-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com right now on cnn, the rahmera is over. new white house chief of staff takes over. dave gergen is here with the first week on the job with the man who needs to help the president win back over voters. larry flynt is a part of it. i'll talk to him about his role in a very controversial case and it's a sign of really these tough economic times, a new way to make money for businesses and for schools as well and they're using your children to do it. a controversy likely to spread to your neighborhood very soon. we talk this hour with parents and school board members already in the thick of it. hello, i'm don lemon, but we start tonight's with a terror alert. both the u.s. and britain is

warning citizens to be extra careful when traveling to europe, especially france and germany. the new advisories are based on growing concern that al qaeda and other terror groups may be planning more attacks on westerners similar to the commando-style attack carried out in mum by, india, two years ago that killed 166 people. the u.s. state department urges americans to use, quote, common sense precautions and avoid places where americans tend to gather. cnn has also learned the pentagon imposed a curfew practice on u.s. troops in germany and ordered service members not to wear their uniforms off base. cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson is here with more. >> reporter: what concerns officials in europe and has for some time is that when people get to these camps from germany, from belgium, from britain, they form compaqs and networks and when they come back to their home countries, they tuesday those camacts and networks to

plan and prepare other attacks, so that remains a concern. there is also the concern that other people may have slipped away who weren't under surveillance who we're told by counterterror authorities here that they had a number of people in this mosque under surveillance but when they formed plans for groops to go to pakistan, that he did so quitly they couldn't be stopped. you have groups known to be plotting an attack like this, there are others who may be beyond surveillance who could have been in training camps, back in germany, back in britain already and planning to move ahead with those parts of the attack. what they're telling americans, his american captors in captivity in afghanistan that german authorities are not fully aware of and that new information is coming out, we're old, every day from him, that perhaps that is now raising everyone's concern more than it

has been over the past few days. >> all right, thank you very much for that, nic, obviously this is very serious. many americans preparing to travel to europe are taking it in stride. stephanie elam has been talking on to departing passengers in newark international airport in new jersey. >> reporter: we've been here at nuke liberty airport all day long, talking to people seeing how they feel about this terror alert and the one thing you hear over and over, you got to go ahead and live your life. plane tickets are expensive. it costs a lot to change your plane ticket so they weren't going change their plans here. in fact, we spoke to three people today who said, you know what, you just got to continue on with your life as scheduled, as planned. >> i think it's just normal for me. we're just cautious when we're in an unusual area to begin with. and air travel is so common. we're either traveling by small plane because we don't have a lot of roads or we're traveling by jet to get out of the states,

so, it's just a mode of transportation we take for granted. and we're still, i think, pay attention, but not necessarily uncomfortable. if they came back and said we prefer you not traveling or something more than just being diligent to saying, we have a lot more activity. >> made the arrangements, six months ago. it would probably take an incident of some sort where there was real danger. >> because you only live once. i mean, what are you going to do? i can't let these people terrorize me. >> reporter: it's interesting to note that those three people we talked to, one had no idea because she was traveling from alaska, that this alert was coming out. she said she had been on facebook and hadn't seen it before she got to this airport the other day. the other woman heard it before she left from california the other night on the radio and didn't feel fazed by it. you heard the tone of the man we

spoke to and other people said the same thing, they said it would take a lot more then this to keep people from flying and going to change their plans. >> stay with cnn. we'll continue to report on the developing story. in the meantime, a new supreme court term starts tomorrow with a new face on the bench. for the first time ever, three of the nine justices are women. and as our kate baldwin explains, the court has a busy caseload ahead. >> reporter: the supreme court currently has more than 50 cases on the docket, the most controversial range from immigration reform to free speech challenges. ♪ america america >> reporter: one of the first deals with anti-gay protests at military fusion rams. albert snyder sued the west borough baptist church and its

leader fred phelps after they staged a demonstration outside his son's funeral in 2006. matthew snyder was killed in iraq. >> it comes down to dignity. no one, i don't care if you're not military, no one should be buried with what the phelps did to them. >> reporter: this is a case of free speech versus privacy rights. the court will also weigh in on the case of texas death row inmate hank skinner. skinner says he's innocent of the triple murder he's convicted of committing. skinner argues he has a civil right to request dna testing post-conviction to prove it. >> all the district attorney's go got to do is turn over the evidence and test it. if i'm innocent, i go home. if item guilty, i die. what's so hard about that? >> reporter: the prosecution argues that skinner had his chance to appeal and argue if he wins, it will open the floodgates to frivolous lawsuits clogging the criminal justice system. other high-profile cases include

california's attempt to ban the sale of violent games to children, they say it violates the first amendment.they will consider an arizona law cracking down on businesses hiring illegal immigrants. opponents argue federal law trumps state efforts. >> federal government says we have the immigration laws. zone throws up its hands and says, yes, but you're not enforcing them. >> reporter: meanwhile, the newest just ti, elena kagan is taking the bench which marks a historic first for the supreme court, three women serving at the same time. however, justice kagan has recused herself from 25 pending cases because of her work as a former solicitor general. she's with drawn to prevent any conflict of interest leaving the possibility of split 4-4 decisions as the term kicks off. kate baldwin, cnn, washington. >> kate, it may sound strange, but larry flynt, the porn producer, he's involved in one

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this really has landmark case against the late jerry falwell is being cited by the defense for fred phelps who organized the protests. flipt isn't happy about that but says he can't oppose it. >> whatever they were doing in terms of protests in the funeral of someone mourning their dead coming home from the war, i can't think of anything more sdplik despicable, more insensitive to do, but justice rehnquist in my case, he was a senior supreme court justice, and he wrote the majority opinion and he said, often, things are done under the guise of the first amendment with less than admirable intentions but the government has no right to suppress it up so, while we have those great basic freedoms like freedom of speech, freedom of

religion, the right to assemble and to petition our government for redress, you know, we really can't get caught in a position, whether it's a mosque in new york or what the issue is or burning the koran, when we are compromising the basic freedoms that our nation was founded on and it's difficult cases like this one involving the protests at the funerals, the supreme court has to weigh in on. i regret that they're using my precedent-setting case with the reverend jerry falwell. i think it was slightly different that one respect but in another respect, it doesn't. >> let's talk about the senate race in ohio. david vitter is taking on charlie malsant. how did a hustler paper take on

a campaign ad for vitter. >> we were the ones who added vitter on this. it wasn't a question of indiscretion with a prosecutor in washington, but then we concluded the case, investigation in new orleans as well, this guy was like the energizer bunny. at the same time, he was going around talking about abstinence, you know, i mean, he was probably one of the biggest philanderers in the senate. so, i'm often accused when i expose people like him, just doing it to expose his sex life. nothing can be further from the truth. what i'm exposing is the hypocrisy. >> well, let me ask you -- >> i don't want -- >> you have offered $1 million for anyone who can come forward to your magazine to they have had sex with a high-ranking official. are you still doing it and have you had any tips. >> we still do it. we've always got ongoing investigations, but they take a while. >> so, no tips.

>> pardon? >> no tips yet? >> i'll give you a couple clues. we know we got a gay senator, you know. we would just like to get him to come out of the closet and i think we'll be exposing that in the next few months if he doesn't. i had a really great story, a very high-ranking republican talking to a woman on the cell phone and we had the tape where he said, oh, she mentioned family values to him. he said, oh, physical values, that crap, i just talk about that on television. i thought, we thought it was a real doozy. >> you want to give us an idea 18th one of these guys? >> i can't do that. but let me say, you can't use the tape because it was taped in pennsylvania, which requires two-party consent. you can't use it. so, i mean, those are the kind of things we're up against. but we constantly have interesting investigations going

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time now for a "cnn equals politics" update. keeping an eye on the political ticker, want to check in with paul steinhauser, of course from the best political team on television. >> we've got brand-new stuff. we're not taking the weekend off when it comes to campaign politics. let's talk about the pop

republican senate campaign chairman and he was talking about the republican's chances of grabbing back the senate. he predicted it would be a tsunami at the polls but thinks it will be significant. his democratic counterpart, menendez of new jersey who heads the democrats, said a campaign committee, he said, don't count your chickens before they hatch. he was warning against republicans getting too cocky this november. in the battle for the senate, the republicans need to win back ten seats to take control of the chamber. here in washington, all the lawmakers are out. congress is out through the election. lawmakers are back in their home states hitting the campaign trail. hitting the campaign trail this weekend, president barack obama. on thursday he goes to maryland to help out the governor there, democratic governor martin o'malley facing a pretty tough re-election and he'll go to chicago campaigning with the democrats' nominee for the senate. the trait treasurer, this is interesting because this is barack obama's old senate seat

and the democrats want to keep his senate seat and biden's old senate seat in party hands come november 2nd. brand-new on the political ticker, john sune and someone who may run for the presidency, he said if republicans take back control of congress and don't deliver results quickly, tea party activists maybe they want to form a third party in 2012. interesting stuff, don. that's what we have on the cnn little cat particular he have. >> a splinter group, they'd create a splinter group. paul steinhauser, thank you for the latest political news. go to cnnpolitics.com. we'll have another update at 10:00 pem eastern on cnn. let's talk more politics. a senate race in west virginia has become a real cliffhanger. legendary democrat robert byrd held the seat for 52 years until his death this summer. and democrats didn't think they'd have much trouble holding onto the seat but the polls have

tightened and some pundits are now saying the race is a toss-up. our dana bash joining us live from milton, west virginia. where does this race stand right now? >> reporter: it is very, very tight and as you said, don, it is actually surprising that we have any interest in this race at all because governor joe mansion was supposed to be a shoo-in. he is somebody who's very, very popular in the state. he's actually one of the most popular garcia, democrat or republican, in the country. he has reduced the deficit, the unemployment realty is lower here. rate is lower than the national average. he's gotten endorsements from both business groups and unions. you might wonder, what's the problem. the problem is he's a democrat. the people here, even democrats registered democrats, say they are concerned about democratic control in washington. that is exactly what his republican opponent, john racy, is seizing on as he campaigns and in the television ads that are running nonstop here. take a look. >> joe mansion has thrown us under the bus, so imagine the

damage he'll do in washington with his friend, barack obama. i'm john racy and i approve of this message because i won't be a rubber stamp for obama's cap and trade bill. >> reporter: president obama did not win this state and he is very unpopular here, don. i talked to the governor just a short while ago and i asked him about that and whether or not there's hurting him. how much is the president, in all honesty, dragging you down and making this race competitive for the senate? >> i think it is -- it has made a big difference in my race. it truly has made a difference in my race. >> reporter: in what way? >> president obama's not on the ballot. he will not be a u.s. senator and definitely not on the ballot in west virginia, it's me. >> is he trying to distance himself, dana? >> reporter: he is. he's doing it, it seems, much more aggressively. for example, he told me that the stimulus package, which is something that people here are

very mad at because it represents big washington spending. he said that if you were in washington looking back, he would have voted against that. the health care bill. that is something that just a short while ago probably within the last year he said he would have supported had he been in washington and had a vote at the time and today, he said that he would actually repeal some of that. not all of it, but some of the health care bill, so he's absolutely trying to emphasize his independence, emphasize the things that he says that has made him really popular here. the fact that he is independent and i got to tell you, we walked the parade route with him. we talked to people here and in the capital, we definitely heard a lot of support for him here. people, democrats and republicans, do love him but we did hear people say, even though people who love him say, i'm worried about sending him to washington because he is a democrat and they don't like the fact, democrats in washington are doing. that is just fdamental problem and that's why this is a race here. >> dana bash in west virginia, this is going to be one of the

very interesting races that we're going to be paying attention to come november and there are bunch around the country. >> reporter: there sure are and this one of those that you if you would have asked me if we would have paid attention to this six weeks ago and a month ago, i would have said, no, let's watch some of the other ones. >> a dramatic election, thank you, dana bash. mafl shuffling at the white house to tell you about, rahm emanuel has stepped down and pete rouse is stepping up as the new chief of staff. what's this option? that's new.

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there are some big changes at the white house tomorrow when pete rouse takes over officially as the new chief of staff. ram emanuel stepped down friday to run for mayor of chicago and rouse has served as emmanuel's deputy and says he doesn't want the job permanently. joining us now is two men who have worked in presidential administrations and know the steve of chav job very well. senior political analysts, david gergen and ed rollins. thank you for joining us. let's hear how he described emanuel and rouse and then we'll talk about it. >> obviously, these two gentlemen have slightly different styles. [ laughter ] i mentioned, for example, this is a couple of years ago, i

pointed out that rahm, when he was a kid, had lost part of his finger in an accident and it was his middle finger, so i've rendered him mute. pete has never seen a microphone or a tv camera that he likes. >> speaking of that, guys, very funny exit on "snl," the opening sketch of rahm emanuel giving pete rouse a little bit of advice. what do you think going to be the biggest change here from rahm emanuel going forward? ed, let's start with you. >> everything i know about pete rouse, he's worked for over 30 years on the senate inside of the house, the congress. he's a good behind-the-scenes guy. what emanuel did very effectively, he was the enforcer, he could make things happen and has good political instincts i've known in the long time i've been around the game.

so, with a month to go, everything starts coming apart in an election like this and you need someone to headache sure as candidates start running away from the president, meaning incumbents or fund-raisers don't want to do things or the labor unions don't want to back somebody, you need someone to be the enforcer. ger again had that role in our white house, and at the end of the day, rahm will be terribly missed. >> how much of a difference does it make who is sitting in, you can say that seat, who has the president's ear, who speaks to the president? is it noticeable when a presidency changes a chief of staff in the middle of the administration? >> it can be extremely important who's in that job. as ed will remember, many often thought there were three presidencies during president rag and's eight years in office. the first was the jim bakker steve of staff period when things went well, got may have legislative accomplishments. the second came under done regan as chi of staff, former ceo. things went way off the track, they had the iran-contra scan

and regan got fired. the third when they brought back baker back in that. >> what do you think the noticeable difference will be? >> i think there's going to be a huge change in style of the office. clearly, the trust level is high for both, on the president's part for both rahm and pete rouse but the change in style, i don't think there's any doubt pete rouse will be a sue pearl manager. he's a heck of a nice guy. i think it big questions are the ones, are the substantive question, is there going to be a pivot to the center by president obama in the next couple of years? i think that's pretty vital to his governing. people on the left think he needs to pivot more to the left. so far, the appointment suggests continuity, not change. >> ed, do you agree? do you think there will be more of a pivot to the center and do you think it's important? >> very, it's very important. i don't think that nancy pelosi and harry reid survives, which i

don't believe he will, they're going to basically let this president move. they're not going to encourage him to move to the left. they're going to argue he wasn't progressive enough. there were a lot of things he should have done and unfortunately, members of congress lose in this election cycle are going to be the more conservatives, the one that rahm emanuel recruited when he was chairman of the house congressal commit even and more conservative members who won republican districts. the battleground here is the 52 republican districts that we lost in 2006 and 2008 and if we won a majority again -- >> obviously, it's his job to carry out the president's mission, the president's agenda. but it's also going to be his job to help the president win back the american voter, david, and that's something the president -- the poll numbers now are showing the president definitely needs some help on that end. do you agree? >> i do. and that's why i think the shake-up at the white house is not complete yet. the president is going to need some new people in there, david axle rod is leaving in the next

few months. we don't know quite when, and david plouffe is and excellent strategy, as is pete rouse, but who will be the toughen forcer, as ed said, who is going to be the person who puts together the communications plan, who is going to be the person that rebuilds trust with the business community, which is shattered at the moment, how do you do all these things? i think you need some new people in there. i think you need a couple peep, frankly, who have not been part of the inner circle, who are heavyweights in their own right and can really, i think, send messages to the public as well as to the congress and the president is going to have a new presidency in that. >> listen, ed, real quickly because i'm already running into the next show by asking you this question, but temporary, the president said temporary. we're going to be having this conversation very soon, i would imagine, but how soon do you think we'll be vig it about someone else and who might that person be? >> i'm not sure they'll make a change. i think they'll try, first of all, it's going to be a shock once they've lost these seats

that are being projected and trying to put it back together again with a lame duck session and moving to -- i think pete rouse will be in that job at least till the first of the year and may do a good just job the president feels very confident that he keeps him there. obviously valerie jarrett, other people have been mentioned, part of that inner circle. this may be more permanent than people are talking about today. >> i agree with ed. >> thank you, both, appreciate it. okay? >> thank you. there's a lot of cleanup ahead for parts of the east coast after days of heavy rain and flooding. parts of north carolina under water and under a state of emergency right now. and something new in the kitchen. 3-d technology that can help you plan and prepare meals. you could switch for great gas mileage or seats that flip and fold with one hand. you could switch for up to 600 highway miles on a single tank of gas. or the hundred-thousand mile powertrain warranty. over a thousand people a day are switching to chevy.

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works. two hotels, a train station and a jewish culture center were pargt targeted. u.s. troops in germany were under curfew friday night and ordered not to wear their uniforms off base. u.s. military officials say the increased security was not because of a specific threat but a response to intelligence about possible terror threats. it's part of an ongoing assessment of how heightened security impacts base operations in case security must be tightened for a long period of time. it could be months before things are back to normal in flooded areas along the east coast. windsor, north carolina, is still under state of emergency which much of the town under water right now. north carolina governor beverly purdue got a close-up look at the damage today as she toured the devastated area. more uses for modern technology. this time, it's helping to prepare dinner. cnn's gary tuchman shows us in today's "edge of discover vee."

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now, we want to take a look at what will grab the headlines in the week ahead from washington to hollywood. our correspondents have the stories to watch for. we begin with the white house. >> reporter: i'm suzanne malveaux at the white house. this week, president obama will be focus on the economy. he's meeting with his economic

recovery advisory board and highlight the critical role commune colleges play in training and educating community workers. he'll also recognize "fortune" magazine's 50 most powerful what happened. >> the big news next week is object 7th. it is the anniversary of the date in which the u.s. launched the first military action into afghanistan, sort of kicking off the war in afghanistan there. the secretary of defense, robert gates, is going to posthumously award the medal of honor to a soldier's family. we're also going to be taking a look back at the arc of the war, how the war there has changed the military and how it's changed the lives of some of the soldiers who fought in it. >> i'm poppy harlow in new york, ahead on wall street, investors will get the latest factory orders reading on monday and another key manufacturing report on tuesday and retailers across the country will report their september sales on thursday. we'll see if consumers are picking up their spending at all or not. also, costco and pepsi, those

two major corpsings slated to report their quarter earnings midweek. and on friday, the all-sport jobs support and we'll get there before friday morning and we're hoping to see any improvement. i'm brooke anderson. here's what we're watching. closing arguments begin monday in the trial of ana nicole smith's doctors and her ex-boyfriend on charges they contributed to her death by funneling her drugs. and facebook alert, we are bracing for big fallout from the opening this weekend of the facebook movie, "the social network." we're live at 5:00 p.m. eastern and 11:00 p.m. that's on hln. all right, thank you, guys. that's around the country, domestically. you're going to take us to rio, to brazil. it's not carnival but there's a reason to celebrate. it could be. >> exactly. voters went out to cast the

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for one school in massachusetts, a school board plans to mix the classroom with -- allowed its elementary school to sell ad spaces on the

back of school notices. parents notice how much paperwork coming home with the kids. the back of the notices will look like this. covered with ads the size of business cards. the board is selling the space because the schools need money. but could the walls of school hallways be next? two members of the school committee join me now. beverly griffin dunn did not want this to pass, then there's david mckinney. isn't there another way to raise money here? >> we can only go to the taxpayers so often. they're tapped out. the parents are tapped out, so i thought it was time to bring in the business element and make it voluntary and try to raise money that way. >> beverly, why were you against the ads? >> my biggest fear was a fear of

overcommercialization for the students especially at the elementary level. we had been going through different proposals about adverti advertising. signs in the athletic complex, and this came up. dave brought this suggestion in and it seemed to be a better compromise compared to some other ideas we were being presented with. >> but you're not the only one who feels this way. the campaign for a commercial free childhood gave us this response -- david, why do you say that? what do you say to that? >> well, if their concerns are that the children are being

bombarded with advertisement, that horse has already left the barn. we're trying to take advantage of a blank piece of paper that would already be entering the home and use it in a way beneficial to business owners and our school system. take some burden away from the parents. >> i agree with david. >> go ahead, sorry. >> i'm sorry. i actually agree with dave. i don't think it's going to create a backlash. i think most people see it as a way for the businesses to further support the schools. >> what have parents been saying already? >> very positive so far. >> i've heard positive responses from the parents. their concerns are not unlike the concerns beverly and i have, that the ads be appropriate, but other than that, i think they're in favor of it.

they need some relief. >> we've seen this on the church bulletin, at school programs, where you have to go and watch your kid perform. we see it at pageants. this is nothing unusual when it comes to that, but people think it is when it comes to school. this is a pilot program, so what will the committee need to see if it's okay to move on and try it in other places? >> i think we'll be looking at public sentiment. we'll be making sure implement some policies concerning the type of ads that can be placed in the materials. it is a pilot program, so we'll be watching to make sure it works and if it doesn't, we're going to have to find another way to generate revenue. this amount of money, the $24,000, has been built into our budget in a line, so we do need to try to reach that amount of money to keep a balanced budget for the school year.

>> what if this is a smashing success and money comes in? will you be satisfied? do you think they'll want to sell more ad space? >> i'm probably the last person to ask because i think we should embrace partnerships with businesses in these economic time, but you have to give businesses a compelling reason to be a partner beyond that of just the good will of helping schools. you have to give them an opportunity to reach their target market and i'm a business man myself. i work for a coffeer company. i could see the value of blank piece of paper. i think it's a win, but as beverly said, we have eight elementary schools, eight little laboratories to try to work the bugs out of this and i suspect there will be some that will embrace it and others who will learn a lot. we're learning a lot now. >> thanks to both of you. >> thank you, don. >> thank you.

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