on with the mission. they will say that today on this tenth anniversary of 9/11, all of us here in afghanistan continue to be affected by those attacks regardless of where we were on that day. men and women from 35 nations, not just americans are here as a result of that tragic day. 9/11 continues to impact the entire world, we are resolute to finish the mission we began. that mission, of course, fred, is to make sure that the afghans can protect and secure their own country when u.s. and nato troops come home by the end of 2014. fred? americans on u.s. soil are remembering the 9/11 attacks ten years ago this weekend. a live picture right now from ground zero. the site of new york's world trade center. take a look. a memorial service at st. patrick's cathedral is also honoring the 343 firefighters

killed when the twin towers collapsed. and there is tight security in new york and washington this weekend as people gather to mark the anniversary. police and the fbi are on high alert looking for any signs of a terror plot. u.s. officials say they received information of a credible, yet unconfirmed plot to attack those cities. our susan candiotti joins us now from new york. do we know what law enforcement may be looking for? any more details on that potential plot? >> reporter: yes, fredericka, hello. cnn is learning new details about the timing of this possible conspiracy. at least two of the three men are now believed to have traveled from the mideast region to the u.s. last week. according to a u.s. government official. and a third man believed to be possibly part of this plot was said to be traveling in europe.

now, as we've been telling you, two of those three men are believed to be u.s. citizens. and now we are also learning that there's a further description that the two of them are also of arab descent. tracking their names have been difficult because of the very common names in the mideast. however, authorities are using tools that include flight manifests and flight logs to try to track down more information about exactly who these people are. you will remember that this plot was only uncovered by u.s. authorities 72 hours ago, wednesday of this week. and they learned about it after intercepting a communication from an al qaeda operative operating in pakistan. and intelligence agencies tell us that this is someone who has been credible in the past. the two targets are said to be new york and washington possibly involving a car bomb, a truck bomb, or some other means. but remember, this is still an

unconfirmed threat. fredericka? >> all right, susan. and tomorrow, significant ceremonies to be underway. give us an idea of how security has impacted people getting from point "a" to point "b," whether it be today or potentially tomorrow. >> reporter: it's been tough all around for both new yorkers, especially, and also tourists because they continue to have very, very tough security check points set up around the city at subways, tunnels, bridges, trains, randomly stopping trucks and cars, and people even checking their backpacks. looking for anything that looks suspicious. and that has slowed down traffic. so it's been very difficult all around. so, you know, as we wrap things up too, i wanted to show you that just over my shoulder, you will see there's an american flag hanging. and workers are in the process of bringing that down, they're going to move it up the building, and in its place is going to be what's described as the world's largest unfurled

flag that will be hanging there in that spot. it should be quite something certainly emotional during tomorrow's ceremony. >> susan, thanks so much, susan. lower manhattan. well, twitter, by the way, has been very busy with new yorkers tweeting about that added security and traffic. here are a few of the tweets. pumas tweets, there are lots of security check points throughout new york city keeping everyone on their toes. and we get this from cassandra, wow, the amount of security and check points is unreal right now. and mary tweeting this, supposed to have dinner in the city tonight, but i think i'll move it to midweek, not because of fear, but because of traffic. and jack tweets, major gridlock in new york city assuming because of anti-terror check points. happy to be running late if it means being safe. let's get you to washington, d.c. now. visible police presence, also very high there.

athena jones, and you spoke to the police chief a short time ago. what's taking place in that city right now? >> reporter: well, you know, they have a lot more officers on this street. they have 200 to 400 additional officers from the metropolitan police department out on patrol. they're on 12-hour shifts to make sure they're covered. and it's not just, of course, the metropolitan police you have to worry about here in washington, d.c., you have the capitol police, the park police, in charge of protecting the monuments and the memorial, you have secret service, of course, and the metro transit police on all levels across all of these departments, you have a lot more officers out. whether they're in plain clothes or in uniform, on foot, on motorcycle, on horseback, you have more of these specialty units out like bomb squads and canine units. and the city officials here say that washington is safe. here's what the police chief had to say to us a little while ago. >> we have one of the highest trained, most capable police

departments in the country. we've had ten years of ramping up our training our capabilities, our equipment. so we -- we've got -- we're on the best police forces in the country. this would be one of the safest cities in america with the level of training and equipment here in washington, d.c. >> reporter: and, of course, one of the ways officials rely on to keep a city like washington safe is public vigilance. they've put a lot of emphasis on the idea that the public as this anniversary approaches and certainly, of course, with this added terror alert for this city in particular that the public keep their eyes and ears open. we just got a note from a producer a little while ago on a metro, and they had the announcer come on the metro pa and say as we approach 9/11, keep watching, looking around. if you see something, say something, that sort of thing. and i'll tell you, the police chief told me just yesterday between after their 4:00 p.m. news conference, they'd already seen an uptick in reports of suspicious activity.

they've seen a lot more, they're checking out all leads. it'll be important. >> thanks show much for that message. and in the middle of this heightened security in washington, d.c. this weekend, people are turning out in large numbers taking part in the september 11th national day of service and remembrance. volunteers are organizing food drives and neighborhood cleanups for people here in the state, and they're putting together care packages. and thank you letters for troops serving overseas. and former president george w. bush laying a memorial wreath at the pentagon this morning. looking on is former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, 184 people died at the pentagon in the 9/11 attacks. and president obama spent part of this morning at arlington at national cemetery as you see right there. he and the first lady visited the section of the cemetery devoted mainly to u.s. military fatalities from the wars in afghanistan and iraq.

last hour, former presidents bush and clinton attended the dedication of a memorial in shanksville, pennsylvania. it honors 40 passengers and crew who died on flight 93 on 9/11. cnn's david mattingly joining us now from shanksville. so the former president and the current vice president all speaking and unveiling this beautiful wall behind you. >> reporter: that's right, fredericka. very powerful moments today, very emotional as they unveiled the massive marble wall that's down below behind me containing the names of all of the people of the passengers and the crew aboard flight 93. we heard from former president george w. bush today as he was explaining that these weren't soldiers, these were just ordinary citizens who voted, and when confronted with this problem chose to act and turn against their hijackers and explained how their actions brought the plane down here and

saved lives keeping the plane from going to its target in washington, d.c. we also heard from former president bill clinton who pointed out that this memorial is still $10 million short of its goal for fund raising. ten years out, and this memorial is not finished. and he actually reached out today and said that it's time to have a bipartisan plan to start raising the money to get this done. listen. >> since i am no longer in office, i can do unpopular things. i told the secretary of the interior, the head of your development program that i was aghast to find out we still need to raise $10 million to finish this place. and speaker boehner and i have already volunteered to do a bipartisan event in washington. let's get this show on the road. let's roll. >> reporter: there the former president recalling the line

from one of the passengers onboard, let's roll, trying to get people motivated to get this project finished, to get this memorial done and finished to honor the people who are on flight 93. fredericka. >> and david, you were among the first, reporters on the scene there ten years ago after that flight went down. give me your impressions on the contrast of what it was like there ten years ago and then returning to it now. >> well, i was on vacation here in central pennsylvania when it happened. i got here just a short time after the plane crashed. there was a great deal of confusion at the time. and here at the site, it's completely transformed now. at the time, there was this crater where the plane went down, there was smoke coming out of it. a great deal of confusion, a great deal of anger, a great deal of fear about what was going on. today is very peaceful, the hills around here are no longer

an abandoned strip mine, they are covered with wild flowers and grass. it's very beautiful, very pastoral, very serene, a very appropriate way to remember the men and women who were onboard that plane. and today, of not really a solemn occasion, but very emotional and, again, former president bill clinton bringing out what is on everyone's mind, this memorial is still unfinished and they need to get the job done here. >> david mattingly, thank you so much from shanksville, pennsylvania. and more on your tweets of how you life has been impacted by 9/11 over the past ten years. 9/11 affected all the families of loved ones who went to war and returned with ptsd and have never been the same. and this from sonia, i never used to watch news when i got up in the morning, ever since 9/11, it's the news as soon as i open

my eyes. we'll keep your comments coming, twitter.com/fwhitfield. join us for our special 9/11 ten years later, a live coverage of remembrance events beginning tomorrow morning, 8:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. and an update from libya is next. the fight is on for one of moammar gadhafi's last remaining strongholds. ben wedeman is with opposition fighters. you'll hear from him right after this. e action. i go to e-trade and tap into the power of revolutionary mobile apps to trade wherever. whenever. life isn't fully experienced sitting idly by. neither is investing. [ birds chirping ] [ doorbell rings ]

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all right. some international headlines now. the days before the 9/11 anniversary have been deadly in afghanistan. taliban militants attacked a coalition base in the province of wardak today. the truck bomb killed one person and injured ten. all afghan laborers, yesterday ten soldiers died elsewhere in that country. and officials in tanzania have recovered the bodies of almost 160 people after a ferry capsized this morning. more than 500 have been rescued. the boat was traveling from a popular tourist destination. officials say it was overloaded when it hit strong winds and waves. and protesters are clashing with police in greece. they are upset over new austerity measures. 10,000 public workers are expected to lose their jobs immediately. global economic confidence could take a hit if greece defaults on its debt. and opposition fighters in

libya gave moammar gadhafi supporters in a town a deadline to surrender. that deadline has expired, negotiations for the town surrender failed, so now it's a standoff in a town. ben wedeman is there. >> reporter: as soon as the deadline expired, opposition fighters fought their way to the edges of the town. but after making initial progress, they came under intense fire from gadhafi loyalists. officials saying they believe there are special forces or elite forces inside that town. and they were forced, the opposition fighters, to move back under fire. >> troops started to come at gadhafi troops at the entrance of the city. however, and they found a lot of weapons still there.

they have been fired on by artilleries, rockets, and also snipers all over the entrance. and they used the houses as cover. >> reporter: earlier in the day we heard overhead jets and saw large plumes of smoke on the horizon. it appears that is nato bombing on the town of beni walid. in the meantime, they pulled back apparently waiting for more reinforcement before making another attempt to enter the town of beni walid. ben wedeman, reporting from western libya. and coming up, with all the talk about the need for jobs in the u.s., do you know how much of the goods and services that you buy are actually american made? is it 30%, 50%, 60%, perhaps? or none of the above? the answer after this.

all right. before the break, we asked you if you know how much of the goods and services you buy are american made. is it 30%, 50%, 60%, or none of the above? the answer, none of the above. according to the federal reserve bank of san francisco, americans buy 88% of american made goods and services. this includes your haircuts, going to the movies, and paying your electric bill. but the flip side, of course. shoes, clothing, electronics, well, most of those products come from overseas. and each week we focus on getting your financial house in order. and buying american made merchandise is this week's financial fix. we heard it from the president earlier this week saying we've got to invent more, manufacture

more. so we have the ceo of amato consulting. good to see you, eric. >> good to see you also. >> let's get started with where are most of these products made? we talk about shoes, et cetera, and beyond. >> it's amazing. most of the products that we purchase come from japan and come from china, they come from europe, canada, and india. as we all know, the manufacturing base in the united states is really down since the 1960s. so most of the things in our house come from other countries. >> what's happened? why aren't americans making these things? >> well, the main reason why it's cheaper to make products abroad than make them in the united states. a lot of companies what they're doing is building manufacturing plants, for example, they'll ship it back to the united states and they'll still make great profits and still make great margins better than they do manufacturing their product here in the united states. >> so then that brings the question of why does it cost so much in order to produce something in the u.s.?

>> of course, that's a great question. well, the main reason why is because we have high labor costs in the united states. people like to make money in the united states. also, we have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world right now. i think we just surpassed japan. and also we have stringent health care and safety regulations here in the united states. when you put all these variables together, it makes it very difficult to compete with other countries. >> how encouraging is it when you hear that the u.s. when it does manufacture things the quality is much better when it pertains to drugs or airplanes or even textiles. is that at least a push in the right direction? that perhaps we're manufacturing those things well, then those companies might be able to hire more americans too. >> yes. if we have great manufacturing standards here in the united states, like you said with those products, we can hire more americans, but the main reason why we can't hire more americans right now is several things. for example, we have a lot of people out there that do not have the skills and qualification to meet some of

the top-grade jobs we need to hire in the united states. for example, microsoft is always going across seas trying to get the good employees, good engineers. and also, the change in the business landscape. every day something's changing, for example, the ipod is coming onboard and that changes everything. and also, you know, there's a lot of debt with corporations. these are some of the main reasons why companies are laying off and we don't have a good unemployment rate right now. >> all right. always good to see you from the big "d." >> thank you. >> and you can get more information from eric by going to his website at amadoconsultingllc.com. live pictures from new york's st. patrick's cathedral, the fire department in new york is holding a memorial service for all the firefighters who perished ten years ago in the terror attacks at the world trade center. the 9/11 terror attacks renewed the american spirit as

neighbors helped neighbors. well, that spirit lives on thanks to a cnn hero. see his work next.

on the eve of 9/11, the tenth anniversary, we honor a new yorker who is determined to build a positive legacy from the aftermath of that day of destruction. jeff parness was deeply moved by the outpouring of help his town received after the attack. since 2004, he has been saying thank you by giving back to communities across the country. and that's the reason he is a cnn hero. >> september 11th was a very tough time for the fire

department. there were some friends, guys i went to the academy with. the day afterwards, people came from everywhere to help out. it was incredible, you knew you weren't alone. that outpouring of kindness and generosity was more powerful than the terror that happened. that really changed me. i'm jeff parness, and i want to show the world that new yorkers will never forget what people did for us following 9/11. every year on the 9/11 anniversary, we take volunteers from new york and send them to some part of the country where they had a disaster and help folks rebuild. >> nice to meet you. >> the tallest thing there is the grain silo, it's a little culture shock. rebuilding homes or barns or churches, it's our way to say thank you. now more than half of our volunteers are not from new york. people from all the small towns we help keep showing up to help the next community. they're from louisiana and california and illinois, every

year you see more t-shirts from more and more locations. >> we've got to pitch in as much as we can. >> we just jumped on his bandwagon. this whole paying it forward thing is contagious. >> it's this big dysfunctional family reunion of all these disaster survivavivors who get together and do a barn raising. >> it's the relationship that helps you heal. >> it's about using the 9/11 anniversary to celebrate that volunteer spirit. >> we'll see you next year. >> people say thank you for doing this. i say you want to thank me, show up on the next one. >> jeff's group has also restored an american flag from ground zero now known as the national 9/11 flag. the group is in joplin, missouri, this weekend helping that town rebuild. you can see more of their work as part of our 9/11 commemoration tomorrow morning right here on cnn. to find out more about jeff's work or make a donation, go to cnnheroes.com. and be sure to join the conversation on cnn heroes

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could live ours. >> the 343 new york firefighters who died on 9/11 are being honored this hour in a memorial service at new york's st. patrick's cathedral. active and retired firefighters lined 5th avenue leading to the cathedral as a show of respect for the families as they arrive. george w. bush laying a memorial wreath at the pentagon this morning, as well, looking on is former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and the chairman of joint chiefs of staff. 184 people died at the pentagon in the 9/11 attacks. and ask anyone where they were or what they were doing on september 11th, 2001, and you'll probably get a very detailed answer. our fareed zakaria asked donald rumsfeld that very question. listen to what he saw and felt inside the pentagon.

>> what memories do you have now of that day when american airlines 77 crashed into the pentagon? what's the most vivid recollection? >> i was in the pentagon when it was hit. and we had the two planes hit the world trade center before that. minutes before. and the first plane hit, it was obviously an accident. and the second plane hit and obviously was not an accident. and then the pentagon shook and it was clear that america had been attacked. and i went down the hall and the smoke was so bad, i couldn't go any farther, and there out on the lawn, the apron around the pentagon were thousands of pieces of metal. little pieces, not like that plane stayed together. the plane just was pieces everywhere. and people coming out with

burns, and people going in and helping them out. i ran into a lieutenant colonel who said to me he saw an airplane hit the pentagon. i had no idea if it was a bomb or what had happened. but it was a day we'll all remember. throughout our lives, and after a decade, certainly we remember those who were killed and their families and their friends and what a terrible, terrible day for america. >> and you can watch fareed's entire interview with donald rumsfeld airing here on cnn tomorrow, 1:00. all right. president barack obama has declared a state of emergency in texas. it frees up federal funding for wildfires scorching bastrop county. blazes have destroyed almost 1,400 homes since wildfires started there about a week ago. let's check with our jacqui jeras. still very dry, maybe some wind, as well, too? that's making it very difficult

for those battling the blaze. >> yeah, you know, with the drought as bad as it is, it doesn't take much to keep this going. the weather's not really helping it very much today. the winds about 10 miles per hour, but it's extremely hot. we're talking about 95 degrees in bastrop right now. and the humidity is critically low. and that's why it's not really helping the situation here. also, the long-term forecast is not good. there's really no rain in the forecast. the next week for most of texas, particularly eastern parts of texas and the long-term outlook beyond that even worse. we'll tell you about la nina that could be redeveloping. the flood situation still ongoing. many rivers still outside of their banks while most of them have crested and are starting to recede, they're not going to be back below flood stage until monday or tuesday so still a lot of standing water. there is a little bit of rain still in the forecast. you can see spotty showers across new york as well as pennsylvania, but the total rainfall is not going to be very

much. we're talking about less than an inch for most of these areas. now, we think la nina will be redeveloping in the upcoming late fall and the winter months. that's what put us in the situation in the first place when it comes to floods and fires across the u.s. it really brings drier than normal conditions in the south, wetter than normal conditions across the pacific northwest and ohio valley. unfortunately, more drought for the drought weary, more flooding for the flood weary. things don't look good over the next several months or so, fredericka. >> that's terrible news. all right, jacqui, appreciate it. here's a question for you. what's your american dream? living in a mansion, driving a luxury car? buying anything you want? now imagine selling most of that in order to help others.

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what if you had it all? big house, big car, big checkbook but decided to give up a lot of that so that you could help others? well, it's what this family did and they wrote a book about it. "the power of half." now the lessons inside that book are teaching children in one atlanta school that they have so much more to give. here's cnn's julie peterson.

>> if we're going to make this work, we have to have -- >> reporter: social worker ed morris teaches a lesson you won't find in textbooks. >> the government is not going to solve your problems. the school system is not going to solve your problems. our leaders are not going to solve our problems. >> reporter: over 80% of the kids at bear creek middle school outside of atlanta are impoveri impoverished. >> so the solution to heal your communities, homes, and schools lies within yourself. >> reporter: morris teaches a new way of thinking. by enlisting the help of philanthropists, he leads the students in a two-step process. >> if you're going to achieve excellence in these schools, you first have to focus on the problem. >> reporter: step one, students talk about their big-time problems. >> kids who are talking about being raped or molested or, you know, kids who are growing up in poverty or kids growing up with no dads, with moms who are

involved in crack. >> reporter: step two, teaching the students that it's in the power of giving back that they'll move forward. salwen knows a thing or two about giving back. it was back in 2007 that salwen decided to make his own radical change when his 14-year-old daughter hannah convinced the businessman to sell their house and downsize in half. he donated the $800,000 left over to two poor villages in ghana and wrote about it in "the power of half." a story that caught the attention of ed morris. >> ed approached me and said, hey, mr. salwen i know you wrote this book for white soccer moms, let me tell you it's the inner city kid, the poor inner city kid. >> reporter: destiny folker says before the program, she was very low. >> i didn't really care about my school work, i didn't really care to come to school every day. >> reporter: but after talking with her classmates about problems like bullying and

issues at home, destiny opened a new chapter in her life. she started volunteering, cleaning up trash, and doing community service. >> i was distant from people before, and then i krapsed how much people needed someone. and not just money or things. >> reporter: she quickly realized you don't have to be rich to give back. >> all of a sudden kids who have always lived their lives recognizing the things they don't have start to recognize the things that they do have. >> reporter: salwen says transforming attitudes transforms the bottom line. >> that 150 when down to 51 by the end of the school year. >> reporter: the work provides a one-two punch that students say works. >> who wants to give that much money away? who wants to help people like they do? it's not, oh, i'm going to give this money to them. no, they give themselves. >> reporter: giving and also

believing. >> we believe that you have the power to succeed. do you believe it? because we believe it. >> reporter: julie peterson, cnn. >> and hannah salwen co-authored the book. you couldn't have anticipated that going half in your family's life would make such a huge impact, or did you? >> not at all. i mean, when we set out to make a difference in the world, we thought this project was just going to be our little family. i mean, little dud we know we were going to be impacting kids not only in ghana but also in inner city schools in atlanta. it's shocking to me. it's shocking what this has brought upon. >> so it's a big idea that started out a pretty small idea. it was as simple as you at the time you were 14, in a car with your dad, at a traffic light, and then you saw something that moved you. what happened at that moment? >> so i was riding in the car

with my dad on a really typical day, and we stopped at a really familiar stoplight about a mile from our house. and i looked to my left and i see a man sitting against a chain-linked fence holding up a sign, handwritten, you know, hungry, homeless, please help. a really typical scene that i'd seen 100 times living in atlanta. but right at this moment a beautiful black mercedes pulled up on my right side. and then i was kind of toggling between the haves and have nots of the situation. and i said, you know, dad, if that man in the mercedes didn't have such a nice car, then that man over there, the homeless man could have a meal. and he thought about it for a second and looked back at me and said, yeah, that's right. but if we didn't have such a nice car, that man could have a meal. >> so your dad thought maybe this would go away with a fleeting thought, but you apparently were pretty persistent about this, and then, you know, posed a challenge to the family that we need to give up more in order to help others.

how did that go over dinner? >> well, as we were sitting at dinner as a family, we were kind of talking about the things that we were involved in. we work at cafe 458 which is a restaurant for homeless men and women in atlanta where we volunteer very frequently at the atlanta community food bank, but all of the things they were saying just seemed pretty lame to me. and i felt like we have so much more, what can we do? and so my mom really proposed a challenge and she said what do you want to do? you want to sell our house? and i said, yeah. yeah, i do. that's exactly what i want to do. so that is what we did. >> it was a nice house, a $2 million home you all were very comfortable in and didn't have any complaints until you started thinking about how others might be able to benefit from half. so your family did just that and half that money went to ghana to help out people. but then all of this has turned into a book which has taken on a

life of its own. it seems like this is never ending, really. >> i mean, it really never -- it really is never ending. we're thinking about expanding the programs not just at bear creek in the eighth grade, but also moving it to the seventh grade, to other schools in atlanta. everyone has something to give and that's really -- that's really our motto. everyone has the power to give. >> and so real quick, if someone doesn't want to sell their home, what are your suggestions on how they can half or how they can help and feel good that they have done something for their, you know, brothers and sisters or neighbors? >> well, everyone does have the power to give. so it doesn't have to be money. it could be time, it could be talent. if you spend 12 hours a week online, which a lot of us do, maybe you could cut that in half and only use six hours online and use the other six hours volunteering at a cancer clinic, reading stories to kids with cancer. i mean, there's hundreds of

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stolen from the store, and she should not be entitled to the money. this case is going nowhere. >> so sharon's going to get her money? wait a minute, so the sign is there. this is private property, this is our trash, don't mess with it. was that enough? >> except for one problem, the sign went up after she got the ticket. secondly, secondly, there is testimony from other people that frequent this convenience store that the practice is once the owner throws it out, you don't want to go for garbage -- >> is it a free for all? it would be a free for all once the trash goes out? is that what you're going to say? >> well, that's the custom of this store. i know you don't want to go into garbage to get germs or the bec get germs or john edwards sex tape. she got the ticket because that's been the practice. sharon jones wins this case, fredricka. >> never know what you're going to get with our legal guys.

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we're changing things up a little bit. i know you're used to the chatroom on sundays. but we thought we'd bring it to saturday. jacqui jeras talking about the off-radar things. >> we're starting out with a new trend at a few gyms in charlotte, north carolina, where instead of exercises you actually take a nap. an air nap. >> isn't that fun? sometimes we need to learn how to relax, right? >> that's the whole idea. you've had a hard work day. you go take an air nap and go back to work. it's in a little cocoon thing. could you do that? >> maybe not in a cocoon. but i have fallen asleep in a yoga class.

doesn't look that comfortable to me. but it's a class. so it must be working. moving on to something else that may not be very comfort b for people. but san francisco, a unique place. >> yeah. it's legal to walk around nude. but they're a little concerned about sanitary things. so now a city supervisor says you have to put a little something on if you're going to sit down. go ahead and do your thingment but if you're going to sit on something, you need a little -- >> they're not talking about shorts but a little towel or something. something about bare buns on a public seat. so i understand. >> yeah. >> i think most people could embrace that. >> good times. let's move on. >> i love this. >> i love this, too. >> this is funny. things not to do with over 50. >> right.

aarp put out their magazine every month. in the september issue, they put out a list of things or not to do once you turn 50. >> let's go through them. they're fun. handwritten letters -- this is a to do? handwritten letters to your grandchildren. dancing outside in a foreign land. you can do that? that's funny. >> i like that. free spirit. >> yeah. and start telling the truth, every day. >> you should start that before you turn 50. >> yeah, i think so. >> things you should not say. >> do not say. >> whatever! you're too old to say "whatever"? >> that's what something says. >> hammered, smashed or overserved, hot and kick it. >> i don't know. those are hip things to say. >> and it also says don't wear skinny jeans no matter what kind of body you have.

>> i don't know about that one. good to see you, jacqui. see you later on all things weather. much more news after this.