what if we are the only species that composes symphonies and paints impressionist paintings? what if we were to disappear and the earth were to become an empty place with no one to appreciate the american museum of natural history, metropolitan museum of art, listen to beethoven's fifth symphony, wouldn't that be the biggest tragedy ever, this highly creative species would vanish? >> thank you again. i've said to you both it's an honor but a dream for me to be especially here with -- in this place with both of you. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you very much. that will do it for "sgmd." see more of john and richard as well as a lot of other stories i'm working on. it's called my life stream at cnn.com/sanjay. thanks for being us with us. time to get you back to the cnn newsroom for a check of your top stories making news right now.

good sunday morning. it is september 4th. hope you are having a good start to your holiday weekend. i am t. j. holmes. we have some tornado warnings in place right now. all of this because of tropical storm lee. it is kicking up waves, slamming a boat here in mississippi, but this is a taste of what this thing is doing. we will have the latest on the watches and warnings in place and what tropical storm lee is doing. sexual assault charges against them have been dismissed, so dominic strauss-kahn got out of here and headed home to france. we'll have a live report to paris just ahead. one of the most anticipated republican speeches of the summer, and no, it did not come from one of the candidates. it was sarah palin. she was a headliner at a major tea party rally.

we will let you know what she had to say. let's start with the slow-moving storm. it's soaking the gulf coast right now. tropical storm lee going at about 2 miles per hour, literally. can you go outside and take off running and outrun this thing easily. but that doesn't mean there's a lot of danger from this storm. take a look. you are seeing this from just a second ago. out of mississippi, and the winds are kicking things up. 50-mile-per-hour winds in some places, and winds are one thing but maybe not the biggest concern from the storm. you are seeing what it's leaving behind in new orleans. some places could get as much as 20 inches. now, we're not seeing the major flooding yet. but this thing is moving so slowly as i bring in bonnie sp

schneider. >> it's a concern right now, t. j. we have four tornado warnings in effect. mississippi and florida you are facing tornado warnings and they have sat here for the past 30 minutes because the threat won't go away. right here in the panhandle of florida, and popular vacation spots this holiday weekend. you run the risk of volatile severe weather. the thunderstorms just hammering areas to the west of panama city. these thunderstorms contain not only strong and damaging winds but large hail and freak lightning strikes. and right in the same region we have had reports of wind damage to mobile homes last night, so the same places, more wind is expected. secure your property and be prepared for the worst as we are looking at the tornado threats straight through the afternoon

and evening hours. and the watch box extends in the panhandle of florida, and this will go straight into the afternoon as we continue to monitor the threat that lee continues to bring. this tropical storm is just meandering right here off the louisiana coast. it continues to bring heavy rain to new orleans and moving to the northeast at 3 miles per hour and that trek continues to be slow enough to cause 10 inches of rain in some locations. we will show you what is happening with lee and katia is just a bit. we're four minutes past the hour now and we have seen some of the rainbands battling the coast already. ed lefendaria joins me. he joins me on the phone. the weather is causing problems

for other folks and our crew as well. >> the last hour and a half we have been hit by the rainband, and that's south of new orleans. it's not allowing our satellite signal to get through the rain and clouds to do something live for you. we'll phone in this report. we're here because this is the low lying area in new orleans, and they had to issue some mandatory evacuation orders in some of the lowest lying areas around this community, where the enter coastal waterways. and this tropical storm lee has pushed boughter into the community so there are dozens of homes where the floodwaters are getting close and into the homes. that's why thez people were told they had to evacuate the area.

we mention it over and over about how slow moving the storm is, and the storm continues to push north and that pushes it inland. they say it could take 24 hours for it to push out of here. the good news is we have not heard of any drownings or deaths or injuries related to the storm. that's great news for the weekend. >> thank you, as always. six minutes past the hour. we'll give you some of the other stories making headlines. barack obama headed to patterson, new jersey. this is the scene he will be greeted by. it's been a full week after the storm hit. the president will be joined on his tour by governor chris christie. dominique strauss-kahn back

home this morning. only one guy got all the attention on the flight after he arrived. a lot of cameras in paris. a judge dismissed charges in the case where he was accused of trying to rape a hotel maid. jim, hello to you and what kind of future does he hold there in france? we know he had some pretty big political aspirations? >> reporter: yeah, that he was going to be the next president of france if you read the opinion polls, but now nobody is saying that he could somehow revive his chances in time to run for president in 2012. he may make an attempt at influencing the election campaign, and that's something everybody is watching for, what

kind of hand he will play at the moment. right now he has not said a word to anybody and arrived earlier than expected and charged through the journalists at the airport and then went to an apartment and there was another mob of journalists there and he charged through that group of people, and is recovering from jet lag in his apartment. we are expecting that he will say something probably tomorrow. a spokesman told one of the journalists that he is not going to say anything today, but will maybe announce something tomorrow in terms of an interview or on french television. in the meantime, a number of his supporters, including one of his neighbors in the fancy neighbor where he lives, jack lang, who is a specialists had this to say about dominique strauss-kahn, and the influence he could have in france.

>> his fabulous qualities, his knowledge of the economy, of the question of society could be -- should be very useful for us, not only in france but also in europe. but he has to decide, and i cannot decide instead of him. >> reporter: jack lang there talking about the up side. on the downside, 80% of the french think that dominique strauss-kahn should not be a candidate for president in 2012. >> the criminal complaint has gone away but now a civil complaint is still in place. a lawsuit. what can they do to him? can he be spelled to pay this french citizen now that he is back home in france? >> reporter: absolutely, if he loses that lawsuit he would be liable for any damages that were awarded to the victim in this case. he will be fighting it out, and

a lot of people talk about it being settled out of court to avoid messiness that might be involved in a trial, so there is that. he also has a complaint that is facing him here in france, a journalists said he attempted to rape her eight years ago and she brought a complaint to the prosecutor and the prosecutor is weighing that and has not decided if there is sufficient evidence to bring charges. he will bring him in for a interview to see his side of the story. >> thank you as always. ten minutes past the hour. let's turn back to the politics in this country and to sarah palin. she is back at the podium. you would expect her to take a few swipes at the president, but she's calling out some of her fellow republicans. >> politicians are so focused on the symptoms and not the disease, and we will not solve our economic problems until we confront of cronyism of our

president and our permanent political class. >> turning up the heat for the tea party, but some people wonder if she is setting up a presidential run. we're taking a look. >> are they going to suspend the game? >> yeah, we will play until midnight if we have to. >> this is not what any fan wants to say, not on the first saturday of the college football season, and the game has to be delayed because of a storm. this happened at a notre dame football game. we have that for you after the break. it's 11 minutes past the hour on this cnn sunday morning. but, i have to support my family, so how do i go back to school? university of phoenix made it doable. a lot of my instructors were principals in my district. i wouldn't be where i am without that degree.

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>> what a great day. >> yeah, it was. i am not going to show up looking too good on sundays now, because i stay up too late for the games. >> yeah, me too. >> notre dame yesterday. an interesting day -- not the best day for notre dame in a lot of ways. >> can you say that definitely. they have been playing football in south bend for 120 years and yesterday was the first time ever they had a weather delay. they had two weather delays. severe lightning prompted officials to evacuate the entire stadium. they did not do it once but two different times. 80,000 plus had to pick up and seek shelter two different times. the game took six hours to play, and it was not a good ending for notre dame fans. the iowa game in iowa city also delayed and the michigan game was stopped altogether, so there

was wild midwest weather. >> how do you get 80,000 people out and then back in? >> very good question. an efficient evacuation plan. >> at least you know they have a plan in place. it was a good football yesterday, but looked different at one game than we are used to seeing. >> yeah, at the penn state game. and joe paterno was up in the press box, and no word on whether he will be on the sidelines next week when alabama comes to penn state, but you are talking about joe paterno, and he has been nine u.s. presidents come and go and he is still ticking, you know. >> he wants to be on the sideline. >> yeah, he wants to be, but the doctor said not yet and maybe next week.

>> you like this video? >> yeah, he decides to bust a move. he has pretty good moves, i have to admit. he was doing a tv interview and asked to dance so he did, and there was a guy to dance during the match, and so he was showing the fan in the stand his own moves. very entertaining. >> what did he do, he won wimbledon and went back home and in a concert in the white jacket, and he was dancing there. >> he is great, he has a poodle, he is great, fun for the game. >> always good to have you, buddy. 17 minutes past the hour now. you hate making that trip to the grocery store sometimes, don't you? wouldn't it be convenient that on your commute you take a few

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let us say good morning to nadya. >> you don't have to go to the grocery store in you are in shanghai, and fur a commuter. what happens is for these commuters, as you step into the station along the wall there are grocery-like shelves so you take a look. it's actually a poster, but it's back lit, so it simulates a actual grocery shelf. what you do is on your phone you take a picture of the bar code of the actual item you want and it down loads it and within hours it's delivered to your home. >> that is brilliant. >> that is brilliant. that way you are not carrying any items, and also you are seeing what you want to purchase and you are not having to go out of your way to make your

purchases. >> how long have they been doing this? >> a couple months. but there have been 10,000 already using it which makes it the biggest program. >> this has got to get to new york soon. >> you are asking, why is it not in new york and the london me o metr metros. >> let's take a moment to think about that. >> you can order groceries and have them delivered and grocery shops on every moment -- >> you industrial to carry them. there's no cell phone service in the underground metros, and it's a whole new way of shopping here. think about the information stored on your phone. you have to apply, and if you have the starbucks app, you can purchase something without

taking money down there. all the information is downlo download downloaded. convenient, right? >> that is fantastic. >> china has 18 million mobile users, so think about the potential for this. by the year 2013, there will be 9 million commuters a day on the shanghai trains. >> and this is one company in charge of this? >> this is one company doing this, and it's pioneered by a supermarket chain in korea. >> they are going to cleanup. >> it's brilliant. >> and when you get home after your commute, your groceries are there, and instant gratification. >> it's charged by weight. it's $15 and above your delivery is free. >> all right. have archiologists really

found the lost city of king david? it's believed to have existed 1,000 years before the birth of christ. we will see what they dug up, and that's this morning in faces of faith. law school graduates. turn around and sue their law school. how is that going to work? we'll tell you why they're doing it next.

24 minutes past the hour now, and as you already know it's tough out there for job seek yushz right now and it can be especially tough for new college graduates. you are coming out of school and

a mountain of student loans and the debt you have to pay back and you can't find a job, and then on top of that you have law school. we're talking about a whole lot more money there. many of the law schools often time doubt their job placement numbers. pretty impressive sometimes. 90, 98% of our students get jobs after graduation and that kind of stuff. doesn't always pan out that way. and now some law school graduates are doing what they were trained to do, they are suing, but suing their law school saying they were mislead. joining me is a man that runs a nonprofit group, law school transparency. you're not a part of the lawsuits, but do you think there's a good idea for a law student to sue the law school? >> well, it could depend on a

situation. some of the suits definitely do have merit, and some don't. so far as the ones that have merit, they are a great idea. >> what gives it merit? you saw numbers going in, and you showed me 98% get jobs and i didn't get a job and you lied. is that enough? >> there's a lot of blame to go around. both the law students attending the schools without adequate information and then the law schools who are not breaking down the information, the sem tree that they enjoyed for a long time. so when somebody looks at the 98% number, they assume it could mean full time legal employment, as opposed to working part time for a burger king or mcdonald's. >> that's an important distinction. let's hit on that. some think that the law schools

are doing wrong, the numbers may say 98% have employment but it didn't mean necessarily full time employment at a law firm or in the legal field. are all law schools doing this? most of them? is it accepted or a trend? what is done? >> this is the accepted practice. the american bar association mandates that schools report a percentage of the graduates that are employed, and they count any job as a job in this situation. now this is something that is changing at this very moment, and my organization has been involved in lobbying the aba and also law schools to share more granular employment data, so people can go into it knowing what to expect. >> can it be helpful, as expensive as law schools are, and if we get the information about jobs, this could wean out

the students that go to law school that think it will pay off in the end, and can this kind of help now, students make decisions and you are getting students in the law schools who really want to be lawyers? >> anytime you increase the flow of information from the service of provider to the consumers, you will make the divisions more efficient. in this case, it might be the students wait longer to go to law school until they saved up money or may decide not to go at all when they realize law school is not the financial ticket to security that they once thought. >> yeah, has been understood it could be the magic ticket and that not the case. >> you have found a job yet? >> i am volunteering, and i am looking for a permanent position. >> and you graduated from school from where? >> vanderbilt.

>> vanderbilt is not cheap? >> no. it was a great education, and i am pleased to have attended it. >> we appreciate you, and this is an issue that is a reality hitting graduates right in the place. thank you for joining us and have a great weekend. >> thank you. sarah palin, she usually has something to say. she has plenty right about now. she has everybody talk after she was doing the talking at a tea party yesterday. what she had to say, and did she say anything about possibly running? and also an archaeology discovery in israel. could be evidence of the existence of david, 1,000 years before christ. that's in today's "faces of faith." [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over.

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well, we're just passed the bottom of the hour on this "cnn sunday morning" tropical storm lee, we have winds and rain. rain is the bigger problem right now. it's drenching new orleans and many parts of the gulf coast. the national weather service says lee weakened a little bit. it's expected to dump 20 inches of rain in many places. people need this thing to move faster. it's just sitting there. president obama visiting new jersey today. he's heading to new jersey where some of the people are dealing with flooding there. chris christie will lead the president on the tour of the damage. and then a father of the

severely beaten fan through out the san francisco giants game pitch. his son is still in the hospital. we turn to our faces of faith segment, and we have a discovery. they found evidence of the legendary kingdom of david. it's mentioned in the bible, and until now there has been no hard proof it ever existed. here now, cnn's matthew chance. >> reporter: they could be the ruins of a biblical city at the heart of an ancient jewish

empire. a powerful kingdom of david stretching from egypt to the euphrates. but apart from the bible, there's very little evidence such a kingdom ever existed. one reason why this arc logical discovery in israel's ella valley is causing such a stir. >> it's not conclusive evidence it's a jewish city. what else you have found? >> we also have thousands of animal bones found, and sheep, cattle, goat, and no pigs at all. in those cities you will not find big bones. >> reporter: there is other

evidence unearthed here, too. olive pits dated at 3,000 years old, and a single pottery fragment. only this with 10% of the excavations complete. >> and matthew chan joins me. you said 10% of the excavation is complete. how much longer is this going to go on? >> just 10% has been completed so far, t. j., and that's after a couple years of excavations. it's the nature of that kind of work to do, and many more discovers to be had in that particular site. >> and depending on how much more is found, i should say, you will probably have folks

fighting over this site. what are we seeing already? >> well, it's a big controversial site, of course. the whole exist yuns of the kingdom of david, there's a whole group of academics that tried to show the ancient state of israel was the huge kingdom, and trying to bolster the modern day claims, and they wanted to show the opposite to reduce israel's religious claim of what it stands on. i think what the excavation is, the truth lies somewhere between the two extreme opinions. >> matthew chance, a fascinating wonderful "faces of faith" you shared with us this morning. we're 37 minutes past the hour now. if you want to read more about religion go to our belief blog,

cnn.com/belief. you can share your thoughts right there. a lot of people have the question but nobody is getting the answer. will sarah palin run? some would say she is acting a lot like a candidate. has not declared anything, and it's getting late in the game, and she needs to do something, maybe. in a tea party speech, sarah palin criticized the gop frontrunner. >> former alaska governor, sarah palin, delivered a series of sharp attacks on barack obama and some of the gop candidates. while she did not declare a presidential bid and is not expected to until late december.

>> some gop candidates raise mammoth amounts of cash, and we need to ask them what do their donors expect in return for their investments. we need to know this, because our country can't afford more trillion-dollar thank you notes to campaign backers. >> perry has been criticized for rewarding his donors with government jobs and contracts, and she unloaded on kraeny capitalism, making clear she won't seed any rivals. so we're going to watch sarah palin today as she campaigns in new hampshire, and perhaps drops more clues about her presidential ambitions. t. j.? >> meanwhile, governor perry making headlines of his own. he blamed the obama administration for the economic slump.

fixing it might require a superhero at this point. so which one would he recommend? >> the real current superheroes, there was one back in my day named superman, and superman came to save the united states. >> superman was a fictional character, right? just confirming. and then another man working for the republican domination for president, jon huntsman, he was there at a gun show. he says if he cannot get the gop nomination he will not run as an independent. a week from tomorrow we'll be in tampa for the cnn tea party republican debate. the event is cosponsored by the tea party express. that's a week from tomorrow right here on cnn. we're coming up on the 10th anniversary of september 11th. people still asking the question, just how safe are we?

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to the top of the hour. it's time to get your sunday morning candy fix, or is that just me? candy crowley coming up with "state of the union" in just a moment. how are you this holiday weekend? >> i am good because it's a holiday weekend. >> a lot of people are traveling, and we had a travel alert for people traveling abroad at least and living a broad, and we have september 11th coming up, and national security is on a lot of people's minds, and you are tapping into that? >> yes, joe lieberman and mike rogers are both guests on the program. listen, what we have heard so far is no specific and credible threat, but everybody is on alert. i think more importantly, we got the 10-year report card from the chairman of the 9/11 commission that said wait a second, there are big holes insecurity. you know what one of them is?

it's the screening at airports is not reliable. i am thinking, wait a second, we went through this thing where you can see everything? well, apparently you cannot detect bombs. a lot going on in syria and libya, and both of them are qualified to talk about that as well. >> that's ashame. that's the first thing we had to take care of first, make sure nobody could get anything on the plane. and now that's not reliable? >> yeah, and police and fireman in an emergency because they have not passed the broadband. >> i cannot let you go without asking you a little something about this coming week. the president's speech still on thursday. they have not moved it again, have they? >> no, i think you can tune in and see him on thursday. >> was that a mess on all sides? >> i goofiness is probably the right word for it.

i think the white house made the initial mess up, which is not checking to see what else is on the calendar, and it's washington. and there was a big republican debate, and he would look political to override it with the speech. and boehner responds saying we cannot do it that night, and then it feeds into the republicans are petty, and they would stop anything the president wants to do, and it made everybody look bad. >> but candy always looks good. enjoy yours, but candy is right here, just a few minutes from now. 6:00 pacific right here on cnn. it has been called the super bowl for nerds. this is happening right here in

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ten minutes from the top of the hour. some of the stories affiliates are covering. spirit airlines had to turn around and head back to the airport it took off from in los angeles this happened last night. a passenger complained about comments made by another passenger saying they sounded suspicious. police interviewed the man and searched the plane and other passengers were allowed to go on to l.a. in california a man is in jail for biting a snake. you heard me right. david sink took two large bites out of the brown python. the snake actually had to have

emergency surgery. why in the world -- i know you are asking -- why would a man want to bite a snake? he says he was drunk and doesn't remember a thing. and let's turn to arizona and a republican auction in tucson getting a lot of criticism, in particular from democrats, but from a lot of people right now. the gop is auctioning off a simi automatic pistol, similar to the pistol used to wound congresswoman giffords and kill six others in january and that shooting happened in tucson, where this auction is taking place. critics call this extremely insensitive, but the auction is going forward. we move on now to big weekend here in atlanta. dragon con is going on. if you don't know let me tell you what this is. it's about 45,000 diehard fans of science fiction all coming

together, many of them dressed up as their favorite characters. take a look and a listen to this. >> hey, i'm on camera! >> dragon con is the nerd super bowl and the most fun a nerd could have all year. >> what is so special about dragon con, it's the largest fan-base run science fiction multimedia convention in the world. >> please stand back. we need too make sure you're safe. this will not hurt. this one! >> comic-con is bigger, and it's all corporate, and this is

fan-base run so you have more interaction with the fans. >> this is my first dragon con. >> this is my eighth year. >> i have been coming for four years. >> this is my first time. >> it's one weekend where you can be what you want to be and do what you want to do and not have to worry about nobody. >> if you are into any of this at all, no matter what genre, you have to make the mecca of dragon cons. >> to each his own, right? coming up, it could be part of president obama's employment plan, creating jobs by repairing the delap dated schools. [ male] walls can talk.

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"state of the union" with candy crowley coming your way in a couple minutes. first, president obama is going to unveil his new jobs plan on thursday, and it's a critical speech with the disappointing jobs numbers we saw come out a

few days ago, and we see who could benefit right away. >> president obama is under pressure to come up with a plan to jump-start hiring. he has long argued that infrastructure spending creates jobs. it's among those things being considered. >> we could build parks all across america right now. we could put hundreds of thousands of folks to work right now. >> america's schools could benefit. baltimore is one city that could gain. here at taylor elementary school, the boiler and windows need to be replaced and many of the air-conditioners and electric sockets don't work and

the foun dunz hatains have been off because of maybe lead. we are trying to give our kids great science labs and media labs, but the basics, which is their ability to feel they're in a setting conducive to learning is something we're constantly struggling to address. >> it's hard to keep them focused. sometimes you see them in here starting to slump on the desk, because they are hot. >> while the need may be clear, there is debate over whether this kind of spending creates jobs. the economic poli policy instit.

>> critics say it has a minimal effect on job creation. >> i think we would not see the new jobs report coming out and seeing zero jobs were created in august. >> and it's a debate that is unlikely to go away. athena jones, cnn, washington. just a reminder for you, president obama delivering the jobs plan next thursday in the joint session of congress. we're starting with tropical storm lee, because the storm is dumping heavy rain along the gulf coast. but we run the risk of these storms to drop down a tornado, and that includes southern alabama into mississippi. and along the coast we have a