they're just unbelievably handsome fellows. >> if they were better looking it would be better for them. only drawback. >> shame. happy to go through life looking like this. >> movie's getting good reviews, as well. pretty cool. you can go to the blog at cnn.com/amfix. >> that wraps it up for us. the news continues on cnn with kyra phillips in the "cnn newsroom." very handsome fellows, yeah? >> very handsome. are they single? >> we didn't ask that question. >> hello. >> strange question for a woman in your position to be asking. >> oh, please. just asking for the young ladies in the newsroom who are in their mid-20s. about 30 years older than you and me. >> i thought i was going to be ditched. >> never, never. i love you dearly. >> yes. >> they are single. we have a busy two hours ahead. a closer look at when's passing for journalism nowadays.

>> i note you drive a taxpayer subsidize cadillac and the apartment and fail to pay taxes on rental properties. when you write the tax code. >> why don't you mind your god damn business? >> not exactly mike wallace but close. he's going after someone, you know, these young interviewers, young, in your face and lean to the right. all right. today we learn if rahm emanuel will run for mayor of chicago. running the windy city could really test rahm-bo's toughness. facebook, the movie opens today. it is not just about friends. it is about enemies. we are hearing from two brothers claiming the site was their idea. and was stolen. i'm kyra phillips. we begin now with severe weather on the east coast and if you're anywhere between north carolina and maine, you're probably living this news right now and ready for a dry day. storms and floodwaters are the story on the east coast.

days of pounding rain stranded cars, sent people to shelters and delayed flights and inland areas like indiana socked with more rain than places on the coast. rob marciano says the good news is the storm's moving east, not just hovering over the seaboard so relief is in sight. wilmington, north carolina, gotten nearly two feet of rain since sunday. people in that area looking at rivers and lakes where roads used to be. amanda lamb of wral is just outside wilmington and carolina beach and has a wading boots on. looks like the skies may be clearing up a little bit. finally a chance to dry out? >> reporter: yeah. they are, kyra. no rain this morning but as you can see, the roads here are still a real mess. downtown carolina beach. they have a lake, 11-acre lake that flooded over the banks and spread into the downtown area. and, of course, very few people can get around. you can't drive. we have seen some people on

kayaks and people biking through the water this morning. they're trying to get the water out of this area. what they have done is brought in a bunch of pumps down the road here. they have five pumps working and pumping it out at a rate of 13 million gallons a day. but again, a lot of water. it's going to take a while. there are about 18 roads closed in this area. and so, you know, people here are kind of at a stand still. they're in limbo until they get out and see the damage they have in their businesses and their homes as a result of this flooding and it's going to be a while before things get back to normal here. >> all right. amanda, thanks. let's bring in rob marciano now. he's watching the system all week for us. you said at least the system is moving? >> it is. finally. you know, the reason that these guys got so much heavy rain -- let's just go over the rainfall tallies here. it is impressive. not only the totals but also just the wide swath of area that this is covered.

just about 3 inches of rainfall in new york. didn't stop there just yet. the rain is moving through there so it shouldn't be much more than that. 7 inches in allentown. 11 inches in norfolk, virginia. we were talking about tornado warnings yesterday. it was coming down in buckets and they got almost a foot of rainfall. tremendous amount of flooding there in virginia, maryland, eastern pennsylvania and wilmington where they have seen 22.5 inches of rainfall in 5 days. unbelievable amounts of rain there. but it is on the move. just a little bit. this whole thing is pressing to the east opposed to coming up north to south. bad news is most of the damage is done, especially across parts of jersey and eastern pennsylvania because is a lot of rivers are up and over flood stage, and we are seeing a lit billion it of little bit of a wave. the rain tapering off parts of at least new york. it's ended in philly and in washington, d.c.

where it hasn't and moving to the east, we have flash flood warnings up and watches. another one to three inches of rainfall possible here and the winds pick up, also. eastern long island and eastern parts of new england seeing 50 to 60-mile-a-hour winds here and we did see the tree damage across the carolinas and virginias because of that. and maybe today across parts of the east coast. let's see. laguardia has -- jfk a ground stop and laguardia with three-hour delays. rough go. >> that's not fun. thanks. >> you bet. the west wing is losing a little muscle this morning. white house chief of staff emanuel is set to step down today redding ho iheading home mayor of chicago. in just about two hours, president obama's expected to make a personal announcement. that the white house refuses to confirm that it's related to emanuel's departure. we'll bring it to you when it happens. he's built quite a reputation as

a warrior in old-school politician wasn't afraid to twist some arms to get things done. candy crowley knows that all too well. cnn chief white house correspondent, host of "state of the union." we'll get into rahm-bo and not putting up with -- >> we keep talking about. this aggressive and tough and so the picture of him, reading a children's book to a bunch of little kids but okay. >> we should have used the pictures of him doing -- pointing at people. well, i guess, first 0 of all, let's start with what does this do to the obama white house? and in particular, barack obama. i mean, these guys -- this was, you know, one of his closest advisers. >> it is. but he is known -- pete rouse who we expect to take over on a permanent or interim basis has been with president obama since he was a senator so he was with senator obama. he was there in the campaign. he was in the transition.

and he is -- has been there as senior adviser so this is not an unknown quantity here. and it's certainly is within the president's comfort zone as we say. that's where you want your chief of staff as was rahm emanuel. in terms of will the white house change? a big policy change here, no, i don't think so. the president sets the policy and rouse is a comfortable pick. he's been there from the beginning in the white house. he knows the policies. he's been talking about the policies, recommending and not recommending so his moving over there, i think the one thing they may feel is inside the white house because it's a personality change. as you say, rahm is very aggressive. he is an old-school, hard ball politics and pete rouse is more laid back, more measured. and i will tell you that rahm emanuel talks to the press and pete rouse rarely does. loss for us. >> bummer. >> yeah. >> back to chicago. you know, and rahm not necessarily a shoe-in.

there are a lot of candidates and if you look at what the city is dealing with, 313 murders so far this year. $654 million deficit. 10.8% unemployment. why would emanuel even want this job? i mean, we all know he loves a challenge and doesn't beat around the bush. >> i was going to say, he does love a chicago. chicago is one of god's great cities. it is a great place. it's had larger than life mayors give you the dalys, harold washington and something -- he's a chicago native. he was born there. he is 51 years old at this point. he's been at the white house. he's been a congressman. he's been chief of staff. he was with bill clinton, as well. so you're looking for a next big thing and he's always said my dream job is to be mayor of washington -- chicago. so, i don't think it's that -- i mean, everyone sort of knew that's what he wanted to do and openings don't come that much in mayor of chicago positions.

so this one came open and you have to take your shot when you have got it and i think this is that time. >> got it. we'll talk more about it that's for sure. thanks so much. >> thanks. >> didn't have time to touch on the corruption angle with candy. that's another angle to chicago politics. we'll talk about that at the top of the 10:00 a.m. hour. all right. hearing that rahm is out and pete rouse is in as you heard from candy and poised to take over as interim white house chief of staff. as candy was pointing out, rouse kept quiet, mostly avoiding the spotlight. not a lot of people outside the beltway know his name until now but here's a bit of a primer. he is a 64-year-old white house senior adviser. he is known as a problem solver. he's helped put out political fires over guantanamo bay and top-level appointments, served as obama's senate chief of staff and before that a pretty

powerful aide to senator tom daschle. president obama's personal announcement slated to start just under two hours from the east room of the white house. 11:05 eastern time. bringing it live to you as soon as it happens. video that almost makes your heart stop. pakistani soldiers lighting up a group of bound and blindfolded men and opening fire. the story and the questions surrounding this horrifying video next. ♪

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state of emergency in ecuador right now after what the president is calling a coupe attempt. rebel police officers inkrensed over a law they say cuts their pay, kidnapped the president at a hospital near the capital. hundreds of troops came to the president's rescue exchanging gun fire for nearly an hour. two police officers were killed. the president is recovering from knee surgery and got out of the hospital i kidnapping will be hld accountable. militants in pakistan today torched trucks carrying fuel for nato troops. those attackers used

firecrackers and gasoline bombs to damage 25 trucks. no one was injured and heading to afghanistan. then in a related story, pakistan is banning nato convoy for using a border crossing into afghanistan after three were killed in fighting between nato troops and militants. critics accused pakistani forces of taking the law into their own hands but a video apparently shows soldiers as judge, jury and executioner. you're gong to see that video and we warn you it's extremely violent. frederi frederick pleitgen is following it for. >> reporter: graphic and gruesome video there and very hard to watch. i have watched it many, many times and hard to authenticate where it came from. we found it on islamist website and being used as anti-american and anti-pakistani propaganda. have a look at what you're going to see.

this video shows what looks like a group of soldiers lining up men, some of them quite young bound and blindfolded. it seems to have been shot on a cell phone and one point a soldier approaches them and speaks briefly in ordu. then the soldiers open fire with rifles. as the video continues, the audio suggests some of the victims are still alive. one soldier approaches the victims and shoots again. cnn has not been able to verify whether the video is of an actual event or when and where it was shot. pakistan's militaitary says it doesn't know if it's a forgery but launched an investigation. a retired pakistani general says judging from the uniforms, the

weapons and the posture of those involved, the video could be authentic. >> and most probably we have to assume and that there is some level of credibility and then go for it and do a thorough investigation. >> reporter: human rights groups have frequently accused pakistani security forces of extra judicial killings, especially in the military's anti-taliban offense offenses. pakistan's human rights commission says killings are not condoned by the military leadership but the chairman of the group says the military must crack down on anyone involved in human rights abuses or risk losing support of people in areas formally held by the taliban. >> and it can demolish the measure of the armed forces who are being appreciated by the people who are under the siege of these terrorists for a long time. >> reporter: the five-minute video appeared on islamic

websites while questions remain, groups opposed to pakistan's government and military are already using the video as propaganda. and kyra, we have to say, of course, the video is grainy. always very, very hard to authenticate videos like this but something that the pakistani government and army taking seriously they say because they themselves very much involved a battle for the hearts and minds of people in the tribal areas here in pakistan, kyra. >> have you got an response to the u.s. on this? >> reporter: we certainly are. we asked both the state department as well as the u.s. military in afghanistan for a statement on this. both of them were kind of sketchy and didn't want to put out a full statement and said they asked for an investigation and infired the video saying that right now they're treating this as an internal domestic pakistan i matter.

however, of course, with we have to keep in mind that pakistan and the government are very much important allies for the u.s. in the war on terror so this is certainly something raising eyebrows in washington. >> we'll follow it. fred, thanks. we are about to go to one now, a commercial. people are saying that they're louder than even the news program you're watching right now. the senate has heard your complaints. feed the money right in. no deposit slips. no looking for an envelope. i have an image of my check right here. i can get a picture of the check, on the receipt. it even tells what kind of bills i put in. [ man ] you just put the bills right in. it even did the math for me. -four twentys. -a ten. -two fives. -a hundred bucks. -it's all right here. ♪ i'm done, i'm outta here. [ male announcer ] quick and easy deposits. with atms from bank of america. ♪

top stories. sources say white house chief of staff rahm emanuel will resign today to run for mayor of chicago. pete rouse is expected to take

over the post on an interim basis. we'll bring you president obama's announcement live in the 11:00 hour. flood warnings in place from the carolinas to maine as a tropical depression moves up the atlantic coast. more than 22 inches of rain in wilmington, north carolina, this week. heavy rains in the northeast today. you can expect more airport delays. and nasa is laying off more than 1,200 workers today, many employees worked on the shuttle program which is scheduled to shut down. you always know when some commercials come on television because the volume is noticeably louder. the senate heard the complaints. it passed a bill to prevent commercials from being played louder than other program. the fcc doesn't regulate the volume of programs or commercials. it is called the calm act and moving to the house which passed similar legislation last december. well, they're young, they're conservative and they're fed up with the government. they go after politicians with the vengeance, getting in their

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well, there are new generations of political activists, young and conservative and call themselves investigative reporters using social media to get their message out. more than six months, cnn followed a group of rising stars in the conservative movement. special investigations unit correspondent abbey boudreau here to talk about it. tell us about jason. >> jason, he is a "the new york times" best selling author of "obama zombies." best known nor videotaping the

ambushes and then posting them on youtube. he told us he has no problem confronting the left. >> this is really citizens journalists fed up with the direction of the country an they're going out there and doing something about it. >> congressman rangel, jason metera. i'm from brooklyn, new york. >> i love to butter them up in the beginning. >> what are you doing in new york? >> a fan of his. once they're buttered up, you just -- going for the kill. >> why the hell you drive a taxpayer subsidized cadillac, rent controlled apartments and fail to pay taxes on rental properties? when you write the tax code. >> why don't you mind your own god damn business? >> you look proud. >> oh, it's an adrenaline rush when you're doing it. i knew i caught him. >> do you think you cross a line of just being disrespectful at a certain point? >> i'm fine disrespecting the left, honestly.

>> jason's confrontation with congressman rangel was shot more than a year ago. before the mainstream media was covering the story. some of the issues jason grills him on would become the subject of an ethics committee investigation a. full-blown washington scandal. >> so what kind of access did you get to the movement? >> it took a while to gain the trust of a lot of young people in the documentary. but we ended up getting great access and had a great glimpse inside this young conservative movement because remember a lot of the young people we profiled, they -- they didn't really think that cnn was going to do necessarily a fair piece. they thought it was some sort of gotcha piece and took time to build that trust. >> they're into that whole gotcha journal i. did they seem really well read on the issues? really into this? or was it more of, okay, it is kind of fun to nab these people

and have it on tape and put it on the web and create a buzz? >> no. i mean, for someone like jason, for example, he is an editor of humanevents.com, largest -- oldest conservative publication in the country and so, he absolutely knows the issues. and he is a very strong conservative. some of the other people we talked to in the documentary have one specific passion that they're really excited about and that they target and focus on but someone like jason, more of a well-rounded conservative. >> and so, how far are the young activists willing to go? >> well, they're -- what we learned is there are few rules and few boundaries. what happened with james o'keefe a couple of days ago which we reported, the young man that posed as the pimp in the a.c.o.r.n. videos going pretty far to try to punk me on his boat and you know about that story but for the young movement as a whole, very few rules. truth at all costs is something

we heard over and over and over again. >> looking forward to the documentary for sure. appreciate it. thanks so much. this weekend, it's called "right on the edge" this saturday and sunday 8:00 p.m. eastern and 11:00 p.m. thanks. >> thanks. facebook. the movie opens today. social network actually has a page on facebook. nearly 43,000 people like it. mark zuckerburg, the founder, probably not one of them. ♪ i love my grandma. i love you grandma. grandma just makes me happy.

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all right. we heard -- heading over to wall street where stocks are poised for a higher start on the first day of the new month and quarter. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. >> hi, kyra. thanks to the rain, it is dreary and soggy outside in new york but here inside the stock exchange, wall street is basking in the sunshine. this is the first trading day of october. and investors would be really happy if it's even half as upbeat as september was.

two of the three major averages posted the best september gains since 1939. and while the dow added 7.7% and the s&p 500 gained almost 9%, the nasdaq even jumped a whopping 12%. and that's significant because september is historically the worst month of the year for stocks. continental and united airlines wrapped up the combination created the world's largest carrier. shares of the company trading under the ticker symbol ual trading higher up about 6%. meantime, we learned before the bell that the amount of money that americans made in august rose by half a percent. that's the fastest pace this year. also, how much consumers spent also increased by almost half a percent and that's important because it's a huge driver of economic growth. both numbers came in better than expected. we have got some better than expected numbers to start off with. the dow up 63 points. the nasdaq higher by 20. kyra? >> all right. thanks. well, a lot of our youth

even young adults work at mcdonald's for the benefits but the giant's bosses say that the health care overhaul threatens mcdonald's workers coming down to a regulation they say will make it too expensive to continue them. here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: it sounds like mcdonald's is telling the government, it needs a waiver from a new health care mandate or else. "the wall street journal" reports it obtained a memo of mcdonald's to federal officials saying if the company doesn't xet an exemption the hourly workers may lose the benefits they have talking about a rule expected to take effect that will tell insurance companies to use against 80% of the money they take in to pay for treatment. not overhead or salaries. it would be economically prohibitive for the carrier to continue offering basic coverage, mcdonald's says and it would deany our people this current benefit that positively impacts their lives and protects their health. the workers don't belong to

unions but i asked damon silvers what he thought of the mcdonald's warning. >> mcdonald's is saying we want to leverage the administration to not enforcing a law by threatening them to cut off health care to these low-wage workers that pay for it with their own money. >> reporter: neither mcdonald's nor officials deny the memo was sent but mcdonald's says no decision is made and media reports stating that we plan to drop health care coverage for our employees are completely false. these reports are purely speculative and misleading, regardless of how the regulations evolve over the next several months, mcdonald's is committed to providing competitive pay and benefits and the strongest employment opportunities possible. how do mcdonald's workers feel about this? i got a cheeseburger and fries and i don't have employees of mcdonald's to talk to us about their health care benefits or they feel about potentially losing some of them. this is the fifth mcdonald's in the d.c. area gone to try to get

comment from any mcdonald's employees, any hourly employees about the prospect. each time we go into one of these places, they tell us that they can't let us film inside, the managers can't talk to us, we can't talk to the employees without permission from a regional or corporate managing office of one of these facilities. when we call them, they say no or we'll get back to you. none of them have so far. a number of other major companies with hourly employees offer the same kind of health plan as mcdonald's. but administration officials tell cnn the rules mcdonald's asked about haven't been fin finalized yet and if mcdonald's requests a waiver, officials say, they're committed to finding a solution. brian todd, cnn, arlington, virginia. well, if you're a facebooker, you might want to check out a movie hitting the theaters to. it is the story of how facebook got started and not so much about friends as enemies. >> you guys were the inventors

of facebook? is there anything that you need to tell me? your actions could have permanently destroyed everything. >> we have been working on. >> do you like being a joke? >> mark! >> the movie's tag line is you don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. john roberts talked to a couple of those enemies this morning. the two brothers who claim that facebook was their idea and that mark zuckerberg stole it. so, john, how did it all start? how did they know each other and when did the accusations start flying? >> tyler and cameron was working on something at harvard university called connect you and supposed to be a harvard-wide social networking website and having problems with programming and mark zuckerberg known to be a crack at programming so they invited him to come in. had him work on it and their allegation is and their 2004 lawsuit against him he was taking a lot of time, wasn't delivering the results and meantime he was stealing their

idea and then he launched facebook 2008. the successfully sued him for what's believed to be $65 million. >> all right. you asked him about that lawsuit, you know, hey, look, you have got $65 million. why do you want more? they're appealing it. >> they are. >> let's listen to that exchange. >> you guys sued the company. you settled. the figure's been redakted out of the new court filings and taken to be around $65 million a lot of people think that's a tremendous amount of money. but you're going back. you're appealing that. why? >> well, basically, facebook played dirty with us in the litigation and at mediation so we don't want to be defrauded into a settlement agreement so we're appealing and trying to rescind it. >> what are you looking for? more money? >> essentially the agreement that we entered into them, there's an equity component of that and they misvalued that. >> being what the company was actually worth? >> equity -- being, yes,

exactly. >> $24 billion now? >> well, i'm not sure exactly what the exact valuation is today but it would -- >> very shrewd. >> with respect to our situation, we were given equity valued considerably higher than what they were valuing their own equity internally and a board-approved number so once we sort of determined that difference, and we found out about that, we have since trying to challenge it. >> so what is zuckerberg said about all this recently or not commenting? >> well, he's not commenting directly but certainly he is through spokes people there are facebook and spokesperson on the appeal that they have launched saying we considered the dispute closed for years. we wish them well in the future endeavor and basically not getting another nickel out of us. they're going to try hard. do they have a case? i don't know the original valuation. it's between $14 billion and $33

million depending on who you talk to. some projections of valuation go as much as $100 billion. exactly what they're entitled to? it is up to the courts in connecticut. >> interesting. well, the movie's getting a lot of buzz, for sure. >> sure is. >> we don't know really what happened, right? accusations flying back and forth at this point. >> it's definitely he said/he said and an acknowledgment with $65 million and nobody gets $65 million to go away unless there's substance to the claim. >> that's a good claim, thanks. republican voters choose who they want to run for the white house in 2012. sarah palin is on the list but not leading. yeah, sometimes i worry. sometimes i worry.

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top stories. dangerous weather hammering the east coast again. flood watches and warnings carolina to maine. sources say white house chief of staff emanuel will

resign today to run for mayor of chicago. sources say that long time adviser pete rouse in line to be interim chief of staff. new files could be charged in connection with the rutgers university student that jumped off the george washington bridge. tyler clementi died by suicide after a videotape was streamed online by another student. two students have been charged with invading the privacy and prosecutors are trying to determine if bias played a role. a program note. bullying in our school and online. it begins monday night 10:00 eastern.

time now for our political update. paul steinhauser in washington at the desk. when's crossing, paul? >> new stuff for you. let's walk about west virginia. if the republicans take back the senate, still a big if, a place to probably do it is west virginia. this seat is in democratic hands over 50 years. this is robert byrd's all seat. take a look at this. brand new on the cnn political ticker. is west virginia up for grabs? well, one of the top political nonpartisan handicappers said, yes. the state is a toss-up. the race is between the governor, popular democrat joe manchin and joe raci a businessman. when the rating came out yesterday, one of the top republican independent groups called american cross roads announced to put money in the effort there. republicans think this is a place to win where they can grab back big seat. okay. let's move ahead and talk about

2012. we still have four weeks until this election. move ahead to the next one, kyra. check out the brand-new poll of gallup and shows what i guess a lot of people saying. right now in the early stages of the race, names matter. right now, the big names people you remember. mitt romney that ran last time at 19%. sarah palin. you remember her. huckabee at 12% and gingrich at 9%. this is what they're saying about a hypothetical race. nobody's announced yet. that's still to come. talking about 2012, obama verse clinton? we did that already. that's so 2008. but you know what? outside chance that maybe the secretary of state wants to take on the president in the democratic presidential nomination challenge. probably not going to happen but gallup asked the question anyway among democrats, 52% said they would back obama. 37% said they would back clinton in a very, very, very hypothetical matchup. people saying maybe clinton and

biden swap places and biden become secretary of state, clinton the vice presidential nominee. a lot of what ifs, kyra. back to you. >> paul, thanks. our next update in an hour. remind tore go to cnnpolitics.com. all right. flashback. 1962. on this day, the music that became america's late night theme. ♪ remember that? johnny carson started the long run as the host of "the tonight show" that lasted 1,914 shows. 13 years. unforgettable character. art fern. of course, the show that launched or cemented countless careers. how many times did you fall asleep watching johnny carson? you are not alone. for a generation, he was just simply mr. tv.

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♪ we never see ♪ santa claus what's that who's he ♪ ♪ no one cares for you a smidge when you're in an orphanage ♪ well, talk about a hard knock life. we read this next story, we couldn't help but think of annie and the orphans doing the bidding and this case allegedly the orphanage st. johns university in new york and the orphans were students and miss hannigan, a dean. well, she is a former dean now. thank goodness. prosecutors say that cecilia chang made students do things like cook and clean at her place in queens. that part sounds like annie. but even mean miss hannigan never made annie drive her son to the airport at 3:00 a.m. or drive up to a casino to deliver more cash. that's actually part of the complaint against chang. it also says that most of the students servants were from

overseas and that chang threatened to take scholarship money away if they didn't serve her. nice dean, huh? she's charged with forced labor and forgery and embezzlement from the school. at least she didn't make the students take that for her. all for her. let's push forward, see what is happening in the next hour. checking in with our reporters see what they are working on. let's begin with white house correspondent, ed henry. >> i'm in chicago, because that is rahm emanuel is headed to run for mayor, emmanuel out as white house chief of staff. pete rouse in. who is pete rouse? we will have that story at the top of the hour. >> i'm rob marciano in the cnn severe weather center, the storm rolling across the eastern seaboard starting to press offshore, we have a day left in new england to deal with run down the record rainfall totals and airport delays in the next hour. >> all right, thanks, guys. also ahead, the economy taking a toll on tying the knot. we are going to talk to couples who say the recession is forcing

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cross-country food journey all this week and sent reporting teams to every corner of america and beyond. our mission to get fresh answers about how our food is grown, how the choices we make impact our health, our state of mind, our budgets and of course, the pure joy of eating. we have teamed up with the new cnn.com food destination to bring you autocracy, mind, body and wallet and looking at the american diet, not just how much we are eating first up, the texas state fair, the deep fr r fryerment is just for solid foods anymore. >> fried beer. it is 5:00 somewhere. fried beer is the new addition to this year's menu. beer is frozen then tucked inside a pretzel then the pretzel is thrown into the hot oil. love it or hate it, it is a matter of taste, i guess. growing portion sizes in the u.s. are a matter of fact. check this out, a typical cheeseburger and fries 20 years ago packed about 685 calories.

the meal has ballooned and so has the calorie count, up to 920 calories. that got us thinking, what people around the world eat and how much of it do they eat? so we used cnn's worldwide resources to send our reporters doubt dinner. here is taste of typical meals in asia, africa and the caribbean. . i am not proud of this but as a chicago-bred american, i like food and the more the better whether it be jumbo-sized hot dogs or personal pan cookie desserts, topped with ice cream, of course. in america, when it comes to food, size matters. not so much in japan. this is a classic japanese dinner, sushi. what is valued here, it is beautifully presented, made with fresh, natural ingredient and you may notice it is much smaller than the american dinner out. when i first moved here, i would eat all this and say that was a delicious appetizer. so, it has taken some adjusting.

there is a saying here in japan that you eat from the eyes. beauty is appreciated. fresh, locally produced food, people here grocery shop almost every single day so very little is processed food. and for your health, you don't stuff yourself. you only eat until you're about 80%. if you and as far as dessert, two pieces of fruit. that's what they offer. so, food here, though is much more expensive than the united states. all of this costs about $26 and this is all before the sake. cnn, tokyo. >> i'm dave mckenzie in nairobi, kenya. in kenya, the butchery and the restaurant are often in the same place. if you want an evening meal, you do it a bit like this. how is it going? could i have one kilo chomanbuzi? he is going to cut our meat to get our food.

this had is just over a kilogram of goat, over two pounds. on the surface of it portions in kenya are pretty big. take the ribs, throw it on the fire, like that, grab a fistful of salt. so, the food has arrived. the goat you just saw there basically this is like a kenyan meal. when i first arrived here, i was quite surprised at the at the scale of the food here. you have got the goat here. you have got the maize meal over here, the local spinach, the roasted potatoes and the tomato, be but the catch is, in the u.s., you often eat, you know, on your own in a small group but this is all shared with a big group of people. enjoy. >> oh, excellent. you really can't get a more typical cuban meal than this

one. i'm in havana and we have an enormous leg of pork. we have got yucca with garlic sauce, fried plantains, rice and beans. it is a feast. and all of this is produced in cuba. but not so much because cubans are concerned about eating local. it is because it is so much cheaper than importing food. cuba, like so many country cans, is in the middle of an economic crisis. so deep, in fact, that the government has declared that slashing imports is a matter of national security. now a lot of cubans prefer beef but they can't afford it, it is expensive here, which is why pork has become sort of the national dish t is cheap and it is everywhere. in fact, a lot of people raise their own pigs. my neighbor, for example, here in havana, has a big in his backyard. i have been to an apartment where they were raising a pig in the bathroom. as you can seeker the portions in popular restaurants like this one are big, verging on huge, but at the end of the meal, you

will see that most of the plates are pretty clean. and this is due to a kind of postwar mentality that grew out of the last economic crisis in cuba in the 1990s, when protein was scarce and often, people didn't know when they would get their next meal, so they ate what food they have. >> eat to becracy, mind, body, wallet, continues next wait. more stories on healthy eating, and also learn more about how to unlock the cnn healthy eater badge on four square. the west wing is losing some muscle this morning. white house chief of staff, rahm emanuel is set to step down today, heading home to run for mayor of chicago. that's the word from cnn sources. in just about an hour, president obama is expected to make a personnel announcement. but the white house refuses to confirm that it is related to

emmanuel's departure. we will bring you that when it happens. the man known as rambo built quite a reputation as a warrior. an old-school politician who wasn't afraid to twist arms to get things done on a national level, but that is politics illinois style t is a state with a history of corruption. one hand often washes the other and voters look the other way. i mean, three governors in the past four decades were convicted of federal corruption charges. who can forget just this year, rod blagojevich accused of trying to sell a senate seat, convicted of lying to the feds, but keep in mind, the guy he replaced went to prison for using taxpayer money for his campaign workers. and in 1973, governor kerner got caught taking bribes from a racetrack manager, but this trickles down to local government as well a recent investigation by the university of illinois called cook county a dark pool of political corruption and chicago's at the heart of it. nearly 150 county employees,

politicians and contractors have been convicted on corruption charges since 1957. and just this year, an alderman, who was a close political a ally of the current chicago mayor, richard daly. but the legacy of corruption dates back decades, to prohibition era, the titles mobster and politician overlapped in the case of "diamond joe" he is response cito, a chicago ward boss in the '20s. he actually earned a reputation for protecting bootleggers and everything that came along with them. ex-extortion, prostitution, labor racketeering, that is until he was gunned down. so, with such a corrupt history, what can rahm emanuel actually bring to the city if he is elected? senior white house correspondent ed henry in chicago. tell you what, ed, he is going to have a lot to take on. >> well, extortion, prostitution, other than that it is a really clean system here in chicago. >> it is easy.

>> is fine. so rahm is walking into not a big deal. in all seriousness what is fascinating is to see how as chief of staff, emmanuel is sort of the top dog back at the white house when i cover him there he has got the immediate yachl he has got the congress. he is working all the systems. here though, he is just one of about a couple dozen people that want to be mayor t is interesting to look at the front page of the "chicago tribune" here today. it has got a big picture and a story about the governor's race here and there is a little thing over here saying "rahm will leave white house friday" it is on page eight. store, maybe the hot story in washington it is an important story here but not the only story. there's already ten people who have gotten into the mayor's race here, another dozen who are mulling it. and i have to till, i spoke to some voters outside city hall, mayor daley has been a tough boss, they need a breath of fresh air, they don't need the same guy but voters i spoke to today saying they think having rahm emanuel, the clout he has,

not just in washington but here in chicago, he represented part of the city as a congressman, several terms, they think he will be a very effective mayor and i heard a lot of the people on the streets of this city telling me the last 24 hours or so, they think he will be a strong candidate. there will be a couple dozen candidate, someone with his money and stature is likely to rise to the top. but in talking to people close to emmanuel, they know it is not a slamdunk. they know because you are power envelope washington doesn't mean you are going to be core ron nated. he knows he has a lot of work ahead. >> we are going to follow it waiting for that announcement, possibly in the 11:00 eastern hour. ed, thanks so much. also hearing with rahm being out that pete rouse is in. he is actually poised to take over as interim white house chief of staff today. unlike the man who came before him, rouse has kept quiet, mostly avoiding the spotlight. not a lot of people outside the beltway really know his name. so here is a pete rouse primer for you. he is 64 years old, white house senior adviser, known as a problem solver and he has helped put out political fires over

gitmo and top-level appointments. he has also served as obama's senate chief of staff. and before that he was a powerful aide to senator tom daschle. again, president obama scheduled to make personnel announcement from the east room of the white house in about an hour. that is 11:05 eastern time. we will bring it to you live as soon as it happens. all right. let's check in our severe weather. we are talking about the east coast.if you are anywhere between north carolina and maine, you are probably living in it right now and ready for a dry day. the storms, the flood waters, high-wind warnings, the story on the east coast. that is all they are talking b and days of pounding rain flooded streets and stranded cars, sent a lot of people to shelters and delayed far too many flights. rob marciano, did i sum it up for you? >> zuchlt. >> nothing to talk about? >> way too much and not enough time. the most impressive thing about this note, most news worthy thing about this how many people are affected by this storm system, which had some tropical

characteristics, some leftovers of tropical storm nicole and then had this very strong fall storm sucking all that moisture in. so we have got about three inches of rain in new york so far, still raining there seven inches in allentown, baltimore, a lot of the heaviest rain is further away from the coast. that happens a lot with -- when you combine the two systems like this almost a foot in hampton roads area, norfolk and virginia beach, hammered yesterday and wilmington, that has really been the -- are the ensepicenter of s mess. they didn't see that when floyd came through in 1999. it is moving off to the east,th there is a wave there, you can see the curly q happening. every time we think we are trying to get this thing on the move it backs off a little bit. nonetheless, we are getting some heavier rain from new york and now it is about to move into boston. a couple of these cells, out in long island, also out toward

eastern mass now, these are becoming severe could see damaging winds with this. so, on top of the flooding rain that this has brought, it has also brought a little bit of wind. so especially in south carolina, we saw it in parts of virginia yesterday, we will see a couple more inches of rainfall today with this system. there are a number of rivers in flood stage. the connecticut river, part s of new hampshire and then back toward upstate new york, the catskills, they are under a flood warning, a lot of rain across binghamton and eastern new york and those rivers, most of them will crest today or this afternoon or tonight and then begin to subside fairly quickly. 50 to 60-mile-an-hour winds today, as this little wave i showed you kind of scoots across northern or eastern new england and that does include parts of eastern long island. so those are going to be the main weather issues there as far as travel delays are concerned, here are the most current delays -- look, another ground stop at laguardia, every time they try to get planes in there they put a ground stop, until

10:30, ground stop at philadelphia as well, thought the rain might stop quickly but still dragging its heels, san francisco get nothing the act also. i will say this for optimism, once we get through this today it is relatively dry back in through the rest of the country. so, this weekend does look to be for the most part dry, albeit cool, folks dealing with flooded areas and basements and yards and streets, they will begin to dry out as soon as as quickly as tonight. >> rob, thanks. the economy taking a toll on tying the knot. we are going to talk to couples who say the recession is forcing them to put off their marriage plans. your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to automate their global invoice process so they can focus on serving their customers. with xerox, you're ready for real business.

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♪ love and marriage, love and marriage ♪ ♪ go together like a horse and carable ♪ >> love and marriage, not without dollars and cents. i like the dancing over here, by the way. more people are actually saying "i don't" to tie the knot and many of them blame the he economy because of that last year, for the first time ever,

the number of adults 25 to 34 who say they had never been married exceeded those who were married and only about 52% of adults reported being married last year. that is a record low. compare that to 72% in 1960. well, this is more than cold feet. people are really avoiding walking down the aisle because it is just too expensive. i'm joined by nakia anderson and aziz. that is a good wedding with song. moving well, kareem. old-school music. first of all, how did you meet? fall in love, how did it happen? >> a friend had a dinner party and we met there since then, we have been inseparable. >> kareem, was it that easy? >> pretty much. >> how did you pop the question? >> i did it on -- we were like on vacation in vegas and i just popped it. i was real nervous, you know?

>> why would you be -- she is pretty intimidating, she is smart, she is beautiful, i can see that happening. >> yeah. yeah. >> hoping she says yes. >> and she did. so, yes, it has been on ever since. >> how did you do it? how did you do the proposal? >> um, i just -- well, we were out, you know, kind of dancing and having a good time. it is vegas, right? >> that's true. what happened in vegas -- what is it, what happens in vegas, stays in vegas. you can tell me this. i like how you both said "exactly." >> yeah. so i just did it private. i didn't make too big of a spectacle out there 'cause it was only us. when we got back to our room and i just popped the question, i got on one knee and did it and she cried. >> it was a mushy moment? >> yeah. >> so did you ever think when you were thinking about proposing to her that it might not happen for a while because of financial issues, because of the bad economy? did it ever enter your mind? >> it really didn't at first but

then, you know, as -- when we got to reality and when we got back home and, like, she hit the ground running. she was planning and doing different things and it was like -- this is gonna cost. there was just so many details and it was like, okay. >> you could see the dollar signs. >> you have to budget. that is the most important thing, you really have to budget. and when you get the list and you look at different things, you are like, okay this is what i need this is what i need. you are like, oh, gosh it is adding up it is adding up. but you have your life outside of that. so you have to keep up with those things. so, it's -- it comes to a crunch. >>, then who at what point said, all right, we know we love each other, we want to have a wonderful wedding but this is just not a good time, we got to put this off. 'cause that's got to be a weird conversation, right? >> we were fighting it for so long. it was just like -- and i kind of saw it coming. i don't know if she saw it before i did, but i was just

like -- it was just a lot of things going on, we were keeping one our regular lives i and paying every bill that every be else has to pay. so it just -- and didn't know there were so many details in it, because i kind of -- i was kind of a smaller, intimate wedding. >> right. >> of course this is her day, you know? >> i'm going to be a princess. >> you know, when you are young, as little girls, we think of i'm a princess, even when you get older, you're saying i want to have that dream wedding and not necessarily this big, extravagant but something that is nice and elegant. >> so you don't want to budge on that? >> no, i don't want to budge on that. so, i mean if it takes a little bit longer. >> i'm trying to t has been a fight. you know, i do want to give her what she wants but it is just going to take some -- >> do you have to marry this guy. a sweetheart. so how have you guys then cut back? 'cause i want other young couples to listen to what you've done because you have been very good at budgeting and all that give us some specifics of what you're doing to now plan for

that dream wedding with that you want, not as soon as you want it, but what are you doing? >> well, both of us, when we get paid, automatically draws from our account to different savings accounts with various credit unions and just -- just have to cut back on a lot of -- like we used to like to eat out a lot, you are courting and dating and stuff like that, you want to -- you wining with and dining and it is like you to do more cooking and stuff like that. >> that can be romantic, too, right? >> absolutely. >> see what he can do in the kitchen. a pretty good cook. >> okay. another reason why you need to get going here. what else, nakia, you had to cut become on things and how are you budgeting? >> more so i budget now when i go to the grocery store. a lot of time wes go into grocery stores and different stores, you can like this is on sale this is on sale. really now, what i do is i write out a list of everything, all of our necessities, everything we need. i say, okay, i'm going in the

store this is what i'm getting. sometimes when you go in a store, you start grabbing different things, you are like, okay, i didn't intend to spend this much. >> i have even seen contests out there, like sign up to -- you know, for a free wedding. people are getting creative in the bad economy. have you guys done anything unique or creative or -- to maybe try and -- >> i have enter eared few contest. >> you have? have you really? have you won any? >> no not yet. at least i don't know just as of yes. >> you are actually positive that you're not saying i'm getting cold feet and blaming it on the economy? >> i don't think it is cold feet. >> no. >> i just think we just need to kind of, you know, save a little more and eventually, we will get there so -- >> good. so when do you think then? what is your goal? >> my goal is april, may of 2011. >> kareem? >> that sounds possible.

i guess anything's possible at this point. and we -- we are shooting for that. and that has been the main objective. you know, we have changed one time and hopefully, you know, we can meet somewhere in the middle. >> yeah. >> i tell you what, you are not the only couple, there are lots of couples dealing with this the positive and upside, finances, one of the leading causes of arguments, divorces, i mean it is horrible. the fact you are dealing with all of this now, right, kind of getting in talking about money, talking about budgeting this could be a positive? >> yeah. yeah. it has made us stronger. >> yeah. beautiful couple. you better let us know went wedding date is i want video. >> okay. okay. >> thank you. >> thank you, kareem. thank you. all right. we will be back in just a moment.

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worked on the shuttle program, which is scheduled to shut down. she was just 11 years old and forced to marry a man nearly three times her age. her parents waited until after she was raped to buy the wedding dress. they didn't want the money to go to waste.

state of emergency in ecuador right now after what the president is calling a coup attempt. rebel police officers intensed over a new law that said -- that says it would cut their pay. well, they kidnapped the president at a hospital near the capital.

they attempted to kidnap him. hundreds of troops came to the rescue of the president for about an hour. two police officers were killed. the president who is recovering from knee surgery, was able to get out of the hospital in a wheelchair. he says those responsible for the kidnapping will be held accountable. at an age when most girls are not even dating, a 14-year-old yemeni girl is already a divorcee. that is not a joke either it is a cruel story of forced marriage, rape and family members who order the girl to go along. cnn's he mohammad jam june reports from yemen. >> reporter: rema is 14 years old and just recently, a divorcee. she was 11 when she says her father forced her to marry a cousin or man three times her age. she says those desperate pleas

left her father unmoved. >> translator: he said he needed to go into the room where the judge is and tell him you agree to the marriage. i said i won't go in there he took out his dagger and said woe cut me in half if i didn't go in there and agree. >> reporter: for reem, the terror was just beginning. she says she was told to sleep with her husband and refused, but every night she locked herself in her room, but he managed to sneak in and rape her. reem says members of her family first ordered her to submit, then expected her to celebrate. >> translator: they chose not to buy me any bridal dresses until they were sure i had sex with him because they didn't want the money to go to waist. after that, they brought me the bridal cloe clothes. i burned the dress and used a raiser to try to kill myself.

>> reporter: >> reporter: reem's father and ex-husband didn't return cnn's calls. this attorney is trying to ensure young girls keep her childhood. >> must live and continue to dream. i think it is not marriage, i think is rape. >> reporter: in yemen, a deeply tribal associate the issue of child marriages is a complicated one n 2009, yemen's parliament passed legislation raising the minimum aim of marriage to 17, but conservative parliamentarians argue the bill violated islamic law which doesn't stipulate a minimum age of marriage and because of a parliamentary man nifr, the bill was never signed into law. more than 100 leading religious clerics called the attempt to restrict the aim of marriage unislamic. this adviser to the president says the is right fights against child marriage restrictions are a distraction, a way for the parliament to avoid bigger, more sensitive political issues. >> i think there should be an

age limit. if you sit even with the religious people and you ask them would you let your daughter marriage at the age of 12 or 13, they would tell you no. so, it is something that we use it for politics more than social concern. >> reporter: politics or not, human rights activists are outraged the practice continues. >> just two days ago, a 9-year-old girl got married. 9. because our lawyer was there trying to prevent this and because the lawyer is not with us, you know, there was police outside the party, forcing us to move away and the wedding to finish and the husband go and have -- and sleep with the -- she is only 9. >> reporter: the attorney insists reem and other girls like her need laws to protect them. she begs the clerics standing in

the way. >> i ask them to give this girl mercy. they ask for merry from you. >> reporter: far from receiving mercy, reem says she has been stigmatized by her divorce and now lives the life of an outcast. without a husband or father to support her, she cannot attend school. still, reem says she did the right thing. >> it's my right. i'm a young girl. i was 11 years old. is it wrong for me to have gone to court and asked for a divorce from a 32-year-old man? there's nothing wrong with that. >> joining us now via skype from yemen, mohammad jam june s there any indication the law will be passed any time soon and can be enforced? >> the parliament announced yesterday they are taking the issue up again on saturday, the start of the workweek here, tomorrow, and they may actually vote on it. they may have got past their deadlock.

in yemen it is a very tribal society, as we said before, and a lot of the child marriages, most of the human rights activists we have spoken with say the majority of the child marriages that take place here take place in areas outside of the cap tall. you only hear about the ones in the capital because the media have access to the brides here where they don't in the more rugged and mountainous areas of yemen. nonetheless, people here are saying if the law pass, all the human rights activists told us, even if the law pass it would be a very good thing it is not able to ensure that the government here is going to be able to enforce this law. and they are worried that even if the law goes through finally after two years of trying to, that the brides here will still be in dane jerk the children may still be getting married off. >> well, we will definitely follow up with you, mohammed. thanks. remember when there was the scars dale diet and maybe two others, dieting was so much simpler then. these days there is a deluge of diets. next, we are going to look at which ones work and which one as well respect worth their salt. te to accommodate their family. matt was a star from start to end.

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♪ let's get physical, physical ♪ i want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk ♪ our mission is to get fresh answers about how our food is grown, how the choice wes make impact our health and our state of mind, our budgets and of course, purt joy of eating. and we have teamed up with the new cnn.com food destination, eatocracy.com to bring you eatocracy, mind, body and wait a this hour, we are looking at the american diet. over two thirds of americans are overweight and selling skinny has become very big business. as a country we spend about $35 billion a year on weight loss products, all in hopes of getting swim quickly. fad diets with, easy weight loss plans, well, we have seen them all through the years.

>> inventing a new way to keep slim, new metrical cookies. nine cookies make a complete lunch. >> i'm not hungry, dexatrim is caffeine-free. i don't feel nervous or jetry. >> i used to do aerobics until i dropped, then i found thighmaster. >> today, we want to separate diet fact from fiction. a health journalist is joining us live from new york today. liz, name a diet you have probably tried it investigated it, read about it you have done your research probably on everything out there, right? >> just about, i think. i have been subjected to a lot of crazy foods. combinations of foods. >> i can just imagine. were there ever times you thought, why aim doing this? why am i doing this to myself? >> well, i know why i'm doing it i'm getting paid to do it. i don't know why everyone else is doing t. >> that is actually good point. well, i talked to you earlier

this morning and i wanted to somehow try and narrow this down because it is so difficult to, okay, if you are going to diet, how should you do it? we all know we should eat better and exercise we get that but let's just be pressures that we have ous and we want to lose weight fast. i thought we could break it down, maybe start with the most outrageous diets that you've investigated and then maybe talk about the ones that, shall we say, you hate the least. why don't we start with the most outrageous, sound good? >> that sounds good to me. >> okay. great. now, you gave me three. you gave me the charcoal die yet, the baby food diet and the cookie diet. let's start with the charcoal diet. . the charcoal diet is when you take the stuff that you put in your fish tank to filter your fish tank and you sprinkle it on your food and it is supposed to have some magical powers where it is supposed to absorb some how the calories and it really

just makes your food taste very funky and gives you a weird texture. and i really -- i just can't figure this one out at all but apparently, it was all the rage in hollywood recently and a lot of stars were doing it. and i just don't know why you would eat something that you would put in your fish tank. >> that sounds absolutely crazy. >> yeah. it is crazy. and again, i think it brings up a good point that you really shouldn't be taking advice or trying a diet just because someone in hollywood is doing it. that is probably -- should be a red flag for you or probably the worst reason for you to try a diet. >> so true. a lot of things we learn from hollywood we shouldn't do in our own lives. charcoal diet, forget about t people are out there wanting to try it nix it. the baby food diet, really? >> yeah, and that one is really making the rounds right now. and what is, there is variations of it but you're supposed to eat

14 packs of baby food a day, just the same stuff you feed your kids before they learn how to eat real food. and then eat one meal a day, some variations you just eat the baby food. i lasted, i think, about six hours on the diet. i just couldn't do it. it tasted -- 'cause i thought i would be safest doing all fruits, but it was sort of like a combination of life savers and cat food for me and i just couldn't stay on it for more than six hours. and i had a bunch of people on twitter doing it with me and i forgot to tell them i went off it and they were really angry with me because i think that somebody lasted like two days on it and it was really -- that, for me, was the worst one wi, y, i really didn't like that at all. that was a bad one. >> and i'm curious, okay, we are going to get to the third one in just a second, the charcoal diet and baby food diet, can you even say that there's anything healthy at all about those two

things for grownups? i mean, is there -- or are thee these just -- you know, not good for your body on all levels? >> well, the charcoal diet does, you know, charcoal, very small amounts is used in herbal remedies. they use it in hospitals for food poisoning and for alcohol poisoning but it is really not meant to be used in large quantities over long periods of time. so, i would say that you really -- that one could actually be unsafe. the baby food diet, you know, baby food does have nutrients, why babies eat it. i think for adults, there is certainly -- if you you wanted to eat pure rayed foods, there is certainly cheaper ways to do t when i did the analysis, just pure railing your own food would be 30 to 40% cheaper, even if you bought packaged, pure raid food would be be 30 to 40% cheaper so the really good trick there is just portion control.

so, i don't think it's unsafe in terms of nutrition of it although you really wouldn't get all of the nutrition that you need in a day. you just wouldn't. >> finally this third one it is smelled cooke but is it cookie diet? >> i saw you did that on the promo that has been around since the 1930s or '40s but seems to is cycle through. that comes right out of hollywood. the trick is portion control. >> what is the cookie diet? >> well, the secret is you're just supposed to eat cookies all day long and one meal a day, it is just portion control. i have not done that one and you would actually is to pay me to do that one, but again, the he secret really is that you just eat cookies and you eat pure calories during the day t teach you nothing about how to eat properly, i don't think it is a very smart way to eat and the secrets are -- excuse me, the cookies are supposed to contain some secret ingredient that make

you lose weight magically, but there is no magic to it you just eat fewer calories. yeah. no, no, no. >> we don't have time to go through all three of them but i wanted to, you know, put the caveat in that there is no one perfect diet. >> sure. >> we reiterated this over and over, eating well, exercising, the best way too do it but the three diets that you hate the least, i love how we put that mediterranean diet earthquake the zone diet and eat this, not that. obviously, every answers zboid different, everybody will react differently to diets but why would you say those three are the ones you hate the least? >> i like the mediterranean diet because it has a lot of science behind it and i actually do think most people could follow that and do very well on it and modify it. and what i like about it, it allows to you modify it the way would you like to eat and just has a lot of healthy fats and a lot of healthy foods on it and a lot of really delicious food and it is not about deprivation it is about health.

i think that is a very good diet that a lot of people would do very well on. i think the eat this not that not really a diet, per se, but a beautiful pictorial book that tells you could eat this or you could eat three slices of pizza, but instead, if you wanted to eat the same number of calories, could you have all of these things that would be healthier or even half of that for fewer calories and it just teaches you how to eat instead. so, i think that is a really good one to try. the zone diet i like because there a lot of people like to eat high protein it, they are carb o carbowephobic. i get that i think zone is most sensible of the high-protein diets. >> good information and good news. we always wonder what is good and what's not and if they are really healthy. liz, thanks so much. great information this morning. >> my pleasure to be here. >> thank you.

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all right. live from the white house, president obama's personnel announcement in a few minutes. the president expected to announce his top adviser, rahm emanuel, stepping down to run for the may other of chicago. scheduled about 11:05 eastern time. we will bring it to you live as soon as it happens. let's check out what else is happening in politics now. dana bash, running the desk for us there in d.c. what's crossing? >> first, i want to point out something we put on the ticker late yesterday, which is a story i found interesting. sources told us there was a

quite interesting meeting at the white house where democratic leaders said to the president they really want him to get out there and be more aggressive campaigning for him. you know what this is what it did today, i brought some water, are you happy? are you proud of me, i'm going to take a sip. >> when you start feeling that in your throat. >> then i'm going to tell you about our second item. our second item is actually something unfortunately not a laughing matter, something that went on in your state, at least the senator from your state, saxby chambliss, he is somebody who had to fire a staffer in his office. why? because that staffer posted an anti-gay comment on a gay blog here during the don't ask, don't tell debate and toad fire him and actually apologized to the person who was running that gay blog. last, i want to point out something we have been doing here at cnn, highlighting the top 100 house races. gaby giffords of arizona is on the ticker right now. very interesting race. they should check it out. >> dana, thanks.

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i see a couple problemswith the naked cowboy's presidential bid. first of all there is always a chance he will make us a nation of briefs, not abortions that is an issue, this country was founded on briefs. also, right out of the gate, he has got a credibility problem. he is not naked. kind of false advertising.

that is my two cents. now, here's two more cents from jeanne moos. >> reporter: instead of running around in his underwear, he is running for president. ♪ i'm the naked cowboy >> reporter: and if you don't think he is serious, check out his new presidential look. >> dude, i got to be honest, you are the naked cowboy still, right? >> hey, how are you doing? >> yes. >> reporter: hard to believe is that the half-naked tourist mag nat of times square with, minus the hair. >> for president? >> absolutely. obama's going down. >> reporter: don't let the underwear puns fool you. >> i like to keep things brief. >> reporter: robert burke has a degree in political science from the university of cincinnati. he wouldn't be the first cowboy president. >> what? >> reporter: and he has already run for mayor of new york. ♪ no one's ever done more with less than me ♪ >> if i can literally build a global brand with a pair of underwear, boots and hat, think what i can do for the city of new york.

>> reporter: what he did was drop out of the race, fed up with the red tape and $250 fine he had to pay for failing to file a required form. except in his attire, he is a conservative. >> unapologetic commitment to the our borders, our language and our culture. >> wow. >> reporter: confirmation that he is running came on celebrity-chasing tmz. he scheduled a press conference, but when almost no one showed up, it was rescheduled, only they got the month wrong on the naked cowboy's website and had to correct it. back in the '08 campaign, there were designer obama underwear, but no one's ever actually run for president in their underwear and his campaign manager says the naked call boy will not be campaigning in his undyes. at least no one will ever have to ask the naked cowboy this question. >> is it boxers or briefs? >> usually briefs. i can't believe she did that. >> reporter: now the guy who used to walk into