good saturday morning. today is clean-up day. they will be cleaning up for some time all up and down the east coast after nasty weather hit many places and left at least eight people dead. we will take you there. also let you know if there's more nasty weather on the way. plus, president obama calls another world leader to offer an

apology, but not for something he did. something that was done some 70-something years ago. >> this is your r cnn saturday morning on this october 2nd. fathers getting the same breast-feeding rights as mothers. sound a bit crazy to you? we will tell you where a court ruled to allow dads to leave work for an hour during the first nine months of a child's birth. also, it's saturday. a lot of people might be trying to do work around the house. well, you need to watch out. over a half million home improvement books are being recalled because of technical errors. if you follow their instructions you could be putting your family and home at risk of fire and

electrical shock. a school-aged boy teased about his weight. his family goes on a revolution to change their eating habits. now, the entire family is doing a lot better. let's get back to what i told you at the top of the show. large stom system in eight states killed at least eight people. state troopers say a woman died after driving in the floodwaters of a creek in philadelphia. a 72-year-old woman was trapped for eight hours in her car in philadelphia before she was able to escape. floods killed seven people in north carolina. among them, four people whose car hydroplaned into a ditch. nowhere was the misery more evident than in windsor whose town was 80% under water.

officials say many people can't get back into their homes and many of the businesses in the city are still under water. also floodwaters making life difficult in other parts of north carolina. homes in and around downtown. the water is as high as street signs. you can see it here. several families needed to be evacuated. they were fortunate enough to get some of their values off the boat. >> paper in there. getting their stuff out and trying to help them all we can. it's real bad back that way. the water is probably 16 feet deep in the deepest part. they're still coming up. in raleigh, north carolina, an assisted living community evacuated as well. adam owens says it was what was in the water that had officials

concerned. >> reporter: the last of the evacuations happened in the dark. a home with nearly 50 residents. most are alzheimers patients from an assisted living community. people stranded by rising flo floodwaters called 911 for help. crews were sent out to help. >> i'm scared of water. anyway, i'm glad i'm here. >> reporter: rescuers say the waters are dangerous. >> hazardous materials, gasoline, sewage in the water. >> it's rising, rising, rising. >> reporter: the waters kept rising on the bed and breakfast she was staying at. she passed homes and cars gone or nearly gone. the owner of this restaurant knows no one will be stopping here for barbecue for a while.

>> it didn't take long. about an hour, it was up 20 inches. >> reporter: he estimates the damage as $20,000 and thinks it will take three months to put it all back together. >> reynolds wolf is here with me now. we see this after flooding sometimes but this is terrible. how long before the water goes away. >> we are going to see improvement today. as the water recedes, the clean-up gets under way. we had the remnants of a tropical system combined with weather system. t.j. and friends across america, look at this. wilmington, tk tk nearly two feet of rainfall that fell since 8:00 a.m. on tuesday. in norfolk, nearly a foot. if you look at the whole up and

down the coast, it's since tuesday. the bulk in norfolk fell in about a day's time. rough times, to say the least. if you look at the big perspective, the area of low pressure is forming across the great lakes. it's going to bring scattered showers to ft. wayne and chicago. champagne, illinois, it will be there in a few moments. if it brings increased cloud cover to parts of the eastern sea board, it's not rainfall. if you were to get scattered showers, there's a slight chance in the piedmont areas, the rainfall amounts are falling at a rate much, much slower. that's good news. drier weather for parts of the southeast. cool for you across portions of the northern plains. we had breeze advisories in wisconsin and minnesota and the

dakota's. the highs for the twin cities 57 degrees. 81 in los angeles. summer still holds on in phoenix. 105 is the expected high. >> i know you have plenty more we are going to talk about with the weather system on the east coast. thank you so much, buddy. in mexico, they are having flooding issues as well. the government declared 15 more communities as disaster areas. it's up to 35. vera cruz inundated with 16.5 feet in places. thousands of people forced to evacuate. this stems from tropical depression matthew. we're going turn to politics in a moment. the midterm elections 31 days away. concerned the president's biggest supporters won't show up. >> it's like you go out on a really great first date, right? it was awesome.

and you sat there and waited for the text message back. two years later, it comes. you think to yourself, where have you been? >> sounds personal there, but she was trying to make an analogy there and how the president's youth vote could be missing. we're going to try to get a stretch this morning. a survey came out about reading in the digital age. it was done by two companies. one of the questions they asked. how many parents out there believe their children actually handle far more information than they did? what do you think? 53%, 65% or 84% of parents say the kids handle more information. we'll have that information after the break. ♪ client comes in and they have a box.

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welcome back. just before the break, we asked this question. how many parents think their children have to handle far more information than they had to? you probably guessed this one. the answer, 84%. parents believe the obvious difference is the massive amounts of digital information and images transmitted over the internet. key player at the white house is gone.

why would somebody give up the job many call the second most powerful job in the government? we are talking the job of chief of staff. rahm emanuel stepped down. it happened yesterday. it was widely reported. no surprised. he's running for mayor of chicago. it's something he said is his dream job. he's putting his ducks in a row to run in chicago. the president called his leaving a bittersweet day adding he counted on his energy, enthusiasm and commitment to get the job done. e m emanuel has the reputation of being one of the toughest guys in the white house. did he leave out the salty language yesterday in his good-bye? >> my grandfather came to this country for opportunity. they came here for a better life

for their children. my mother marched with martin luther king because she believed none of us is truly free until all of us are. both my parents raised me to give something back to the country. and the community that has given us so much. i want to thank you for the opportunity to repay in a small portion of the blessings this country has given my family. i give you my word that even as i leave the white house, i will never leave that spirit of service behind. >> you can see rahm emanuel there known as being a really, really, really tough guy around the white house getting choked up leaving the white house. he's going to run for the mayor in chicago. the president named pete rouse

to take over for emanuel now. he's considered to be a front-runner for the job when the president appoints somebody. young voters played an important role in getting president obama elected. they are trying to get them roused again. dan lothian says two years makes a big difference. >> reporter: this hip, energy filled loud music craving crowd is once again feeling the love from president obama. >> hello, wisconsin. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: this week, a massive rally at the university of wisconsin. a conference call with college journalists and a dnc event. >> the biggest mistake we can make is let impatience or frustration lead to apathy and

indifference. that guarantees the other side wins. >> reporter: some of the frustrated young voters wonder why it took a midterm election to get the president's vote again. >> it's like you go out on a first date. it was awesome. you sat there and waited for the text message back. two years later it comes. you think to yourself, where have you been? you go out. there's more skepticism and it's less sexy. >> reporter: it was easier during the presidential election campaign when they were filled with hope and enthusiasm. during a rally at the university of maryland campus in 2008, miller was studying in the medical profession. he thought the future looked bright. now, he's working a part-time

job and so many promises are stuck on capitol hill. i personally voted for obama hoping that he would help alleviate some of the situations. it almost seems that the partisanship battles are increasing in intensity within congress and a lot of progress is being halted because of that. >> reporter: heather smith, president of rock the vote says while some are cynical, most are optimistic. matt miller isn't ready to throw out the democrats. >> i'm not feeling as strongly as i was before. to say the same, the other side of the aisle is getting more extreme away from the direction i want to go as a voter. >> reporter: democrats are making gains, up nine points from august but down from earlier in the summer. the hope for democrats is they can get the young voters excited and they will end up going to

the polls on sunday. dan lothian, cnn, washington. we have heard a lot the past couple years of what is going wrong with the economy. some places, people were making more money during the recession. josh has the answers for us. >> good morning to you, t.j. we got a little quiz here. this, to me came out this week. it's striking. name the one state and the one major city in which incomes have gone up during this recession. there's only one. one state. one major city saw incomes rise. i'll have the answers for you right after this. everything you need to stretch out on long trips. residence inn. ♪ everything you need to stay balanced

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all right. 17 minutes past the hour on cnn saturday morning. we were asking you, what place could be making more money during this recession? it is possible someone is. josh levs has the answer where it's going on. josh. >> this just came out, new information from the census bureau. let me show you what they are talking ability. incomes have gone down in 34 states and pretty much the rest of them have stayed flat except one. one state saw incomes rise. north dakota. go north dakota. the only state in the nation where incomes went up. they went up 5% from 2008 to 2009. why north dakota?

what are they doing right? john king spoke with some folks. here is what one said. >> because of the industry mix here are you shield snd. >> certainly the economy is more influenced by agriculture than any other single source. while there's manufacturing here, it's not to the extend of a michigan or ohio. agriculture continues to roll on. >> good for north dakota. some of it is the agriculture. labor experts said there's a diverse industry there. state officials said they haven't been focusing on the industries that have big booms. they have been more steady. north dakota, the one state there. now, back to me. the one city, what we did at cnn, we took the metro areas. the top 52,ncomes have fallen in 51 of 52. one big exception, the one city where incomes went up?

san antonio, texas. they went up. everyone else is going down, they are going up. what is san antonio doing right? they diversified their economy. they have tourism. biomedical. the center for education. military. jobs are stable. costs are low. people are moving to san antonio and they have been able to get jobs and housing. a piece of good news, the one city that is sailing along better than everyone else in this respect. i have the list at facebook and twitter. you can see how every city and every state is doing, how your area is impacted in this economy. t.j., we talk national trends. it's nice to stop at a couple places that are doing well. >> one state out of 49, we'll take that. thank you josh. >> see ya.

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have been keeping up with, they have been stuck down a half mile for two months. there's a major new development to tell you about. we might know when they are coming out of there. also, always good to say good morning to a good friend, reynolds wolf. >> looks like it's going to be a better day weather wise. the clean-up is going to begin on the eastern sea board. it brought widespread flooding. the tropics are still active. it's coming up in a few moments. come back, really. we'll see you in a bit. easily conquer pavement, dirt, rocks and muck month. and get it all while keeping a few bucks month. great deals on the complete family of chevy trucks all backed for a hundred thousand miles. it's truck month. qualified lessees now get a low mileage lease on this 2011 traverse for around $299 a month.

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all right. welcome back, everybody to this cnn saturday morning. i'm t.j. holmes. glad you could be with us this morning. this here, right? all right. getting me squared away. reynolds is standing by. he's going to get to the weather but you have been seeing this up and down the sea board. it's going to be a weekend of clean-up. philadelphia, much of the eastern central pennsylvania. they got hit with a lot of rainfall yesterday. state troopers said a woman died after driving to a swollen creek

in philadelphia. a woman was trapped eight hours in her car before she was able to escape. turn to north carolina. they probably got the brunt of it here. seven people. seven people dead there in weather related incidents including four whose car hyd hydroplaned into a ditch. windsor, downtown windsor, 80% of the town was under water. many people won't be able to get back into their homes for some time because the city is under water. also, in north carolina, another town just look at these pictures. water as high as street signs. downtown vanceboro. people are carrying lamps or anything they could to hop on the boats to be rescued.

they got a few things out. like you said, reynolds, the water is going to recede quickly, then the next phase of clean-up begins. >> flash flooding is self-explanatory. it's how the water rises quickly. one thing you don't see is one of the issues you have with flooding is contamination, especially in city areas. the water builds up. sewage pops up and gets everywhere. you have widespread contamination. mold is a huge issue after the fact. there's a clean-up that may take days or weeks or longer. certainly rough. they need a break, they are going to get it today. let's head over here to see what they are dealing with. the clean up and what's going to cause the mess in the first place. 22.54 inches of rainfall in wilmington, north carolina.

norfolk, 11.51. raleigh, 3.53 is a lot of rainfall. it's nothing to sneeze at. philadelphia getting rocked with heavy rainfall, 7.08. baltimore at 6.10. what we are going to see today, again, a deep breath along the eastern sea board. high pressure building in with it. a break in the action. if you venture back to the great lakes, you are going to see a lot of things pop up on the radar, blue, green. some places, it's going to appear to be heavier, especially parts of kokomo, indiana. champagne, they are getting ready for a football game. expect clouds to build up, scattered showers, lightning. it's going to pass in the coming hour, too. the reason we are seeing that precipitation across the midwest, the area of low pressure and the frontal boundary. it's going to move through quickly. more cloud cover.

fear not. it's going to be a quick mover. not much in terms of rainfall. drier weather on the west. 66 in gains city. 84 in dallas. 84 in new orleans. 72 in san francisco. speaking of kansas city, dallas especially, t.j., we are going to talk a college football forecast, we have the longhorns and oklahoma sooners playing. a lot of fans wondering what kind of weather they can expect. can't help you with the scores, but the forecast, we have a handle on. >> it's the biggest day so far. we have the stanford-oregon game. the alabama-florida game. texas-oklahoma. >> line them up, man. it's good stuff. >> we will probably have red eyes tomorrow morning. we have to stay up and watch the games. also coming up, we told you about an apology the president made to another world leader. not for something he did, but

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welcome back at 37 past the hour here on this cnn saturday morning. before the break, we asked you, what percentage of girls age 6-17 think reading is important? it's actually 62% of girls think reading for fun is very important. however, when you asked the boys in the same age group, only 39% of them think reading for fun is

important. i want to turn to some information we are just getting in out of pakistan. we have seen, kind of contentious events taking place between the u.s. and pakistan. pakistan is an important player in the war in afghanistan. now, we are getting word of another u.s. drone attack has killed several more militants. again, this is in pakistan. we want to turn to fred to give us updates on what we are seeing. tell us about the latest one, if you can. start with the latest drone attack, then we'll go back to the history of what we have seen the past couple days. >> reporter: okay. yeah, t.j., we got new information a couple minutes ago. there were two drone strike that is happened earlier today. both of them killing several

militants. in all, 14 suspected militants killed in the drone strikes. each of them involve missile strikes. they happened in the north area of pakistan. as you know, it's where most of the drone strikes are taking place. it's where pakistani military are. again, two further drone strikes, each involving two missiles. 14 militants killed in the drone strikes. >> tell us as well, it's back and forth. i talked to you about this yesterday as well. pakistan is not too happy with the u.s. because of the strike a couple days ago. they cut off a road to get supplies into afghanistan for nato soldiers as well. where are we on that? getting that supply line open,

again? >> reporter: they are saying it's a route to go into afghanistan that remained closed. they hope to open it in the near future. it dates back to an american helicopter in pakistani territory. earlier this morning, i traveled that road, that convoy road all the way to the town. now, what has happened is a lot of the convoys that were waiting along the roads have been pushed back into depots. it's too dangerous for them to remain on the roads. they are nowhere near the border. some are waiting on the border. they have been pulled off the road. they are not going anywhere. diplomats are trying to get that situation in order and hoping to resolve it. right now, to the main road, no nato convoys or supplies going to the american troops. >> one more thing before i let

you go. any idea who the u.s. might have been targeting with the drone attacks? in general a group of militants or high profile militants. >> reporter: well, they have been targeting high-profile militants recently. they killed what they say is the main al qaeda commander for afghanistan and pakistan in this region recently. we confirmed it with the u.s. and the pakistani military. some of the drone strikes were related to the terror plot that was supposed to take place in europe. the other thing they have been telling us is they have better intelligence from on the ground and technical sources. better imaging on drones. they have high-powered balloons and cameras. they are able to get much better, precise information.

that's why we have seen a massive increase recently. larger than any month before. >> frederick, we appreciate you as always. thank you so much. i want to turn now to chile where there's fresh hope for a faster rescue of the 33 miners who have been trapped for some time now. this capsule you are seeing here is being tested. it could be their ride to the surface. the men have been trapped since august 5th. early on they predicted it could take until christmas to get them out, but -- >> well, after advances that have been established and after we have passed through certain zones, we can forsee that maybe we can have this rescue process. >> what he was saying, one of

the officials there, now, they believe they could have them out and start bringing them out within two weeks. they predicted between october 15 and october 30. ahead of schedule. since the cave-in, the miners are surviving on supplies funneled down to them. they are getting cigarettes. the guys have been taken care of getting everything they need. a chilling experiment is bringing formal apology from the united states to guatemala. just after world war ii, u.s. researchers knowingly affected suspects with sexually transmitted diseases. the president is phoning the president offering profound apologies. >> translator: the news totally took my by surprise. we had not heard of such things

before. we launched an investigation to get the truth. this afternoon, i had a long conversation with secretary of state, hillary clinton. she, too, offered her apologies and expressed her shame the united states committed such atrocities back then. >> hundreds of guatemala yans infected. it included prisoner prostitutes and the mentally ill. coming up, talking about equal rights for sexes, women trying to get the same rights as women. we'll tell you where men are trying to get the same right as women. the right i'm talking about? the right to breast-feed. it's coming up. it's 44 minutes past the hour.

all right. 44 minutes past the hour now. i'm going to pass along information now. i'm going to share it with the viewers. go ahead and share this information we are getting in about a second reported tape from osama bin laden. we got word yesterday of one reported message from him. they are always hard to authenticate. a second audio message. this is back-to-back days we are getting messages. they are surfaced on the internet. this is similar to the one we heard yesterday that he is urging muslims to support flood victims in pakistan. he sounded, awfully, again, by the transmission, sounds more like a diplomat, someone coming

out urging people to help those in pakistan. i'm not putting him in those circles. the message he's putting out is not one of hate or violence, if you will, but urging people to support those of pakistan. cnn has yet to verify the authenticity of the tape. these things often come out. i want to share this with you as well. i want to move to a story i was telling you about before the break. new fathers, like new mothers are allowed to take time off after the birth of their which i recalled. it's under the family leave act. spain is taking it a step further. new fathers get breast-feeding leave. yeah. it gets them the same right during the day for breast-feeding. we always have something interesting. here is another one.

the guys aren't taking time off and taking the child and breast-feeding. men can't do that. they are getting the time. >> they are getting the time. the bonding time. they have basically granted men the same time off. for the first nine months a working mother is allowed to take half an hour twice during the day to breast-feed or leave work half an hour early. so in spain, they got upset because his partner was a state at home mom and he wasn't given the same rights. she was a self-employed mom. he contested the law saying why, if my wife stays at home, am i not given the right. so, he contests the law. what's happening in spain, you are allowed to apply to get the same breast-feeding time off as

your partner. that critical time. what is the court saying? are they saying men bond with their babies as much as women, mothers and fathers. in the first nine months, it's the skin-to-skin contact. it's critical in the development of the child. >> do the men have to prove they are spending that time with the child? >> now, that is interesting. >> let's go to the bar. >> exactly. one hopes. they have to apply for it. one hopes if they go to the trouble of applying for the extra half hour twice during the day that they do, in fact, spend time with the children. but, we don't know. would it be quantity. interestingly enough, if men in the u.s. got it would they spend

the time in the bar? >> we know what american men would be doing. >> we don't know. let's hope a man like you you would spending bonding time with that baby. this made me research psycho analysts talk about the period of skin-to-skin bonding. while a father is not breast-feeding, he's using the bottle and feeding the baby, there's the skin-to-skin contact. men and women are equal in the bonding. mothers and fathers have an equal role to play. >> interesting story. we are keeping an eye on it this week. you have another one. >> we are going to australia. >> i love this story you have coming up about weddings. >> having to be postponed.

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top of the hour now. right at 7:00 a.m. here in atlan atlanta, georgia. it's 6:00 a.m. where i am in arkansas. i'm t.j. holmes where we get started with a clean-up day along the east coast. we start with philadelphia and much of eastern pennsylvania. they got all kinds of rain. take a look at this picture. state troopers say one driver died after driving into floodwaters near a creek. a 72-year-old woman was trapped more than eight hours in her car in northwest philadelphia before she could escape. floods killed seven people in north carolina. the hardest hit state. four people died when their car hydroplaned into a ditch. downtown windsor. they have 80% of the town under

water. this is how they had to be rescued. they had to get folks to go on a boat from their home. try to get them out of there. many people can't get back to their homes for quite some time. 175 people had to be rescued thursday night. in vanceboro, several hundred homes were flooded. downtown was under water. high water is as high as some street signs in places. several families were able to be evacuated. you can see there, like in the picture, grab what you can. i'm sure the lamps were important for some reason. families evacuated and were able to get out. i want to turn to reynolds wolf who is standing by. the floodwaters are going to go down fairly quickly. are they okay? >> exactly. the water is going to recede at a faster rate than more showers

will develop. isn't it amazing, a few days ago, scattered showers formed over the eastern sea board. today, there are lives that will forever be changed. they will never go back to normal. >> we were talking in the cold. a mess of a storm. >> it was. it fell apart in cuba and florida. it combined with a frontal boundary for this epic event. >> i'm getting nerdy. you broke down why it just sat over north carolina for awhile. >> you had the storm and the remnants of nicole. it was going to move to the north anyway. then you have a frontal boundary. the combination is like dropping an anchor on the storm. the two big weather making components that fell in the specific area.

it's funny. at a decent rate of speed, it wouldn't have a chance to stack up. >> you want to talk about stacking up, take a look at the numbers. we roll them out. norfolk, virginia, 11.51. wilmington, 22.54. it's a lot of rain. if you stretch it over a month's time, it's still a lot. when you stretch it over a couple days, the bulk of it in a matter of hours, it's where the flooding picks up. you have devastating effects. today, we see rainfall. if you are along the eastern sea board and saw this coming, you would be worried. this is going to pull through the great lakes. the tail front may move along parts of the sea board. i it's going to lose momentum. in terms of this being a heavy rainmaker, i don't think it's going to be the mix. still scattered showers in

detroit to chicago and portions of cincinnati and indianapolis before all is said and done. quiet weather across the nation's midsection. it's great news for them. a full rush of cool weather into the northern plains. you can expect temperatures to be chilly, freezing conditions also. this afternoon rebounding to 57 degrees in minneapolis. 80 in billings. 84 in dallas. 78 in atlanta. that's a look at the forecast. a lot more coming up. we are going to talk about a college football forecast weather wise and a sneak peek at the tropics. we have concern and a potential development. we talked about nicole, we may have a few more names before the season is up. >> appreciate it, buddy. a lot of sports fans will remember this. that female reporter that was allegedly harassed by the new york jets. there she is. she's known as being a little revealing when she does her work

in the locker rooms. well, is it possible she's going to be revealing even more? "playboy" hopes so. we'll tell you about that next. first, can you answer a question? a new reading survey came out. tell me what you think of this one. what percent of people 15-17 read books more than once a week for fun? 82%. 45% or 24%. not just read a book, but for fun? for me to breathe. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now, i can join the fun and games with my grandchildren. great news! for people with copd, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both, advair helps significantly improve lung function. while nothing can reverse copd, advair is different from most other copd medications because it contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, working together to help you breathe better.

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>> it is. who reads for fun these days. 24% are frequent reader that is read for fun. kids through eight read most days of the week. the older kids read less. the older you get, the less you read. >> it's got to be books. aren't they reading blogs or comic books? something. >> yeah. i don't know. 18-year-olds? >> there must be words going across. >> menus. mcdonald's. >> tweets? facebook. >> this is what happens when we have three guys and start a segment with "playboy." they want this tv reporter ines sainz. she became a household name for 15 minutes because she was being talked about a lot because of

cat calls and disrespectful behavior at the jets camp. she's been offered a gig with "playboy." not as editor-in-chief. they want her to take her clothes off. her answer was, no. she said never. no way in regards to the offer from "playboy." it throws people off because she seems to not mind showing skin. she doesn't dress like some of the other sports reporters. she works for mexico where they encourage it. >> we have a twitter page up. you can see what's up on her twitter page. i wonder who publicizes it. on the right, a bikini. she wrote about it. she said me and "playboy" no. >> it's filled with great

articles. >> i read it often. >> journalistically speaking, they do. >> we sound ridiculous now, a lot of women at home shaking their heads. they do have good stuff in there. let's move on to the next one here. how much time do we have left? i'll move down to the ochocincos. this is chad ochocinco. he's the wide receiver for the cincinnati ban gals. he's trying to reach out to a charity. all the boxes had a number on the side for feed the children. every time we have seen this for the past time years, every time there's a misprint, it leads to what? >> ah -- sex line. >> you tried a random 800 number and it was a sex line.

there's one thing proliferating, everyone is setting up a sex line. >> they must buy up all 800 numbers. i put in 1-800 and my parents phone number. it led me to a line to meet hot, sexy females. it happened at the white house. >> what is this world coming to? >> phone sex lines everywhere and playboy offers. my gosh. >> we'll hear more from these folks throughout the morning. trusting your instikts, the best option out there. that was certainly the case for this little girl. her parents had a gut feeling. that gut feeling may have saved her life. being a leader means moving fast. across the country when the economy tumbled,

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well, as the nation focuses on how to improve health care, one of the recuring themes is patients need to take more control. elizabeth cohen has a special tonight. elizabeth is here with me this morning. sometimes you have to take it upon your own responsibility to take care of yourself in a lot of ways.

>> the harsh reality is sometimes the medical system doesn't take care of us. many times, it does. if you are lucky, it will. when it doesn't, you have to trust your gut. one spring evening, don was playing ball with his kids in the front yard. he meant to hit a fly ball to his son, instead, it socked his daughter in the head. she knelt to the ground in pain. she had quite a bump on her head. she seemed fine. two nights later, something changed. >> she started crying. >> tell me what you heard? >> my head. it's hurting. she was holding it. my head is hurting. my head is hurting. >> they rushed her to the emergency room. >> when the doctor showed up, what did he say? >> it's late, she's tired, probably has a touch of the flu. >> they told her to take morgan home and put her to bed.

they knew better. they knew it was no flu virus. they pushed for a ct scan of the brain. >> what did you think the results were going to be? >> there was something wrong. you could feel it in the gut. >> i knew there was a problem. >> he said i'm surprised. i'm surprised. there was something there. >> there was a leakage of blood into her cull. >> medics rushed morgan by helicopter to nearby rainbow babies children's hospital. >> this is a big blood clot. it's what we had to remove to take out the blood clot and stop the bleeding. >> today, morgan is just fine. >> do you feel like a lucky girl? >> yeah. >> lucky because her parents followed their instincts. >> the doctor said she had a virus and needed to get some rest. if you had listened to that advice and brought her home to

go to bed and rest, what would have happened? >> she probably wouldn't have woken up the next morning and we would have lost her. >> an amazing story. it's one of those things. it seems like doctors tell you, oh, you are just being a little too cautious. you know, they make us feel like we are paranoid. how does a parent battle that? you seem pushy. the doctor tells you to calm down. >> you trust that feeling. pediatricians have a say thag mother knows best. when a mother says something is wrong with her child, more often than not, she is right. they handled it very well. they didn't get upset, they didn't yell and scream. they were right their child was slipping into a coma, they were calm. they repeated this is not normal for my child. they said to the doctor, ask her what grade she is in and who her teacher is.

she got it wrong. she named the wrong teacher and the wrong grade. that may be the moment the doctor knew. >> how do you help the doctor along? how do you help the doctor make the diagnosis? >> what they did was correct. they showed him. look, she doesn't know what grade she is in or who her teacher is. that was one way of showing it. i know my child. this is not right for my child. if the doctor is not listening, you have to get pushy. if you annoy the doctor, that's all right. you are doing it to save yourself or your child. >> i'm going off script here, i'm curious. can you go back and there be legal action taken against a doctor when you say something is wrong and the doctor doesn't listen? is there a legal obligation? >> you might have a lawsuit.

geez, other doctors would have noticed this. you had a, b and c looking at you. why didn't you know and see something was wrong? there could be legal action. it could work in your favor. if a doctor is nervous about a lawsuit, if you say i am truly worried something is wrong with my child, i have never seen them like this, a smart doctor is going to say, i don't want a lawsuit. >> you have a lot of stuff going on this weekend. >> we do. it's on at 7:00 tonight and 7:00 tomorrow night. it's called the empowered patient. we have uplifting stories like them. they did it right and got the problem taken care of. >> you have a book out there? >> somewhere. borders, amazon. it's called the empowered patient. >> can you sign me a copy? >> i would love to.

>> thank you. the special comes on tonight. thank you so much. coming up here, there have been tough times out there. that can mean a win fall for others particularly when it comes to buying a foreclosed home. we have tips from collide anderson. it's 20 minutes after the hour.

21 minutes past the hour on cnn saturday morning. may be a bit of a break for folks facing foreclosure. homeowners get a break here. bank of america is joining two

other financial institutions in suspending the process of mortgage foreclosure. they want to assure the paperwork and procedures were followed. we have all heard that this is maybe a great time to buy a foreclosure. most are priced to sell much lower than the listed price months ago. common mistakes you need to avoid. getting home schooled. >> good to be here. >> the reason people think foreclosed homes are attractive, you can get a good deal. >> it's a discount. you want to buy something on sale. >> how big of a discount? >> huge in some cases. don't do anything if it's less than 20%. you want to have at least a 20% discount when you look at the comparables in the neighborhood. that's where you should be. >> what do you want to start

with? >> the dos. i think the first thing is that you have to look at opportunity. the opportunity. it take as lot of time to look for a foreclosure. you have to be prepared, have a plan and know what you are looking for. that's the plan. don't overdo the repairs. a lot need repairs. don't over do it. do the kitchen. everybody is not dollar for dollar. if you put $10,000 in it, it doesn't mean it will bring the value up $10,000. >> how much resale? you have to do a lot of research. are people competing? >> investors are competing all the time for the properties. it's a good deal. a lot of people made their business on buying the properties. in the past, it was buying and selling. now, there's a lot of buying and holding or buying and renting. >> what are the red flags. what do we have to avoid if you are trying to go after one of

these things? >> there are several things. if you are looking at the propertie properties, look at everything. avoid going into a slow-moving neighborhood. if you go into a neighborhood that's not selling. if houses haven't sold in 12 months or 24 months, it may be a red flag. properties are still selling. if you see no activity in the neighborhood in that period of time, that could be a red flag. >> what kind of negotiating power do you have? they are so severely cut, how much negotiation do you have? >> a lot of banks don't give you negotiating room. it's as is. this is the price. sometimes they will throw in extra money for repairs. hold to your guns. stick to them. this is what we want and what we'll pay. >> what kind of shape are foreclosed homes? you think a bad house for some reason. what kind of shape are they in? >> a lot of them are perfectly good shape.

go in and do repairs. have your expectations. there's going to be stuff i need to do. you'll be pleasantly surprised. you'll be prepared for it. you are going in to buy the property. have room in there or reserves. a lot of foreclosures are in beautiful shape. >> we have talked about this over the years, how it fluctuates homes on the market. where are we now in the market? are there a lot of foreclosed homes? >> there's a plet ra. there are a lot of things that are going to reduce the inventory. it's the largest inventory we have. it's shrinking. it's going to take time before it turns around. >> appreciate you. >> it's my pleasure. >> 25 past the hour. a quick break. we'll be right back. ♪

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