it's an exciting thing as a fan to be able to yearn for more. >> it's interesting. twitter brought them all here, and then all the camera phones come out. >> yep. >> boom boom boom. everyone's a paparazzi now. >> everyone's a director. everyone's a photographer. >> thank you. terrific. i loved it. >> since we did that interview beyonce' and her husband jay-z let the world in on their big secret, they're expecting their first child. she also turns 30 on sunday. i want to say happy birthday and congratulations mum to be. good saturday morning. states of emergency declared and tropical storm warnings are in place along the gulf coast

because of a slow-moving and strengthening tropical storm lee. it is keeping people guessing about what it's going to do. also this morning, is this any way to teach kids about the events of 9/11? a coloring book where kids can color in pictures of the towers burning or of a navy s.e.a.l. shooting osama bin laden. it's real, folks, and the publisher will be here to explain why he thinks this coloring book is a good idea. an illinois congress member calls president obama idiotic. what he says he really meant to say. it's saturday, september 3rd. i'm t.j. holmes. let's start with the tropical storm. it is whipping things up in the gulf of mexico. there are several states of emergency that are in effect. mississippi and louisiana getting their ducks in a row

right now just in case that water starts rising. take a look at what is happening in grand isle, louisiana. the rain is already there. people are preparing for more and maybe a lot more. listen to the mayor. >> you can't fight mother nature. my job and the council's job and the chief of police's job is to make sure we don't lose a life. >> let's say good morning to alexandra steele. this thing is a mess. >> it is a mess. it is erratic and slow moving. it is moving and vacillating around. it is not well organized. the center of circulation is askew. all of the rain is on the west si side. let's show you what we have. here is the area of the convection. the center of circulation is expected to move ashore later

today. louisiana and mississippi and alabama coastlines are under the gun. it is very slow moving. here is the look at the amount of rain we are expected to see with this, especially along the coast. that is where the flash flooding will be. once again, remember with irene, we talked flash flooding. the potential for flash flooding here as well. what we will see in terms of the movement. here is the the forecast track. expected by later today which is the center of circulation. it is expected to intensify. it will stay a tropical storm. maybe get its act together a bit more. maximum sustained winds are now 50 miles an hour. moving at 7 miles an hour. it has picked up the pace a little bit. here's the forecasted track potentially. we will watch it again. the center of circulation come onshore later today. by monday morning, we will see 45-mile-an-hour winds. by tuesday morning,

40-mile-an-hour winds. alabama and mississippi and louisiana will get the brunt of this thing. by thursday, we are still watching a rainmaker with this and still watching winds. we will watch this thing straight through the end of the week and bring a lot of rain. most notably to the gulf coast with a lot of flooding and tornadoes are spawning up. that is typical, t.j., with hurricanes. they are swift moving. >> alexandra steele, good to have you with us here on the weekend. a lot of people getting ready for the worst with this storm. let's talk to rupert lacey. he is the director for gulfport, mississippi. what has you nervous about the storm? >> good morning. one of our biggest concerns along the mississippi gulf coast is the definite track of what lee is doing. as we have noticed over the

nighttime hours, we have started to see the increase of the winds with the rains. of course, what we had is sporadic tornado spinoff because it is starting to affect our coastline. >> sir, how much rain can you handle? we are talking up to 20 inches in some places. what would you think is your threshold? >> any community, if you are talking 20 inches of rain, you would love to see it over four or a five daytime period. friday was an off and on day that we were seeing a very light amount of rain. over the nighttime hours, in some areas of our coastal communities, we have noticed some of the rain gauges getting up into the neighborhood of 2 to

3 inches of rain because of the heavy down falls or the feeder band activity coming in. of course, you know, be that we are under a tropical storm warning, we, of course, are under the flash flood warning. we are starting to see the ponding and urban-type flooding as the feeder bands were very large with the rainfall. >> mr. lacy, i know you have a couple of days to hunker down there. are evacuations a possibility? >> of course, they are. we are still in that process of rebuilding after katrina. one of the misfortunes is in some of our lower lying areas of our county, people have not built back right there in paradise along the water. we have had about ten roads that we had water over because of

rivers coming up the southeast flow. you know, we had a couple of homeowners who talked to us about the standing water. if we have to, we are ready to pull the trigger and open up a shelter. we are still trying to -- we still have a little bit of time so people can prepare their homes before we have to open the shelter building for them to seek shelter from the winds and higher rains. >> rupert lacy, thank you so much. we will check in with you again. good luck to you folks. >> thank you. you know, again, please call us back at anytime. >> thank you so much. we will certainly check in. it will be a long weekend. alexandra steele says this is a slow-moving storm. it will sit there and hang out and dump all of that rain in the gulf coast. we will check in throughout the

morning on that storm. let's give you a look at what else we are working. the united nations is sending aid to libya and assessing the needs of the country. they were welcomed by the new transitional council. one of the biggest problems facing libya right now is a shortage of clean water. a travel alert from the federal government as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 happens. citizens traveling or living abroad need be to aware of the threat posed by al qaeda. there have been no specific threats. all you folks who don't like the body scanners at u.s. airports, new software is being rolled out. this is new video of the new software. this is at the airport in dallas. they are now supposed to take pictures that don't show as much of your junk as it used to. it is just the outline of you

that it is supposed to show now. now you and the screener will be able to see it. the tsa announced this rollout in july. you will see it yourself. you will see what the tsa agent is gigging about. $3.66 is the average gallon of gas as you head out over labor day weekend. it is a few cents less than you were paying last month. the higher price of gas is expected to keep more of us at home this weekend. aaa says close to 32 million americans will travel more than 50 miles this weekend. that is around 1 million less than last year. you remember this horrible scene. we showed you this a couple of weekends ago. this is a stage collapse at the indiana state fair. the state attorney general's office now says 14 people are

planning to sue over this incident. seven people were killed. 40 others were injured. the stage came down during a wind storm. an investigation is looking into whether the stage was as strong as it should have been. also, coming up, a small town in italy that has some big dreams. they want the town to be an independent state. first thing first. they started printing their own money. there is an idea. it's a big labor day weekend. all of the candidates are out, but one person is taking up a lot of the attention. sarah palin. we will tell you what she is up to this weekend. excluve to the military. and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. from free checking to credit cards to loans, our commitment to the military, veterans, and their families is without equal.

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part of labor day weekend. candidates will be out there all weekend. as paul steinhauser tells us more. >> reporter: sarah palin doesn't have a hard time drawing attenti attention. every time she falls out of the spotlight, she comes back stronger. palin's bus tour from here in washington to new england was a top story over the memorial day weekend. she played cat and mouse with the reporters. she reignited speculation she might run for the white house. she crashed mitt romney's party. on the day he was there to

announce his run for president. >> i don't believe that former governor romney is upset that we are here. >> reporter: fast forward to august and palin shows up at the iowa state fair creating a media frenzy the day after the debate in iowa and the straw poll. >> i don't think i'm stealing any spotlight. >> reporter: today, palin is back in iowa. monday, she speaks at another tea party gathering in new hampshire. is palin planning on making big news this weekend? maybe not. she doubted she would be a candidate by labor day. >> there is a lot to think about into a life changing decision for a family. >> reporter: today is the three-year anniversary of her speech when she became her party's vice presidential nominee. cnn reports that palin will

highlight the themes that made her a superstar. t.j. >> thank you, paul. did you catch the august jobs report that came out yesterday? no new jobs came out last month. the unemployment rate held at 9.1%. it gave the presidential candidates more to talk about. >> obama is not working. he has disappointed the american people. did you see the numbers that came out on job growth? look, there is zero faith in barack obama. >> here is rick perry. he said our country cannot afford four more years of economic misery. i will continue to cross the country to get our country working again. bachmann said the economy is sitting at a nation's stop sign. the president gave us a speech about the jobs speech.

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16 minutes pastthe hour. these people don't play in the sec. what you are seeing there, this is not far from us in downtown atlanta where some of the georgia fans set up. you can bet they are already barbecuing and partaking in a few beverages at 6:14 in the morning. they are getting ready for the first football game of the season. they are taking on boise state. big game today. it is a big weekend. college football and the university of alabama will be returning to the field today as well. this is the first major event in tuscaloosa since that devastating tornado destroyed parts of the city. that was in april. students and athletes hope the return of football will help the city heal. reynolds wolf is in tuscaloosa. >> reporter: t.j., it is game day at the university of alabama. we are outside the stadium if

you are a fan of the crimson tide. many people will come here. in excess of 100,000 people will make the way to the campus. the campus was relatively unscathed in terms of the tornado. many ways of getting to the campus, people for the very first time since last season are going to see some of the areas of devastation. some places that are now completely cleared out where there were neighborhoods or stores. all of that is gone. they will get here and for a few hours, they will get a chance to think of something else other than the devastation. we spoke with some of the students and certainly some of the people that call this community home recently and they cannot wait to tee it up. >> i think the game is pretty important. the team will have to come out and show the community that through the tornado and through everything that we can still come together for a good cause and a good game of football. >> everybody that usually comes in for games that hasn't seen it

yet will realize exactly what happened. they'll see it and everybody will be together for what this town is built around. >> i think it is a big deal. it gives us something to take our mind off what we have to see every day driving home. >> reporter: one of the touching things about the contest doesn't deal with alabama, but kent state. kent state football players were in the community and helped out with crimson tide players to rebuild the community. good sportsmanship and being good people. back to you, t.j. >> thanks to our reynolds wolf. we go from that feel-good story of football to this one. take a look at the screen. this was happening in florida. this was on thursday. keep in mind this is a youth league football game that got ugly. you can see people going back and forth. the coaches and players. some people did not appreciate the call the referee made.

this is when things get crazy. the coach gets kicked out of the game for arguing with the referee. then this ensues. you see that? the referee was taken out by one of the players. again, folks, we are talking about a youth league game. he goes in full pads at the referee and takes him down. i emphasize this is youth league. these kids are not anymore than 14 years old. now, at least four people associated with the sarasota gators football team, are being charged. to referees were attacked in the incident. the one you see taken out right there. he was punched and kicked on the bottom of a pile for a little while. he was able to get up and run away and get out of there. at least four people charged in connection with this incident. let's turn to italy. in the middle of a major debt crisis. what does the mayor of one small italian town plan to do? starts printing his own money.

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bilch bilchik. something you thought about doing all the time. print your own money. >> here in flotina, italy, which is 65 miles from rome, the mayor is upset. because the austerity measures that are happening with the government. he is saying why don't we print our own money because at the end of the day, i would like to create an independent state and monarchy. he said everybody wants to be a prince. it is a more serious issue. what the government is saying small towns like this with under 1,000 people, the government says let's merge them so we have one mayor for every two towns. the small towns are up in arms. there are 163 small towns that will be affected by the

austerity measures. they are taken in libyan refugees and saying let's get our numbers up so we don't have to share mayors and resources. >> is this a matter of financial consideration of not merging or they want to hold on to their own identities? >> it is both. italy is made up the little towns which is part of our history. so this particular mayor is going let's print our own money and have our own coat of arms and create something like san marino. it is the oldest surviving state and not in debt. it is independent of italy. >> that is the currency? >> that is the currency. there he is. >> who is this guy? >> this is lucas salarey. he is lucid and sane. the mayors of the towns on monday are banding together and

will protest the austerity measures. it is having an impact. we may see by printing his money, how legal is it? some people are using it. whether it is symbolic or real, it is happening. >> it is not good anywhere else but around town. is he for real here or trying to make a grander point? >> i think he thinks he is totally real. it is symbolic. he says we do not want to be at the mercy of the austerity measures. one brave mayor and narcissitic mayor. >> thank you. we will see you again in the 8:00 hour. you are a pizza fan? >> yes. it has to be thin crust. >> dominos? >> i like to be non

denominational. as long as it is a very thin crust. >> dominos does have thin crust. now they have big plans. not for what kind of pizza they will make, but where they will make it. look at your screen. they reportedly want to make pizza on the moon. i know you think this is a joke. they put a lot of money and effort and hired firms and artists to put this together. this is the japanese arm of the global pizza chain domino's. these are artist renditions are you seeing. they are envisioning a domed-shaped building two stories tall. they are made of 70 feet of concrete. they hope to use mineral deposits from the moon to keep costs down. staff would be required to live on the premises and the project would cost about $22 billion. now a lot of people think this is some kind of publicity stunt and get some attention worked

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we are at the bottom of the hour on this cnn saturday morning. glad you could spend time with us on this holiday weekend. we have the tropical storm that will cause fits for people. tropical storm lee. it is a mess right now. it is headed through the gulf of mexico and it is along the gulf coast. it is causing a mess. we have ed lavandera with more.

>> reporter: emergency warnings have been sent out across the two states. emergency shelters have been opened up. this is a tropical storm that will probably not bring very damaging winds, but the amount of rain. tropical storm lee is moving at 2 miles an hour. this is a slow-moving storm. 2 miles an hour. most people walk faster than that. this is a storm that will dump a lot of rain in a short period of time. the worst of the storm is expected to make landfall saturday afternoon here along the louisiana gulf coast. here in new orleans, they anticipate it could bring as much as 20 inches of rain in other parts of mississippi and the gulf coast with 12 inches of rain. the concern is flash floodings. be aware of waterways and roadways that are filled with

water. obviously after hurricane irene and the number of deaths caused by the flood waters, that will be a very big concern here as well. this will be a slow-moving tropical storm that will be bringing much-needed rain to the area. it will certainly take up most of this labor day weekend. ed lavandera reporting from new orleans. let's get a look at the stories making headlines. the government is suing 17 major banks for selling billions of dollars to fannie mae and freddie mac. the lawsuit was filed yesterday. several firms misled investors about the quality of the loans. bank of america said they understood the risks of invests. also, you remember all of

that talk about the super committee that was created during the debt ceiling talks last month. that 12-member panel starts work next thursday to find $1.15 trillion in cuts. they must propose cuts on november 23rd and vote a month later. if congress cannot agree, automatic cuts will be made to programs like social security and medicare. house republican joe walsh is back tracking a bit, at least, after he called president obama idiotic. he made the comment early earliearl earlier this week. the illinois congress member was on cnn's "situation room" on friday. would you call this an apology? >> i apologize for that. that was absolutely stepping over the line. i apologize. what i meant to say, and i did not say it artfully is, the

notion of him using his office to call a joint session of congress to just repackage a few old jobs ideas -- that to me is idiotic. he is not an idiot. he is the president of the free world. i don't want congress to be a pawn or a prop in this political theater of his. >> did you get that, folks? the president himself is not idiotic, but what he is doing is idiotic. walsh says he is skipping out on the president's speech next week. the president will outline his jobs plan to congress next thursday. we have another comedian apologizing for a rant during a show. we are talking about katt williams. he is apologizing for an anti-mexican rant during a comedy show in phoenix last weekend. take a listen to some of what

got him in trouble. >> you think i'm dissing mexico and i'm defending america. are you mexican? do you know where mexico is? this ain't mexico. it used to be mexico. now it's phoenix. usa! usa! >> williams was responding to someone in the crowd. a heckler who claimed to be mexican. now he did not stop there. this went on for ten minutes. we are giving you a taste of it here. here is another bit of it. >> do you remember when white people used to say "go back to africa." and we had to tell them we don't

want to. so if you love mexico, get the [ bleep ] over there. >> later, williams could issue an apology. my remarks were not meant to be offensive. i want to apologize if my comments were taken out of context. i appreciate my fans within the mexican community. i would never go out of my way to offend them. > coming up at 10:00 this morning, you will hear from katt williams. we will hear more about this incident. what he is apologizing for and what that heckler said that set him off. again, that is 10:00 eastern time. katt williams joining me live. something else i want you to look at this morning. it is a page from a coloring book. a coloring book where children

can color in, yes, the smoking twin towers. would you want your children coloring this image? is this the way you want your children to learn about the events of september 11th? one publisher who put this coloring book out says this is the way to go. he is joining me next. i'm not crazy about these light fixtures. kitchen's too small. what's next? 607 franklin st. ♪ sea bass...

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quote from the book. this is a coloring book. it says, "these attacks will change the way america deals with and views islamic and muslim people around the world." another one, "childrenes these attacks were done by the freedom hating terrorists." direct quotes ti s i'm taking f you there. parents, would you want your children coloring the images of soldiers killing osama bin laden? a lot of people are upset about the messages in the coloring book. but the publisher stands by it. his name is wayne bell. he joins me this morning. mr. bell, thank you so much. >> good morning. how are you, t.j.? >> i'm all right. this has a lot of people talking. first of all, what age is this book targeted?

>> this is a graphic coloring novel. it is not a coloring book. it is a novel. it has a lot of words and paragraphs. it is designed for children 10, 11, 12 and up. it is a pg rating. this is not a fantasy. the images and pages in the book itself are based on real photographs and pictures from different places. >> we know we don't have a real photograph of a soldier shooting osama bin laden with a woman in a hijab. >> whenever abc and cnn and cbs and nbc, they ran the same information. that is where we got that page from. still yet, it is a graphic image we got from the national media. that is why we put that in the book as is. >> we are showing it. kids as young as 8, correct? >> yes. parental guidance. >> this is up to a parent.

>> that's correct. the only place that the book is actually for sale was at coloringbook.com. you will not find this on the shelves. if parents want it, they will buy it. >> why do you think it is okay for a child, 8 years old -- it is for a parent. but to color in a bullet heading for osama bin laden. >> i'll tell you right now. this is a letter from a group of people from ground zero. these are firefighters and paramedics. they say from someone who has lost friends and loved ones and part of himself that will never come back. thank you so much for keeping the memory of the heroes on 9/11 alive. many of your children using the book will be too young to remember that day. i lost friends that day. >> i will give you that. you probably have some thank yous. i know you do.

i don't have enough time to read the comments, sir. i don't have time to read all of the comments from people saying what the hell is this guy thinking? there are different opinions. >> i'm sorry, what did you say? >> i don't have time to read all of the comments on the other side saying what in the world is this person thinking. >> t.j., it's like this. >> i will let you speak here. the question here is one thing is about the images. kids coloring in a smoldering tower. people have issue with that. the muslim community say you always refer to muslims as extremists. you don't make any distinction between the two. for an impressionable child you are trying to teach about 9/11, you are giving the wrong image. >> what we talk about is the 12-hour period here. about 19 hijackers in a 12-hour period. we talk about osama bin laden

dreaming up the dream he will bomb america. he does. we describe these events. we culminate the 19 pages with a navy s.e.a.l. shooting at osama bin laden. if you watched the program on national geographic, that is more graphic than anything in the book. the book is in black and white. our company is super sensitive to minorities, to the needs of minorities. we public hundreds, like the dred scott heritage foundation book. andrade hatch's look. this book we sell across the street from you in the martin luther king center in the gift shop. our company and everybody knows who this man is. our company is super sensitive when it comes to minorities and what we make, t.j., is based in realism. it is realistic art that parents and teachers and educators will

use to teach a lesson to children. if you don't like the truth, don't buy the book. we did a lot of research on this with firefighters and educators and professors and psychiatrists. a lot of research. people told us said do not candy coat the truth. do not produce an incorrect piece of literature. we want the truth. t.j., that is what we gave them. i know it is painful and it is hard to look at. >> it sounds like you do have -- sir, do you not think that this book, to an impressionable 8-year-old child gives an impression that stops -- i let you speak. listen to the question. do you not think it gives an improper impression of muslims in this country or around the world, when all a child sees and knows of the book is extremists

and muslims killed people and burned the towers and that is all you say is muslims are extremists? >> when cnn ran the story on 9/11, what do you think kids thought about that? it is the same question to you at cnn. this is the small book. we don't talk about the muslim faith. we don't talk about islam. we talk about nine hijackers who happened to be muslim. that is all there is to it. it is truth. it is factual. we cannot back away from the truth. that's all there is to it. there is nothing in this book offensive. we had hundreds of people look at this book. there are certain organizations and groups that would like to use this as some type of an educational platform to further their goals. that's fine. everybody has their own mission. t.j., there is nothing wrong with this book. it tells the truth as it lays. >> do you have a mission, sir? you don't have any issue with

muslim americans and you make the distinction between muslim americans? >> we have muslim americans selling our book in st. louis today on the street. >> people might get the impression listening to you. i want you to clear it up. you make a distinction yourself personally? >> t.j., i have muslims in my family. i have muslims in my family. i haven't exposed their names or anything else. i have muslims in my family. you can't paint me as a racist or a bigot or liar or thief or anything else. it is true what we put in this book. >> i'm not painting you. i want to make sure you don't get the impression that i am. i'm giving you the chance to make the distinction. >> we talk about 19 hijackers and that's it. >> sir, one thing. before i let you go on this point. you do clearly personally make the distinction between the muslim american community and 19

hijackers or muslim extremists? >> we don't talk about the muslim american community, t.j. >> this is a personal question, sir. >> okay. ask me again, please. >> in your personal views, sir, you do make a distinction between the muslim american community and peaceful muslims and muslims who love this country and muslim extremists who attack this country? >> we get phone calls and letters from muslims on a daily basis. i got one ten minutes ago from the united kingdom. we are not talking about the muslim-american community. there is a distinction between the book and the muslim-american community. no matter how hard you try, you cannot mix the two together. this book is about 9/11. that is all it's about. >> sir, i was giving you a

chance to make a personal distinction. we want people to understand you may have put out the book, but i want you to make it clearly. >> i looked on the web page this morning. 143 countries have bought this book around the world. >> mr. bell, i wanted you to have the opportunity to make sure your personal views that you don't think all muslims are the way this book is and you have no problem with the muslim-american people in the country. >> i have no problem with the muslim faith. i have no problems with muslim people. period. that is not the deal here. if anybody says that, they are being disengenuous and duplicitious. t.j., there is no doubt in my mind there are a lot of people out there that are angry about

this book. we are sensitive to that fact. we asked the muslim community to participate in the making of this book before we made it. we got very little participat n participation. a couple of select individuals wanted to make this their platform. i respect them for who they are. nobody can deny the truth. they cannot take this away from america and take out of the minds of americans what happened. that is all this book is about. it is not about american muslims. it is not about the muslim faith. >> we will let you have your take s say. thank you for taking the time. >> invite me back for my next book. we can discuss that one. i might make a book on you and don lemon. >> all right. mr. bell, you enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend. we are getting close to the top of the hour. >> have a great holiday. >> that comic book publisher. he has a different approach to

the 9/11 anniversary. children's advocate agency will join us next. he put out something in response to the 9/11 coloring book. stay with me.

all right. we are getting close to the top of the hour. before the break, we introduced you to wayne bell. he stands by his book, 9/11 we shall never forget. let me bring in alonso washington. in response to the "we shall never forget" coloring book, alonso made a poster for the

9/11 events. let me bring in mr. washington now. alonso, i don't know if you were able to hear the interview. were you able to hear mr. bell a second ago? >> yes, i heard him. >> well, what do you think about his explanation? >> well, first, let me say i didn't make this poster in response to his coloring book. i made this when september 11th first took place. i gave it away to kids in schools because i go in actually trying to help children. it was so popular, people started requesting it. it became a regular thing that people ordered. in response to him, i never shy away from controversy. i don't think this guy is being 100% honest in his presentation. you know, parental guidance. that is what "pg" means. a coloring book should never

have "pg" on it. this guy is dealing with this issue. what he is doing is making something that is very controversial so the press will cover it. there is a certain faction of people that will buy it. that is what i think it is. i don't have a problem with putting that out there. however, you know, we know that 8-year-olds don't know what a muslim is. we know most don't know what a christian is. if it is your first time introduced to islam and you hear radical muslim, you are going to get the perspective that most muslims are like that. he is pretty much aware of that. >> he got around the coloring book part of it. he called it a graphic novel. it has a lot of writing with pictures for kids to color. >> i'm a comic book publisher. graphic novels are for adults to read. he is playing with words there. this is the first graphic novel that you color in history.

he just threw that on there to make it sound okay. >> last thing to wrap up, you know this is the first time a child has been exposed to a faith and muslims and they hear extremists and jihadists. what other effects could it have of you pulling out the color gray and color being in the burning twin towers. what other effect could it have? >> it could promote fear and negativity. i had something multiculture. it was telling kids how to report terrorism and give blood to help america. terrorists want to divide us. this is a nation where all people of all races and faith can come together. that is what my poster is about. if you are interested in it, you can go to omegaseven.com. >> alonzo, we appreciate you this morning. we received a lot of feedback on

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good saturday morning. we are at the top of the hour. we have a slow-moving tropical storm that is dumping more than

a foot of water on the gulf coast already. states of emergency have been declared and tropical storm warnings have been in place along the gulf coast. also this morning, dr. maya angelou. she is not happy. she is not happy at all about the martin luther king memorial in washington d.c. she wants it changed already. she thinks part of the exhibit makes dr. king look like, and i quote, an arrogant twit. my conversation with her is coming up. you use your debit card at the gas station or restaurants? you shouldn't be. coming up when i talk to clyde anderson. i'm t.j. holmes. let's get you started with the tropical storm. it is churning in the gulf of mexico. we have seen several states of emergency put in effect. mississippi and louisiana trying to get their ducks in a row right now.

they know this water is likely going to start rising. look at what they are doing on grand isle, louisiana. the rain is already there. they are getting rain for more. i talked to rupert lacy. he is the emergency director for gulfport and biloxi, mississippi. i asked if people were ready to get out of there. >> of course, they are. we are in the process of rebuilding after katrina. one of the misfortunes is that in some of our lower lying areas of or county, people have not built back right back in paradise along the water. we've had been ten roads we had water over because of rivers coming up the southeast flow. you know, we had a couple of homeowners that talked to us about the standing water. if we have to, we are ready to

pull the trigger and open up a shelter. we still have a little bit of time so people can prepare their homes before we have to open up the shelter building for them to seek shelter from the wind and higher rains. >> let's say good morning to alexandra steele. our ed lavandera says this is slow moving. two or three miles an hour. most people walk faster than that. >> it gives you a perspective. the dousing and drenching rain will be the calling card with this one. financially and also just how they feel in the gulf coast after, of course, that oil spill. this was their chance to get back financially and mentally. this big huge holiday weekend. that is unfortunate. the worst timing of all. let's talk about this one more time. i want to show you what we are

seeing in terms of where this is and the biggest problems with this. it is the flooding and flash flooding. here it is. tropical storm lee. here is the gulf of mexico. here's the center of circulation. it is getting its mojo back a little bit. it is poorly organized. one thing in the reds and purples are the heavy rains. 2 to 3 inches an hour will fall around i-10. maximum sustained winds at 50 miles an hour. this will not be a wind event, per se. we will have 50-mile-an-hour winds, but we are expecting up to 20 inches of rain. the current radar in new orleans. this is beginning to bring 5 inches of rain right now. we will not see this lighten up until monday. what this means is tornado watches. we are seeing that with

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will she or won't she run? that conversation is a little later in the show. overseas, the united nations sending a team to libya to send aid and assessing the needs of the country. they were we welcomed by the transitional council there. one of the biggest problems facing libya is a shortage of clean drinking water. a travel alert in place from the federal government as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches. the state department issued the warning to citizens to be aware of the continuing threat posed by al qaeda. they also stress there are no specific threats. new airport scanner software rolled out across the u.s. you are seeing video here from dfw in dallas. the scanners will now take a less detailed picture of you. it is just an outline of you, really, as you can see in the pictures. both you and the screener will

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13 minutes past the hour now. the washington memorial that dr. martin luther king jr. is up already. it's being criticized. it is being criticized by a respected african-american author. dr. angelou is saying the quote on the side is making dr. king look like an arrogant twit. the quote says, "i was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness." this was taken from a sermon he gave at ebeneezer baptist here in atlanta. he did it two months before his

assassination where he was suggesting a eulogy upon his death. let me tell you what he actually said. take a look. you can read it on the screen and listen to this. >> yes, if you want to say that i was a drum major, say that i was a drum major for justice. say that i was a drum major for peace. i was a drum major for righteousness. >> that's my favorite mlk writing. every time you hear it, it gives you chills. dr. angelou wants the indescription changed. i spoke with her about the quote and why it is so important that it should be changed. >> it is said that speech is the mirror of a man's soul. and certainly it was for martin

luther king. each word he spoke was chosen carefully. you can read back long before the "i have a dream" speech and you can hear that he was very careful in his selection of the words he wanted to use to express his thought and express his soul. in this case, in the case of the statement on the sculpture as it stands now, that is not an accurate reflection of what dr. king said. it is an edited statement of reverend king. >> it sounds like i am hearing from you it should absolutely be changed. will you never been satisfied if they let it stand the way it is? >> my desire to have it changed is for the honesty and reality

of the man martin luther king. so that he can be seen as he really was. i'm not expecting a great role of sentiment for everyone in the country say change it. change it. i don't expect that. if there is enough -- if there are enough people who would like to see it change, i don't know what the artist will do. he may say i have spoken. he has the authority to say that. >> you have been very complementary of the monument. any other issues you take with it after it was finally unveiled? >> no, i don't. i tell you what i do think is that there is a ground swell of excitement around the country. i have been traveling a lot

around the country in all sorts of communities. white and black and asian and spanish speaking communities about the memorial. that's exciting. sometimes we only come together as americans when we have been assaulted. but the september 11st, whether we are at war -- it's a wonderful thing to come together for a positive reason. >> all right. so what will happen now to that inscription? the people who put that together said there is not enough room for the entire quote. they had to do a little switching around. when they did that, there was not enough room on the side for the whole thing. that is why it was paraphrased.

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all right. 22 minutes past the hour. this is the beginning of the list we were showing you here. this is the list of places you should not use your debit card. you see restaurants and gas stations on there. clyde anderson, our financial analyst is here with more. you have to help me understand. restaurant and gas stations. those are the two places i use the debit card all the time. why not? >> when i say restaurants, they take that card away and you don't know where it's going. they are gone. they have your number. it's gone. you want to have some control. you lose that control when you give them that debit card to go away. >> when they go away with your credit card, you have more protections in place. >> exactly. >> what about a gas station?

>> these gas stations have convenient atms. those are the ones i'm saying stay away from. some look suspect. you don't want to do anything. go to the bank. you don't want to use it where it is suspect. >> it is not a matter of buying the gas. >> correct. on the other side, when you think about it, you talk about gas, you don't have recourse as well. a lot are delayed debits. it doesn't come out immediately. >> give me the other places. these may surprise people. these are places we should not use the debit cards. >> for future purchases. maybe you are buying something and they will deliver it to your home. furniture or appliances. you don't want to use your debit card. you want to use the credit card. what if they don't come? you have only so many days after making the purchase. if it is coming in five days, you lose some of that. >> why get rid of your money when you don't get the product.

>> atms. we talked about them. hotels. don't use your debit card. they will hold that money. they will put it to the side. you want to make sure if you cancel the hotel reservation, the money is gone and it takes forever to come back. >> you can keep going. what else? >> we talked about future purchases. restaurants. we talked about convenience stores. as far as the atms that are suspect. you want to make sure of the reoccurring payments. if you have the auto debits, things that come out of your account on a monthly basis. that gives them too much power and control. you can have a debit card that you put a certain amount of money on. like prepaid. a visa or mastercard card logo. >> is that the same as giving the company your routing number?

this is very popular. >> a lot of people do it. it is automatic. they use the debit card. they have the debit card. money is there. you should not use that. i hear it often. people say it is similar. i'm using it. you have two days to dispute it. they will cover you up to $50. you could be libel. >> last thing here. where can i use my debit card? >> several places. go to the bank. if you use an atm, go to the bank. places you trust that you frequent all the time. if you are buying something, make sure it is an immediate purchase. groceries. that is a great place to use the debit card. you are getting it right then. >> all right. debit card. all of my money on it. i can use it in two places. very nice. clyde, good to see you. a quick break and we are right back. irst.

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