ed. okay. top of the hour. the jobs report is in. a meteor shower is coming. we begin with reporter roulette. alison kosik is at the nyse. >> there is a harsh reality with the jobs report. a reality that 14 million people are still out of work and six million peopleville not had and the number revised higher with the month of july, while those are all positives, few are going to argue that this was a strong jobs report but at least it's

easing fears about a double dip recession. don? >> alison, all week we have heard outrage over bank of america's debit card fee. what happened to the outrage? >> oh, yeah. so everybody has been outraged after bank of america is going to tack on a fee to your debit card early yex year. this woman took her outrage one step further. so what she did was started an online petition. she has gathered already 150,000 signatures on it. she went ahead and presented it at a bank of america branch and sat on the sidewalk before this, though, and cut up her credit card and debit card and closed her account. so she appeared this morning on "good morning america" and said that the teller didn't seem very phased by it. >> she didn't really have a reaction. i went in, gave the petitions,

and then i closed my bank account and that was kind of it. >> reporter: she said that she left her 4$400 in cash and intends to stick it in a credit union. that's her choice. >> alison kosik, thank you. new robots that could one day be used on the battlefield. chris lawrence got a look at them. chris, show us what you saw. >> don, this is really interesting video. we got a peak at a new robot on the way to the troops. it's a larger, tougher version that has been out there before. it's equipped with two cameras, can go about five miles per hour and one soldier could lift this

robot, probably most importantly, because what happens out there is they lose communication a lot. in this case, the robot has the ability to backup on its own and reconnect that communication link. the price tag is $100,000 but it avoids the ieds and getting caught in the ambushes that they may be caught in. >> well worth the cost. next on "reporter roulette," prince harry is brushing up on his skills and is getting training. exactly what kind of advanced training is he getting? >> well, don, here is a picture of harry arriving in el centro, california, where "top gun" was filmed. he's going to be firing live missiles for the very first time and this is all preparation,

really, for him going back to afghanistan. this is the last part of his apache training. once he's completed this, he may go to afghanistan. it's all work, work, work. >> he has been perceived as being a bit of a partyier. >> well, he does like nightclubs and the like. a tradition is people going to las vegas for the night. and the chamber and to be aware of a security issues, not to gossip too much. i think he will be all right. he's surrounded by soldiers. he's a soldier himself. >> appreciate that, max foster. get ready for a dramatic light show. this weekend it's called the

draconid meteor shower. tell us the details. is it draconid? >> it means dragon. so close enough. i want you to look for the little dipper. europe, asia, you are going to have a better view than we are. by 5:00 eastern time, that will be the peak. that's not any good because the sun is still out and then the dragon, the draconid meteor shower will be coming from. where you have the best chance to see it? probably the east coast, over to canada, really good shot. clouds down in florida and parts of the area. don't go out the next day and

look for them. they are not going to be around. they are literally as big as a grain of sand. that's it. they will burn up quite quickly. although i have heard reports from nasa being worried about some of the satellites being shot by the sand. if you're going to see 1,000 pieces of sand come out of the sky for hours, that's a lot of stuff coming down. >> right after dark? >> right after dark. >> thank you, sir. appreciate it. still ahead on cnn, outrageous video to show you. it's a man who been seen shaving a young man and then beats him. you have to hear the point that this guy is going to make. plus, should the government pay poor people to stop smoking? that's what a health expert is suggesting. if you do not want america to be the strongest nation on earth, i'm not your president.

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ten years ago today marked the start of the war in afghanistan. more than 1 hundred,000 troops have been serving there and 14,000342 have been wounded through and 1,790 have been killed. we take a look at what a

ten-year war has done to our troops. >> reporter: it began when they landed, ten years of jet fuel, faith, and no fatigue. here you can see what it takes to carry on through this decades war. lieutenant colonoe al better son is a chaplain to thousands and affected by the very few. >> a number of our soldiers on their third, fourth, and some cases their fifth tour, there is a fatigue factor, emotionally drained, physically tired. we've had instances where soldiers have taken their own lives here and that is tragic. we've had about six or seven since i've been here. when someone takes their own life, it's like, you have reached out to me for everything else, why didn't you reach out to me for this?

>> reporter: this woman is in the war so her three sons won't be. >> it was actually -- she overdosed. and like she was younger than me and so i thought she had a lot to live for. i don't know why it happened. i wasn't necessarily talking with her frequently at that time and it hurt me a lot. and how because i knew her. i knew what some of her dreams were and now she didn't get -- get to live those dreams. it's like it ended. >> reporter: this is a home of one in nine american troops in afghanistan. when the americans landed here ten years ago, it was on this russian-made runway. and now they have been here

longer than the soviets. the cost to the soviets is huge. the societal cost to america, still unknown. although signs of sadness and change are everywhere. the prison here now gone, its afghan prison is elsewhere. soon troops will leave but will carry with them the scars from iraq. >> what i do every year is call the family, either the spouse or the parents of the individual that has been associated with me that was lost in combat. on the day that that occurred. i make four calls a year to family members. i wouldn't say it makes me feel good or bad. i just think it's something that i need to do. >> reporter: the closing stages of a war longer than anything america has ever copied with

before. nick paton walsh, cnn, background. >> nick, itthanks. it's a shocking word but it's in the news today. >> telling a group of women after assaults on their campus that in order to stop being victims and stop dressing like sluts. these protests are causing controversies of their own because of what they are calling "the movement". plus, a new twist in the hunt for a missing 10-month-old who we're told was snatched from her crib in the middle of the night. the police says that they are not cooperating and the couple is now responding. we're on the case. that's ahead. or hires another employee, it's not just good for business. it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities.

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well, pay attention to this next story because i want to know what you think. women outraged that what they wear could be responsible for an attack. now, i have to warn you that this story has language that some viewers may find offensive. the so-called slut walk movement is growing and our brooke baldwin talks to protesters about their controversial approach to ending violence against children. >> reporter: almost 3,000 supporters lining the streets of new york city chanting, carrying banners, and standing in solidarity for a cause known as the slut walk movement. >> the name originated in toronto in response to a police comments after a rational assault on campus that in order to not be victimized, they should stop dressing like sluts.

>> reporter: those words were heard from berlin to south korea to grand rapids. a diverse group carrying one message. >> shaming a victim is unacceptable. >> reporter: this has been used as a tool of torture, genocide. >> reporter: while the name has sparked controversy, the organizers defend it as a vehicle for getting their message out. some see it as a revival of f feminism. >> not wearing a bra was considered provocative. i think what is going on in society, women have taken different avenues to do that. >> reporter: saying that clothing is never supposed to be an excuse for an assault. >> you cannot ask a woman not to wear what she wants to wear and

say that that will prevent rape from happening. >> reporter: not everyone agrees with the slut's walk approach. the black women's advocacy group blueprint says that they cannot submit to terminology meant to dehumanize. >> it's about an entire movement of people who want to come together all around the globe who don't want to see sexual violence occur any longer and it's not about the name. it's about the message. >> reporter: brooke baldwin, cnn, atlanta. >> so critics of the movement say that the exhibitionist behavior destrakts from the message. tweet me or brooke @donlemon@cnn

or @brookebaldwin cnn. when the number of tlc started feeling weird symptoms, she went against one doctor's advice and it saved her life. dr. sanjay gupta explains her condition. plus, 47% of americans, can't name one american presidential candidate. and as numbers sinks in the polls, rick perry has a message for voters. and the 1980s gave us big hair and nintendo and rub bix cube. it also gave us good music and very, very bad music. rolling stones asked its readers to vote. remember this song. ♪ oh, mickey, you're so fine you blow my mind ♪ and then don't worry be happy, rock me amadeus and the safety

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i was just googling some stuff to see in i know the answers. worst songs of the '80s. here's number three. "the lady in red." the worst song. number two, claiming the top spot, you can hear it, starships "we built this city." i liked that song. i'm old. all right. let's talk some politics now. governor of texas, rick perry. gop presidential candidates are at the values voter summit. jim acosta is there. rick perry talked about his

views on immigration and he had some strong language about it. >> reporter: he did, don. this has been an issue for rick perry, ever since giving the statement about undocumented workers in texas. his republican rivals had given him all sorts of grief for it and rick perry said that he was talking about the drug war down in mexico and called it a clear and present danger. he said that you can't take military options off the table when it comes to dealing with that. what did he have to say? >> and let me say this about border security. i have lived and breathed this as a border governor.

i've dealt with the carnage caused by traffic and drug and weapons and people. as a border governor, i know firsthand the failures of our federal border policies and i know the answers to those answers is not to grant amnesty for those who broke the laws to come into this country. >> reporter: you know, one thing that we did not hear from rick perry, don, is that he did not apologize for that policy down in texas where they did the tuition breaks for the children of undocumented workers. so governor perry is not backing away from that, at least he did not in the speech today, and he gave what was a very and watch them put that behind them. >> we watched a lot of applause and a very welcoming reception.

did he go after any other candidates and mention them by name? >> you know, he didn't mention any other candidates by name but when he talked about the issue of life, which to this crowd, it's talking about abortion and he basically said during his speech that for him, for rick perry, being pro life is not an election year conversion. it's not an election year issue for him. he's felt it strongly throughout his political career that. is that is a not so subtle dig on mitt romney whose position has changed over the years. in his life as massachusetts, he ran as a pro choice candidate to the voters there and it has been an irritant for mitt romney. that is, perhaps, don, a preview of what what we might be hearing up at dartmouth.

the mention in that speech might be a sign of that. >> 4:00, herman cain speaking at the same event. thank you, jim acosta. mitt romney laid out his foreign policy views this morning. >> the world becomes a far more liberal place and liberty and prosperity would surely be among the casualties. let me make this clear. as president of the united states, i will devote myself to an american century and i will never, ever apologize for america. >> romney also said he wants america to be the strongest nation on earth and questioned whether president obama shares that view. still ahead on cnn, it's a

stunning story. a man tapes himself shaving a kid's head, his eyebrows, and then you can hear the child being beaten in the background. the police took the guy in cuffs after he sent it to a radio station and you're going to see this and hear what lesson he wanted to teach the kid. also -- >> we just want our baby back. please, bring her home. our two other boys are waiting for her. please, just drop her off anywhere. we don't care. just somewhere safe where she can come home, please. >> their ten-month-old is missing as the desperate search continues. police say that the parents are not cooperating and her lie detector results. sunny hostin is on the case. that's next. but, first, she's part of the group tlc and has millions of fans. but tony began seeing warning signs early on that something was wrong inside of her.

dr. sanjay gupta sat down with her in "the human factor." >> long before she became famous as t-boss, she knew she wanted to be a performer. >> i always had the same dream, running from the left side of the stage, bending to the right, shaking someone's hand and a whole bunch of people were screaming for me. >> now, success did not come easily because t-boz has an illness, sickle sell aneem ma. it leaves people exhausted and in constant pain. >> doctors did not give me a happy ending. you won't live past 30. you'll be disabled your whole life and you'll never have kids. and i'm looking around the room saying, i don't know who he's talking to because that's not my story. >> you were dealing with this as a young child? >> yes. >> and at the same time you were having the grand dreams?

>> yes. >> sounds like you turned it around in some way? >> yeah. i think it had a lot to do with my mother, too. because she never made me feel different. >> then, just five years ago, after having achieved so much success, her life was turned upside down. >> i started having headaches but they were so frequent, something was wrong. my doctor called and his voice sounded funny. and i said, you're going to say something like i have a brain tumor or something, right? and he got quiet. >> the doctor said surgery was not an option because of her sickle cell disease. t-boz found a surgeon who successfully took the tumor out. >> you sound like somebody who visualizes something and makes it happen. >> i go for it. >> she's working on a solo album and is encouraging people to become bone marrow donors. >> what i'm trying to do is get

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all right. a debate is raising our opinion on discipline. the conversation stated started with a video of this man showing his discipline lesson with a young boy. he starts out lecturing the boy about his behavior at school, then shaves off the boy's hair and his eyebrows. >> you need to decide that you're going to behave in school. all right? >> yes, sir. >> and then after i cut your hair, we're going to put you back in the room and put this belt back to work and then after -- >> the mantels the boy to go in

the next room and drop his pants and you can't see what happens next but you can certainly hear it. you can hear the smacking and the boy screaming. the man in the video has been arrested and has been charged with child abuse. sunny hostin is on the case. what is your first reaction when seeing this video? i couldn't believe it. >> well, unfortunately, in my career as child sex crime prosecutor, i've seen videos like this, before, don. my first reaction when i first saw this was child abuse. plain and simple. when you misstreet a child physically, verbally, or emotionally, it is child abuse and it was so clear to me and i'm shocked that it wasn't clear to other people. >> are you surprised by some of the reaction online? because some people argue that adults have the right to discipline children to keep them in line. >> i am surprised. i am surprised. what is interesting to me is

what i used to always say to abusers, defendants, people who were in trouble with the mistreatment of children, you can't do to a child what you can't do to an adult. i can't go to atlanta and shave your head against your will. i can't go to atlanta and hit you with a belt. because i would be abusing you. plus, you could fight back. people who do these things to children are abusers and they don't seem to realize that. of course, you can discipline a child but you can't abuse a child physically, emotionally, or verbally. >> or verbally. >> it's very, very clear. the law is very, very clear. >> for this 25-year-old man, what is the potential punishment? >> well, you know, it depends. i think if he gets found guilty of child abuse, he is going to jail and let's hope that that is the case. often times when there is not a prior conviction, sometimes they are put into counseling. i don't think that's appropriate here. if you listen to the entire

tape, it's clear that he has done this to the child before. he has beaten the child before. this is someone that has taken him out of society and put in jail for this type of behavior. because this child who is not even related to him, who knows what else he has done. >> and this very hard exercise regimin, give me ten and i'll do bear crawls and all of this stuff. >> it's ridiculous. >> we're going to be hearing a lot more about this and about the case number two. the 10-month-old baby missing in missouri. her parents allege that she disappeared from her crib in the middle of the night. the police say that the parents have stopped cooperating but the mother says that is not true. she says that the police shifted their treatment of her. >> once i couldn't fill in gaps, it turned into, you did it and they put the picture down of her on the table and they said, look at your baby.

and do what is right for her and tell everybody where she is so she can come home. i kept saying, i don't know, i don't know. i don't know. and 11 hours of it and i just sat there and -- i mean, i didn't even ask to leave. i didn't ask for it to stop. i wanted it to, but i didn't ask. >> all right. so is this back and forth between the police usual in the case of a missing child, especially in the case of a missing baby? >> that's the thing. bottom line, they are investigating the disappearance of a child. police have to do everything that they can do in the best interest of this child to bring the child home. if that includes interrogating the parents to make sure that they have no involvement in her disappearance, then i think that this is appropriate. the tough questions must be asked and answered. because ultimately, all anyone wants, especially her parents, i

would imagine, is her return. her safe return. so while it's perhaps a bit unusual to sort of shift things and start attacking the parents, it's a tactic that these are questions that must be asked in a case like this, in any case like this. >> sunny hostin on the case for us. thank you. what if the government paid you to stop smoking? yes. we're talking about taxpayer cash to help kick the habit. does it sound like a good idea or hour snbl one health expert says it's a great idea and she's here to give me her reasons. don't miss this interview. first, free money advice from the cnn help desk. >> time for answers where we answer your financial questions. consumer education at smartcredit.com, mike in mississippi says he's rinltly retired ands has significant savings, no debt except his mortgage. he wants to know if he can put the money in his retirement account or is the market still

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the question is, should medicaid patients be paid to stop smoking? a plo guess sor makes that proposal now, medicaid patients are, get this, 53% more likely to smoke than the rest of the adult population. and nationwide the illnesses are smoking-related. joining me now is a professor. i understand that at least one state will soon pay to help people stop smoking. >> yes, we will soon be paying medicaid patients to stop smoking. >> here's the thing -- >> a demonstration project.

>> i want to know how this program would operate. how exactly does it operate? >> well, the plan is that we will be paying individuals both for their attempts to smoke or the process of smoking, trying to quit, as well as actually quitting. because quitting is hard to do, so we are going to pay them for both to try to quit and how they try to quit by whether in fact they use a nicotine patch or go to counseling for the smoking cessation. >> i was going to say, what is the evidence? how do you know if someone has stopped smoking? do you know because someone has stopped smoke and their teeth is no longer yoel low? what is the evidence if they stop? >> well, the premise is that we are only going to pay for verifiable events. we will see, if nin fact they have south counseling through

medicaid and only pay them if they pass the breathalyzer test and so if they have tried and in fact quit. a lot of people go right to the quitting but most of the population quits on their own but it's hard to quit. so we are providing incentive to try by using these counseling and nicotine patch replacements. >> who would be eligible for the smoking cessation programs? >> in connecticut, it will only be the connecticut population. so all smokers on medicaid but we're putting a special emphasis on pregnant smokers. >> and does it work? >> well, pregnant smokers, many pregnant workers quit on their own because they are concerned about their children but then start smoking again as soon as their child is born, which is bad for their own health and their children's health.

so we think that these mothers have already quit. so the incentive to keep them off tobacco will be quite effective. >> so my question again, have you found any evidence that this works? >> well, we don't have direct evidence on this program because we're just starting it right now. there is evidence -- i've worked on other projects that actually helped cocaine smokers, cocaine abusers to quit using cocaine with very small financial incentives and there's lots of evidence that that kind of program, small incentives, well-designed program has been very effective, even in cocaine abusers and have been found to be effective for tobacco smokers in these kinds of trials. >> okay. there is also other kind of evidence -- >> i know you have a lot to say about this but we've got to run. we're going to see if it works and come back and report to us on your findings. >> okay. still ahead on cnn, president obama welcomes a group to the white house and they

showed up extremely late. we'll show you what happened here. also, ten years ago today, the longest war in american history began and cnn's wolf blitzer delivered the news live to viewers all over the world. we're going to ask him what it was like on that day. that's next.

it's hard to believe it's been ten years ago today that missiles rained down on parts of afghanistan starting what has become the longest war in history. a decade later, we're seeing the toll of war. more than 100,000 troop rs serving there. more than 14,000 have been

wounded. more than 1,790 have died. a recent poll says half of post 9/11 veterans say the afghanistan war has been worth filgting co fighting compared to 41% of the public. cnn was there as the news broke and we want to show you a bit of our coverage that day. >> president bush, when he spoke out on television to the american public and people all over the world, i want you to listen to what excerpt of what he said because it indicates that air power won't get this job job. >> initially, the terrorists may borough into caves and other entrenched hidings places. our military action is designed to clear the way for relentless operations to drive them out and bring them to justice. >> that suggests ground troops might be necessary to go into

those caves. >> i said at the beginning of this, it's hard to believe it's been ten years since the start of the u.s.-led war in afghanistan. i remember in the satellite truck in times square watching that at another network, but i remember as clear as it was yesterday. what are your thoughts on that day? >> i was thinking about it ten years to the day, if someone would have said that ten years later, 100,000 u.s. troops would still be in afghanistan fighting and that many would be getting killed and injured severely, i would have thought that would be impossible. i was coming until aftermath of the 1991 first gulf war operation desert shield which led to desert storm. desert storm lasted six weeks. there were a few days of air war and ground war. basically, in six weeks, it was over. i was simply assuming as a pentagon correspondent that

president bush's decision to go into afghanistan would last a few week, maybe a few months. if someone would have said ten years later, u.s. troops would still be there. 100,000 troops are still there, but until the end of 2014, three years plus, u.s. troops are still supposed to remain in afghanistan. eventually, we're told they will be leaving, but they're staying for another three years plus and as you point out, this is the longest war and there's no guarantee at this point it's all going to have a positive outcome when all the dust settles. it's a surprise to me as someone who kored that war from day one. >> we will be watching at the top of the hour. thank you very much. see you in a few minutes in "the situation room." >> thank you. still ahead, polls show the senate race in massachusetts is close, but the battle between elizabeth warren and scott brown just reached a whole new level and it includes nude photos. joe johns has the political pop. next. phone rings ]

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"political pop" like to give you all the bear facts. >> in more ways than one. >> elizabeth warren, she's the take no prisoners professional, professor, financial expert, who ripped into the troubled assets relief fund in washington to the delight of a lot of people around the country. she's running for the senate seat in massachusetts currently held by republican scott brown. senator brown known for a lot of thipgs, not the least of which is that he posed almost, almost in the buff. in cosmo magazine. warren got asked how she paid for college and she said, well, i didn't take off my clothes. so then, scott brown comes back, gets asked about it on the radio, says, thank god. it's clear this one is going to need a referee up in massachusetts. we're all looking forward to a very interesting campaign. needless to say, both candidates, don, are likely to keep their clothes on, at least

we hope. >> i'm blushing here. can you show that at almost 4:00 in the afternoon? >> almost. >> let's move on in talking about other bear facts. the '85 chicago bears finally got their visit to the white house after all these many years. >> a good story, right? are you a bears fan? i'm a bears fan. you know this story. here it is for everybody else. '85 bears won the only super bowl in team history, but never made it to the white house to visit with president reagan at the time during the shuttle challenge disaster. that's what happened. they weren't able to go, so now, president obama, being from illinois, is in the white house. he's a bears fan of course. somehow, the white house staff managed to squeeze the team into the schedule, if you will, and this team of course was coached by the quintessential bear himself, mike ditka. the president had a special

thank you for the coach that had very little to do with football. everything to do with politics. >> some of you may remember that back in 2004 when i was running for the senate, some people were trying to draft ditka to run against me. i will admit i was a little worried because he doesn't lose. coach, i'm glad you didn't run because i have to say i probably would have been terrible on espn. >> i mean, you never know, right? a lot of history. a lot of history could have changed if ditka had actually run for the senate because that '85 bears team is still really popular if illinois. >> they don't say coach ditka. they say coach. everyone knows who you're talking about. he's a great guy. but i wonder if the president could do the super bowl shuffle as well as they did it? >> he probably wouldn't want that at least right now because i'm sure it would turn up in a campaign attack ad.