of duty overseas. it stinks a little bit that you re going to be away from family but i enjoy serving. if i didn t enjoy serving, you know, i wouldn t be doing what i m doing. he expects to spend about six months in afghanistan. we re pushing forward on the next stage of the afghan war in the next hour. what kind of partner the afghan partner is going to be would be nice. president karzai is part of that solution, not a part of the problem. we all wait to hear how many proops will be sent to afghanistan. general david petraeus spent time with the troops and there s a special message for the commander as he strapped into the f-18, a handwritten message on the canopy awaited him. general petraeus, things to do before lunch, five-mile run, 1200 pushups. general petraeus says that life comes at you fast. i think we all can agree on that. we are very, very proud of the police officers, the men and women who make up this department and let there be no mistake, let there be no mistake about our resolve, we are very proud of these officers and proud of their leader. chief? thank you. i want everyone to know that i am getting their messages and their help is greatly appreciated. if i was to name them individually, we d be here until about 3:30. so i hope they know that i am thinking about them as they think about us. we re a young department and the four officers that we lost yesterday were the four original members of the department. they were good people. they were great officers. and we will all miss them very much. one of the questions that i get throughout the day yesterday is, how is everybody doing? this is how serve doing. they are here, they are doing dlar jobs, they are working hard they are dealing with their loss and they are here for the citizens. they are here to carry on. this is what we do and this is where we are good. in the face of adversity is where we try ump and we will in this instance. every one of these men and women behind me, as the city manager said, through this strategy, the resolve and dedication to the citizens of lakewood and to each other has never been stronger. we will get through this. however, it is a very, very tough time for us and the families of our fallen officers i had the opportunity to meet with the family yesterday and it s the hardest thing i ve ever done and i hope i never have to do it again. please respect their privacy. they are going through a very tough time right now. we are doing everything we can to assist them through this. i would also like to extend the thanks to those who have worked tirelessly throughout the night and there s no question in my mind that this person will be brought to justice. i believe that all i can say at this point i ve said. i want to you look at my family. they are strong. they are good people. and they are hurting but they are working through it. and we will be there thanks for coming. thank you. i know there may be some interest in speaking with independent guild, the police union. if there is such an interest, the president of the union will make himself available regarding the donation fund that has been set up for the families. so if you would like to speak with him, let me know. is that a yes? okay. give me a few minutes and we ll be back out. you just saw a pretty emotional meeting with the police chief. a man hunt is under way at this hour for a pardoned suspect, accused of taking four police officers lives there in washington. police need your help finding maurice clemmons, the pardoned convict gunning down four police officers. we ll stay on this story. we remember the four officers that lost their lives. they re running the men s room marathon. with lots of guys going over and over. and here s the dash to the men s room with lots of guys going urgently. and then there s the night game. waking up to go. these guys should be in a race to see their doctors. right. those could be urinary symptoms due to bph, an enlarged prostate. but for many guys, prescription flomax reduces their urinary symptoms due to bph in one week. only your doctor can tell if you have bph, not a more serious condition like prostate cancer. when taking flomax, avoid driving or hazardous tasks until you know how flomax will affect you, as a sudden drop in blood pressure may occur, rarely resulting in fainting. tell your doctor about all medications you take. if considering cataract surgery, tell your eye surgeon you ve taken flomax. common side effects are runny nose, dizziness and decrease in semen. ask your doctor if flomax is right for you. call 877-4-flomax to see if you qualify for up to $40 off new or refill prescriptions. for many men, flomax can make a difference in one week. the dubai investment arm, the word from the top government chief, the stocks plunged more than 7% today, the first day of trading since dubai world asked to freeze repayments on the $60 billion debt for six months. in a bid to prevent dubai from defaulting, the united air rain emirates says they will buy stocks to and u.s. and asia, they have all managed to tweak out gains as fears of a possible default have ceased somewhat. again, i say somewhat. we still have a big financial mess on our hands. let s get to jim. what more can you tell us? the dubai government went on tv and said, hey, it s not our debt. we re not responsible for the debt. it s those people who loaned us the money and the investors who got involved in the dubai government s fund. it s ir their responsibility. let s hear that today from dubai television. the government is a shareholder of the war but the company was set up and that it will be on a commission basis and considering the diversity of the business that it is doing and the risk of war, it was decided from the inception, at the time of establishing that it s a commission entity, not guaranteed by the government. so lenders and contractors that have been dealing on that basis, they consider the viability of the business, the projects of the world and provide on that basis, not on the basis of government. and they are apparently opening tomorrow in las vegas. they could sell that and they have 20% of the queen elizabeth ocean liner. pretty good deals for someone out therebying the assets. if dubai decides that s the way to go to pay off this debt. we ll definitely be following that. jim joining us live. wall street has its eye on dubai right now. allison joins me from new york at the stock exchange. how worried are investors and tell us why they are so concerned and the connection that they have, allison. wall street not seeing much fallout from dubai and here is why. we ve seen wall street react. on friday, the dow tumbled more than 100 points because investors did not know how much exposure that they had to the debt. since then, investors have learned that the u.s. does not have much exposure there. things have calmed down considerably. also, the united u.s. emirates boost stocks there. there s more certainty to investors are feeling better about the situation. instead they are turn yirg focus to shopping. national retail federation saying that 195 million people, which is 20 million more than last year. we saw that the parking lots were full. and shares of retailer, macy s and jcpenney s, they are done 4%. people are sticking to their lists and sticking to their budgets. we ve still got several weeks to go of the holiday shopping. despite what many people think, black friday, cyber monday, they are not always an accurate gauge as to how the entire shopping season is going to go. the busiest shopping days are ahead of us because, if you re like me, we re all a bunch of procrastinators, right, kyra? that s right. and you mentioned cyber monday. what do you think? could we even see if that s going well thus far? you know, it is going well. there s one-tracking firm that said that more than 207 retail websites are getting more than great deals, like free shipping and gift cards with a purchase and analysts are saying that these retailers really need to work hard to keep people shopping through christmas. these deals are going to continue. how do you like that? 4 million a minute? that s a lot of cash, my friend. allison, thank you. all right. other top stories right now, spending the next few weeks with 100 of your closest friends? in the next hour, the health rare reform as harry reid takes up reform. and there s a divided democratic party. president obama has made his decircumstance the troops in afghanistan are getting word of it today. the rest of it find out tomorrow night in the presidential arrest with the best political team, beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern. and wedding bells for 29-year-old chelsea clinton. that s right. she s all grown up. the former first daughter is engaged to marry her boyfriend investor banker. 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most of them, quite frankly, are likely scheduled for tomorrow. we haven t talked in detail about afghanistan. what is the president hoping to establish and what does he want to get in exchange? well, phil, i think you can anticipate that a good portion of the president s speech tomorrow will discuss our relationship with pakistan and touch ongoing back to the very beginning of this administration in a renewed engagement diplomatically with the pakistanis. as i said, to talk about the violent extremism. our relationship is stronger and efforts are stronger in dealing with that as a result of that engagement and diplomacy. the president will build on that and talk about the importance of them in the region tomorrow night. we re going to talk about benchmarks tomorrow night 1234. i will let the president make a little news tomorrow. but i anticipate that the president will be pretty clear about how we are moving forward with afghanistan and pakistan. how much has he talked with the officials ahead of tomorrow s speech? the president is on the list and will be called either there was a scheduling flux. whether it s and, look, i think i don t remember the last time or don t remember the last time that the president spoke directly with the president but i know that many of the national security team president clinton visited not too long ago and others have made trips to pakistan and throughout the region. how specific will the president be about the strategy and the costs? i think the president will reiterate tomorrow what i ve said a number of times, which is that this is not an open ended this is not an open-ended commitment. that and wage the battle against the unpopular insurgency against that count try that. is first and foremost our primary mission. you said last week that we wouldn t be there in eight or nine years. would the president spell that out as a timetable for when troops will be? again, i found that good policy is not to get too far ahead of where the president s i think you can be assured that the president will talk about the fact that this is not an open-eped commitment. on the cost question as well, will he talk about when you give us the cost of what is costs per soldier, will he talk about what is will pay for and does he have a position of the war tax? and inreceive tab blee, result manage more casualties well, jake, we ve discussed this before and i think the amount from the sacrifice from the men and women that we have there already is something that i know the president is i sured about each and every day. i think he signs a letter of condolence and obviously the trips to dover is something that i doubt you ever truly forget. i think the president will reiterate the importance of why we are there but also very early on acknowledge the tremendous cost and sacrifice to our men and women in uniform. i don t think there s any doubt that we are all in awe of the commitment from our military and our civilian side in order to get this right. where does making sure that we have a stable afghan partner and nation building begin? what is the line? is it just a question of our responsibility the u.s. responsibility to training afghan troops? is that the because we ve heard a lot about what the u.s. intoends do and i know you don t want to get ahead of the president s speech. but just in terms of if you could define the terms a little for us. well, i guess i would more ask you to i am unclear as to what continuum you re putting are you asking me to the president has said, in regards to the new strategy, that it s important that we have a secure and stable ally. well, and a partner that is and a partner that understands, as the president directly told president karzai in of oval office, that it s time to turn it s time for a new chapter in our relationship as it relates to corruption and improved govern nans in order to address the security situation, not just because it s hard for a civilian it s hard for civilians to go in and improve areas. it s impossible, that aren t secure. so i would say this is all part of what has to be a partnership. and i think anybody would tell you, jake, that and i ve said this and i think, quite frankly, you ve seen this from democrats and republicans in congress, that without partners that are willing to do stuff in both afghanistan and pakistan, no number of american troops can solve all of those problems unless or until those steps are taken inside both of those countries will we see a change in the security situation. stable partner mean as partner willing to have his own troops stand up, not a fragment democracy, not a great economy. it doesn t mean well, look i think first and foremost, we have to have a partner that can identify, recruit, retain a security force and a police force that are able to take improved security an improved security environment and eventually hold that area. once that area is cleared, that area then has to be held ultimately the strategy will be to transfer the security responsibility of an area to the afghans. that is a big part of what you ll hear the president talk about tomorrow. if that s what we want from the afghan government? i would say that is a big part of it, yes. so let s go back to the war tax. you say that the president is not likely to get into more detail and how to pay for it. why not, when we re $14 trillion in debt, why don t the american people deserve some explanation? i don t think you heard me say that they didn t deserve an explanation. he will certainly touch on the cost. this is neither the beginning of this debate nor will this be the end of t i think you ll hear the president acknowledge the resource requirements and the responsibilities and the tradeoffs that are going to have to be discussed, both here and, more importantly, on capitol hill as they control the purse strings. how will he have those off sets? with new tax cuts or spending again, i think the discussions, once the president has a policy and can put a price tag on it, you ll see those more unearthed. at the state dinner last week with india, the white house has asked the secret service to investigate the incident, what went wrong. as part of that review, will they just be reviewing what the secret service did or also take a look at white house staff and the secretary office to see whether they made mistakes as well? i will check with folks here. my understanding is that the secret service will look at what the secret service did. do you think the whus staff should look at this as well? it s not really the responsibility of the secret service to look at the list of names. but what is important is that the couple that attended was not on any list. they have admitted that somebody who wasn t on a list and not waved in was allowed into an event that, clearly he said shouldn t be. and that no call or reach out ever came to anybody in terms of the secret service. but, again, i assume in absence of somebody being there, that because they are tl are working telephones in the white house, somebody would have checked. again, the focus is on the fact that the name wasn t on a list and wasn t waved in but. if normally in the past before this administration would come, there was always a checks and balances of this type of system for a social office as well and you re saying. go ahead. i m sorry. again, there s always been a checks and balances, and they would always relay it back to, it was a back and forth between the social office and the secret service. let me finish, please. no. but i think the question was asked. so let me reiterate my answer. again, april, none of that relay happened, right? none of that relay happened between the secret service and social office. whether or not the social office was standing at the gate or whether somebody was standing at their office. allow me to finish so you can understand what i was saying. the relay did not happen because that person was omitted at the gate from the social office. the way we understand omitted? the person was fired earlier in the year. again, april, the answer continues to be the relay didn t happen because someone was or wasn t there. the relay happened because nobody relayed the information. i mean, i appreciate the observation that somebody could have been or not have been at a specific gate. you don t have to be standing in my office for me to convey information to. you are you saying that the social office does not have any responsibility at all? i m going wait for that to be complete. even while we are questioning the social office and secret service, because in the past, both have worked in conjunction and successfully were able to protect the president of the united states without anybody coming in and now because the social office did not have that other layer of checks and balances, this is happening and people are questioning why they are not putting the onus on the social office as well. what i m simply doing is exaiyo a series of facts that include the notion that if somebody was confused about whether or not somebody was on a list on the exterior somebody could pick up the phone and ask. i m saying that the secret service and the statement that they released a few days ago acknowledged that that didn t happen and that that was a mistake. the change at that gate, will the social office be working in conjunction with the secret service now? i think first and foremost we ll go through this investigation and i ll refer you to the secret service about operations that might change. and many people are saying that the white house was not in danger and these people met with the president they shook his hand. hypothetically, what if a person walked in and did something to the president? do you i appreciate the opportunity to indulge in a grand hypothetical. i think the president shares the concern that the director has for how this happened and how we can remedy about how this will not happen again. is he ans credit louse that people could walk into the white house just like that? . the president, rightly so s. concerned about what happened last week. can you confirm i ve that is not a power be stoeed on me as the press secretary. according to media reportses, they have been interviewed by the secret service. i think that s a decision made byce and the uney in that area. zm presumably f. someone from the social office had been at the gate, they would have overheard the couple they would have overheard the couple announce themselves and they wouldn t have required a phone call. it wouldn t have they wouldn t have pled it right away. generally when people when people have questions, despite the fact that you may have answered your question, you can answer me right in that office. just as they could sitting in the briefing room and in one of those offices. the secret service didn t have questions and didn t relay a call but the second layer of besides the fact that that did not happen how did that i think that s are you concerned or is the white house going to do what is necessary to make sure that the secret service is not scapegoated here and that there could responsibility for this at the white house? of course. that s why there is an investigation. understand, i m simply reiterating the three questions that i got on the same subject, what the u.s. secret service put out on this last week. chip, i have walked with and been next to the secret service for the 2 1/2 year, virtually every single day that the president has had the valuable nobody, nobody is more thankful for that than the president as well as the country. the president has faith in the secret service, always has and that s not about to change. let me start with afghanistan. in the march 27 speech, some of of the things he said in the march 27 speech sounds like what you re previewing now. we cannot turn a blind eye to the corruption that causes afghans to lose faith in their own leader, we will seek a new compact that cracks down on corruption. he said, going forward, we will not blindly set the course. how much is that march 27 speech going to end up being applicable to what we hear tomorrow? look, we were asked in the lead-up to a skruecurity forces situation in march. the answer now is yes and then was yes is it changing or finish setting the benchmarks? we finished setting the benchmarks. not to get ahead of what the president announce, but i think there will be new wrinkles to what we re doing. there have been wrinkles? yes. as reported to congress, absolutely. in terms of the corruption and the governance, obviously when you mention re-election, i understand that. same government, though. well, somewhat up in the air as of the middle of august, right. i guess the thing is, what is going to be different about what he said than what he said on march 27th? new wrinkles? i will let the president outline what the mission is going forward and discuss in depth the benchmarks that will go along with it. and can you get into the is the president going to try to simultaneously assure folks that we re going to withdraw troops in a timely fashion and let allies know we re there for the long haul? is that a balance he s going to try to strike? i think nobody should underestimate the commitment of a president that has thus far doubled the number of american men and women on the ground in afghanistan. i don t think anybody could look themselves in the mirror with a straight face and say that this president hasn t in any way been anything been resolved to do what has to happen in afghanistan to make this country safe. does the president think there should be charges filed against these folks, to set an example? does he want them to have some sort of punishment? i haven t talked to the president on that. again, the white house would leave that up to relevant law enforcement to determine whether it could be used as a reality tv show. i think the concern goes greatly beyond the real housewives of d.c., yes. i love that we ve gone from afghanistan to the real housewives of d.c. but the security was breached. on the benchmarks issue, you talk about the benchmarks for success, training of afghan security forces, stability, corruption in the government. but are there also benchmarks for failures and consequences for not reaching those benchmarks? i don t know will u.s. forces be withdrawn if these benchmarks can t be met? again, i will let the president outline the benchmarks. i think what the president believes is we will be setting forward a mission that he believes can be attained. i think part of that is we have to look at, again, jonathan, the president will look at what that mission is and make sure that what we re doing is setting out a mission and a series of resources that are attainable. as i mentioned to chuck a minute ago, there are now twice as many forces there now than were there just a year ago. i think what the president has to do clearly with the american people is let them know that we now have what s needed there to accomplish what that mission is rather than somehow assuming that we could do that with half of what is there now. one quick housekeeping question the reporters who were going up to west point tomorrow with the president not with the president but with the press corps, will have a whole lot of time up there. it s a beautiful area. are there going to be briefings up there or anything available to us? i think we will do a briefing by phone that will allow how many more troops are going to go to afghanistan? what will the exit strategy and costs be? all those questions being asked to robert gibbs. tomorrow night, live here on cnn, that decision on afghanistan, we will finally hear from the president of the united states. he ll make an address, special coverage, 7:00 eastern tomorrow night right here on cnn. also now we re getting word this actually happened a few days ago, actually back on wednesday, but apparently there were some sailors on a racing yacht headed from bahrain to dubai, allegations that they may have strayed into iranian waters. we re getting word the iranian navy has seized their yacht, detained them and they re trying to negotiate a release. we ll follow up on that story as well. and you trust your doctor s advice to keep your child healthy. but what happens if your instincts tell you something else? one mom trusted her gut and it saved her daughter s life. eal. i ll just use my phone. let s say we crashed. whoops, you lost your phone and you re disoriented. i m not disoriented. now you are. onstar automatic crash response can call to see if you re ok. onstar emergency. is everything ok howie? 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in 0 to 60, in ten seconds. that s how fast it went down. reporter: after being told twice to go home, this is how jessica spent the next two weeks, fighting for her life in the intensive care unit at cook children s medical center in ft. worth, texas. the virus had gone to her heart. her heart couldn t function on its own. dr. linda thompson was one of the first doctors to treat jessica. sounds like when she got here, her heart was barely beating. this machine did the work that her heart and lungs couldn t do anymore. three times, jessica almost died. but in the end, it was maternal instinct that saved her life. so if jessica s mother had waited another 12 hours, another 24 hours before bringing her back in, would jessica have survived? i don t think we would have pulled her through. my first prayer when she woke up was, thank you, god, for giving me a second chance with her, something that a few days before i didn t think i was going to have. reporter: your mom really saved you. yes. reporter: that s pretty amazing. she asks, mom, did i almost die? she didn t even comprehend how sick she s been. that is heart-wrenching and it s outrageous. talk about a bonding moment for mother and daughter, they ll never forget this. but what do you do if you re in that position and you ve got a doctor saying, go home, go home, but your gut tells you, no, something a horribly wrong, what do you do? you have to get very specific with the doctors and advocate for your child. you have to say, look, i ve been watching my child for days, i know my child best. i am seeing signs that tell me she is going downhill. i want to give you some of the signs that you should look for when your child has h1n1. most kids are fine. but if you see any of these signs, fast breathing, their skin around their toes or fingers turns blue, they develop a fever with a rash or if they get better and then worse, those are signs you need to hightail it to the doctors or the hospital. keep repeating this to yourself, i know my child best, because you really do. case in point right there. thank you so much. we re going to check our top stories as we hit the top of the hour. manhunt for a cop killer. seattle s on high alert after an all-night s.w.a.t. standoff comes up empty. police thought they had their guy but now confirm the shooter is still on the loose this hour. congress coming back from thanksgiving break to a full plate. the senate is debating the health care reform bill today. democratic leaders are still seeking the crucial 60 votes. and the countdown to president obama s big decision on afghanistan, his announcement about troop levels will come tomorrow night at west point, coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern. after all the high-level meetings, late nights and months of speculation, tomorrow night we finally learn how president obama will make the 8-year-old afghan war his war. how many troop, how much money, how much help from the afghans and our allies and how long before we re out of there? here s a question we asked minutes ago at the white house. we apologize for that. we ll try to bring that back to you in just a little bit. the president s speech, 7:00 eastern live right here on cnn. now, at some point, the afghans will have to take over, push forward and keep their own peace. but you ve got to wonder, are president karzai and company up to the task? here s cnn s atia abawi. reporter: officials allege to have squandered billions of dollars in foreign aid, aid that most afghans say they have yet to see. it will be a much closer watch on how money is being spent. there is a responsibility on the part of the international community. reporter: this canadian ambassador knows the afghan government needs reform. after many years wasted, both the new administration led by president hamid karzai and the international community are changing the way things are done here. we too often turn to power broker and warlords to fight against the taliban and al qaeda and turn a blind eye to perhaps whether or not those individuals were inappropriately using government offices or using their power. reporter: individuals still within the ranks. early november, president karzai was sworn into his second term after an election marred with allegations of fraud. he is promising change but he is still criticized for turning a blind eye to corruption and surrounding himself with criminals and warlords. translator: we need to take into account in the past eight years what we have learned and what we have gained. what are the bad experiences and what are the good experiences? and of course, there are many questions and people would like me to answer some of those questions. and of course, we will do our utmost in the future to help the country. reporter: this is a member of the afghan parliament and believes that rampant corruption has killed the president s credibility. he says it s the president s job to enforce the law on his own cabinet first punishing any criminals found within in order to win back the trust of the people. it s not the strength of the taliban, it s the weakness of this government that s turned the people away from the government and created a gap in which the taliban are finding room to maneuver and breathe in that vacuum. reporter: a vacuum that he says can be filled by the government and welcomed by the afghan people once they know what good governance is. in the 262 years of our modern history, we have never been governed. we have been ruled or misruled. and for the western experts so-called afghan experts to say that afghans do not like governance, it s a very easy way out. and atia abawi joining us live. will a troop increase help the situation in afghanistan according to people on the ground there? reporter: it really depends on who you talk to. we went out to a refugee camp here on the outskirts of kabul, many are from where the heavy fighting is occurring. they re afraid more afghan civilians will be killed. but afghans in the city say they re afraid of the international community leaving. they want the extra troops as long as they help them the way they see it s necessary, to help build a stable society and help the afghan government. in the south and east in afghanistan, we re seeing more afghans turning to the taliban because they re afraid of their own government authorities in their areas. atia abawi, appreciate it. the speech tomorrow, huge. the president s going to have to sell a pretty skeptical public on why an 8-year-old likely will intensify. republican senator richard lugar and democrat jack reed talked about what they re looking for tomorrow nigh. the president needs to start by outlining the war we are in. by that, i mean the war not against the taliban, al qaeda, but what is at least the objective of continuing in afghanistan or in any place. that is basic, because this has to be a confident speech in which the president recognizes we re at war, the american public recognizes that. the president has to speak to the american people, remind them why we re there and also lay out a strategy, not just a reflective response to a recommendation, but a strategy that involves protecting the homeland from al qaeda and that involves a presence in afghanistan, it involves being influential in pakistan. it involves having counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. all these things. it s not a troop build-up. it s a civilian surge. their targets? afghan civilians. we ll take you inside. no shirt, no shoes, no pets, no service. but assistance dogs are okay. there s a sign clear as day, so tell me, why did a disabled vet and his hairy helper get chased out of this place and allegedly attacked like criminals? hi, may i help you? yes, we re looking to save on car insurance, even if that means we have to shop all day, right, honey? yep, all day. good thing you re starting here. we compare your progressive direct rate to other top companies , so you can save money! look! we saved a lot! and quick, too. and no more holding her purse! it s a european shoulder bag. it was a gift. mm-hmm. shopping less and saving more. now, that s progressive. call or click today. it s not easy being a disabled vet. just ask captain luis. in iraq, attackers with knives and hand grenades changed his life forever. however, they didn t ruin his life. his dog tuesday assisted in that. he s a service dog and a best friend. don t tell that to a certain group of mcdonald s workers in brooklyn. first they turned him and his dog away. then he says they came after him armed with garbage can lids. you d think the attacks would have stopped when he got back home. he s suing mcdonald s for damages and wants to make sure this never happens to another vet and he s even inspired a senator. the captain and tuesday join me live from new york. explain to our viewers what exactly happened here, how many times you went to this mcdonald s and how it escalated to this point where you were chased with these garbage can lids. sure. on december 11th, 2008, i visited mcdonald s in brooklyn with my service dog tuesday. and when we went there, the employees immediately erupted with, get out, get out, no dogs. i mean, it was quite offensive. and so we approached the counter and i tried to explain to them that tuesday was a service dog and that he assisted me with my disabilities. they were just insistent that we get out. and finally i even had to threaten to call the police because they were discriminating against me and violating the americans with disabilities act. they served me but harassed me and i ultimately got a migraine and left, deeply affected by that incident. several days later, i wrote a letter to the president of mcdonald s, ralph alvarez, explaining to him that his employees were not trained in the ada and that they were harassing people and veterans with dibbles and it s just unacceptable. i received a phone call weeks later from a regional manager who offered me coupons. i said, i don t want your coupons, i d like for you to treat people with dignity and respect and abide by the americans with disabilities act. she wrote a letter of apology and took up my suggestion that they post stickers in their front doors saying something to the effect of, no pets but we welcome assistance animals. sure enough, they put stickers in their doors. and i thought, wow, this is a real act of corporate social responsibility. then on january 28th, tuesday and i were coming home from school. and we i was hungry. so i walked into the mcdonald s with him, and we were served. i sat down, was just about to begin eating when a manager came up to me and said, excuse me sir, your dog you need to leave. i said, what do you mean i need to leave? he said, no dogs allowed. and i said, well what s your name? and he said, i m a manager. i said, have you read the sticker on your doorfront? and he said, yes. i said, what does it say? and he replied, no dogs. i said, why don t you go downstairs, re-read the sign, come back upstairs and we ll talk about it. well, i was pretty upset by that and he never returned to apologize or to discuss the matter. i subsequently left the mcdonald s in disgust because they had essentially not trained their staff. that manager wasn t trained himself on the americans with disabilities act. i thought this matter was resolved. then two days later, i decided that i would write another letter to president ralph alvarez of mcdonald s. so i walked back with tuesday to the store to take a picture of the sticker that they had placed in their storefront. and this is when you were the employees charged you with the garbage can lids? that s right. they started to ask me question, why am i taking photographs of mcdonald s? and then they proceeded to attack me with garbage can lids and punched me. i was just flabbergasted about at this entire thing. i called the nypd and they responded to the scene. and subsequently went to the emergency room because i pinched a nerve in my neck shielding myself and tuesday from these two employees. and we did get a statement from mcdonald s. they said, they can t go into details because they say they are investigating right now. there have been protests outside that mcdonald s. you ve received obviously a lot of air time. we re talking about it today. you have definitely made your point. the stickers were put up into the window. that facility has now been shut down due to health violations. what do you want, luis, to come out of this? what do you want as the final outcome? well, that s a good question, kyra. that mcdonald s is a corporately owned mcdonald s and it s since reopened. as a matter of fact, they took down the stickers at that restaurant, strangely enough. mcdonald s hasn t owned up to these disgraceful acts of mistreatment and this attack. veterans, hundreds of thousands of veterans are coming back from iraq and afghanistan wounded and injured. and there are tens of millions of people with disabilities and it s unconscionable that mcdonald s say that they train their employees to treat people with dignity and respect and abide by the federal law, but the reality is is that they didn t in this case. and i hope that this incident serves as a lesson to both mcdonald s and others. well, i know that al franken was touched by your story with regard to what happened to you in iraq and why you needed a service dog. and he has actually passed legislation his first piece of legislation to call for more service dogs, is that correct? tell me about it sure is. tell me about what he has decided to do since meeting you. yes. well, before the attack in january, i had the great pleasure of meeting him at an inaugural ball. and upon that meeting, i asked him if he would consider if he were to be elected to champion some kind of legislation to get more service dogs to help veterans with disabilities, veterans of all eras of america s wars. and as is the case with any celebrity, you leave and you think that well, something may happen but probably not. well, strangely enough, i got a phone call a few weeks later from al franken and it was hey, this is al, we spoke for an hour and a half and i was absolutely delighted that subsequent phone calls led to he and his staff creating legislation with other members of congress that is now law. and there s a new pilot program to help place service dogs with veterans and hopefully that study will show the benefits of that many more veterans will get service dog. they need them. we see what tuesday s done for you with the spinal cord injury you suffered in iraq. i appreciate you talking to me today, luis. it s my pleasure, kyra. thank you. luis is one of 31,572 american troops wounded since operations in iraq began back in 2003. you could say it s all over, but the the secret service let this couple slip through and get into the white house. other lawmakers are calling for criminal charges against that couple. wedding bells are in chelsea clinton s near future. cnn s learned the former first daughter is engaged to her long-time boyfriend. a spokesperson says a wedding could take place next summer. a different kind of record for serena williams. seitz been fined $82,500 for her tirade at the u.s. open last october. the fine could increase to $175,000 and she d be barred from the following u.s. open if it happened again. lenders, lenders, what are you doing to do when they come for you? 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guess what? lots of paperwork issues out there for people who are trying to become a part of the program. not enough income now to make payments is one of the big problems you re seeing. the issue now is that people don t have jobs so they can t become a part of the program. you can t get a mortgage if you don t have a job. this program wasn t day who ared to that. other folks find they have too much in savings or equity to even participate. and some banks have decided i make more money if i foreclose rather than changing or amending or making the mortgage easier to meet month to month. lots of hurdles for the program. the administration trying to make some changes to it, tweaks to it here and there to make it more effective. but devil s in the details. we ll be watching the reports monthly to see how many people they re helping and if more americans are really getting assistance. but some interesting changes, more stick, less carrot. keep letting us know about the changes. good-bye to the 2009 hurricane season. hello, chad myers in the severe weather center. talking travel delays today, aren t we? we sure are. a lot of people are in the air right now. i know it s not the biggest travel day of the year. but people that just simply couldn t afford to travel yesterday because it was too doggone expensive, today s a bet r way to do it. hurricane season is over. it s my son s birthday, too. nine thunderstorms today. three hurricanes and major hurricanes, there were two. not a big season by any stretch of the imagination. and in fact, we didn t even have any significant landfalling hurricanes. we had a couple of tropical systems that came in. other than that, tropical storms ida was one of them, came up here in this area. and there s going to be storms in new mexico as well. here are the travel delays. newark, laguardia, philadelphia, bwi and teterboro but nobody over 45 minutes at this hour. and everything s going pretty good. i have a website for you for today. we ll get it ever for you for tomorrow as well. weatherunderground.com. it s actually wunderground.com. go over to dr. jeff masters wunderblog. and he ll tell you about the season coming up. is that who you were talking to earlier today? 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reporter: well, as governor huckabee said in his statement, there needs to be a close reexamination of perhaps laws in arkansas and in washington. people, though, are somewhat confused and skeptical as to what this guy was doing running around in washington. remember, he was out on $150,000 bond, only bonded out a week ago. he was charged with assault on an officer, sex crime against a child. as well as some other charges. police said that he had an extensive criminal history in arkansas and he was somebody they knew here and even threatened officers to people that he know, said he was going to go out and attack police officers. unfortunately none of those people reported those threats to police before they happened, perhaps what happened yesterday could have been avoided. instead, you have four lives lost and a very dangerous suspect still on the loose. could have been avoided. patrick, thanks so much. maurice clemmons has a long rap sheet and was serving a 95-year prison sentence in arkansas. but then governor mike huckabee, as i mentioned, commuted that sentence in 2000. clemmons went back to prison that next year but was later paroled. so here s what huckabee had to say in light of the seattle shootings clemmons only served 11 years, by the way, of that 95-year sentence. nearly 50 years of law enforcement experience snuffed out in a matter of seconds. a small but growing memorial has already begun today outside the lakewood, washington, police department. as we pay our own respects to the four fallen officers. they left behind nine children. they were husbands, fathers, a wife and mother. 39-year-old sergeant mark renninger is survived by his wife, son and two daughters. he had 13 years of law enforcement experience. he grew up in bethlehem, pennsylvania. his brother, a retired cop, says mark made the ultimate sacrifice. 37-year-old officer ronald owens is survived by his daughter. he had a dozen years of law enforcement experience and was a founding member of the lakewood police department. 40-year-old tina griswold is survived by her husband and two children. he wore the badge for 14 years. and just this past summer was awarded a medal for saving a life. and 42-year-old officer greg richards, eight years on the force, also a founding member of the lakewood police department. he is survived by his wife and three children. officer richards sister-in-law called the shooting senseless and says her brother-in-law didn t have a mean bone in his body. i want to point out once again, maurice clemmons had just been released on bond six days ago. the charge? you heard our reporter repeat it once again, rape of a child, according to the seattle times newspaper. he was also recently charged with assaulting a police officer. gearing up for the war in afghanistan. but these volunteers are civilians, not soldiers. all part of president obama s new strategy bringing peace to a country that s known nothing but war. what doctors recommend for arthritis pain. in your hands. knees. and back. for little bodies with fevers. and big bodies on high blood pressure medicine. tylenol works with your body in a way other pain relievers don t. so you feel better. knowing doctors recommend tylenol more than any other brand of pain reliever. boss: ah! thank gecko: what s going on, sir? boss: we re slammed. tons of people interested in all the money they could be saving by switching to geico.. gecko: yeah, course. boss: boy, did we miss you last week. that temp wasn t working out at all. exec: took me all morning but i got those quarterly figures for . you. 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i thought it was very real, actually. reporter: brendan o brien served in kabul, afghanistan. he s going back for another year as an information officer. this new training, he says, is critical to understanding how the military function. his life depends on it. the military culture is almost it is a foreign culture. it s almost as foreign as the afghan culture to state department, to u.s. aid. reporter: just as in afghanistan, these teams are accompanied every step of the way by the military. they rely on them for security and for mobile. at the same time, these civilians unarmed have to establish trust. the war they say can t be won only with guns. in this vignette, an afghan plays the role of a pregnant woman as a u.s. aid health document officer listens closely. mac has never been to afghanistan. she leaves this december for logar province snchl ] listening to the people, the et quit, the politeness, building that trust and rapport with them so they can share their concerns with you and be willing to work with us. what impressions did you have? the one thing nobody asked me was about what sort of diseases are common in this province. did a little ride, kind of windy. knocked us around a little bit. reporter: the afghan staff, the trainees, the military give their feedback, lessons that could make all the difference when these civilians take off for real to afghanistan. jill dougherty, cnn, butlerville, indiana. you ve got plenty of questions on afghanistan. we ve got answers. tomorrow, dennis mcdonald will join us. send us your questions or tweet us. it was a hit-and-run for sure. but it was no accident. a young woman s fighting for her life all because some guys wanted to fight her for a parking space. and this is a seat from the seven passenger toyota highlander. this is a little seat, i m a big girl. well this is the eight- passenger chevy traverse. which offers more room and an epa estimated 24 on the highway. that s a big girl car. i want the big girl car. a very smart little girl. the chevy traverse. amer. compare us to anyone and . or visit a museum without art. so why rely on health care coverage that s missing something too? 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ha did it cause and is it why we re still dealing with afghanistan today? there s a new senate report out that essentially confirms much of what suskin wrote about in his book. it s brand-new information. we re talking to the players and taking it apart today at 3:00. you can go back to the clinton administration as well. osama bin laden was in the sites, there was an opportunity to take him out then. also you tend to wonder why for so many years there were opportunities to get osama bin laden the only difference was, clinton was prior to 9/11. that may have made a little bit of a difference. but everybody knew he was a threat. apparently not the bush administration since at the beginning they decided that clinton was enthralled with him. but imagine if he was taken out, there wouldn t have been a 9/11. either way, we re going to look at this. you hear about fights breaking out over ridiculous things all the time, but this one is almost unbelievable. a texas woman is in the hospital right now in really bad shape after she was run over in a walmart parking lot. her family says she s on a ventilator now with organ failure. they don t even know if he s going to make it. all of this because of a fight over a parking space. her brother describes what happened as some thug or thugs showed no mercy on his sister. my sister ready to pull up in the parking spot. an suv pulls around and rammed her in the right side. i told my little sister not to get out of the car. they get out with blades. they re waving their knifes saying all foul words. they come out. i told my sister to stay in. she gets out to check her car. when i got out, my hat falls, she picks it up. they run over her. i hope anybody that knows about anything can help us out. that s what we re hoping as well. if you do know anything, do help out that family and contact the police. it s not clear if there s any secure cam video of that incident. police are looking for the driver of a black dodge durango involved in that hit-and-run. a chance at a dream life turns into a nightmare. one man s quest to provide for his family leads to a fight for his freedom. as you know, we ve been following this story about tiger woods thanksgiving night in this car accident that he was involved with, saying that it was his fault and that he didn t want the media getting involved in the personal issues surrounding what happened that night. still, a lot of questions lingering to what caused that accident and what exactly happened between him and his wife and what caused all the commotion. now we re getting word this is coming from the tiger woods foundation actually the public relations manager that tiger woods will not be attending his chevron world challenge. he was previously scheduled to be there. it was supposed to take place at the sherwood country club at thousand oaks, california. apparently what s being reported that doctors are advising him not to go due to injuries that he suffered in that car accident. we ll continue to follow the story as it develops and if we get any more information. it was like they won the lottery. they came to this country for a shot at a different kind of life but what they got is an age-old tale full of misery and deceit. they became modern-day slaves. sean callebs explains. reporter: the nightmare began four years ago. translator: i never imagined this kind of thing would happen in the united states. reporter: desperate to provide for his family, he says he answered an ad from a job recruiter in rural thailand. the are you kruter promised an $8 an hour job in america. he heard there was a job on a legal visa in the united states, that was really the golden ticket for them. reporter: but there were problems from the outset. first he says there was a payment upfront, 25,000 thy baht. once in north carolina, he says there was no work, no money and his passport was seized by the recruiter. he says he and the other 29 farmers who came with him realized they were trapped. translator: some of the men were so stressed out to the point that they seemed suicidal. reporter: he says he begged for work. and when katrina hit the gulf coast, some of the company s manpower were brought to new orleans. translator: we couldn t find anything to eat. we happened to have some uncooked rice with us so we trapped pigeons and cooked the pigeons to feed ourselves. reporter: eventually they were brought back to north carolina where one night they say they escaped. this man is the u.s. ambassador charged with fighting modern-day slavery. this is a hidden crime. the very nature of this crime masks it from us. reporter: eventually he sued million express manpower. the company never responded and the court said the evidence justified a default judgment of nearly $1 million. these men don t look like the typical trafficking victims. they re not women. they re not in the sex trade. they re not behind a