tonight, americans on alert. a travel warning is expected to be issued tomorrow, affecting hundreds of thousands of tourists in places like paris, london, even berlin. plus, got a webcam? know how to turn it off to keep hackers out. we'll show you how to safeguard your own privacy. and you might have seen them on twitter, facebook. they are young, rising stars in the conservative movement. cnn with unprecedented insight from the inside. all right, listen up, everyone. if you are possibly planning to travel to europe or no someone who might be, breaking news. the u.s. state department is preparing this new terror alert for americans traveling abroad. details are still coming in to cnn. we're learning with you the new travel advisory could come as early as tomorrow morning. in fact, one senior u.s.

official calls it "a serious situation." cnn homeland security correspondent jean joins us from washington. the u.s. state department is expected to issue a travel alert. can you give me specifics? >> we have to rely on the language given to us, and that is expected to issue this travel aler alert. it will urge americans to be vigilant, keep their eyes open, especially in airports and tourist sites. a different senior u.s. official says u.s. military installations are taking prudent precautions. quoting this official, this is a serious situation. now, we know u.s. and european officials have been saying for several days that they are concerned about the possibility of terror attacks against targets in europe. they have said they are following several threads of intelligence.

one of which concerns mumbai still commando attacks against multiple locations but they do not have specific information about timing, mode or place of attack. and osama bin laden has been in communication with al qaeda affiliates within pakistan and elsewhere, urging them to act. today, one official says the alert is being prompted not by in new intelligence, but simply by the volume of intelligence related to terror. in addition, brooke, we've heard from a different u.s. official that u.s. law enforcement is likely to get an advisory after this travel alert is issued. this official said it is just to keep them in the loop. the intelligence at this point in time still concerns possible terror strikes in europe, not in the united states. brooke? >> and if in fact this terror alert is issued, jean, what might tourists abroad expect if say they're at the eiffel tower

or near tother locations? >> the europeans have been highly aware of all of the threat intelligence coming in, it couldn't be a surprise if they saw additional security personnel around those very public places where crowds gather. again, this is just an alert. this is just saying to americans be aware, keep your eyes open, report anything suspicious if you see it. >> jean, thank you. i want to continue the conversation and bring in former fbi assistant director. tom, stand by just a minute. i want to walk through some of these numbers to emphasize how many americans are abroad. here's what we have. the u.s. government estimates some 13 million americans visit europe each year. october fest happening right now in munich. also, france, italy, huge

honeymoon destinations. in terms of just young people, 50,000 american college students study abroad each year in europe. so clearly if and when this happens, tom, this would affect many, many americans abroad. but at the same time, and we're not getting specifics yet from the state department, very vague language at best at this point, tom, what's your reaction to that? >> i think you hit it right on the end. there's no specific information out, and to put a warning out where you went name the country, city or the type of location that's going to be attacked, it borderlines being on absurd. millions of americans, students, tourists, other travelers traveling all over, traveling in europe, what do you avoid? they made the comment in one of the warnings about the expectation was a mumbai type attack. well, in move of 2008, the ten

attackers in mumbai were young 20-year-olds with ak-47s and grenades carrying backpacks. if you're overseas, everybody has a backpack. and the other issue is that attack was for railroad stations, taxi cabs, restaurants and the major hotels in mumbai. how do you avoid this? if you're not supposed to go out to a public place and avoid the eiffel, stay in your hotel. they blew up hotels, killed people in hotels, they bombed restaurants in the hotels. so in a way, even if you have a more specific threat, there's really not a lot of places to hide, other than don't go in the first place. >> right. i don't think that's what the message is. jean emphasized be alert. but you said so far this is borderline absurd. what might be -- what might the

motivation be from a security angle to purposely keeping this nebulous at least at this point? >> i think the motivation is they don't have enough details. if they knew who was going to do the attack and where, they would be in a better position to stop the individual, stop the group and prevent it in the first place. so the fact that they don't know, it's not news for the past nine years or more that terrorist organizations in afghanistan, in pakistan, yemen and other places are training bad guys to go back to europe, go to the u.s., go to western countries and conduct shootings, bombings and other terror attacks. that's not a surprise. so we know they're continuously training people. we know from the abdulmutallab debriefings in january of this year, he claimed he was with 20 other individuals in yemen who were going to be september abroad to do these attacks. in his case, he was attempting to do a bombing on an airliner.

so we know there's continuous school going on in those countries to train terrorists. we know the terrorists are being sent out throughout, as i said, western countries. and the idea of trying to figure out where a specific attack will be conducted is really very difficult. if they had the information, i think they would be in a better position to present it instead of putting out a warning that is just unenforceable. how do you stop people from going to europe. if you're an american and in another country, to you everything looks strange. >> right. you wouldn't be able to differentiate strange from normal. >> right. you're not walking around in downtown peoria, you're in a foreign country. what is going to be suspicious to you is going to be everything. >> hopefully the state department will nail down some specifics.

tom fuentes, good talking to you. thank you. have you heard about this story? the u.s. apologizing for conducting medical experiments, that's the word we'll use, on guatemalans 60 years ago. what did we do and is guatemala accepting our "i'm sorry." plus, a massive cleanup under way along the east coast after tropical storm nicole brings heavy rains and flooding. we'll be right back.

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so the risk continues tonight because of runoff. doesn't mean we're going to see more rain come in. i would like to say it's going to stay dry for days. we have a brand new system coming in from the west. this will produce heavy rain through parts of the northeast and the mid-atlantic, even places like new york city saw three inches of rain and the subway system shut down for a while. this is all headed in that direction. we're going to be monitoring it for sunday because it may cause more problems in this area. >> i feel for those folks. could take days for it to go away. bonnie, thank you. the u.s. is apologizing for this cruel experiment more than six decades later. the shocking details only recently came to light. american researchers intentionally infected people in guatemala with syphilis in the 1940s. i want to bring in elizabeth cohen. wow. huge wow factor in this story. explain to me who specifically

they were infecting, and the obvious question is, why? >> why, why? because they wanted to know more about penicillin. this is such a horrifying story because their intentions were to learn more about penicillin, which is a legitimate intention. these are researchers from the u.s. public health service. so people in the u.s. government went down to guatemala and they found prostitutes who had syphilis. they just naturally had syphilis and arranged for them to have sex with prisoners and with patients in mental institutions. when that didn't give them syphilis, they would do abrasions on their forearms and the men's penises -- >> just to make extra sure. >> they needed to have people with syphilis to do their experiment. when that didn't work, in a few cases, they would puncture their spines and deliver the bacteria that way and treat them to see how it works. it's beyond horrific.

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a man in the prime of his life has a massive stroke at a remote mountain ski lodge. if he doesn't get the right treatment soon, he could be dead, possibly paralyzed for life. a nurse on the scene refuses to let a helicopter crew take him to the nearest hospital, a decision that may have saved his life. elizabeth cohen explains. >> bear valley, california, is a mountain paradise. gorgeous skiing and loads of snowmobilers. after skiing down the lopes one morning, chuck stopped in at the local snowmobile center. while inside, all of a sudden he fell down. >> you could draw a line down the center of my body and

everything was disconnected on the right side. >> chuck had just had a massive stroke. >> i just remember the rotors turning and the snow flying. and just waiting to go. >> time is of the essence, and this helicopter doesn't move. why were precious minutes being wasted? the flight nurse wanted to take chuck to the nearest hospital, which was a small hospital. >> he had a cardiac problem, he had a stroke problem, he needed to go to a hospital where there was specialists standing by. and these small hospitals don't offer that. >> you argued hard. >> i did argue hard. >> cathy convinced the helicopter team to fly to a hospital that was much further away. the flight took an extra 15 minutes. dr. christopher marcus took one look at the ct scan and had a drug that could reverse the stroke. >> we had to get the drug in, in

the next ten minutes. >> you just think back and think what if cathy hadn't argued with them. >> i'm convinced there's high probability i would have in a wheelchair. >> can anyone put your foot down? >> everybody has that ability. and they should be aware of it. >> elizabeth cohen, it is all about the hospital, isn't it? >> it is, to a great extent. i think sometimes we as consumers think a hospital is a hospital is a hospital. get to the closest one and often times that is what you want. but you want to go to the place that specializes in what you have. >> we saw in the piece, it was the nurse, right, who was saying we got to go to the place, it takes 15 extra minutes. but could i, or could you say hey, want to go to this hospital versus that hospital if you're even able to speak at that point? >> the first part is knowing

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there has been a lot of talk across the country this week about the suicide of that rutgers university student who was just 18. today, the rutgers community observed this moment of silence to remember tyler clementi, who killed himself days after his roommate secretly kissing another man and streamed it online. the pause in remembrance took place at the rutgers-tulane football game. how often do you notice if your computer may or may not have a webcam? the suicide of tyler clementi reveals how these tiny devices carry huge risks, risks we need to know about. prosecutors in new jersey say the roommate who recorded him, as i mentioned, used this webcam a. but they're looking into the possibility that the roommate

turned on the webcam remotely from another room. he left the dorm room and turned it on, but there have been cases of hackers who access other people's webcams, live streaming, recording you, maybe, for days without the victim having any idea. gregory evans explains how they do it. >> i want to make sure people understand this. just because you have a camera on your computer doesn't mean somebody can turn on your camera just like that. they have to know exactly what they're doing. so what we're going to do is use a program like let's say a hacking program. it's the most usable program out there in the world when it comes to computer hacking. you can download it on the internet for free. we will use that and we'll hack into one of our test networks and then we'll get a prompt where we can execute any command on that computer, including turns on the camera. once a person has access to your

webcam a, he gets in, and you'll have all the capabilities that that camera has. so if you can -- if that camera can follow you around, that person can follow you around the house. if it has a built-in mike, it can record you as well. it can be that easy. this is a serious situation. what makes it scary, again, you never know when you are a victim. >> stand by. >> so now you see the problem. gregory evans is sitting next to me now and offers some solutions. wow, i have a laptop and it has a tiny little camera and i'm sitting on the edge of my seat because i'm wondering if someone can get into my computer with the camera. let me start simply, if my computer is off, am i okay? >> you're okay. >> when i am not okay? >> when your computer is on. when your computer is on and you're connected to the internet, like most people, we use our computer, we'll get up go to work, church, wherever it may be and the computer is

always connected. as long as it's connected, anyone with a little bit of experience, can access, hack into your computer, and turn on your computer -- i mean, turn on your camera. >> so you're here to tell me how to keep someone from getting access to my webcam. so we have a camera, we're going to go in on your laptop, starting with a wireless network. >> i want to talk and that. the layman goes and buys a wireless router right out of the store. >> like me. >> you go home, turn it on and the next thing you know, you are connected to the internet. but you can't go in and turn on the firewall and you didn't turn on the wireless incription. if you access someone else's network, they can turn on your webcam.

>> so step number one, make sure you have a secure wireless connection. >> exactly. >> never rely solely on firewalls that come with your operating systems. >> that's correct. i was going to mention, most computers like pcs come with norton. don't just rely on that. >> you need more than that? >> you need more than that. it's good to have a real firewall. you can just the one that's built into windows and you can use your windows firewall as well. >> so you need extra security there. and this is what i find interesting. if somebody sends you a pdf link, that may be nefarious. >> you'll get a bunch of spam and say here's the business proposal i sent you. and a person clicks on that and what it will do is open up certain ports on your computer,

and lit connect your computer back to the hacker's computer. so he doesn't have to hack into your computer. anyone who doesn't know anything about computers can send you an e-mail and now they have full access to your computer. >> what can you show me? >> one thing that's very important is, you want to see -- like if you went to is police and said if someone hacked me into my computer, they'll say prove me. every computer has logs. to find your logs, go here to the start menu and type in the word logs. and then there. once it comes up on your screen, you can come over to here and you can actually click and you can see all the applications, and it will show you the date and time each application was actually accessed. in addition to that, you can look at your security logs on your computer. now, if someone from the outside had hacked in, what you will see is ip addresses of that person,

okay, who accessed these particular files. >> so i'm going to be able to tell that there's a differentiation between what's normal and what's not? >> that's correct. >> how am i going to know what the difference is? >> you should not be accessing your personal computer remotely where it will show you ip addresses here. >> bottom line, what is your biggest tip for people? >> one is to make sure that so no one can access your camera. make sure your computer is hacker proof and you can even go to amihackerproof.com and i will let you know. >> gregory, thank you so much. >> no, thank you. >> you got that? all right. we'll be right back. cnn is invited into the world of young conservatives to see what makes them tick. it's a place where religion and

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many call themselves investigative reporters and they're hip when it comes to social media to get their message out. cnn followed this group of rising stars within the conservative movement and special investigations unit correspondent abby boudreau here to talk about her documentary coming on tonight. tell me about it. >> we are very excited about this documentary. we thought it would be really interesting to take a deeper look into a group of young people who were passionate about their beliefs. you might agree or disagree with their viewpoints but you cannot deny their passion. for the last several months, we followed a group of young conservatives and this involves a 23-year-old film maker who is trying to make it big in hollywood and also in the same clip, you'll meet ryan, an anti-gay activist who enjoys stirring up controversy and pushing the limits. for months, we documented christian. >> the disco lights come on. >> a young conservative trying to make it big in hollywood.

>> zooming in, zooming out, boom. >> today, he's prepping for a music video he's directing. >> i don't necessarily want to change people's minds. i would rather turn heads and get people talking. my job is to make provocative content. you're going to say, get against the car! >> and he does that with controversial people. ryan is rehearsing the part of an fbi agent in the music video. >> there is a scene where mary is going to be here. >> she's going to be freaking out on us. >> we first met ryan at a meeting for young conservatives in california. christian introduced us. i heard you guys moan and grown about liberal media. do you view cnn as liberal media? >> yes. >> what is it like to have me sitting right here. >> the communist news network.

i feel like i'm under fire right now. i feel afraid, a little bit. >> when you're watching -- >> i don't watch cnn or msnbc except for once in a blue moon. >> at age 28, ryan is the oldest young conservative we've met. >> i'm ryan. nice to meet you. >> he invited us to an anti-gay event called americans for truth academy. >> it's disorder of soul, the nature of man. >> after the speech outside chicago, a group of gay rights protestors is ready to take ryan on. and ryan is ready. >> you guys hate christians? >> no. >> why are you protesting a christian church for promoting their most fundamentally held beliefs? >> you want to put us in gas chambers, [ bleep ]. >> no, i don't.

why are you yelling me? this is the definition of tolerance right here. >> right wing bigot, go away. >> keep smiling all the way to hell, pretty boy! >> wow. >> wow is right. looking at how close the cameras, these guys allowed the cameras to get inside of this back and forth, what did you do? you said i'm abby boudreau from cnn, i would like to do a piece on these right wing young folks. >> it was not easy, but we got great access. it took many, many months of just explaining to people, like this is what it's about. it's a fly on a wall, it's not going to be a count point documentary, we want to watch and learn and observe and take a look at this young group of very passionate people with passionate beliefs. >> so however you fall on the political spectrum, you'll be either supportive or make you angry, but it will elicit a response from you. >> oh, yeah.

there have been a lot of twists around turns with other things. >> let's get into that, abby. james o'keefe, known as the pimp in the a.c.o.r.n. video scandal, which you covered. so he basically we keep using the word punked, that was the word he used. >> that was the word in the documentary. >> if people don't know what happened, explain again how that happened and if at all that punk affected this doc. >> i was going to meet james o'keefe. and he had questions and concerns about having us there at the shoot. so he said, why don't you meet us in maryland. and we can talk about my concerns. i said, sure. he wanted me to come alone. i went alone. what ended up happening, very long story, there was a plan to try to get me on a boat and to fake seduce me on this boat or who knows how far it would have gone? it was a plan to embarrass me,

to embarrass cnn and that's essentially what you're referring to. but as far as how much will it be part of the documentary, it will be part of it, because it was part of our journey as a reporter working on this story. but we talked to a lot of young conservatives and they're all going to be part of this documentary. like i said, it is just a fly on the wall glimpse into this movement. >> what time? >> 8:00 and 11:00 tonight. >> saturday and sunday. i'll watch, i'll watch. you can watch that entire documentary called "right on the edge" tonight and sunday 8:00 and 11:00 eastern time. if you are headed to europe any time soon, the u.s. state department is expected to issue this new travel advisory. what does that mean and why are they doing it now? find out coming up. i saw a gap in the market for a fresh culinary brand and launched behindtheburner.com. we create and broadcast content and then distribute it across tv,

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i want to take you back to our breaking story tonight, and that is the fact that americans abroad in europe specifically may soon be told to be extra careful. the u.s. state department says an abundance of information about possible terror attacks is likely to bring a new travel advisory we're hearing as early

as tomorrow morning. one u.s. official tells cnn it is a quote serious situation. phil, if i can begin on the british side, what are you hearing from parliament officials there? >> we've got some insight from a british intelligence official, a source that has told us that it's believed that this possible warning from the u.s. government is not related to any new intelligence about a threat or a plot, potential plot in europe that was made public a few days ago. we learned of a plot described as a possible mumbai style attack like the one that took place in mum boy two years ago with a team of people attacking multiple sites using small arms, guns and grenades. so we're told that it's not new intelligence pointing to that, but we're told officials in europe and the united states are taking that threat so seriously that america would consider issuing a warning just like the one that we're hearing about.

this british intelligence sources also told us there's another reason behind this. a feared backlash against france and its legislation to ban women from wearing the full face veil, the so-called burqa ban. we're hearing in britain there are no plans for britain to increase its security threat level. a threat is considered highly likely. it's the second highest level, brooke. >> phil, that is new information on both those counts. thank you for betting that from a source within british authorities. phil, thank you. i want to turn your attention now to hamburg, germany. correspondent nic robertson is there. you heard what we just heard, that this is not new information, that this might pertain to those mumbai style plots that the uk intercepted in the past week and also to the burqa ban. what is your reaction to that information? >> it seems to fit with what

german authorities are here telling us. the sources we've been speaking to in hamburg who are talking about a specific individual who attended this mosque behind me, a mosque that the authorities closed down. they say that he's in u.s. captivity in afghanistan. he's a german national of afghan decent and he's been talking about the possibility of this mumbai type attack. what the sources here say is that he has been tells his u.s. captors new information every day. now, the german authorities say they're not privy to all that information, however, they do say that they believe there is no current active threat at the moment. however, they also add to that that when he left this mosque here about a year and a half ago, he was with a group of about ten other individuals. right now german officials don't know where they are. they know they went to terror

training camps in pakistan. the question is now what are their plans? fredricka? >> nic, it's brooke. following up on that, given a talk of new terror threats here, let me ask you being in germany, have you talked to any germans, are they changing their course of action or does it still seem normal there? >> you know, brooke, there's an interesting situation here in germany and i've talked to a number of people here, and that is germans haven't had a terror attack like madrid, the british, like the united states, 9/11. they haven't had an attack like that. there have been two foiled plotting and plans here. so at the moment, because the german authorities are playing this down, playing this new sort of mumbai type attack down, there's a very real sense that if there was an attack and one did happen, it would shock people here, because they're really not expecting it, because

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for an unprecedented 90 minutes. these long interviews are something he hardly does anymore. we wanted to talk about parkinson's disease, his foundation and the numerous obstacles he's overcome the last 20 years since he's diagnosed. >> it was a clear period around 19 3, 3, '94, two years after the diagnose where i accepted it. there's an old daying my happine happiness grows in direct proportion to my expectation. this is what it is, so now what? >> once you were not in denial, you think you were happier? >> yes, absolutely. when you can look at the truth of something, then, i mean, that's what it is. it is what it is. now you have options. the only thing i don't have a

chase object is whether i have parkinson's. everything else is my choice. that's much more liberating than the physical constraints of this disease are limiting. >> are the things that you particularly miss that you can't do, i mean, things that you say, god, i really wish i could do this still? >> no. >> you do everything? >> i do anything i ever did before. yeah, i know, i play hockey, i play golf, i play guitar, i hang out with my kids. that's -- if it seriously limited or restricted or affected my ability to interact with my kids, that would be something that would be hard to deal with. >> he's just a remarkable guy. it was a captivating conversation. his foundation has raised over $200 million which they're putting to lots of different uses including trying to answer some of the questions regarding the mystery of parkinson's. they've also set up this bio marker study trying to figure

out are there clues about parkenson's within people's bodies that can help become targets for medications down the line? back to you. >> sanjay gupta for us in new york. thanks. ahead, academy award winning actress will be introducing us to one of the top ten cnn heroes of the year. find out how both of them are working to combat the horrors of human trafficking. fiber one chewy bar. how'd you do that? do what? it tastes too good to be fiber. you made it taste like chocolate. it has 35% of your daily value of fiber. do it again. turn it into something tasty. this guy's doing magic. there's chocolate chips in here now. how'd you do that? right! tasty fiber, that's a good one! ok, umm...read her mind. what's she thinking? that's right! i'm not thinking anything! [ male announcer ] fiber one chewy bars. cardboard no. delicious yes.

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last week at cnn we had the big announcement. we told you who our top ten cnn heroes of 2010 are by selection of our blue ribbon panel and calling o friends of cnn heroes the next couple weeks to tell us about each and every one of these amazing people. tonight, mira introduces us to one whose group controls the india/nepal border to stop sex trafficking and rescued and rehabilitated more than 12,000 women and young girls. >> hi, i'm mira soravino.

in 2007 i had the honor of trib. as a u.n. goodwill ambassador to combat human trafficking i'm committed to ending the suffering caused by it. when i hear the heart wrenching personal stories of the victims i see how much this world needs heroes. now i'm thrilled to help cnn introduce one of this year's top ten honorees. >> if someone convinces i want to make your child a prostitute them, but families, they are tricked all the time. the border between india and nepal is the point of trafficking. there's no way to escape. i'm nisha. it's my role to stop everyone from being trafficked. we are intercepting.

after the rescue the girls are taken -- they are totally psychologically broken. we give them whatever they want to do. whatever training they want to do. something new in my life, they are my strength. >> well, cnn decided to pick up the phone, make a really long distance phone call to nepal. we asked her reaction to when she found out that she was one of the top ten finalists for c hero of the year. >> it was, like, all my children and myself and my girls, and was, you know, i cried first and it was and i was also very happy at least we were recognized for doing our work and at least the