talking about taking fresh venuables home and eating with their parents. that can be a game-changer. the question is now can the government of detroit work with hands farms that wants to build the world's largest urban farm, they have been trying for two years. will they make it happen or will the bureaucracy get in the way and it won't happen? i think that's the remaining question. but we're going to keep on a an it, drew. >> seems right for some entrepreneurial farmers in a pickup truck to drive through. i've seen that happen in other towns. cnn.com/eatocracy for more stories on healthy eating. also more about how you can learn to unlock the healthy eater badge on four square. the "newsroom" continues now with tony harris. >> good to see you, have a good day. gorm, everyone, live from studio 7 at cnn world headquarters, the big stories today, monday, october 4th. a vague but worrisome caution for americans in europe. intelligence points to a possible terror strike on tourist hot spots.

>> only once. what am i going to do? i can't let these people terrorize me. a father on a mission to save someone else's child. he lost his own to bullying. now he wants government to make it a cry. i was responsible for my son's safety. and good morning, everyone, i'm tony harris. those stories and your commence right here, right now, in the cnn "newsroom." your job, the nation's economy. the focus today for president obama. the president's economic recovery advisory board meets with him three hours from now when the state dining room. let's bring in our senior whitehouse correspondent, ed henry. ed, good as always to see you. what's the agenda for today's meeting? >> well, this is an outside group of economic advisers, not on the white house staff, by and large. you've got the outside chiefs at

ge and caterpillar. you also have gray beards like the former fed chairman, paul volcker, so it's supposed to be sort of a breath of fresh air giving the president new ideas. he meets with them every few months or so. and specifically what they want to do today is focus on the long-term. white house officials say there is going to be a lot of discussion about education specifically working with community colleges, because they keep hearing from the private sector, as his administration tries to create jobs, they need more highly skilled workers to compete in the global economy. so president is going to be laying out a new initiative. basically, it's going to be looking at how to link up you community colleges with corporate america, making sure every state has at least one high-impact partnership with these community colleges. the president also urging the private sector to work with community colleges to help achieve a goal he laid out recently of having an additional 5 million community college degrees by 2020. all leading up to tuesday's first-ever white house summit on

community colleges. it's going to be run in part by dr. joe biden. of course, joe biden's wife, who is a community college professor. the president will also be at that event on tuesday when they do that summit. what's interesting, though, of course, is this is all long-term. important stuff, but not about short-term job growth. and i think this is an acknowledgment in part by the white house of the political reality of the situation. congress has gone home. they're out campaigning. lawmakers in both parties. so none of the president's sort of tax cut initiatives, some of the infrastructure spending he laid out a few weeks ago with the big fan fair, none of that is going to be dealt with before the election. if anything, it will be done after the election, lame duck session of congress or next year. >> ed henry, good to see you, thank you. let's bring in our money team for a closer look at the president's economic challenges. joining me from new york, cnn chief business correspondent, ali velshi. and our christine romans. good to see you together again.

christine and you first. >> good to be together. >> how about that? let's start with christine, because i've missed you so. if you were in the room today, leading this meeting of this advisory board, what would top your agenda? >> retraining. ali and i were talking about this, how you get an economy that is moving much of more quickly away from what people can do and what people expect than we would like to see. we've got a lot of people out of work, tony. we've got a real problem here with a big chunk of society that hasn't been prepared by our education system that doesn't have a job waiting for them on the other end, and we don't know how long that big chunk of society is going to be left out. it's about safety nets. but beyond safety nets, it's got to be about retraining and finding people a place in the labor market. >> ali, what do you want to hear from this round table of smart people? the ideas. what do you want to hear? >> well, there are a couple things going on that are important here. one is that the president is involving corporate america, which is actually in relatively

better health than the economy as a whole. and he's involved in community colleges to deal with retraining people. so christina and i talk about this a lot. what you have in this country is a whole lot of people, unemployed, because their skills are not suited to the world that we've got now. some are construction workers and some are manufacturing workers. what you also have is an economy that is growing and needs workers in alternative energy, in engineering, accounting, teaching, things like that. and we need a way to figure out,000 get this pile of people who are unemployed into this pile. we don't have a system for that. it sounds reasonable, but it involves going to some kind of community college or even a university course and training for it. that doesn't exist, so i think that's where the discussion is starting. saying in addition to the immediate needs, as christine said, of a social net of dealing with people out of work, what are we doing for our longer-term. as christine also mentions, we have to deal with immigration and long-term education. are we bringing the kids through the public school and the high school system in a way that

feeds the science and technology and education and mathematics disciplines that we're going to need to fill jobs for in the future. >> yeah, jump in here, christine. i think i sense that you want to add to this. >> well, i do. because this is such a big, important question, tony, and we don't have any margin for error here. we can't get it wrong. this is now the time to seize to match us up. or we're going to have millions, tens of millions of people left behind with what the economy looks like on the other side when the recovery really takes hold. there are some who argue we have an education system that is still built for a time when you had people who could graduate at 18 from high school, and get a great factory job. >> that doesn't exist anymore. >> and eventually pay 06 or 70,000 -- >> you could have joined the police department, fire department, you can't do that anymore. you need further education for everything now. tony, when you look at this economy, not everybody is suffering. there are a lot of people who are in had jobs. you have a whole segment of society suffering. and you stand in danger of having a whole new group of people graduating from high

school not ready to compete. so this is a major and serious problem. it should be noted, though, as ed said, the president is talking to companies, major companies like gap, mcdonald's, they're all in the room. >> and tony, at the very top of the "wall street journal" people in the u.s. are posting near historic results, the result of aggressive retooling during the recession. companies are coming out the other side of it. but where has that left the people? the people who used to work at those companies and the people who vote in november? don't forget about that. >> that's terrific. it's good to see you guys back together again, christine, welcome back. i know you have been back a few days now, but it's the first time i've had an opportunity to say welcome back. good to see you both. and christine, we'll see you in a couple minutes. >> thanks, tony. and other big stories we're following for you, a stretch of the houston ship channel shut down, a barge hit a high-voltage utility tower. the busy commercial waterway connects the port of houston to the gulf of mexico. the supreme court opened a

new term a short time ago and for the first time, women make up a third of justices. anti gay protests outside the members of funeral services are protected speech. also on the docket, immigration, whether states step on federal law when they fine companies for hiring illegal immigrants. former president jimmy carter on the move again. a viral infection side lined him last week at a cleveland hospital. carter turned 86 on friday, he will attend a habitat for humanity event this afternoon. >> we shifted from new homes to refurbishing and moving families into them. this is a cost-saving effect, and we have increased that about five-fold over what habitat has done in the past. so we're rehabilitating communities now by putting empty homes back in use and filling them back up with very eager

families to have a good house. travelers bound for europe take a new terror alert with something of a shrug. >> i think wherever you are at the moment, there is a possibility of a terrorist attack. i think everybody has just got to be extra vigilant. >> let's see here -- oh-oh, a tower cam. look at that. a gar just day the in the south. that's atlanta. how about the rest of the country? before we talk about the rest of the country, rob, let's consider that shot for a second. it's beautiful here. >> it's almost like we're mocking the folks in the northeast. beautiful day across the southeast, good weekend. it was a good weekend to start across the northeast and across the areas that saw all that rain last week. but now the rains are back, and into areas that really don't need it anymore. we'll talk more about that, plus a fire out in colorado. weather is still to come. cnn "newsroom" is coming right back.

you know, they're not saying don't go, but the government is alerting americans in europe to keep their eyes open. u.s. troops told not to wear uniforms off base. there are indications al qaeda may try to hit hotels, restaurants and transportation hubs. what are known as soft targets. >> and probably more cautious, and i look around a little more, maybe. but we always try to be cautious. i refuse to let terrorists do what they think they're doing, which is to terrorize me. >> what can one do about it? you go, you try to be as safe as possible. even here, there could be a bomb scare here. >> if you took it to heart, you would never leave the house. so for travelers, i would be worried after september the 11th. i was worried, but, you know, now i think everybody has learned to live with it. >> so intelligence officials say an al qaeda cell with links to mohammed ata is at the heart of a terror alert. sources say a group based in

hamburg, germany. now, the terror alert raises the obvious question here. what could americans in europe, both civilian and military, do about it all? let's bring in our homeland security correspondent, jeanne meserve. good to see you. my understanding is one of the members of this group is in custody and is said to be cooperating with u.s. authorities? >> that's right. his name, tony is ahmed sadiki, arrested in afghanistan in july, and western intelligence officials say he is the source of some of this intelligence information that has them so concerned. according to german intelligence, in early 2009, sadiki and ten others left where they joined gjihadist groups. one member was to be a food soldier. multiple attacks against sites in europe. this is one of several threats of threat information currently being followed.

of it is the accumulation of intelligence that led the u.s. to issue this travel alert this weekend, urging americans to take precautions when traveling in europe. also, as you mentioned, u.s. troops in europe were put under a curfew friday night, were told not to wear uniforms off their base. the fbi and department of homeland security have sent a bulletin to domestic law enforcement. it says there is no indication that a threat is directed specifically at the united states, but nonetheless urges them to go vigilant. in addition, briefings are being given to the private sector, including hotels and commercial properties about this current threat. tony? >> okay, jeanne, appreciate it, thank you. your credit score too low, and you might not be able to make that big purchase. we will show you how to improve it.

so a new report is out about your credit score. what does it mean for your bottom line and your ability to get a loan? christine romans is back with us in new york with details and tips. christine, why where do you want to start here? >> i want to start with the scary news that a third of americans cannot afford to get a mortgage because their credit scores are under 620. a third of people were unable to even get one quote on a home

loan. they don't qualify for a mortgage. new data from a zillow marketplace. the good news, about 47% of consumers have good credit with scores of 720 or higher. so you've got a big chunk of people who cannot even afford to borrow money. can't even get a quote on a home. take a look at this, tony. the number of people who have a credit score above 720, they qualify for the lowest interest rates, and they're most likely to get a loan. but still, too many people shut out. the economy can't really prosper when people can't borrow money. >> so christine, when you look at this number, especially in this economy, break that down. what is it going to get and take, really, to get yourself a good loan? >> well, besides having a decent credit score, you've got to break it down for consumers like this. anything above 700, you're good to borrow money. 740 and higher, you can borrow at the very lowest interest rates. the higher the credit score, the less you pay in interest. that's important. below 680, it's going to be more

expensive, or you're simply going to have trouble borrow. the other factors that go into getting a good loan have to do with how much you can put down as a down payment, your proof of income. a lot of other things. but that credit score is incredibly important. money in the bank, and proof you can pay. >> so if you've got a low score right now, part of your message to us is that we shouldn't obsess about it. >> i think too many people, tony, get all caught up in the number, the number, the number. if you aren't going to borrow money for six months to a year, the most important thing for you to do is to pay your bills on time, pay the minimums, check your payment history, check annual credit report.com, the free one the government allows you to have, see the payment history, make sure there is not a mistake on there, fix it. what the credit agencies want to know is your credit maxed out, keep your balances low, that will help. the length of your credit still important. don't go out there, opening new store cards, especially if you're having trouble with your credit score, you don't need all

that credit that's so hard to get -- easy to get trapped up in. and the types of credit you're using. these are all the things that make up your credit score. take a look at all those, and be careful where you tread if you're going to borrow money. if you're not going to borrow money in the next 6 to 12 months, pay your bills on time. somebody at fico once told me that time heals all wounds. if you have a bad credit score, time will heal your credit score if you pay your minimums on time, and don't go out there hoping new credit. >> yeah, that makes sense. christine, good stuff. thank you. we are welcoming a new set of hosts to cnn. parker spitzer kicks off tonight 8:00 eastern time. here's what they're all about. >> let's take a moment and explain what we're trying to do with this show. when i think about it, the single-most important thing to me is ideas. we may be from the left and right or right and left but you know what, we are both tired of hearing the same old talking points night after night. >> absolutely, elliot.

i'm so tired of being liberal, conservative, left, right, because the truth is, in our morning meeting, for example, you know, some of the things you said made you sound like a conservative. >> i worried when you told me that. >> some of the things i said could be construed or called liberal. >> absolutely. >> i think the bigger point is we're different people, come at thinks in a different way, i'm from the south, you're from the north. i'm a journalist, you're a politician. >> not usually said as a compliment, but this time i take it that way. >> absolutely. as we say in the south in the nicest possible way, bless your heart. >> i have heard that from my in-laws and then i know i'm in deep trouble. the most important thing is we get to the office, want to talk to the public about something that is driving us, burning a passion that we want to explain. >> hear more about this new show when kathleen parker and eliot spitzer join me live next hour, right here in the cnn "newsroom."

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let's see, let's get to rob marciano now in the severe weather center. the northeast is pretty messy right now, right? >> yeah, we wouldn't talk about this being extreme or severe, except last week they had so much rain and this is going over the same areas that got a tremendous amount of rain over the last wednesday, thursday, friday, even into saturday. what happened or what's going on right now is we've got a guy like this, the red o is never a good thing on the old map. and basically we're going to get a lot of moisture streaming in. this isn't tropical moist you're like the last go-round. not a tremendous amount of rain, 6, 7, inches, but we could see -- what's the forecast from the computer models? yeah, this is looking at -- could see an inch or two, maybe. the brighter yellow there, that's -- that could be as much as three inches. and these are areas that saw 6,

7 inches or so last week around eastern pennsylvania and upstate new york. not what those folks want to see, certainly adding insult to injury. they are also slowing some things down at the airports there. we're looking laguardia, hour and ten. san francisco an hour and five. and newark seeing 30-minute delays. around the rest of the country, you are dry, but cool across the mid section. temperatures get 10 to 15 degrees below normal. and this morning, some frost advisories are out, a little frost in the pumpkin, so you know we are into fall. and some showers trying to work their way into the inner mountain west. we don't have any extreme fire danger today, but we do have a fire that is burning just west of frazier, colorado, 300 acres of frazier, colorado, 300 acres burned, no containmenolling. we're on motorcycle insurance.

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tragedy uniting a campus. hundreds of people turned out last night, mourning the death of a rutgers university freshman, most didn't know. tyler clementi jumped off a bridge to his death. his sexual encounter with mother man was streamed online by two other classmates. >> the fact that two people could be so cruel to him is upsetting. >> four kids around the country committed suicide in three weeks, it's a teenage thing where hate is the american value at this point. >> tyler clementi's death is raising awareness of online bullying.

a cnn opinion research poll asked teenagers if they had ever been ridiculed, i'm i willated or threatened by another child. 37% said yes, 63%, no. when asked if they had ever been afraid to go to school because of such actions by another child, only 8% said yes, 92% said no. got to tell you the battle against bullying is a very personal one for a father whose little boy committed suicide. our carol costello reports. >> reporter: kirk smalley is on a mission. there he is, an honored guest at oklahoma city's western heights high school. trying to put a stop to bullying. >> i have to make a difference. i promised my son on father's day this year i'd stop this from happening to another child. >> reporter: for years, smalley's son, ty, struggled with a bully at school. and when you say he was being picked on, how was he being

picked on? >> oh, name-calling, ty was always kind of small. shove here, push there? >> reporter: his father says ty was a typical kid with typical grades who took the abuse for 2002 two years. on the day ty decided to push back physically, he got into trouble. he was suspended from school. for ty, that was too much to bear. on that day, last may, he killed himself. he was 11 years old. >> ultimately, my son's safety rested in my hands. i was responsible for my son's safety. i don't hold -- >> reporter: that's a harsh thing to say about yourself. i mean -- >> i'm his dad. >> reporter: i know, but he's out in the world. >> it's my job to protect him.

no matter what, no matter where he was, it was my job to protect him. >> reporter: but how do you protect your child from a bully? assistant deputy education secretary kevin jennings was appointed by president obama to keep kids safe at school. ty's story could easily have been his own. were you bullied in school? >> like many kids, i was bullied very severely when i was in junior high and high school. and the first day of tenth grade, i refused to go back to school, because i simply wasn't going to go back to a place where i got bullied every day. >> reporter: jennings organized the first ever bullying summit, but he admits it's a baby step. experts can't agree on how to define bullying. is it physical, electronic, psychological, nonverbal or all of the above? when might something happen? when might the federal government act? and say these are the guidelines we want to put in place.

do it. >> i think that it's taken us a long time to develop a bullying problem and it's going to take us some time to solve it. >> reporter: it's why there are no federal guidelines school must follow regarding bullying. they're on their own. in smalley's state of oklahoma, each school district deals with bullying in different ways. it's something else that infewer it's a smalley. >> a lot of schools around the country, their answer to bullying is they let the victim leave a little bit early. they let them go home early to get a head start on the bully. and you're singling this child out. this child has been picked on, you're singling him out now. >> reporter: real solutions will come too late for ty, but kirk smalley is on that mission. >> we kept this alive through the summer. >> reporter: it's why he organizes vigils at the oklahoma state house. he thinks bullying ought to be a crime. and it's why he tries to convince other kids to stand up for the bullied. >> save their fragile self

esteem. save their lives. >> reporter: it's his promise to a boy who loved his family. hunting and the st. louis cardinals. >> we haven't done ty's last load of laundry because it still smells like him. we haven't washed his sheets, because i can go in there and lay on his bed and still smell my boy. you want to learn what bullying and suicide is all about, you talk to the people directly who it affects the most. >> 41 states now have anti bullying laws on the books. some are effective, some not. that's why it's so important we get those federal guidelines in place. and mr. smalley, if you are listening, kevin jennings, the deputy secretary of education, says thank you for sharing your story, because stories like ty smalley's, stories like that, are going to get something done quicker, because, tony, as we

all know, the government moves very slowly. and we need those federal guidelines in place. >> boy, that story breaks your heart. hey, carol, what did the school do here? >> the school says that mr. smalley and his wife never complained about ty being bullied in school. they have no written record. mr. smalley disputes that. he said, yes, they did call. but you know what, when you call a school, who knows who you talk to? who knows if anything is written down. there was no documenttation. and that's something else that mr. smalley thinks needs to change. he thinks schools ought to be required to document cases of bullying. and when a parent calls in and says, hey, my kid is having a problem, write it down somewhere, so at least the school has a record and they can better deal with it in the years to come. >> you know what, i think we'll run that piece certainly if not next hour, we'll run it a few more times this week. that's some strong -- that's a strong story. of carol, thank you. >> if you want to see more of

mr. smalley's interview, by the way, it was six minutes long, it's quite powerful, cnn.com/amfix. you can see the whole interview. >> you know what -- maybe we'll do a combination of both. thanks, carol. >> thank you, tony. bullying in our schools and now online. why do kids do it? and what stops it? anderson cooper 360 special report you shouldn't miss starts tonight 10:00 eastern right here. >> so, ah, your seat good? got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok?

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and it involves a new treatment, a type of vaccine, and when preliminary results were made public in june, the benefits were dramatic. now, our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, has been following this trial for a while and actually met with patients and doctors nearly two years ago, and he says it is pretty remarkable. >> i heard you also volunteered to do a spinal tap today. >> yes. >> this is karen van emmen, bracing for another painful procedure. she has cancer, brain cancer. a tumor called glioblastoma. >> this is typically thought of as the worst type of tumor. why? >> oh, because left untreated, the patient succumbs to the disease very quickly. >> even with aggressive treatment, average survival is barely a year. >> oh, good to meet you. >> how are you? >> i'm fine, thank you. >> here at the preston robert

tisch brain certify, she found hope, an experimental vaccine called cdx 110 and uses the body's own immune system to attack tumor cells. it won't work on every patient, just the 40% of those whose tumors make one particular protein. in those patients, it goes off like a smart bomb. now karen gets a shot, a painful one, every month. but look at the results. we were able to pay her another visit, a full year later. remember, most patients don't even live that long. >> it's been about a year-and-a-half, as long as the vaccine works then i'll be getting the monthly shots. and when it doesn't work, then i'm in trouble. >> dr. john sampson helped development the experimental treatment. what can we say about this vaccine now? in terms of educating a patient about it? what do you tell them in terms of what it promises? >> we're always careful not to

overpromise what something can deliver. and this is still in an experimental stage. but patients are living two to three times longer with the vaccine than we would have expected. >> preliminary study results made public in june were slightly less dramatic. but still, on average, compared to standard therapy, the vaccine nearly doubled survival time. as much as six years in some cases. with no signs of returning cancer. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. and time now for the latest from the cnn politics.com desk and our senior white house correspondent ed henry, part of the best political team on television, joining us from washington, d.c. ed, great to see you again. what's crossing? >> good to see you, tony. here at the white house, the first day the obama administration that rahm emanual -- first weekday he is not serving as chief of staff. running for anyway wror, already. will rendell about the new rahm, as in he had rendell, the outgoing governor?

he told bloomberg news over the weekend that the white house chief of staff would be the only job in the administration that he would want, he would take. i have talked to some top democrats who say they think he could be a strong contender, especially if the president is dealing with a republican congress, he is very aggressive and tough. but rendell acknowledged he is unlikely to go outside his small circle of advisers to pick someone like rendell. saying, quote, if i were president, i'm not sure i would offer ed rendell the job. i am a free spirit so already talking himself down, not sure he's going to get it. on to west virginia, beautiful country there, our own dana bash is chronicling the race where joe mansion was supposed to be somewhat of a shoe-in to replace the late senator robert byrd there, now facing stiff resistance, voters telling dana, they basically like the governor, very popular there. but they think he might be a rubber stamp for the democratic agenda. the governor himself telling dana he is facing what he thinks is a wave against his party right now, something to watch in

a lot of these key senate battles. and on to nevada where michael steel basically was at a rally on sunday, and trying to help sharron angle, the randy feet the senate majority leader harry reid. angle is a tea party favorite that the republican party establishment is not behind her, and that division may help re-elect reid. steele basically said nonsense. in his words, the gop and the tea party are, quote, locked hand-in-hand to defeat reid. chris welch on the ground in las vegas. i tell you, i'm jealous of chris, it's been raining in washington for a few days now, he's probably playing golf or something like that, tony. >> where i just returned from, an teagua, the caribbean, good stuff. your next political update in an hour, and for the latest political news, you know where to go, cnn politics.com. [ j. weissman ] it was 1975.

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lead story. fixing detroit's food crisis. we're going to get a report next hour. it really is taking cnnmoney.com from poppy harlow, who will be reporting on this story next hour. we're down 57 points right now on the dow. nasdaq, also down as well 27 points. we'll follow those numbers for you throughout the day. got to tell you, two years ago, the word bailout took on a whole new meaning. that's when the government kicked off a $750 billion program to get banks back on their feet. carter, maybe we can start by you telling us how much this program ultimately cost u.s. taxpayers. >> well, the good news for you and me and all taxpayers, tony, is that this did, in fact, cost significantly less than that $700 billion that was originally authorized by congress. i have a chart here that kind of

details it out for you. back in 2008, that's when congress said, okay, here's the deal. we got $700 billion available for the bailout. didn't necessarily use all that, though. in august of 2009, the white house estimated the t.a.r.p. costs were going to be about $341 billion, and now treasury secretary timothy geithner said the t.a.r.p. will really cost taxpayers about $50 billion. so how do we go from 700 billion to $50 billion? we were tossing that term around quite a bit, tony, remember, a couple years ago, the $700 billion bailout, now $50 billion? banks have been paying back that money, and banks are fairly healthy right now. they're paying back the money, they're paying it back with dividends and interest in some cases, and that's how we're ending up spending a whole lot less than was originally authorized. >> did the program ultimately work? did it accomplish its stated goals? >> well, i guess it depends on

what you think the goal was. if you thipg tnk the goal was a robust recovery, we certainly don't have that, but what wie d have is banks with liquidity and lending power. t.a.r.p. provided liquidity for these banks to make loans to keep the economy moving during this very, very difficult time. a lot of people don't like t.a.r.p., it's kind of a dirty word, but a lot of people think it was a necessary evil. >> carter, will we get all the money back, all the t.a.r.p. dollars, dollar for dollar? >> right now, treasury secretary tim geithner is saying probably not. but we're probably only going to spend fewer than $50 billion on this. it's not complete yet. they were talking around 35 billion, maybe 40 billion. not total yet, but $50 billion is what they're giving us. >> carter, appreciate that. that's news i didn't necessarily expect. see you next hour.

thanks. speaking next hour, how do you teach your children the value of money? two economist who also happen to be parents share their views on raising money-smart kids. plus, eliot spitzer and parker ready to take on news of the day and one another. ♪

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p.m. eastern only on cnn. and hello, again, everyone. i'm tony harris. top of the hour in the cnn newsroom where anything can happen. here are some of the people behind today's stories. americans traveling to europe have been told to stay on alert for possible acts of terror. >> we're just being very careful. watching what we're doing and trying to do the safe thing. >> and how do you teach your kids about money? we've got some advice from our own money expert, christine romans. you're on line right now where josh is following what's hot. josh? >> tony, the biggest study ever of life underwater is showing marine life no one knew existed. we have pictures right now on cnn.com. let's start with our lead story. nothing has changed with the terrorist threat here at home, but officials want people who live and work in europe to be careful. they say the terrorists may be

up to something. there is a plot in hamburg, germany, and that's where we find our cnn correspondent nick today. did we just lose nick? okay. we will get back to nick in just a couple minutes. let's talk now to our homeland security correspondent, jean mazurif. she's joining us from washington, and jean, if you would, what are the specific instructions in this advisory for americans? >> well, let me be clear first of all that they are not saying stay home. the state department is saying be careful if you are going to europe. the travel alert issued on sunday says in part u.s. citizens should take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings and to adopt appropriate safety measures to protect themselves while traveling. the advisory methods in particular? transportation. subways, railways, airports, tour buses, that would include

hotels in tourist areas and popular sight-seeing spots. but it doesn't get more specific because officials have said they don't have detailed information about possible targets, modes or timing of attacks. so what are travelers supposed to do? officials say let the appropriate embassy or u.s. consulate know of your travel plans, be vigilant, all common sense precautions, and i should mention that the fbi and department of home land security also sent out a bulletin to law enforcement here in the u.s. telling them that the threat information does concern europe but they should be on the lookout right here at home. >> jean, a quick follow-up with you. what is the u.s. doing about terrorists at the source? >> we know there's been drone strikes in the tribal areas. we've been told by u.s. officials that part of this relates to the war in afghanistan but part of it also is about this threat information that they are trying to keep al-qaeda off balance, al-qaeda and its affiliates.

that's one of the reasons for the increase in the amount of strikes. >> generjean meserve. thank you. nick, let's begin with the question i asked at the top. what is it that triggered this alert in the very first place? no. we did not lose nick again, did we? all right, we'll try to get to nick as soon as we can. so how are americans in europe responding to this advisory? they are keeping a stiff upper lip, at least in london. >> are you aware of the terror warning your government has issued? >> yes, we are. >> to what extent does that influence or thoughts or feelings about being here today? >> i'm probably more cautious and i look around a little more, maybe. but we always try to be cautious. i refuse to let terrorists do what they think they're doing, which is to terrorize me. i won't let them change my life.

>> were you already in europe when the warning was issued? >> yes, we are. we were already in london, and we have plans to go to paris. >> so can i ask you your thoughts and feelings about being here at this pretty big tourist site knowing what your government said? >> it did cross my mind, but susan said, we are not going to let terrorists scare us away. we'll be cautious and kind of check things out, but anything we want to do, yewe're going too it. >> the interior says there is no immediate sign of a threat against their country. we're going to try again with nick in hamburg, germany. nick, i believe you're on the beeper line with us. talk about this threat, what we know about it and the origins of it. >> we don't know exactly what has caused the travel alert to be issued, but we do know about a german-afghan. he left hamburg with a group of

islamists a year and a after ha, went to the border of pakistan. he's been in kabul and he's the one telling u.s. authorities that there is this mumbai style plot planned across europe, something bin laden has okayed and that's what seems to be behind this -- the current travel advisory. no one is saying that specifically. what the german authorities are saying that we're talking to here, they know where sadiki is, he's been captured in afghanistan. they know where a couple of these group are, they've been interviewed. some of them have strong ties to al-qaeda that the german authorities don't know where they are, and another interesting detail, this man and his group attended a mosque here in hamburg, the very same mosque that one of the 9/11 hijackers

attended. >> one quick thought with you. how are european countries responding to this? >> interestingly, none of them are raising their threat levels. what britain has done is said, okay, anyone who is going to travel to germany or france, we're raising the warning level at a high. but as far as britain is concerned, they're keeping their threat level at severe, which means a terror attack is highly likely. france is keeping its level at red, spain is keeping ilts level at number 2, which on a scale of one to four is still quite low. germany says it's not change, either, and the minister came out and said, don't get alarmed about this. we don't see an imminent threat today. >> nic robertson for us on the phone from hamburg, germany. small politics with tv's newest talkers. parker and spitzer in the cnn newsroom.

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the supreme court begins a new term today and sets a precedence of its own. three female supreme court justices. kate baldwin has the details on what's on the docket, and the new justice, elena kagan. >> 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 >> one of the first deals with anti-gay protests at military funerals. albert snider sued the west earl baptist church and its leader, fred phelps, after they staged a demonstration outside his son's funeral in 2006. corporal matthew snider 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 him. >> 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 accused of committing. he says he has a specific right to show dna evidence post conviction. >> if i'm innocent, i go home, if i'm guilty, i die. what's so hard about that? >> prosecutors argue skinner had his chance to appeal and argue that if he wins, it will open the floodgates to frivolous lawsuits, clogging the supreme court justice system. other cases are a lawsuit trying to ban violent video games to

children. the court will also consider a challenge to an arizona law cracking down on businesses hiring illegal i am grantmmigra. opponents argue federal law trumps state laws. meanwhile, the newest justice, elena kagan, is taking to the bench for her first term, which also marks a historic first for the supreme court. three women serving at the same time. however, justice kagan has already recused herself from 25 pending cases. because of her work as a former solicitor general, she's withdrawn to prevent any conflict of interest, leaving the possibility of split 4-4 decisions as the term kicks off. kate baldwin, cnn, washington. last month was a fantastic one for stocks, the best september in 71 years, and october started out with a gain as well, but today the rally is fading a bit and analyst say

this could be the new trend. carl evans is at the stock exchange with the new trend. who are these critics and why can't we keep the good mood going here? >> ilt's really interesting, tony, a lot of the reason is the information we're getting. analysts are saying september was a relief rally after a really bad august. that can only last so long and now that uncertainty is kind of setting back in and we're getting mixed signals today. the fundamentals are not really that strong. today we get a report that says factory orders fell half a point in october, and manufacturing for the last couple weeks actually doing pretty well. pending home sales rose 4% in august. that is the right direction, but the level is still 20% below last year. i mean, it's clear, and a lot of analyst are saying this, that we're not going to see a robust housing recovery. highly unlikely.

we're likely to continue getting mixed signals on the economy as well. >> this is a big week, as i think about it for jobs, as we get several reports. will those reports give us any new insight as to our direction? >> yes, i certainly hope so, but you know, the jobs report might show -- probably will show -- that the labor market really isn't improving as fast as many people would like. basically, the analysts are kind of mixed on this. i was just doing some research. for the most part, we're expecting this jobs report will be flat. no job losses, no job gains. but there are some people who are saying, hey, maybe we'll see 70,000 gainjobs gain. i think what that could illustrate is this uncertainty what's going on now. we've seen some decent economic reports, we've seen some decent numbers. a lot of people aren't sure what to expect. one thing i want to point out, tony, that i think is encouraging but i tend to be pretty optimistic.

the seasonal hiring we're going to see from some of these retailers. a lot of them say they're going to hire a few more people than they did last year, and that cat indicates to me they're expecting better sales to pay those employees. >> we could really use that. let's balance it out but let's absolutely highlight the good news when we get it but keep it in perspective. when mom and dad are book-smart economists,al loun a lounsz -- allowances become a good study habit for kids. we'll be right back. you're in the cnn newsroom. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it's beach homes or it's starting a vineyard. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 come on! tdd# 1-800-345-2550 just help me figure it out in a practical, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 let's-make-this-happen kind of way. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 a vineyard? give me a break. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 [ male announcer ] looking for real-life answers tdd# 1-800-345-2550 to your retirement questions? tdd# 1-800-345-2550 get real. get started. talk to chuck. tdd# 1-800-345-2550

stonl r stobl r. let's take a look at our top stories now. the president is expected to announce a new initiative to pay our communities and top colleges. if you use verizon cell phones, look for a refund on your bill, but it will probably be less than $6. a blanket terror alert for american travelers in europe. the message is to be cautious and aware, especially at popular tourist attractions. intelligence officers say they're focusing on a possible terrorist cell in hamburg, germany. we're back in a moment.

pictures rgs, information, insight you won't find anywhere else. >> i don't see this man during the week. i want to say hello to him now. where you been? vacation in an ttigua? . it's been a great couple days away, but it's good to see you. guess where we were. i need to go with you on vacation because when i go on vacation, something bad happens. never take me golfing, that's for sure. it will always rain. northeast today, slow for sure. la guardia, philadelphia, hour, hour 55. san francisco, an hour because

of low cloud cover. that will burn off. jfk, 55 minutes, all mart part storm system making rainfall. we do have moisture coming off the gulf and off of the atlantic ocean, and as it spins and makes its way in here, we're kind of piling up rainfall over fort college or williamsport. have to watch out. it's a saturated ground kind of area there. there's been a lot of rainfall the past couple weeks, so if you see something coming down, especially if you're going to pick up a couple irchnches in te valleys, they can come all the way to the bottom and have some low land flooding. otherwise, new york city, you get about an inch today. if you're really, really lucky along the coast, you might get two inches. the big story, i think, is really, for this matter, tony, almost the end, at least a brief end. it doesn't mean it's completely over. we have a giant high-pressure

system up over the united states. this is just going to block any chance, at least for a while, for a week or two, of any potential system getting to the u.s. it will probably be taken right up into the middle part of the atlantic and not make a run at u.s. and that's good news. because you can still get big storms. the water is very warm. the peak of hurricane season was only 21 days ago. there's still potential and we'll watch it all the way to the end of the year. teaching your children the value of saving and spending money wisely. boy, i need some advice on this. that's why we called in christine romans for some practical ways on raising money-smart kids. >> another bike. how much does it cost? >> asking mom and dad for money takes on whole new meaning when mom and dad are renowned economists. meet the rogers, bill and anna,

he will l ellie, bill and charlie. >> how do you teach your kids about money? >> for a long time now, we've been using a trick, and that is children's literature. >> bill is a former economist and yana runs a program that teaches kids economics. >> give me a name of something i might have in my bookshelf that has a me say sanl ssage in it. >> berenstain bears. curious george. cows that type. that's a good one, too. >> the cows, in case you forgot, goes on strike. >> this is the labor economist. >> the rogers' allowance system is a littles more elaborate than

most. >> $3 a week. we get it paid every wednesday. depending on chores i do, i get paid $8 an hour. >> for me sssyer jobs, it's $10n hour. >> what's it like to be raised by economists? >> it can be a little frustrating sometimes. i'll want something for christmas, but it will be a little too expensive or i'll have to go for the bargain brand or something on sale. i've become a really good sales shopper. >> bill and yana met at an economics department at harvard. >> the one big thing i talk about with our kids is the budget constraint. that is the notion of there is only a fixed amount of money and you have to figure out how you're going to allocate that money across a more expensive baseball bat versus you're cleats that you're going to buy. >> and christine romans is

joining us from new york. christine, good to see you again. on the program a lot the last two hours. i love it. some good ideas there and a lot more in your book, i'm happy to say, smart is the new rich. do you have a copy to hold up there? >> in fact, i don't. i passed them out like candy around here, so i don't have one in front of me. but i'll tell you a couple things to find in that book. first of all, making wealth with borrowed money is over. risk built wealth in the '90s, now you have to be smart. that's what families like the rogers have been teaching their kids. some advice for you about your kids. one, tell them to take out the trash. what, take out the trash? a schwab service says that kids who take out the trash do better with money. you have to keep a list of things they have to do and make

them do it to get the allowance. like the rogers, they give them $3 a week base and they earn $8 an hour for the work they do. also, make them learn how to save early. birthday money, holiday money. they have to put some of it aside and they have to contribute to trendy and expensive items. saving is the most important thing you can teach your child, tony, because this is something we did not do over the past 25 years. we used borrowed money and we did not save, and these are things that we're hoping we can teach the next generation not to make the mistakes we just lived through, right? >> yeah. boy, we need to do that. let me see that full screen. let me see that vista screen again. "smart is the new rich." christine is rolling! >> i'll velcro it to my body next time.

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legalities -- let's get you to cnnmoney.com. i think it is the story we've been talking about the last hour or so, fixing detroit's food crisis. we're going to talk to cnnmoney.com's poppy harlow about this story in just a couple minutes. where are we on the dow? we're still in negative territory, down negatively. now we're down 100 points. we'll follow these numbers for you throughout the day. cnn is debutting a new show tonight. it's called "parker-spitzer." its mission is to throw out important parts and get to the heart of the matter. kohl -- columnist kathleen

parker and eliot spitzer, welcome to the program. >> thanks for having us. >> what do you hope viewers take away from your new program debutting tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern time? >> i hope they take it and bury it in the backyard. no, our show is fantastic. it's content rich. we have lots of people joining us tonight and every night. i think americans are very tired of the extreme dominating the conversation, so we're bringing many to the table that won't necessarily be familiar voices. sdp >> for politics, tony, we're hoping to elevate the conversation and bring back the seriousness and have people talk to each other and not past each other. >> it's not all serious, because i'm here. it's going to be fun, too. it's not all vegetables.

>> not all broccoli, as somebody said. >> kathleen, the talking point discussions you say you want to get away from, how has that style of conversation really impacted the level of honest discourse in this country, in your view? >> well, i think the problem is, tony, that people tend to gravitate toward those places both on television and on the internet where they can be reaffirmed in what they believe. i don't think that ever advances the debate. we simply get in our comfortable chairs and don't challenge ourselves much. that's what we're really trying to do, is get away from those little pods of comfort and try to find some common ground and figure out how we solve these problems rather than just constantly reinforcing our own point of view. >> and elliott has that lack of real smart analysis, let americans believe the problems we face are easier to solve than we think, that the problems can be solved basically in an election cycle? >> sure.

sure. i think we all know that when anybody is campaigning, there is a certain simplicity to the slogans that are used, and when you take office, whether it's president obama or a senator, things get really complicated. there are trade-offs that have to be made that aren't discussed on the campaign trail. so one of the things we're going to be doing is saying, wait a minute, if we have somebody here who believes naet parin tea par are you going to make the numbers add up if you're a more liberal democrat? we're going to push people to answer the harder questions and engage in the conversation ourselves because we've both been in the arena, as they say. >> if we had our way, we would take democrats and republicans and lock them in a room together and say, you're not coming out until you get things figured out. >> wouldn't that be great. i want to get your opinion on the president and some of the president's moves to shore up this economy. and kathleen, you've written --

this is from your column from september 22nd. you know, it is probably fair to say that obama's ideas were too big for america's appetite. it would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for another time, but this is not how presidents operate. they want their legacy to go down in history as having made a difference. then you add," sad." don't presidents come into office with a huge to-do list of promises they made on the campaign trail? >> sure, they do. >> how can they not attempt to move forward, this president, in particular, to keep those promises? >> this president wanted to transform everything, but what happens is you have to adapt to the circumstances, and you have to shift your course based on what reality -- what the reality is, and in our case, our economy was falling apart. now, it's not to say that we

accept that barack obama inherited this mess, but i think he would have been far wiser to go after the economy and go after jobs before he tackled health care. and yoi don't think that's a revolutionary insight at this point. i think most people agree. >> and elliott, would the president have been better off with a more incremental approach to financial reform? >> i actually disagree with kathleen on this. i don't think it's a question of being incremental, it's a question of what the priorities needed to be. i don't think there's any question in hindsight, jobs, jobs, jobs, restructuring the economy should have been first through tenth on the priority list. health care should have taken a backseat if congress couldn't do two things at once. i'm not sure he couldn't have said, health care is part of our economy, let's wrap our arms around it. he ran into a brick wall from the other side, unfortunately. but clearly i have disagreed fundamentally with the white house about how they have tried

to restructure the financial sect sector. so i disagree with many of their moves in terms of where they put energy and where they wanted the end game to be. i don't agree with kathleen that he should have been incremental. we're losing the fundamentals of chapg. >> i'm not sure, but i think the incremental remark had to do with health care, because health care, we could have tweaked segments of it rather than doing this massive overhaul. he agrees with me on that point, but america is happier when we disagree. >> the problem with health care, if you do a little piece of it, you can really do a little piece of isolation. doing it all at once is, in fact, what makes sense. we basically approved mitt romney's plan, but that's solvent. >> ic think mitt romney would argue that it's appropriate for states to do this at a state

level rather than create a whole bureaucracy. we can get into that later. >> at 8:00 we'll see you. >> that's what i wanted! that's it. now you know what the program is going to be about. those are the fireworks we need. >> we just would like some food, if that's okay. >> there you go. you got it. that's terrific. can't wait for it tonight, 8:00 p.m. take this program and you're a winner. parker-spitzer. it is tonight, 8:00 p.m. on cnn. let's go back into the cnn newsroom. with alertness aid to fight fatigue. so get up and get goin'! with new bayer am. the morning pain reliever.

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americans across europe. it warns of a possible terror threat. the plot said to be tied to an al-qaeda cell in hamburg, germany. president obama meeting this afternoon with his economic advisory board. jobs will be topping the agenda, of course. the team will take questions in the west wing after the meeting. and the united has lost -- what? -- lost the ryder cup to europe. it went down to the final singles match where champ graham mcdowell won the cup for the europeans. former white house chief of staff robert emanuel wasting no time. he is in a live report with chief correspondent john king. we'll be back in a moment.

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time now for your cnnpolitics.com update, and cnn chief national correspondent john king, host of john king usa with the best political team in washington. john, good to see you. >> top of the ticker, let me show you on the ticker, rob emanuel wants to run for mayor of chicago. he's gone home to try to convince the people of chicago that he's the washington insider and deserves their support to run for mayor. so we'll keep an eye on that. here's another one. all the talk in recent days that this will be a republican route,

a huge republican year. democrats hosting fundraisers to try to combat all of that. dnc raised $16 million. what's important to them is small contributions. that's proving the grassroots that people are starting to tune in. the democrats trying to say, hey, it's not going to be as bad as you know out there. and one last one. he's a comedian based in los angeles. he has a show. you know bill maher. christine o'donnell used to be on his show, "impolitically incorrect", and we're going to start in our conversation just asking him, just who is christine o'donnell? she said she didn't join the hare krishnas becaufor certain

reasons. your next political update coming up in one hour. for the latest in political news just go to cnnpolitics.com. many mourning the death of a freshman most of them didn't even know. tyler clementi jumped off a bridge to his death after a sexual encounter with another male was put on the internet. they are pushing for more understanding on the lesbian, gay and transgender community and also bullying. >> how two people could be so cruel to him, it's really upsetting. >> four kids around country in three weeks committed suicide. it not a rutgerz thing, it's a teenage thing where hate is an

american value at this point. >> and rutgers football game, the board honored tyler. a cnn opinion research poll asked teenagers if they have ever been rid kuld, humiliated or verbally threatened by another student live or on line. 37% said yes, 63% said no. why do kids do it and what can be done to stop it? anderson cooper 360 special report beginning tonight right here on cnn, and all the stories and pieces we've been running on bullying are available right now at cnn.com.

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all right, let's rock it, what's hot. josh levs is checking out what's on the hot on the internet. >> this new sex study, it's apparently a really intense sex study. >> really intensive sex study? >> any adjective i use is going to be less, not more. it links you to this story from time magazine, and they're saying the study of american sex suggests boomers need sex ed. the study is funded by church and dwight company, which is the maker of trojan condoms, so we'll wait to see how it plays out in the scientific community. but listen to this. they have found older people are not using condoms. in fact, listen to this figure. studies show men over 50, 91%

did not use a condom when they had sex with a date or casual 70% did not use a condom with someone they had just met. 79% among young people, teenagers, who are having sex, and it's less and less and less as you get older. some of that makes sense. if you're married, you might not be using condoms for other reasons. ready for this? look at the nfl video. the nfl going pink. and you know, we've been following this for a few years, what the nfl has been doing to represent breast cancer awareness month. i think in the past we've talked to fran dresher about this. you see all this pink on people

involved in games, wearing the pink, all people talking about national breast cancer awareness month. and tony, one other thing i have just for you that i'm bringing back, but i know you're going to love this. mike tyson rocking to bobby brown. pump it. ♪ >> no! no! >> this is from funnyerth funnyerthandie.com. >> so you rolled in a random moment into what's hot. good stuff. >> we had it all there for you. >> all right, josh, appreciate it. kid rock suggests the city is failing children miserably.

>> how can you be smart and learn if you're not healthy? there's nothing healthy in this city for these kids in the inner city and the ghetto? it has to start at the grocery store with some education. >> bringing healthy food to the city. we'll be back in a moment. you're in the cnn newsroom. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief for all-over achy colds. the official cold medicine of the u.s. ski team. alka-seltzer plus. [ e. clark ] i'm an engineer. i love my job. i can see what it's doing for the community on a day-to-day basis. natural gas is cleaner burning than most fossil fuels and it's vital to our energy needs. increasingly we're finding gas in hard to reach areas, but now we've developed new technology that enables us to access gas in hard rocks so we can bring more fuel to homes and help provide a reliable source of energy into the future.

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so it will stay strong for our kids and grandkids. now, that's music to my ears. ♪ cnn is taking a cross-country food journey. we've sent reporters to all

corners of the country and beyond. this is to get information on foods grown, how they impact our health, food budget and the pure joy of eating. we have teamed up with etocracy.com to bring you etocracy mind, body, wallet. today we take you to the people of detroit. they face the threat of foreclosure, major health problems because of the lack of nutritious food in low-income neighborhoods. poppy harlow has that story. >> reporter: detroit has become known as a food desert because it's so hard to find fresh food in neighborhoods like this one, the cass corridor in detroit. take a look on thi corner. this is what you see so much. liquor, beer, wine, convenience stores. this is what people in low-income neighborhoods have. let's see what we could get in here. do you have any fresh food, any vegetables or fruit or anything? >> no, we don't carry it.

>> nothing like that? do you have any fresh food, any vegetables, any fruit, anything like that? no? do you have any fresh fruit around here? >> no, ma'am. no fruit, no veggies. >> people's health is put in danger as a result of this, so the real cost of this is tremendous. ♪ >> why do you care about helping people get access to healthy foods? >> we have a food system that is as broken as our health care system, as our energy system and as our education system. we know that about 500,000 of this city's population do not have access to healthy and fresh

food. >> more than half the population of detroit. how important is it to you as a mother of nine to make sure that all these kids have healthy, fresh food and not fast food every day? >> it's extremely important, because the food they eat is life for their body, life for their mind, their brain, and i want them to be able to perform at their full potential. >> is it a social injustice issue? >> it is, but it's a choice that even low-income can make. i'll take these right there. >> so we're trying to work in a variety of ways to help fix this broken food system. and our double-up food bucks project ais one way we're doing it. >> i double my money every time i use my bridge card. it's a huge help. you're getting twice as much. >> how much was this? >> $5. >> for the entire thing. >> yes. >> almost all the food here is from michigan, but as the demand

for more food grows, more people are saying, why not turn all this abandoned land in the middle of detroit into farmland, urban farming? >> the city of detroit has 40 square miles of vacant foreclosed property. we have plenty of land to work with, being able to, within your own neighborhood, go out and pick fresh fruits and vegetables for your family is a step forward for detroit. >> do you really thipg this is going to be an apple orchard in two years? >> we know it will be. >> people in detroit are people who are hopeful, who are optimists, who believe detroit is a great city. and even though we've gone to a downturn, we've always had the sense that there will be a comeback and the comeback will be breathtaking. >> poppy harlow joining us from new york. poppy, first of all, kudos to you for all the time you spend in detroit and reporting from

there. >> it's my second home. look, i think detroit has been ignored. i think people need to pay more attention to how do you fix detroit? so we like to go back there. >> look, you showed us two possible solutions to this crisis. maybe give us some real sense of how serious a problem this is. >> it's a huge problem. i sort of found out about this a year ago, and i was trying to find the right time to do this story, and it was perfect for etocracy week. but the problem is massive. in detroit they have a 50% higher obesity rate than the rest of the country, a 70% higher diabetes rate in the country. they are more likely to get seriously ill or even die prematurely because of their lack of access to healthy food. you saw in just part of our hunt, we spent hours looking for healthy food. this is a serious, serious problem. you found two people trying to fix it. we'll keep an eye on it, tony. >> foo