vice president questioning her integrity as she put it and so it just goes to show you even though they leave office, t.j., when they start writing books the fights can come up all over again. seems whenever dick cheney resurfaces the fight over the war in iraq, how we got in, how we got out, how it was handled, it seems to happen all over again. t.j.? >> people should probably get used to it for a little while. the book it out and he's doing a round of interviews so more to come. jim acosta thank you as always. 11:00 eastern time, time to hand it over to suzanne malveaux. all yours. >> thanks. live news today at 11:00. i'm suzanne malveaux. the 1st of september. amazing video you're about to see.

ethnic kurds were holding a peace rally, when dozens of young men en masse apparently hijacked that rally. this set off a confrontation with police and kurds are the minority and they've been out on the streets protesting because many are angry the turkish military have been attacking their villages. president obama is moving his big speech on jobs from next wednesday to next thursday night. john boehner turned down the president's request to address congress wednesday. why? it would be hard. winds whipping 25 miles per hour are spreading west of

dallas ft. worth. some 39 homes have been destroyed. 125 families are being forced out of their homes and we have just learned some evacuation orders have been lifted with at least half the fire now contained. >> it's ugly. it's real ugly. it keeps flaring up, the wind is crazy. >> the smoke was so see. you had to crawl through it as low as you could in your truck. >> check this out a fire in oklahoma city is threatening to jump interstate 44 and spread into a suburb of edmund. close to 44 people have been urged to leave. the fire had been contained but winds fanned it back to life. national guard helicopters are dropping supplies for folks

in vermont stranded still by hurricane irene. about a dozen communities are still cut off. crews have temporarily patched up roads to all but one of the towns. in new york 600 homes were lost in the cat skills. >> it wiped out not only my father's, my family's gas station business but many, many families in this town are homeless that have lived here their whole lives that had businesses here. >> president obama will be in vermont inspecting the damage there. katia grew into a hurricane in the atlantic, top winds just above hurricane speed, 75 miles an hour and forecasters say a disturbance in the gulf of mexico is likely to become tropical storm lee. there is hope lee might dump rain on texas which as you know

is going through a severe drought. a television station friendly to moammar gadhafi says it will be broadcasting a message from the libyan leader. hillary clinton is in paris today meeting with u.s. allies on what they're calling a new libya. the group is going to focus on a democratic government and institutions and rebuilding libya after a civil war. a man claiming to be moammar gadhafi's son wants libyans to fight on for his father's sake. >> translator: we'll tell everyone to move now, everyone should move now, begin to attack these gangsters of the rats. >> some of gadhafi's relatives fled to al gearia. the foreign minister says gadhafi himself is not there. tennis pro venus williams is

dropping out of the u.s. open after playing just one match. williams says she's been diagnosed with an auto immune disease that causes fatigue and joint pain. she's won seven grand slams but hasn't made it to a final since 2002. >> i lost a lot of feel, i would miss shots by feet and couldn't feel my hands and my hands would hurt when i was playing and i had swelling and numbness and fatigue which is debilitatindebi didn't have any energy and it's not that you don't have energy, you feel beat up. >> we wish her the best. many engineers at apple should swear off happy hour. an iphone 5 turns up at a tequila bar near san francisco a month before it goes on sale. that is the story. sound familiar? the same thing happened last year before the iphone 4 came

out. bloggers are suspicious thinking apple might be trying to drum up publicity. if that's the case it's working. and here's your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day, carol costello is joining us from new york, carol, you know it's not surprising but another ugly dust up in washington between the president congress but this time not the economy, jobs, debt, over a scheduling conflict, really? really? >> i wish i could say it isn't so but it is. this is president obama's jobs plan not exactly off to a fantastic start. he had to postpone the unveiling of his plan to avoid a clash with republicans. as a "the washington post" post puts it, if "the washington

post" worked pont to avoid the partisan fray, then pulling a blatantly partisan stunt like this torpedos all of that pr work. don't think the republicans running for president didn't pile on. >> now does this show maybe a little insecurity on the part of the president? either, a, he wants to distract the american people to they don't watch him or b, he doesn't want the american people to hear what the next president of the united states is going to say about the president's job plan. >> whether you think that's fair or not, it may resonate more than a statement from the white house saying, "the president is welcoming the opportunity to address a joint session of congress on thursday, so our nation's leaders can focus 100% attention on doing whatever they can to help the american people." yawn. obama's critics say he may want to look congress in the eye and challenge them on jobs but any dream of bipartisanship is just

naive. "the daily beast" called the president the wimp in the white house for expecting republicans to compromise. the "daily beast" says the plan can be bold, the plan can be modest. the point is that he has to fight for it like hell, but he won't. please, mr. president, you're the guy who ran on change, well, change. so the talk back today, how can obama end the partisan bickering? facebook.com/carolcnn, i'll read your comments later this hour. >> that's a tall order to ask the president. thank you, carol. >> sure. here's the rundown of the stories we're covering first. texas is fighting its worst fire season ever, we have a live report from a town near dallas where homeowners are being forced now to evacuate. and four days after hurricane irene, people being plucked from their flooded homes in some cases by boat. >> i've seen what are probably the tops of fences leading up to the front door.

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we want to bring you something we are just getting now here, an audio message airing on a from-gadhafi station and it is moammar gadhafi urging libyan people to fight the rebels, and i believe that there is an english translation, let's listen in here to what they are hearing. >> translator: i address people, i want to communicate, they are frightened, please help, you can hear my voice now, remember, don't let them influence you. go, use guns, go and fight and fight. >> we've been monitoring this audio message coming from a pro-gadhafi station out of libya, a message allegedly by the libyan leader, and as soon as we get a translation we can understand and actually

authenticate whether or not this is gadhafi we'll bring that back to you, potentially a message, audio message coming from the libyan leader, nobody really knows where moammar gadhafi is, still in hiding, but certainly sounds like i believe this message he is urging people to fight the rebels, fight the people who are trying to overthrow his government. on the east coast 1.5 million people are still without power after hurricane irene. this weekend president obama is planning to tour patterson, new jersey, a place hit really, really hard and the area is still covered by lots of water. for some of the flood victims the only way to see the damage is by boat. susan candiotti is in little falls, new jersey with that story. >> reporter: coming to you from wayne, new jersey, one of the heavily flooded areas. just over in this direction the

banks of the pasaeic river and on the other side of it, little falls, new jersey. now you can see this riverbank where it starts and this parking lot begins. the waters are receding, it's come down at least a couple of feet where we were here late yesterday afternoon. in this direction is a neighborhood that is accessible only by boat. we were lucky enough to get a ride back there with some locals who showed us how bad things are. >> this is lake pasaeic. >> reporter: now called lake pasaeic. i'm seeing what it are probably the tops of the fences leading up to the front door. that is not a house on stilts, that's a garage underwater. they stayed around that house? of course lost the car. oh, a classic mustang lost. you've gone through this time and again. why do you and other people still live here? >> well, what are you going to do, can't sell the house, you

can't give them away down here. >> reporter: here is a sign that has a double meaning, road closed, a few hundred feet ahead, local traffic only. at this point it's local boat traffic only. >> you're about to start school, your senior year in eye school coming up in just a week. >> yes. >> reporter: what's going through your head? >> how am i going to prepare for school, my clothes, everything is stuck at school. everything is closed to go shopping. the mall is down. i don't know where to go. >> reporter: you have the suitcase you were able to run out with. >> five pants and five shirts. that's it, that's all i have. school starts in one week. >> reporter: probably won't be the only ones. hard to say, huh? >> plenty of them, plenty. i have so many friends that live on this street, too. >> wow.

>> reporter: is this the first time you're seeing it? >> yep. >> reporter: how do you begin to think about the cleanup involved here? what's going through your head? >> i don't want to think about that right now. as long as we're safe, that's good. that's the main thing, to be safe. then the cleanup comes next. . >> reporter: the waters are receding and the national guard is standing by. the waters could be down significantly by the weekend to allow people to go in and start their cleanup. the justice department is putting the brakes on a bill cell phone merger. we'll tell you more about where the deal between at&t and t-mobile stands now and what it could mean for jobs, as well as your wireless bill. and are you living in a safe driving city or one where it seems like there's an accident that happens on every corner. i know what that's like. allstate's finds the safest

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new york stock exchange. is it dead in the water how that the government has gotten involved? >> reporter: at this point it does not mean the deal is dead. the deal could potentially go through. exactly how at&t can satisfy concerns of regulators is unclear. the options right now are go back to the drawing table or go to court, and what will happen next is really hard to gauge, though, because this kind of lawsuit is very rare. what we can say with some certainty is at&t is likely to fight this. there's a lot of cash at stake, $3 billion in cash on the line because at&t has to pay t-mobile's parent company a $3 billion breakup fee if the deal doesn't go through and what analysts have to say about this? they are expecting a legal battle, one that could be the biggest anti-trust case in years, it could drag on for months or years. we might be talking about this for quite some time. >> karina, at&t tried to sweeten the deal saying it would bring back thousands of jobs to the united states. is that a convincing argument

for the government here to sign off on this deal? >> yes, they've been dangling that carrot to try to get this deal to go through but so far the government hasn't caved in. at&t's offering to bring back 5,000 jobs if the deal goes through. the government says this isn't about jobs, it's about competition, the at&t t-mobile deal means there would be three carriers that control 0% of the market instead of the four. it means higher prices for you and i the consumers and the fcc is worried about innovation. more competition forces companies to stay on top of their game. the bottom line, suzanne, if at&t wants to get the deal done it has to answer concerns about competition and protecting consumers. >> all right, it's going to be an ongoing battle, we'll keep our eye on it. we've spent a fortune on airport security and other safety measures, right, but are we any safer ten years after the september 11th attacks.

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here's a rundown of some of the stories we are working on. next, ten years after the september 11th terror attacks, is our country more secure? the 9/11 commission is out with a progress report and there is a lot to be concerned about. then republican presidential candidate jon huntsman says he knows how to create jobs, we'll fill you in on his plan. later cnn "in-depth" known as college crack, a lot of students are using it these days, that drug might be in your medicine cabin cabinet. we are ten days away from the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the united states and the 9/11 commission is warning of holes that still exist in this nation's security system. a report by the commission says the country is safer but it highlights several recommendations that haven't even been put into place. we've got our details from pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. >> reporter: the 9/11 commission's new progress report says ten years later, some

emergency responders still can't communicate by radio in a crisis. some cops can't talk to firefighters who can't talk to emts. >> they died because of that in 9/11 and they died because of that in katrina and they'll die because of that in other disasters. >> reporter: the report says full body scanners failed to detect some explosives hidden within the body. >> our conclusion is despite ten years of working on the problem, the detection system still falls short in critical ways. >> reporter: the report did credit the government for better screening passengers before they get on planes and doubling its spending on intelligence. >> if you look at the number of recommendations it's a high percentage. >> reporter: the commission issued its original list in 2004 and of the 41 shortcomings nine have still not been addressed. >> which doesn't mean we don't

constantly look for ways to improve. >> reporter: that has to come in an economic environment where every dollar counts. >> the question should be not how much is this but is this worth paying for? is this good security? is this the best we can get? >> the commission says a more powerful director of national intelligence could cut through the bureaucracy and also keep some of the costs down. it also recommends a more security form of i.d. and a national entry/exit system that relies more on biometrics. chris lawrence, cnn, the pentag pentagon. >> the question is how safe are we, ten years after the september 11th attacks? cnn national contributor fran townsend joins us from new york. fran, you hear chris's report here from the 9/11 commission, does it surprise you that basics

like radio communications we still have failed in trying to make that work? >> suzanne i should start by saying i participated, this is a bipartisan policy council, on the board of directors, participated with kay and hamilton in creating the report card. we should be outraged by the lack of first responder communications, because this is one where the solution exists. we know it exists. we know the band width is available. the question is only how you go about distributing it. do you distribute it directly to first responders or distribute it to a telecommunications company and require them to make it available. this is crazy. there's no excuse for us not to have solved this problem ten years earlier because as governor caine points out in an emergency people will die. we just had the earthquake in washington and i can tell you my cell phone didn't work. i can't imagine what the first responders were going through. >> who is responsible, those in

the communications business, the government? who is in charge of making sure that actually happens? >> there is a bill in congress right now, the obama administration said they support that bill which gives the band width directly to emergency responders. congress has the ability to solve this issue. they also have the ability to solve another one of these, the reorganization of congress to streamline their oversight and they haven't done that either. >> fwla what is the biggest thro us, fran, going into the anniversary of september 11th? >> pardon me? >> what is the biggest threat, fran, going into the anniversary of september 11th? >> look, i think americans should take some real comfort in the fact that because we have had so many successes including the recent killing of bin laden, we're unlikely to face another massive attack on the scale of 9/11. that said, we do see these individuals who are or small groups who are inspired by al qaeda. it's the times square bomber, it's the christmas day attempted

underwear bomber, it's the guy, the nada hassan, the successful shooter who was caught. the individuals who are inspired and radicalized over the internet right now tend to be the greatest threat. >> and fran, let's discuss the new report out today that says no american troops, none were killed in iraq the last month, that is a first but the flipside says there are more american troops who died in afghanistan last month since the beginning of the war. what does that mean? >> well some of this frankly the increase in deaths in afghanistan is regrettably was predictable. there was no question as troops began drawing down the taliban and its forces were going to show its strength and time of year, we're still in the summer season and the fighting season there. look, the thing we've got to focus on is making sure that we have a capable, trained, adequate army and police force in afghanistan to pick up the slack and that has been a real

challenge for multiple administrations, not just this one, and there's a weak central government in the karzai government. all of those tend to favor our enemies there and we have to be careful that we don't create or permit to be created again a safe haven in afghanistan like there was prior to 9/11. >> fran, thank you so much. those are questions we're going to be raising and focusing on as well. ten years after the september 11th attacks, and ten years since this war in afghanistan began, we will take a look at what's gone on over there. i'll be headed to afghanistan next week to find out, investigating the training of afghanistan troops, are they prepared to take over? all talking with american men and women who were just children on the days of the attacks, reporting live from afghanistan starting on friday, september 9th through the weekend of september 11th. he's a man with a plan, a jobs plan that is, republican

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firefighters in texas and oklahoma are just hoping for a break from the hot, dry winds that are spreading across several big wildfires, the flames have destroyed dozens of homes, the biggest fire is just west of dallas. cnn's jim spellman is live from possum kingdom lake, he and his crew had to pull back in a hurry from the front lines after the fire started spreading east. now they're back at the fire lines. what does that mean the fact you've been back and forth. is that good news? >> reporter: it is good news, they're telling us here is that this fire is now 50% contained largely because it burned out a lot of the areas all the way up to the lake. this is where we were yesterday, watching the fire burn, active fire, walls of flame on this crest of woods over here, and as it moved its way down it was

thick, billowing smoke and embers coming across the lake to our spot and starting spot fires and they had to abandon the command center and pull us back and overnight the winds died down, they were able to get a handle on it. still a little bit of smoking area and the devastation of the fire coming through and wiping out what was a dense forest of trees here. now that's good news that this is coming, they have this portion of the fire together but the sheriff here told us a short time ago that all the conditions remain to have more fires. it's already about 10:40 in the morning and about 103 degrees here on our little thermometer and they've been after this month after month and a single spark from a chain hanging behind a truck can start the cycle all over again until there's meaningful rain, not just a shower or two. that's why we see the fires

across texas and oklahoma city. >> jim, what should folks do? does that mean they should evacuate homes if they're in that area, even if the fire isn't there yet because the conditions are ripe for another one? >> reporter: they'd have to evacuate maybe 90% of the state because that's how big the severe drought area is here in texas. this is kind of a resort area, trying to get reopened for labor day but with this kind of condition so prevalent they just have to be super vigilant. they have burn bans, no campfires, no trash. it's way too big of an area to evacuate. they encourage people to be ready. the people that come back here to try to enjoy labor day weekend. they know any minute they may have to move out. >> what kind of things if you're staying in your house the fire could come? >> reporter: the main thing is to be ready to get in the car and get out. one of the problems with evacuating people it's a one road in, one road out situation

and to a lot of communities along the lake they have lake on one side, yesterday when the fire was going, the day before yesterday, people had to use a boat to go across the lake because the land access was blocked by the fire, so they have to just be aware of the stuff and ready to go. all of the authorities here, firefighters here, they'll be keeping a close eye on everything but again, where do you go? you have to go sometimes 500 miles away to get to an area where you don't have these conditions. >> we're watching pictures of the fire, very menacing. be safe as well. improving the job market, it is the top priority for president obama as well as republicans who want to replace him. brianna keilar part of the best political team on television, live from the white house. brianna good to see you. jon huntsman has a plan. what does his plan include?

>> reporter: that's right he unveiled it and this a week before president obama unveiling his jobs plan. this is a plan from jon huntsman that would dramatically shrink the scale of government, eliminating tax deductions, including the popular mortgage deduction so many people enjoy and streamlining the tax code, reducing it into three brackets and then a widespread regulatory overhaul, scrapping the president's signature health care reform plan, which he calls of course obama care, as well as the financial reform we saw in the last congress, suzanne. >> we know everyone is looking for a solution. the huntsman plan when you look at the details does it seem like the american people may be looking for the changes? >> reporter: there's no polling on his plan. some of the ideas we've heard

before. there's certainly some opposition to those, the mortgage deduction tax break, pulling that away. we've seen opposition to that before but yes, americans are very hungry for something, suzanne and that's reflected right now in some of the recent poll numbers that we have on the president's approval, in fact the newest cnn/orc international poll shows one-third of americans poll approved of the president's handling of the economy, three-quarters in this poll say that the country is in bad shape. while that's a slight improvement from august it's significantly worse than we saw at the beginning of the year, just giving you a sense of where americans are. bright spots for the president international affairs, on that issue we have a handling of terrorism as well as just foreign affairs in general, libya specifically and the president serving his role as commander in chief, you have between five and six out of ten americans surveyed saying that they think he's doing a good job

in those regards. >> brianna thank you from the political political news, go to cnnpolitics.com. a state police officer in new mexico is now on administrative leave, we'll tell you why, and why these pictures have caused such a stir on the internet.

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he still had his clothes on. >> i'm glad it wasn't one of his deputy my deputies. >> reporter: two photos came from a camera aimed at deterring vandalism pointed at the entrance to a county owned ranch. instead of graffiti vandals, the cameras captured a new mexico state police officer having sex on the hood in this desolate spot. the state police have conducted an internal investigation, a spokesman says they don't believe there was any criminal activity, but that the action on the hood in uniform does violate the state police code of conduct. the unidentified officer has been placed on administrative leave with pay, as his fate is being decided, but there's something else. do you see anything else odd about this picture? >> a voyeuristic animal. >> look at the animal watching them. >> reporter: the only eyewitness was variously destroyed as a prairie dog, a small mammal pervert. what is the creature watching, a

chihuahua, what is it? >> i think it looks like a chihuahua. >> a squirrel watching them have sex, right? >> reporter: we think it's a chihuah chihuahua. >> gathering nuts, sorry. >> reporter: either it belongs to one of the participants or it stumbled on the scene. some even said they thought they'd recognize the chihuahua. >> ay-yi-yi. >> reporter: nah. the taco bell chihuahua died of a stroke years ago. >> the dog is participating. >> reporter: no, the dog is not participating. >> it's getting up with it. >> it's probably hot and sexy and with all of the stress in the world, it's somebody's fantasy and escape so obviously it's working for all three of them. >> much oo, mucho baby. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> one of the odder stories here. baseball jocks going soft on us. we'll explain the colorful kitty accessories. and how can president obama

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you have been weighing in on the "talk back" question of the day, how can president obama end the partisan pickering. carol costello joins us from new york. carol, has our viewers found a solution to all of this? >> i am depressed by the responses. let me read a couple, and then you can tell me if you are with me. the question is what could president obama do to end the partisan bickering. this from rich.

i don't know if anything he says would make the difference. this from isaac, he could stop doing it himself and lead by example. this from terry. he can't the beliefs of the two parties are so polarized that nothing short of a true third party could fix the praun, because it's not about the people but the money and the lobbyist. and this from erin, there's nothing he can do. in a congress that has openly set the goal to be his defeat rather than the american people. if you want to continue the conversation, facebo facebook.com/carol. >> it's the same of where it is. who knows what to do?

>> yeah, i know. there has to be something that can you do, though. we're americans for god's sakes. >> another hour to get more folks to weigh in on all of this. carol, i want you to see the pictures here. it's funny. these are grown men wearing the bright pink, hello kitty back packs. you may wonder what this is all about? relief pitchers bringing snacks out to the dugout, and the teammates are giving them school girl backpacks featuring kids' characters. the rookies are saying, well, we have to do what we have to do. i think it's a hazing thing going on there, huh, carol? >> i know they do it in the tigers team, because i am a big fan.

i would choose a backpack any day. >> judgment free. if they have to wear the kitty backpack, that's okay. how long does that last, that kind of hazing? >> maybe it depends on what your batting average is or what kind of relief pitcher you are. if you are not doing great, you have to wear that backpack forever! >> we'll just keeping laughing. on a more serious story, college crack, the marijuana of the new millennium, that's how some flogs are describing medications for add drugs. yesterday we told you about the top paying college degrees, all of them engineering, and today we have to look at the the degrees that pay the least on average. number two, elementary education. that is actually not surprising. with an average mid career salary of about $44,400.

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what it does to his report card. >> what is going on your head? >> listening to music, and on facebook. >> how does it change you? >> i am driven and don't focus on anything else. >> you are focused on anything else? >> it's going to get out and going to be good. >> he feels good all night and into the morning right up until he leaves for class. >> i feel prepared, and a lot of formulas and i crammed for it and will rock this test out. >> jared said a lot of friends take adderall like he does. a study said half of juniors and seniors use stimulants like adderall. it's popping up on mtv. >> i have been up on my reading web sites -- >> how much adderall have you had today? >> a lot. >> and doctors are worried.

>> in the short term, those kind of stimulant medications can often feel good, and in the long run, there are significant problems, both in terms of thinking, and mood problems. >> adderall can be addictive, and cause huh lus nations, and jared has been taking it for two years and doesn't think he is doing anything wrong. >> it appears you are breaking the law? >> i consider it an unwritten rule. it's accepted. >> so did the pill help with jared's test? we caught up with him after class? >> i know i did great on the test. >> he says he has adderall to thank for that. and the students at the university of kentucky said that they found adderall as dangerous as a energy drink.

>> and we learned that jared did get that a on his exam. top of the hour, i am suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. first, video that you have just got to see. [ gunfire ] >> where is this? violence on the street of turkey, today. they were holding a peaceful rally and dozens of young men, however, in masks hijacked that rally and set off a confrontation of police, and many are angry because the turkish military have been attacking their villages. and the big wildfire is contained to about 50%.

so far 39 homes have burned. a lot of people forced out of their houses. some evacuation orders have been lifted today. texas is dealing with an extreme drought and temperatures now above 100 degrees. >> a single spark from a chain hanging behind a truck or something can start the whole cycle all over again, until there is meaningful amounts of rain, and not just a shower or two. they will have the conditions. that's why we are seeing the fires across texas and up into the oklahoma city areas. >> a wildfire burning in oklahoma city is trying to push into the suburb of edmond. the crews thought they had the fire knocked down, but the winds whipped it up again. august was a momentous month. it's the opposite in

afghanistan. a record 66 american troops lost their lives in that war last month. secretary of state, hillary clinton, she is in paris today and meeting with u.s. friends about helping the new leba. there is some 60 countries represented, and the diplomats are focusing on ways to set up a democratic government, as well as ways to rebuild the country, libya after its civil war. algeria is saying don't look at us, moammar gadhafi is not here, and several gadhafi family members turned up recently in algeria. just the last hour, a television station friendly to gadhafi aired a message that said it was from gadhafi himself, and gave no hints about where he was. >> translator: we are not cowards. the libyan people will have themselves. the libyans will govern

themselves by themselves, and they are free people. we have sacrifice and we become marters. yes, people will die. >> libyan rebels who have gadhafi forces surrounded had given fighters until saturday to surrender, and they exstenedded that deadline to september 10th. venice williams is dropping out of the u.s. open after playing one match. williams said she has been diagnosed with an audio immune disease that causes fatigue. >> i lost a lot of feel. like i would miss shots by feet, and i could not feel my hands and my hands would hurt when i was playing and i had swelling and numbness and fatigue.

it's not that you don't have energy, it's that you feel beat up. >> we wish the very best for venus. >> and maybe engineers at apple should watch out. iphone 5 turned up at a bar. same thing happened last year before iphone 4 came out. they think apple may be trying to whip up bpublicity. if that's the case, it has worked. we have some heart-breaking pictures out of vermont. just look at these pictures. you are looking at houses ripped apart from blood waters from hurricane irene. these communities were left cut off from everything else and the national guard now is dropping supplies from helicopters. you have emergency workers trying to get to people now that

most of the roads have temporarily been repaired. a staircase collapsed over me but the bookcase made a bridge and all the rubble fell around me. >> i was really frightened at that point, and i said get out of the house, it's going to go. >> we're cut off. there is none of our usual connections to the outside world. it's gone. >> another storm, well, it's too soon to say whether katia will add to the damage left by irene. this storm grew into a hurricane with 75-mile-per-hour winds, and forecasters hope a cold front on the way is going to act like a barrier, keep katia away from the united states. this is pratsville, new york. they are not just coping with the loss of homes and

businesses, but really the way they remember their lives. >> this is where my father and family business for five generations has been. my nephews at the time were running this, and it withstood 18 floods but obviously it did not this time. my family grew up across the street. five generations also lived there. there is major devastation throughout the house. i don't know if the house will be saved. the walls are, of course, saturated. and then, of course, you get the black mold. >> this is the gas station at that time looking from the house. that's one of my relatives standing right there. of course you see the river in the back. that is 1933. it wiped out not only my father's -- my family's gas station business, but many, many families in this town are

homeless that have been lived here their whole lives and had businesses here. >> we have nothing left. there is nothing there but concrete. a concrete slab. >> we want to rebuild. as you can see the land where we can rebuild is just not there. we have no land to put our business on. it's gone. >> all the trailers here came from the trailer park which is a good quarter mile to half a mile east. so all the trailers that you see here floated down to here and caught in the trees and were just breaking apart. >> we have had flooding before, but nothing like this. nothing. this is devastation. >> my home is up by the gas station that is gone, and it was up there, and it's travelled probably a half a mile. i have no idea what i'm going to do. this has been my home since 1969. i have been here, like i said, 71 years.

i cried. what do you do? here's your chance to "talk back" on one of the big stories of the day. carol costello is joining us from new york. carol, another ugly dust up in washington between the president and congress. not over the economy, jobs, over scheduling conflicts. come on! i mean, come on. >> i know the president's big speech will now take place on september 8th instead of september 7th. but his jobs plan is not off to a fantastic start. the president has already had to postpone the unveiling of his jobs plan to a joint session of congress to avoid a clash with republica republicans. this spat sums up so well the image problems that obama has faced since the start of his term. if the white house spent months working to appear above the

partisan frey as they insist they have, then pulling a stunt like this torpedos all that pr work. >> now, does this show maybe a little insecurity on the part of the president? either a., he wants to distract the american people so they don't watch it or b he doesn't want the american people to hear what the next president of the united states is going to say about the president's job plan. >> whether you think that's fair or not, it may resonate a lot more than a statement from the white house. we got this statement. the president is welcoming the opportunity to address a joint session of congress on thursday, so our nation's leaders can focus 100% of their attention on doing whatever they can to help the american people. obama's critics say he may want to look congress straight in the eye and challenge them on jobs, but any dream of bipartisanship is naive.

the daily beast called the president the whim that in the white house for expecting republicans to compromise. they say the plan can be bold or the plan can be modest, but the point is he has to fight like hell for it, but he won't. you are the guy that ran on change. well, change. so how can president end the partisan bickering? facebook.com/carolcnn. i will lead your comments later this hour. >> seems like an awfully tall order. i would think everybody has to be involved in get rid of the partisan bickering. the president alone can't do it, yeah? >> i think that many voters want to hear some plan, and they want it to be put boldly in the joint session of congress, and then maybe they want the president really to look congress in the eye and say something tough, meaningful, something that will put the country back on track.

>> presidential. presidential, yeah? >> exactly. >> thanks, carol. be sure and put this on your political radar. republican presidential contenders meet in a debate cosponsored by cnn, the tea party express and tea party groups representing every state in the nation. that is coming up september 12th, 8:00 p.m. eastern, live from tampa, florida here is a rundown of some of the stories we're covering. water 10-feet high plowing into homes in vermont. and then people losing their most prize possessions. their homes. and tennis star, venus williams, has a disease most have not heard of. we will talk to elizabeth cohen about the auto immune disorder. and then american scientists

exposing people in guatemala to sexually transmitted diseases and then not telling them. and the rebels claim they have moammar gadhafi cornered. and i just decided i have more to offer than that. i put myself through nursing school, and then i decided to go get a doctorate degree. university of phoenix gave me the knowledge to make a difference in people's lives. my name is dr. kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu.

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cnn's amber lyon. >> we can handle snow, but not this much water all at once. >> reporter: it poured through the 40--year-old business. >> it's devastating. it's devastating, you know. >> reporter: eileen's family business once made $1 million a year, but revenue dwindled by three quarters in the economic downturn. now the family says they are facing at least $300,000 in damages, and they don't have flood insurance. >> we snuck in and came in, and it was just -- it was just -- you know, we're still in shock. >> mud covers the clothes at the consignment shop, but these two won't be covered by insurance.

>>. >> these were nice gucci leather pants. >> this is a local artist, and her entire studio filled with originals was washed away. >> when it was gone, i just couldn't believe it. >> reporter: 30 of her original paintings went down stream with the gallery. >> i think the one that got me the most was a piece in 1978 of my grahm's house, and i was recovering from a broken nuk when i did it. >> reporter: but the floods have not washed away the sense of community. >> you can't just sit around. you have to get up and help. >> who are these volunteers? >> people, like the gal yesterday said yesterday, they

are neighbors. in vermont, we're all neighbors. >> all neighbors there. tell us about how the folks there are coping? you talked to a lot of those folks there. what are we seeing now? >> reporter: we are seeing people being more mobile. roads are opening up and it's making people feel more at ease. and they are not just dealing with debris on top of the road but dealing with floodwaters that came through here, like through the entrance to town and washed away the foundation of the road and compromising the structural integrity. this piece of road up to that cone is deemed unsafe. construction crews out here are really on a countdown, because in order to lie the asphalt all across the state, we had more than 250 roads flooded in

vermont, they have to have it down by november, otherwise it's too cold to do so. i spoke with transportation officials and they say they are working as quickly as they can, pulling out all of their resources to get these roads built-up enough that people can drive over them, back and forth, and leave the communities. we have been talking about all week 20 communities here in vermont where at one point were isolated. that meant the people living inside could not get out because bridges like this one right here and other roads were damaged, leading in and out of town. now 13 communities, the roads are open, but only to emergency vehicles. the residents still are not allowed to drive in and out. right here if i can have you pan over to the police officers, although this bridge leading into wilmington is open, the only people getting in and out are residents, emergency crews, and people assisting in cleanup efforts. there is still not easy ways to

access these towns, and that's happening in over 20 communities across the state of vermont. that's because we had a flash flood here. we're not talking about these people having time to prepare. here, at dot's restaurant, you see the tin roof. within eight hours this river rose up to the height of the roof and flooded across here, and the rising happened instantly, and it fell down and it all swept in town within an eight-hour time span. a lot of people did not have time to get belongings out of businesses and homes. was saw in the story, some of them unfortunately, did not have flood insurance. >> thank you, amber, forgiving us a good look at what they are facing there. venus williams withdraws from the u.s. open. she says she is too sick to continue playing. we will have the latest on her condition. hires another employ,

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convenientice williams is pulling out of the u.s. open. the tennis star says she has been diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder, and she talked what it was like for her on "good morning america." >> i lost a lot of feel. i would miss shots by feet and i could not feel my hands and my hands would hurt when i was playing, and i had swelling and numbness, and fatigue. it was not that i did not have any anything, but i just felt beat up. >> elizabeth cohen is here to explain. we heard the news and it was so disappointing for her.

she is obviously struggling with this. how debilitating is this disease? could she still play tennis? >> it's hard to tell, because the reason is people are affected differently. some of the patients run mar thaunz, and others are debilitated, because there is an auto immune disease. and so it turns on itself and thinks you're an outside insider. it really makes it hard to, you know, be really fit. obviously she is fit and an athlete. there is two questions. one, can she continue to, you know, be an athlete at all, and two, can she continue to operate at the high level she has been operating at. >> she said she has been feeling ill for years now, and why did it take so long to figure out what was going on with her body? >> she talked about that on

"good morning america." let's listen what she had to say. chlt i think i had issues for show grinz for a while. i was diagnosed this summer, a few weeks ago, and i have been struggling this summer and i came to learn that it takes a average of 6 1/2 years for people to get diagnosed. >> really? >> i know. 6 1/2 years. the reason why is you have to be an empowered patient with a disease like this. the symptoms are a dry mouth. dry eyes. fatigue. joint pain. things like that. all of us have felt that in sometime in our life or another. you go to the doctor with these and they go it could be a whole bunch of things. what you have to do is if you are feeling those symptoms and if you feel like something is not right, go to cnn.com/empoweredpatient, and go to the doctor and say is this a possibility. >> does it run in families? is serena at risk of potentially

getting this at all? >> well, it could be your genes, or it could be something about your hormones, they don't know. is her sister at a risk? maybe slightly higher and maybe not, and jegenes do have somethg to do with it, but not everything. and anchors and producers, right, we cover stories around the world and we get great tips on best restaurants and hotels and travel spots. in this week's travel outsider, producer karen goes to oskoda. >> tonight we have the sunshine string ban all the way from midland county.

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scientist working for the u.s. government secretly gave people sexually transmitted diseases as part of a study. it happened in the 1940s after world war ii. 5500 people in guatemala, including prisoners, mental patients and children were experiments on. 1300 of those were exposed to stds, including syphilis and gone gone rea. and the goal was to see if takitak taking pen sill intaken after sex would help. and amy gutman is the president of the university of pennsylvania. professor, first of all, you know, explain to us what your

panel has learned about this, perhaps even the most disturbing information about what your panel discovered. >> a group of medical researchers, doctors and scientists working for the american government between 1946 and 1948 treated their fellow human beings in a way that can only be characterized as egregious and shocking. there were gross violations of human rights. they did not obtain the consent from any of the people they were using for research in guatemala. and those people included some of the most vulnerable populations in guatemala. mental patients. soldiers. children. >> how did they infect them?

>> they infected them in a variety of ways. they infected some of them using commercial sex, workers who they also infected with syphilis or go in one case that is so graphic, it's hard to actually speak about it. but one woman who was a mental hospital patient, they aknock latd in her arm syphilis, and it looked like she was dying is what was written in the diary that she was dying, and then they injected puss in her eyes and they never treated her.

>> we know this is really not the first time something terrible like this has happened. the tau 63 gae experiment happened many years ago, and i understand how they ended up discovering the guatemalan case is in the research of the other case, is that right? >> yes. susan reverby who was doing research discovered some documents. the presidential commission has subsequently combed through over 125,000 pages of documents. and she discovered that the same -- some of the same researchers who were involved in stategie which was not an inoculation study, and what happened there was a group of african-american men were known to have syphilis and were not

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>> libyan rebels on the move and on the hunt for moammar gadhafi. a message said to be from gadhafi himself surfaced today, but the big question is where is he. also a meeting going on in paris planning for the future of libya. our senior state department producer is at the meeting, and senior national correspondent is in tripoli. we want to start with representatives about 60 countries and rebel leaders are trying to determine where libya goes for here. what are the goals for this meeting out of paris? >> reporter: well, suzanne, it's a couple of things. it is really a way to mark libya's reentry into the international community. and they are walking through that meeting and really a powerful moment that shows

libyans can be in charge now. they will hear what they are going to need in terms of reconstruction and moving the country forward and they want to make sure they are paying attention to human rights, and no retribution against gadhafi loyalists. they will talk right now, and secretary clinton should be speaking momentarily about a u.n. mission, how can the u.n. get on the ground as soon as possible and help move the country towards elections, and help with economic recovery, as we have been reporting, the economy is really devastated. there is so many services needed. they are hoping the united states could serve as an international coordinator for that aid, suzanne. >> at least a man claiming to be moammar gadhafi urged libyans to keep fighting and not surrender to rebel forces. it's an audio and did not give an answer to the question of where is gadhafi.

let's bring in dan rivers out of tripoli. what do we know about that particular message? >> reporter: well, it was broadcasts on a station that comes out of damascus, syria, that is loyal to gadhafi. we assume it's him and sounds like him and is the kind of rhetoric he comes up, he comes up with phrases like we're not stupid, and we are not could wa and the last broadcast was on the 25th of august, and the timing was really interesting. the exact same time as the meeting was going on in paris, suddenly up pops the message from colonel gadhafi, urging them to fight on. >> and there was a claim by the

rebels that they cornered gadhafi. anything new on that? >> reporter: i think we have to be really caution with these claims from the rebels. there have been a number of claims, you know, about them having captured different members of the gadhafi family or think they have them in different parts of the city. this latest one was from a town to the south, east of here, and they are around that town now, and there is some suggestion that a convoy may have left from there to go to algeria with his family. but frankly, i don't think that anybody really knows, and i thit rebels put out the stories from one place or another, and none of those claims have been born out to be true. and so i think we have to treat them cautionly. >> dan, algeria, i guess they are saying here's not there, but other family members are in

algeria. are they still in algeria, his sons and daughter? >> reporter: yeah, they are, and we're told his daughter, for example, gave birth to a baby there just after she crossed over. one of his other sons, hannibal and muhammad are also there, as is his wife. and the gadhafi clan, the family is there, but they have not specificed whether he is there or not, and that's the big question, is he still in libya? >> that's the big question. thank you. a school close to the epicenter of last month's quake suffers millions in damage. we will show you more of the frightening video. naturals from purina cat chow. delicious, real ingredients with no artificial flavors or preservatives. naturals from purina cat chow. share a better life. exclusive to the military.

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child. this from christina. bipartisan ship is a farce. unfortunately the president keeps giving in to the gop, and has gone way beyond extending the hand of bipartisanship, and they have been aiming for the jugular since the beginning. this is from courtney, obama should dissolve the senate and the house and declare himself the emperor like the emperor in "star wars." >> we like our democracy. we don't want an emperor. thank you, carol. >> sure. >> you told us what you wanted to see. your choose the news story just moments away.

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going to attract a whole new line of readers. it's a multi100 million business that is about to expand. i am with a real comic book fan, going to such lengths to tattoo himself with comic characters. >> how many? >> nine different. >> reporter: i like the cat woman. >> i got the ninja turtles on my legs. >> reporter: how long you have been out here? >> my husband and i came around noon. >> reporter: you will stay here until midnight? >> yes. >> reporter: why? >> my husband needed a companion to go and get his food and relieve him. >> reporter: so you are the gopher? >> kind of, yeah. >> people are not buying comics

as much and they are jumping off because they are not happy with the story, so this is do or die. it's either change or the industry could collapse. >> reporter: the large comic book stores like this one have been on the decline over the last few years, with 2,000 left across the entire united states, and it's that lost odden in addition to the new audience d.c. is hoping to recapture. >> it's 52 books we are relaunching and renumbering. >> reporter: do you think it will revolutionize the comic book industry? >> i think it will change things. it's a game changing. not only the content but some of the delivery. and so that means can you download the comic book the same day you can go to the shop and buy in print. that's a big change because it allows us to tap into new markets and find n